Our evening panel discussion will see artist and educator Eugene Hansen in conversation with digital artist Rangituhia Hollis and writer Cassandra Barnett. Their discussions will connect their creative practices using AI into the ongoing discussions around machine learning, AI, Toi Māori and te Tiriti o Waitangi with a focus on AI’s implications for contemporary Māori arts.
Eugene Hansen (Maniapoto) is a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Wellington. Focusing on co-authoring and working collaboratively, he has a long-term multimedia art practice exhibiting nationally and internationally. Eugene attributes his interest in collaboration to growing up in a remote, rural Māori community where cultural production was modelled as an inherently collaborative embracing of mātauranga Māori. He lives in Wellington.
Rangituhia Hollis is of Ngati Porou and Ngati Kahungunu descent. Born in Napier, New Zealand, he has been exhibiting his art publicly for 20 years. He has Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland (2009). He has a practice that incorporates references to virtual reality, gaming culture and documentary-style home videos, exploring heritage, connection, dislocation and urban Māori experiences in Aotearoa New Zealand’s postcolonial context. His work has been included in significant exhibitions of Māori art including Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces currently at Te Tuhi, Auckland and Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in 2021
Cassandra Barnett (Raukawa Ngāti Huri) is a writer across worlds, language unlearner, solo Māmā, shapeshifter, avid weeder, reo Māori dreamer. In 2021 she published the chapbook How | Hao with , and was a founding member of the publishing collective Taraheke. Cassandra’s work can be found in Cordite, Landfall, Action|Spectacle, Te Whē ki Tukorehe, RNZ Reading Room, Brief, OraNui, Pantograph Punch, Ate, Counterfutures, South as a State of Mind (Documenta 14), No Other Place to Stand (Auckland UP 2021), Robin White: Something is Happening Here (Te Papa Press 2021), Te Manu Huna a Tāne (Massey UP 2020), Huia Short Stories 13 (Huia 2019) and Black Marks on the White Page (Penguin Random House 2017).
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Rising Algorithms: Navigate, Automate, Dream is made possible with the support of our presenting partner Toi Hourua and funding from Creative New Zealand and Wellington City Council. Our symposium venues have been made possible through the generosity of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Vogelmorn Community, Michael Sutton of AWACS Communications (NZ) Ltd, and Two/FiftySeven. Exhibition partners include The Engine Room at Massey University and null gallery.
