The project was a collaboration between the NGO Thydêwá and academics based in the UK and Ireland (Professor Thea Pitman and Dr Tom Jackson from the University of Leeds, and Dr Andreas Rauh from Dublin City University), together with the Bolivian artist and doctoral researcher in the Interdisciplinary PhD Programme in Arts and Humanities at the Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile, aruma (Sandra de Berduccy). It was financed by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute’s Interdisciplinary Research and Impact Fund for Culture.

Since the first phase of the AIAI project, we have also worked with the UK artist-technologist collective Immersive Networks (Dave Lynch, Sam Hallas and Christophe Bézenac), Dr Alexsandro Cosmo de Mesquita-Alex Potiguara (Digital Good Network, University of Sheffield), and Dr Alessandra Mello Simões Paiva (Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia), author of A virada decolonial na arte brasileira [The decolonial turn in Brazilian art] (Mireveja Editora, 2022). We are currently exploring future collaborations with Dr Elen Nas (Puri, postdoctoral researcher, Casa de Rui Barbosa) and her decolonizAI project.

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If you would like to know more about the project, please contact Thea Pitman, t.pitman@leeds.ac.uk, Sebastián Gerlic, sebastian@thydewa.org, Andreas Rauh, andreas.rauh@dcu.ie, and/or aruma, sandradeberduccy@gmail.com.