Bard College Presents
Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ (Fifteen Maps) explores the Hudson River site known as Cruger Island, which was “purchased” in the 19th century by John Cruger, who used it as a backdrop for stolen Mayan ruins he transported as casts from Honduras. By the 1960s, Cruger Island had become a place for archeological excavations that displaced Indigenous artifacts and remains now held by the New York State Museum. Confronting those histories, Kite interrogates these knowledge systems and explores how AI might function as a conduit for alternative ways of nonhuman knowing. In this experimental lecture, multimedia artist Kite will explore how artificial intelligence reproduces the logics of coloniality, flattening land, people, and lifeworlds into objects of knowledge—data points to be extracted.
Please join us for a post-lecture reception, held in the LUMA lobby.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fifteen-maps/.
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Fisher Center, LUMA Theater