<aside> <img src="/icons/circle-alternate_brown.svg" alt="/icons/circle-alternate_brown.svg" width="40px" /> Thinking carefully about overlay and overlap, the process of collage becomes a way of embracing the fragmented realities of developing AI under extractive conditions. The practice of remixing imperial archives is a form of visual resistance and refusal– embrace the unrecoverable past in the histories of colonized peoples, honoring the fragments inflicted by colonial violence rather than trying to fill them in. Collage becomes a way of moving against the archival grain. By combining mixed media layers, the process weaves together historical violence, present realities, and alternative futures, thus, becoming a refusal of colonial temporalities and imperial visualities.
In the context of AI, collage becomes a modality for exposing the human extraction, labor, and bias that underpin these “complex” systems. The visuals of hands, strings, wires, and computer chips are woven throughout the two related theme of TEXTILES & TECH and THE NEXT FRONTIER (MODEL).
My collages focus on two related themes:
[SCRAPS ](https://nadiapiet.notion.site/SCRAPS-9055c10ed4b14f25b79859209e10af2a)
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<aside> <img src="/icons/circle-alternate_brown.svg" alt="/icons/circle-alternate_brown.svg" width="40px" /> FINAL IMAGES
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