Short Films: Ancestral Computation

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, October 21 at 7pm for the screening program Ancestral Computation, followed by a discussion between artist Nouf Aljowaysir and curator Mashinka Firunts Hakopian. The program is co-presented with ArteEast.

Ancestral Computation assembles works that counter the epistemes of Western technoscience, from across the SWANA region and its diasporic time-spaces. These works call forth ancestral intelligences, inheriting forms of worldmaking surfaced from the lacunae of omissive datasets and archives of dispossession. They traverse algorithmic dream divination; develop tools for upending classificatory protocols; evade technologies of capture; and conjure precolonial deities through radio transmissions. They invoke alternate temporalities, rejecting the consignment of non-Western technologies to the dustbins of media history.