Pangea AI : lecture by Marlon Barrios Solano and Maria Luisa Angulo

Diving into a new era of innovation and artistic creation, ‘PangeaIA’ is a collective co-founded by Maria Luisa Angulo (France/El Salvador) and Marlon Barrios Solano (USA/Venezuela). 

From a decolonial perspective, the collective aims to harness the potential of AI by breaking down traditional hierarchies. Their challenge? To reinvent the forms of creation and migration of knowledge, fostering new dialogues between dominant knowledge and the realities of the Global South. 

Can we deconstruct the paradigms promoted by generative AI and its forms of machine learning from a decolonial perspective? How can AI emancipate and invigorate the creative processes of artists from the Global South, opening the way to plural narratives and new aesthetics? Finally, is generative AI a tool for developing decolonial strategies, by questioning its ethical foundations and its global hegemony, while at the same time dignifying the knowledge that emanates from the South? These are the questions that the PangeaIA collective intends to explore.

To achieve this, the collective promotes laboratory spaces open to encounters, experimentation, research, collective work, co-creation and co-commissioning.

With this ambition in mind, PangeaIA offers creative workshops, cross-residencies and the development open-source software platforms. The collective also organises training courses based on online horizontal methodologies, while fostering connections between knowledge production centers such as universities, research institutions and innovation hubs, taking particular care to ensure equal access for countries in the Global South.   

?Marlon Barrios Solano is a Venezuelan-American interdisciplinary artist, creative technologist and researcher with a background in dance, software engineering and cognitive science. His works combine generative AI, machine learning, creative coding, and performance. He is currently Maker-in-Residence focused on AI, Arts and Diasporas at CAME Center for Art, Migration and Entrepreneurship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, USA. He also is an artist-in-residence with the Rewilding Cultures program at Radiona in Zagreb, Croatia, and at Lake Studios Berlin, Germany, where he is a founding member. His recent works are deployed as dynamic browser-based AI art, performance interfaces, improvisational scores, sound environments, AI chatbots and video that he organizes as installations, workshops, participatory performances, and/or lectures. All the work and code are published and distributed with an open source license. He is the creator and curator of the social networks dance-tech.net and movimiento.org. Marlon holds an Masters in Fine Arts in Dance, Cognition and Digital Technologies from The Ohio State University.

https://marlonbarrios.github.io/