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?

Sales

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

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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1. What Lies Beyond the Red Earth?





    What Lies Beyond the Red Earth?
    53 numbered/signed copies
    £12 plus shipping
    16 pages. approx. 6"/150mm wide x 225mm/9" tall. Handsewn at the Sick Tangerine workshop. 
    Mohawk dark grey card covers;
    front cover artwork embossed in gold. 
    Printed on acid-free text paper; 'Jute' endpapers. ISBN: 978-1-917085-07-6

An updated version of Michael Salu's essay "WHAT LIES BEYOND THE RED EARTH?" on AI subjectivity and colonialism is now part of Tangerine Press's 'Walking Wounded' chapbook series.

Signed editions are limited to 53 copies. Grab one while you can 💨. Earlier versions of this essay appeared at the end of RED EARTH & extracted in the Paris Review.