One of the questions that the participants chose to ask each other during the Pelican Island workshop I hosted earlier this year was: “Have you noticed algorithmic bias in climate news and other media?” I did not expect this subject to come up, and it has inspired the way I’d like to continue the different facets of this project.
For the final post of my weeklong IG takeover for @radicalarchives about my Artist as Archivist project, I announced the launch of a study group based on feedback from participants during Solar Salutations, my Artist as Archivist project. Here is an anonymous quote from one of the participants after the Pelican Island workshop:
“My favorite moments were having open back and forth dialogue about our environmental anxieties as a group. I often talk about climate change but have never put a name to the worries that constantly linger in the back of my mind about that topic.”
The study group is called TFW… (that feeling when) and it will be designed as a supportive space for conversation about climate change, wellness, and technology from feminist, queer, anticolonial and racial justice perspectives. As an in-person community aimed at creative people, discussion will focus on the intersection between digital media like AI and NFTs, and environmental issues.
My role as the facilitator will be informed by my experiences as a professor of digital art, as well as my studies of forest bathing / forest therapy, horticultural therapy, and Buddhist philosophy. An example of the works we will engage with together include texts by Ruha Benjamin, Sarah Jaquette Ray, everest pipkin, Mimi Onuaha, Nabil Hassein, and Octavia Butler, among others.
Would you like to join us? Do you know a place that would like to host our meetings? Please be in touch if you’d like to be involved and/or can suggest or offer a space that can host a monthly group gathering on Sunday afternoons.
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