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*A glimpse into the far future: in search of the ultimate truth about the past, meditates with her brain-machine interface of a crude neural network, machine learning and virtual world-building, a paleo-media-ontologist—with the help of a researcher—digs and scavenging the imagination of the past to recontextualise and reflect what it is called fossil relic in their time; a mountain of invisible electronic waste buried in a tropical landscape of the South".* [Fossilis]
Taking a cue from Not In Between, a chapter in Fred Moten’s book Black and Blur (2017), 'How Many _____ Does It Take?' tells the story of Dédée Bazile, a heroine within Haiti, and Imvo Zabanstundu a newspaper in South Africa. This video conversation between the artists documents a history of emancipatory politics in Haiti and South Africa. Both accounts are ‘delayed responses’ in their own respective ways. Although the histories that the artists recount differ, there are also similarities, for example they both recall how their personal histories have shaped their artistic practice.
**bios**
Yasmine is an Algerian creative technologist and researcher based in London. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Ada Lovelace Institute and was recognised as one of '100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2022'. Her projects interrogate the impact of new technologies on cultural life. She is currently developing a series of artistic research projects exploring cultural (dis)connections across time and geography using AI and anti-colonial methodologies.
