text-pangea-ai

Screenshot 2024-08-26 at 2 47 15 PM

Created by Maria Luisa Angulo (El Sanvador/France) and Marlon Barrios Solano (Venezuela/USA)

Contact us:

mbarriossolano@ufl.edu

malumalu.dakar@gmail.com

Problem: What are we trying to solve?

PangeaAI is a collective project conceived by Maria Luisa Angulo (France/El Salvador) and Marlon Barrios Solano (USA/Venezuela) that explores, through a research-creation approach, horizontal pedagogies, and co-curation, the potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. This initiative seeks to investigate and counteract the biases in AI and in the Global South, posing crucial questions such as:

Can we deconstruct machine learning and generative AI from a Global South perspective?
Can these technologies be tools for empowering creatives and artists from the Global South?
Can AI be a tool for decolonizing strategies and tactics?

Pangea AI: Knowledge and Resources in AI

The project is aimed at creating open-access platforms and software that allow technologists and creatives to foster innovation, especially in the Global South. Committed to decolonial strategies, Pangea AI actively works to eliminate biases and other challenges that AI presents to the world.

Main Initiatives and Axes:

Research-Creation: Development of digital or performative works based on AI that can be exhibited in performative installations, online, or in workshops. Prototypes, tests, and pilots are based on our own experience.
Facilitating Knowledge Migration: Through workshops and training sessions on generative AI, machine learning, and decolonizing methodologies.
Collaborative Creative Spaces: Establishment of creative spaces for artists from Africa and Latin America, providing resources and training in AI and creative technology.
Sharing Collective Processes: Regular interviews with field leaders, curatorial mapping, publications, and interactive chatbots.
Pangea AI Chatbot: A dynamic knowledge repository, fed by situated experiences and the production of knowledge about the realities of the Global South, capable of fostering epistemic and ontological simulation processes and supporting creative processes from a decolonial need.

Collaborations:

Pangea AI is based on a solid network of collaborations with recognized institutions and organizations worldwide:

Funding and Support:

In this pilot phase, the project is supported by the CAME Center for Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship and has established technological partnerships with industry members like Huggingface, Fal.AI, and Alani, with access to the HyperGATOR supercluster at the University of Florida.

Main Objectives:

Provide specialized training and resources in deep learning and generative AI.
Develop and maintain open-source platforms for creative technologists.
Implement decolonizing strategies that transform colonial knowledge structures.
Address and eliminate biases in AI systems to ensure fair and ethical applications.
Provide access to cutting-edge technologies, models, and advanced datasets.
Foster a global network connecting knowledge production centers with industry and cutting-edge innovation, ensuring equitable access for the Global South.

Additional Guiding Questions for Our Project:

How can AI be used to amplify the voices and creative productions of marginalized communities in the Global South?
What ethical frameworks can we establish to ensure the responsible use of AI in creative practices?
How can generative AI and machine learning create sustainable and resilient artistic practices in the Global South?
How can we foster intercultural collaborations using AI technologies to bridge the gaps in artistic and technological innovation between the Global South and the rest of the world?

This project is framed within a vision where AI, creativity, and ethical considerations intersect deeply in the context of the Global South, redefining what it means to be a platform for cultural and technological exchange in the digital age.

Suppoted by CAME Center for Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship from the Collge of the Arts of the University of Florida

Pangea-AI- Slides Presentation for ICA Live Art Festival

Slide 1: Project Title: Pangea-AI

Slide 2: Problem: What are we trying to solve?

• Context: • Pangea-AI is a collective project conceived by Maria Luisa Angulo and Marlon Barrios Solano. • It explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, creativity, and decolonization. • Key questions: • Can we deconstruct generative AI from a Global South perspective? • Can these technologies empower creatives and artists from the Global South? • Can AI be a tool for decolonizing strategies?

Slide 3: Pangea-AI: Knowledge and Resources in AI

• Focus: • Creating open-source platforms and software. • Technological innovation with a decolonizing approach. • Eliminating biases in AI and other global challenges.

Slide 4: Initiatives and Main Axes

• Research-Creation: • Developing digital/performance-based works using AI. • Exhibitions in performance venues, online, and workshops. • Prototypes and pilot tests. • Training: • Workshops and training sessions on generative AI, machine learning, and decolonizing methodologies. • Facilitating the migration of knowledge from research-creation. • Creation Spaces: • Collaborative laboratories for artists from Africa and Latin America. • Providing resources and training in AI and creative technology. • Dissemination: • Video interviews with field leaders once a month. • Curatorial mapping, interactive publications, and chatbots. • Pangea-AI Chatbot: • Dynamic knowledge repository. • Fed by experiences situated in the Global South. • Capable of facilitating epistemic and ontological simulation processes.

Slide 5: Main Objectives

• Project Objectives: • Providing specialized training in generative AI. • Developing open-source platforms for creative technologists. • Implementing decolonizing strategies. • Addressing and eliminating biases in AI systems. • Fostering a global network of knowledge with equity for the Global South.

Slide 6: Collaborations: Global Network

• Associated Institutions: • Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship, University of Florida, USA. • Metacreation Lab, Simon Fraser University, Canada. • Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico. • Universidad Federal de Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. • Radiona, Croatia. • Huggingface (France). • Fal.AI (USA). • Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City. • Centro Coreográfico Multicorps (Benin). • Gilles Jobin Company, Switzerland. • Lake Studios Berlin, Germany.

Slide 7: Funding and Support

• Support and Technological Alliances: • CAME Center for Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship. • Technological alliances with Huggingface, Fal.AI, Alani. • Access to the HyperGATOR supercluster at the University of Florida.

Slide 8: Additional Questions

• Reflections and Directions: • How can we amplify the voices of the Global South using AI? • What ethical frameworks do we need for responsible AI use? • How can we create resilient artistic practices with AI in the Global South? • How can we close innovation gaps between the Global South and the rest of the world?

Slide 9: Conclusion

• Project Vision: • Reimagining AI, creativity, and ethics in the Global South. • Redefining cultural and technological exchange in the digital era.

Slide 10:invitation Finish with an invitation to collaborate in several languages… spacial for the ICA 2024 Festival…

QR code