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Pangea AI and Pangea in Latent Space

Pangea AI

Founders: Maria Luisa Angulo (France/El Salvador) & Marlon Barrios Solano (USA/Venezuela)
Affiliations: TRIAS CULTURE (Dakar–Paris) & Center for Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship (University of Florida, USA)

Pangea AI is an artistic–research collective responding to the political, symbolic, and epistemic implications of disruptive technologies—especially AI—through a situated, poetic, and decolonial practice. Rooted in the experience of migrant bodies, it fuses art, technology, and critical thought, with a special focus on the performing arts and the body as both site and agent of knowledge.

Pangea in Latent Space

A transdisciplinary extension of Pangea AI, Pangea in Latent Space transforms institutional and theatrical contexts into dynamic platforms for AI, coloniality, and Global South perspectives. The project premieres October 1–5, 2025 at Theater im Depot (Dortmund, Germany) as part of Decolonizing the Digital, supported by multiple cultural institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Residency Process

During a two-week research residency in Gainesville, Florida, the team developed a thematic and methodological framework blending conceptual inquiry, speculative design, embodied exploration, and tech prototyping.

Core Thematic Nodes

1. Speculative Cartographies – Alternate maps, mythic geographies (What if Europe had not existed?), AI-generated “Pangea people.”
2. Digital Utopians – From California techno-utopianism to Bauhaus epistemic architectures.
3. Mythic Cartographies – Migratory entities like La Llorona, El Nautili as sonic/embodied archives.
4. Speculative Ecologies & Hybrid Cognition – Chatbots for ecological speculation, AI as eco-techno organism.
5. Systems, Governance & Feedback – CyberSyn-inspired distributed governance, poetic uses of historical computation.
6. Embodied Resistance & Cultural Memory – Practices like Cumbia Rebajada and textile-based resistance.
7. Protocols, Archives & Meta-Infrastructures – Choreographic code notation, Bauhaus as proto-interface, AI as archival machine.

Formats & Outputs

• Lecture-performances blending theory and storytelling
• Immersive installations exploring AI, memory, and agency
• Choreographic scores for embodied reflection
• Visual cartographies & archives mapping AI, culture, and power
• Workshops & global dialogues amplifying Southern perspectives

Ethos

Pangea in Latent Space is both a work and a method—queering conventional formats, reimagining post-geographic worlds, and creating speculative ecologies where humans and AI co-inhabit in transformative ways.

Key Initiatives

• Nomade-Lab: A traveling platform for experimentation, research, creation, and critical education, connecting artists—particularly from Africa and Latin America—through collaborative, horizontal, and situated processes.
• Workshops & Collaborations: Partnerships with Motion Bank’s Choreographic Coding Lab and Simon Fraser University’s Meta-creation Lab, offering training in open-source generative AI tools.
• Embodied AI Practice: Programs like Movements in Latent Space explore generative AI (LLMs, sound, image) through choreographic and performative perspectives, centering the body as a sensitive interface and creative catalyst.