This interdisciplinary studio bridges Critical Ethnic Studies and emerging AI technologies through a decolonial and spiritual lens. Students explore how algorithmic systems reproduce histories of empire, anti-Blackness, extraction, and surveillance—and how artists, designers, and storytellers can challenge these logics through creative intervention. Using speculative design, digital storytelling, and participatory ritual, students will engage with AI tools not as neutral technologies but as haunted spaces—infused with the memory of colonial systems and the potential for liberatory futures. Together we will: Unpack the racial, gendered, and colonial logics embedded in generative AI, Create experimental studio projects using AI as a medium, collaborator, or site of resistance, Integrate theory from scholars like Ruha Benjamin, Sylvia Wynter, and global cosmologies of dieties of technology and progress. Prototype works that might include voice-generated ritual texts, decolonial chatbots, anti-surveillance garments, or Afrosurrealist environments in gaming engines. Collaborate with community members and elders in reciprocal, ethical creative research. All majors welcome.

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