I’m a multimedia artist interested in the stories neglected by official records and official knowledge acquisition and development, with a particular interest in diaspora and its dynamic fusion of cultural knowledge(s), political agency and creative expression that is difficult to quantify. Literature is central to my research and practice. I work across several artistic forms, which have become vital to illuminating the porous boundaries between dimensions of knowledge and culture.
I focus on a particular critical deficiency: the relative absence of postcolonial thought and African studies from computational development, along with insufficient theoretical methods to address shifting temporalities of Black and African diasporic experiences within evolving computational structures. AI in particular is a social and cultural transformation and should also be an important epistemic discussion beyond bias and digital exclusion. Deeper analysis of how systemic knowledge disparities are integral to computational cognitive capture will aid how we steer equitable knowledge acquisition.
In 2019, I initiated The Red Earth Project, a process-based poetic inquiry into machine learning and its cultural history, and whether other knowledge systems can successfully interface with its foundational schema. In this ongoing project, I have combined computational theory, cognitive theory, African speculative and postcolonial literature in addition to many digital processes, computational behaviours and film, to probe with a series of nested questions on epistemic and environmental equitability. Supporting my practice are skills I have developed as a designer and creative director, presenting across books, publications, lectures, exhibitions, screenings and collaborative works.
