ART PAPERS Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence

ART PAPERS 46.03
Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2023
Co-edited by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Sarah Higgins

 

Contributors: Morehshin Allahyari, Erica Cardwell, Sasha Cordingly, Stephanie Dinkins, Charlotte Kent, Kite (Digital), K. Allado-McDowell, Dina Ramadan, Anuradha Vikram

From the Editors’ Letter:

“The questions that these technologies surface are continuous with ones that have been posed by thinkers over the last century: What are the core features of Western models of the human, and how do they inherit the racialized and gendered logics of coloniality (Sylvia Wynter and María Lugones)? How do creative acts of worldmaking in multispecies ecosystems complicate existing assumptions about human exceptionalism (Anna Tsing and Donna Haraway)? How do prevailing approaches to AI as a tool or servant occlude Indigenous epistemologies of nonhuman kin-making, knowledge, and co-creation (Jason Edward Lewis, Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis, and Suzanne Kite)? How do sociotechnical systems deepen asymmetries in existing distributions of power, from the New Jim Code to technological redlining to algorithmic violence (Ruha Benjamin, Safiya Noble, and Mimi Ọnụọha)? How might these systems be rerouted toward community-led outcomes and collective liberation (Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Sasha Costanza-Chock)?”

Cover Image: Morehshin Allahyari, ماه طلعت Moon-Faced, still image from video, courtesy of the artist (2022)