One of the ways we can make AI legible is to trace the largely unseen life cycle of a tech object, from the mine to the dump. Physical materials make their way around the globe, are refined, combined, and eventually disposed of and separated, passing through many hands along the way. For example, e-waste, the …
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Art: Le Ratoire: Sediments (2023)
Over three weeks in late summer 2023, the Franco-American collective Le Ratoire canoed the length of the Hudson River — the Mahicannittuk — from Troy to New York City, filming on 16mm and developing each night’s footage using invasive plants foraged along the banks: mugwort, Japanese knotweed, wood ash from bonfire, and the river’s own …
The Wall: Oppression and Resistance
From the Archives . . . The Wall: Oppression and Resistance by Sumita S. Chakravarty Keywords: surveillance state, wall, deportation, authoritarianism At the end the Stasi had 97,000 employees –more than enough to oversee a country of seventeen million people. But it also had over 173,000 informers among the population. In Hitler’s Third …
Documenting our Time: The Paradoxes of Belonging
by Sumita S. Chakravarty Ideas of home and belonging, long a staple of migration as lived reality and structure of consciousness in that home is often defined in the very act of leaving it, have once again become food for thought during the coronavirus pandemic. One of the earliest impacts as institutions started to …