Plural Futures: Encoding AI Through Sound, Movement, and Decolonial Thought
A cross-disciplinary programme by Reforum, in conjunction with arebyte's current exhibition What Is It Like?, reimagining artificial intelligence as a space of plurality and relation through conversations, a lecture, and a workshop.
Could the widespread use of artificial intelligence and large language models — often biased toward dominant, politicised worldviews — still carry the traces of failed techno-utopian dreams? Dreams that once promised progress, yet continue to perpetuate colonial logics and economic exploitation to this day.
Produced by Alya Kanibelli, Reforum, this public programme explores how technological narratives are constructed, which worldviews have been privileged, and what embodied, sonic, and performative forms of knowledge might offer alternate blueprints for AI futures.
Bringing together scholars, artists, and practitioners working across AI, choreography, and sound, Plural Futures asks how we might reimagine technological imaginaries through relational, decolonial, and more-than-human perspectives — shifting towards a polyphonic, co-authored technosphere of plurality.
Programme Schedule
3:00PM: Introduction
3:15PM: Conversation
w/ curator Helen Starr and philosopher David Chalmers (pre-recorded)3:45PM: Keynote
“What is it like…to decolonise our imagination?”
w/ writer & researcher Clea Bourne4:30 PM: Artist Lecture
“Unbearable Darkness: Dancing with Specters of the Past”
w/ artist Choy Ka Fai5:15 - 5:30 PM: Interval
5:30 PM: Conversation
“Transcosmic Portals: Trickster Thinking and Decolonial Futures”
w/ artist Kira Xonorika and curator Helen Starr6:10 PM: Workshop
“Chorus of the Techno-Sonosphere”
w/ vocal performer, researcher & designer Amina Abbas-Nazari