The Red Earth Project (2019-)

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Introduction

1. Overview    
2. Research
3. A Lecture at Princeton

The Books

1. About Red Earth
2. Red Earth in the Paris Review
3. Themes
4. Form
5. Where to buy
   
6. What Lies Beyond the Red Earth? (2024)
   

Process and Output

1. Conceptual Development
2. Photography
3. Prose
   
4. Computational and Subjective Translation
   
5. Digital to Physical
   
6. Process 1: Process and Theory
   
7. Process 2: Making
   
8. Compositions
   

Selected Works

1. Red Earth, The Book
   
2. Ever Abeokuta
   
3. Colonial Enterprise
   
4. Red Earth
   
5. Amor Fati
   
6. Direct Translation Diptychs 1, 2, 3 & 4
7. Sixteenth Century Technology
8. How Can Time Become a Circle
9. Deference
10. Solitary Breath

Exhibitions & Performances

1. Studio Hanniball
   
2. Archive of Forgetfulness
   
3. Listening to the Red Earth, a film
   

Community

1. The Red Earth Playlist
   
2. Beyond the Zero Podcast
   
3. EDIT Magazin
   
4. Earthsuits. Language: violence and repair.
   

Related Works

1. Planetary Portals
2. ‘I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine’ 7 Mar-15 Jun 2025
   
3. Losing is Ours
   
4. Cybernetics, or Ghosts? An anthology
   
5. Domicile 4
   

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1. The Red Earth Project is an ongoing artistic, interdisciplinary study centred on prose reflections and machine translation, drawing attention to the precarious status of non-western cultural heritage, knowledge systems and practices in the increasingly dominant Western systems of data, virtual architectures and AI technologies. A critical study of machine learning (AI), this research asks how alternative cosmologies can be better represented within virtual architectures powered by probabalistic computation. 

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