Ancestral Intelligence: Alternative AI by Jazsalyn

​During this session, artist Jazsalyn will discuss Ancestral Intelligence and alternative AI.

​As a part of Jazsalyn's research-based art practice, she defines Ancestral Intelligence as the earliest forms of knowledge systems, philosophies, and traditions passed down from generation to generation within indigenous groups, their descendants, and diasporic communities. 

​Jazsalyn will expand on her Ancestral Intelligence projects: REIMAGINE Prototype, an algorithmic study refiguring lost indigenous and extraterrestrial memory, and Natal Dimension, a cinematic game that travels across pre-colonial Africa to recover traces of Ancestral Intelligence.

​Following the discussion, attendees will play Warpmode, a collaborative world-building toolkit created by the artist. The toolkit explores speculative Black Metatheories: afrofuturism, afronowism, afrovoidism, and afropocalypse. Select cards inside the kit will prompt attendees to imagine alternative realities informed by Ancestral Intelligence.

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