A######### I########### | ISABELLA SALAS & HEXORCISMOS

presented as part of the exhibition A######### I###########

Indigenous Futurologies

Isabella Salas & Hexorcismos
2020
Video Installation, 40 sec loop
4 x sublimation prints on aluminum (28 x 28 cm each)

Indigenous Futurologies is the fruit of the artist’s ongoing collaboration with . The work is a call for artists to represent themselves accurately to renew, recover, and extend original voices and traditions using algorithmic technologies. Their artwork also raises questions about, and within the perimeters of Indigenous identities and computational statistics, in order to shape the future faced with a machine-informed bias.

Together, the artist and her collaborator recognize their own privilege as researchers and creators. Further, they hold space for their indigenous heritage, acknowledging the need to find accuracy to unbury roots from the algorithmic memory.

Photo credit: courtesy of the artists