Ancestral Intelligences: A Screening

Ancestral Intelligences: A Screening
Curated by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Cambridge University
Cambridge Film & Screen
Robert McCrum Lecture Theatre
November 14, 2024

This screening program is curated by Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellow, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, for Cambridge Film & Screen. The works in the program explore how non-Western and Indigenous knowledge systems are omitted from prevailing algorithmic logics, and turn to the ancestral as a means to stage decolonial interventions in emerging technologies.

The program is preceded by a lecture on algorithmic visual cultures, and followed by a conversation between Hakopian and Dr. Kareem Estefan of Cambridge Film & Screen.

Screenings of works by:

Nouf Aljowaysir
Nora Al-Badri
Morehshin Allahyari
Yazan Khalili
Kira Xonorika

R: Still, Yazan Khalili, Hiding Our Faces Like a Dancing Wind, 2016