Rematriating media, artifacts, and data: links to Indigenous innovation and tech news!
Boozhoo News River readers,
Well, what a week it's already been.
We hope our newsletter is a breath of fresh air and Indigenous innovation:
- tâpwêwin media is built on the concept of tâpwêwin — a natural law in nehiyaw (Cree) culture that reflects a commitment to truth-telling and integrity in storytelling.
- UBC’s new Indigenous archaeology Lab for Indigenous Futures (IaLIF), will bring together Indigenous scholars, artists and community members to study archaeological collections through an Indigenous lens, and to remake relations to “artifacts” or belongings through art and performance.
- "The Abundant Intelligences research program is about deconstructing the scarcity mindset and making room for many kinds of intelligence and ways we might think about it."
GenerativeAI, Mass-Scale Digital Art Heist & Indigenous Dispossession
Read an excerpt from our latest ebook #DataBack Vol 2: Truth Before “Indigenous AI” The technology behind this trend involves complicated algorithms that work through vast amounts of visual data and then use this information to generate new images that replicate aspects of the “learned” style. The statistical prediction mechanisms involved mean that the outputs are inherently worse than the best of the inputs. In other words, the model assesses a likely average of sorts, or “good enough” on the bell curve. This discards outliers, but isn’t that where the best art comes from?
We’re grateful to have our headquarters on traditional territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lkwungen, Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples of the Coast Salish Nation.
Animikii Inc: theDock Centre for Social Impact 100-722 Cormorant St Victoria, BC V8W 1P8
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