Countering the Fetishization of Indigenous Art
How contemporary Native artists are evading recognition and visibility for a more speculative indigenous futurism
In 1991, James Luna invited audiences at the Whitney Museum of American Art to stand on a small riser with him – or alongside one of three life-size, cardboard cut-outs of him shirtless in a beaded necklace or ornate headdress – to ‘take a picture with a real Indian’. It was a precipitous moment for both the institution and the wider art world: two years later, the museum would host the decisive ‘identity politics’ Whitney Biennial (curated by Thelma Golden, John G. Hanhardt, Lisa Phillips and Elizabeth Sussman) that conventional wisdom suggests began a slow tectonic shift toward greater inclusiveness and ‘globalization’. In 1992, to mark the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña toured a performance as ‘Amerindians from
Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Arenât Racist?
When Google forced out two well-known artificial intelligence experts, a long-simmering research controversy burst into the open.
âYour life starts getting worse when you start advocating for underrepresented people,â the researcher Timnit Gebru said before losing her job at Google.Credit.Cody O Loughlin for The New York Times
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Hundreds of people gathered for the first lecture at what had become the worldâs most important conference on artificial intelligence â row after row of faces. Some were East Asian, a few were Indian, and a few were women. But the vast majority were white men. More than 5,500 people attended the meeting, five years ago in Barcelona, Spain.
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