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A word from the artist
Algorithms, AI, and predictive technology have quickly become all-encompassing in society, using statistics, existing writing, and other data as the basis of their 'knowledge.' The data collected by these systems include a great deal of biased information, leading to machines that re-enforce the systemic racism and oppression perpetuated by their creators.
This work imagines and builds a world where the data used in these machines centres BIPOC and other marginalized experiences. This work generates pieces of poetry that attempts to reflect these experiences.
The text is generated based on a curated selection of words exclusively written by BIPOC writers, which includes poems, essays, screenplay dialogue, news articles, and more, as well as original writing by the artist.
CREDITS
The works of the following artists were adapted for this piece:
James Baldwin
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Desmond Cole
Ava DuVernay
Bernadine Evaristo
Langston Hughes
Barry Jenkins
June Jordan
Mindy Kaling
Rupi Kaur
Reni Eddo Lodge
Naomi Shihab Nye
Olamide Olaniyan
Issa Rae
Jia Tolentino
Ocean Vuong
Cleo Wade
Lulu Wang
Special thanks to Alex Jyn-Li Cairns for her assistance in collecting these texts
Meet the artist:
N.D. Jia Paonessa
N.D. Jia is a Digital Media student, game developer, livecoder, and interactive media artist. They are an executive member of Game Devs at YorkU, part of the Creative Code Toronto group of creative technologists, and perpetually trapped in the intersection of art and technology. N.D. Jia's game art can be viewed and played at https://ndjia.itch.io.