The Red Earth Project (2019-)

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

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

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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

Related Works
  1. Planetary Portals
  2. Losing is Ours

Next Steps

Object Int’l —
Info
  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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More works available soon


Deference
Fine art print. Mixed media: Photography. Text to image data translation from deep learning model, 
to virtually hand-modelled sculpture from data output. Digital collage.
54cm x 74cm 
Editions of 3

Including high end magnet frame from traditional framing company HALBE Rahmen GmbH -
Classic Alu 8, schwarz matt Museum glass: Weißglass





Red Earth
Fine art print - Hahnemühle Museum Etching 350 gr
41 x 26cm 
Editions 2 of 3
2020

Including high end magnet frame from traditional framing company HALBE Rahmen GmbH - 
Classic Alu 8, schwarz matt Museum glass: Weißglass





Amor Fati
Fine art print - Hahnemühle Museum Etching 350 gr
41 x 26cm 
Editions 2 of 3
2020

Including high end magnet frame from traditional framing company HALBE Rahmen GmbH - 
Classic Alu 8, schwarz matt Museum glass: Weißglass





Sixteenth Century Technology: Analysis of My Tongue
Aso Oke Fabric. Hand and machine woven in Ibadan, Nigeria. 
Embroidery of a digital output from a GPT-3-based textual 
analysis of the prose ‘Red Earth’ written by the artist. 
100cm x 100cm
Edition 1 of 1. 
2022





Red Earth
Michael Salu
ISBN: 978-1-940853-18-5
144 pgs