AI: African Intelligence
Manthia Diawara
WEST COAST PREMIERE
- Price
- $12*
- Genre
- Film/Video
- Season
- Fall 2024
- DATE
- DEC 16
- IN-PERSON
- MON, 8 PM
- STREAM
- MON, 8 PM (72 hours)
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 110 minutes
- COUNTRY
- Portugal, Senegal, Belgium
- Program
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About
Manthia Diawara’s latest essay film, AI: African Intelligence explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession among traditional fishing villages of the Atlantic coast of Senegal and the emergence of new technology frontiers known as artificial intelligence. Considering the confluence of tradition and modernity, Diawara questions how we could move from disembodied machines toward a more humane and spiritual control of algorithms. Could Africa be the context of emergence of such improbable algorithms?
AI: African Intelligence is part of the performance program for All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, and curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar with Talia Heiman.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. PST ART: Art & Science Collide, the latest edition of this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art.
Presented in English, Wolof, and French with English subtitles.
[Manthia Diawara] opens up to astonishing reflections about culture and knowledge.
—
Dieter Wieczorek, Modern Times Review
about the artists
Manthia Diawara
Manthia Diawara is a writer and filmmaker. He is a distinguished professor of Comparative Literature and Film at New York University. Diawara’s notable films include: A Letter from Yene (2022), An Opera of the World (2017), Négritude: A Dialogue between Wole Soyinka and Léopold Senghor (2016), and Édouard Glissant: one world in relation (2010). His films have been presented at festivals, biennials, and a wide range of exhibition venues, including the 34th Bienal de São Paulo; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; documenta 14, Kassel; Fundação de Serralves, Porto; and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
credits
Exhibition Curator: Daniela Lieja Quintanar
Performance Program Curators: Katy Dammers, Daniela Lieja Quintanar, and Edgar Miramontes
Assistant Curator: Talia Heiman
Technical Director: Adam Matthew
Exhibition Designer: Adalberto Charvel
Graphic Designer: Ella Gold
Publication: REDCAT/East of Borneo
Project Director: Joao Ribas
