Techno-Cultural Futures: Reimagining AI Literacy with Black & Brown Artists

Location: Ostrove Auditorium (Diamond 142), Colby College

Time: 7 pm, November 13th, 2025

As a part of Davis AI's Distinguished AI Speaker Series, this talk will explore Techno-Cultural Futures, a justice-oriented AI literacy initiative that equips young Black and Brown artists in Providence with the tools to critically engage and creatively intervene in the technologies shaping their lives. Rooted in community-based art and critical race frameworks, the project treats AI not just as a technical system, but as a cultural and political force.

Dr. Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies. As a versatile scholar, her work explores how everyday Black people challenge systems of power through emerging technologies. Her research on data interrogates synthetic data, AI, and medical imaging—especially in the social and technological context of breast cancer—to uncover how race is represented, erased, or contested in algorithmic systems. She also serves as the director of the Community Health Informatics Data Lab, where she and her team are using AI to develop a digital research project on Black women and breast cancer, as well as provide justice-oriented AI literacy education to young Black and Brown artists in Providence.

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