Can an initiation into the practices of indigenous and folk diviners, ranging from the Ifá of the Yoruba to the I Ching of the Zhou, help us better understand the analytics employed by the engineers and users of generative and predictive artificial intelligence systems?

Can applying millenia old interpretive procedures that indigenous and folk diviners apply to their ancestral combinatorial divination algorithms assist us in interpreting the generative and predictive outputs of artificial intelligence systems that employ similar combinatorial algorithms?

AI&D is a research stream that investigates how ancestral knowledges and divinatory practices can help us subvert and supplant the colonial analytics of capture and control that inform the science and engineering of generative and predictive artificial intelligence systems.

“Global Apartheid” names the inter-national and intra-national racial hierarchies and regimes of organized abandonment that have maintained and advanced the privileges of colonizers and their proxies/redeemers in the wake of the “non-events” of emancipation and decolonization.

“Planetary Ecocide” names the “managed depletion” of the planet’s natural resources by those bent on maximizing the pleasures and profits that they enjoy at the top of the aforementioned inter-national and intra-national racial hierarchies.

The AGAPE seminar and study group is deconstructing the administrative statements, technical implements, built environments, and dramatic elements that maintain and advance Global Apartheid and Planetary Ecocide.

Can collaborative research-creation practices be organized so that they are singular to the specific persons, institutions, and communities that they involve but, at the same time, remain accessible and communicable to general publics that might repurpose and revalue them?

Inspired by “seed banks” developed and maintained by horticulturalists and ecologists, the Process Germ Bank is an experimental infrastructure for sharing “germs” of research-creation practices, for promoting diversity within differing “knowledge ecologies”, and for enabling “knowledge sovereignty” — giving differing people(s) in differing places motives, means, and opportunities to cultivate forms of know-how from "germ to fruit" in regenerative rather than extractive ways.

Migration is labour. Healthy migration is labour. Migrating through collapsed infrastructures and uncertain environments? Still labour. Under the duress of climate change, when traditional infrastructures and organisational processes are obsolete, what tools are available to reestablish connection with a strange territory? How do we welcome a foreign climate, recapitulating our relationship with a land well known to us, and in a process of transition?

DOOR leads open expeditions into futures where, in what remains of this world, regenerative practice is skilled and valued labor in the wake of planetary climate catastrophe.

Techniques and technologies of data collection and analysis enable us to rationally represent phenomena. By contrast, techniques and technologies of signal sampling and synthesis enable us to sensibly intuit phenomena. Turning to processual notions of information and adopting techniques of sampling and synthesis common to Black electronic musics, the Infopoiēsis project proposes ways in which we may attune ourselves to sensible patterns of events and sensible courses of action that are obscured by paradigms of data collection and rational analysis.

Problems of measurement abound whenever and wherever mathematics, technics, and politics coincide, and these problems are, more often than not, social and cultural in addition to being technical and theoretical.

Measure w/ Care aims to help communities and institutions make sense of the social, embodied, and performative aspects of their own unique problems of measurement and, in turn, encourages them to design, prototype, and experiment with community-specific and site-specific social forms and cultural practices to solve their measurement problems.

Lak Yapùhne / Jurisgenerative Arts is a project devoted to constructing cooperative peoplehoods and lawscapes that center Indigenous artistic innovations and land sovereignty interventions.

Through transdisciplinary research, collaborative engagement, and transformative practices, the project aims to inspire innovative approaches to law, governance, and cultural relationships that nurture a harmonious coexistence with the natural world.