The Artificial as an Intelligent Indigenous/Indigenizing System

Research partner(s)
University of New South Wales

This article explores the vital importance of the sensory at the nexus of the artificial and real life. Co-existing within colonial histories, the artificial and lived are bound up with intractable violence and inequities driven by capitalist, militarist, and anthropocentric trajectories. Our collaborative article examines the 30-year practice of the non-binary, Gamilaraay/Wailwan/ Biripi artist r e a. As we contend, r e a’s experimental media arts practice pivots on sensory and affective truth-telling of the “artificial”. Their work is a re-Indigenization of country, body, and experience, specifically because digital art represents an “unoccupied space” for counter-historical transformation.

Please Note: This material contains themes and discussions of institutionalisation, Blak deaths in custody, and gender and sexuality.

Output(s)

The Artificial as an Intelligent Indigenous/ Indigenizing System The Experimental Art and Artifice of r e a
Type
Journal article
Authors
r e a, Jennifer L. Biddle, Lily Hibberd
Publisher
Visual Anthropology Review
Publication date
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Visual Anthropology Review, Vol. 0, Issue 0, pp. 3–18, ISSN 1058-7187, online 1548-7458. © 2023 The Authors. Visual Anthropology Review published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Anthropological Association. DOI: 10.1111/var.12284 This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.