The Red Earth Project (2019-)


Introduction

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

The Book

1. About
2. Red Earth in the Paris Review
3. Themes
4. Form
5. Where to buy

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
The Red Earth Playlist

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Related Works

1. Planetary Portals

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. This research asks how alternative cosmologies can be better represented within virtual architectures powered by probabalistic computation. 

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