a spider dreaming they are a cyborg. as a watson fellow, my project took me to communities across Johannesburg, Manila, Seoul, São Paulo, Tokyo, Aruba, Berlin, and beyond, archiving how people live with, resist, and reimagine technology in places most impacted by its harms. my practice begins from the conviction that creators are not separate from their creations. technologies carry the ethical, spiritual, and political imprints of those who design them. under dominant colonial and capitalist paradigms, artificial intelligence often amplifies extraction, surveillance, and violence particularly against marginalized bodies. I work instead to cultivate AI as a tool for liberation: community-centered, locally grounded, and accountable to the ecosystems and lives it touches.

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