Central Valley California Arts Project (CVCAP) is pleased to present a talk with Dr. Tiara Roxanne exploring the critical intersections of data, technology, and community impact. This session will delve into the concept of data colonialism and its effects on marginalized and Indigenous communities in the Americas, prompting reflection on its global implications. Dr. Roxanne will also introduce their emerging work on digital attunement, examining how our engagement with digital technologies is fundamentally shaping our nervous systems. Designed for educators across all disciplines, this talk will spark important discussions and offer insights into integrating these complex themes into K–16 curriculum, fostering critical thinking about technology, justice, and well-being.
- Date: Saturday, April 18, 2026
- Registration Deadline: April 16, 2026
- Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (PT)
- Location: Zoom
- Cost: Free
Data Colonialism and Digital Attunement Lecture Featuring Dr. Tiara Roxanne
Dr. Tiara Roxanne is a scholar and performance artist whose work rethinks the ethics of AI through an anticolonial, eco-feminist, and cyberfeminist lens. They are currently a Research Fellow at Disruption Network Lab in Berlin. Their research critiques how digital technologies rely on the extraction of resources from Indigenous lands and examines how these infrastructures carry colonial legacies inscribed in land, bodies, and memory. They are the author of the forthcoming book with University of California Press (2027), which develops their concepts of digital attunement and the technological haunt.
As an artist, Roxanne grounds their practice with the knowledge that the body is the first technology. Their journey began with a short film exploring the hidden underpinnings of AI for marginalized and Indigenous communities, and has since expanded into performances in Bogotá and Berlin that use site-specific resources such as soil, earth, and land to create ceremonial acts of refusal and relation.
Roxanne also leads seminars, workshops, and curatorial projects rooted in Indigenous feminist methodologies, guiding students in ethical and decolonial approaches to archiving and the repatriation of cultural objects. Recognized internationally, they have served on the jury for the Just Tech Fellowship (NYC), the Mensch Maschine Fellowship (Akademie der Künste Berlin / E-Werk Luckenwalde), and the Transmediale Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research.
Tiara has presented at ARS Electronica (Linz), Images Festival (Toronto), Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center (NY), Trinity Square Video (Toronto), Leuphana University (Lüneberg), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), University of Applied Arts (Vienna), SOAS (London), SLU (Madrid), Transmediale (Berlin), Duke University (NC), Cambridge University (UK), Tech Open Air (Berlin), AMOQA (Athens), Zurich University of the Arts (Zurich), Autonomous Intercultural Indigenous University (Colombia), Utrecht University (NL), University College London (UK), University of California (San Diego), Münchener Kammerspiele (Munich), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, (Mexico City), Fuchsbau Festival (Hannover), MUTEK (Montreal), among others.
Questions? Please contact CVCAP Director, Ahran Koo, akoo@csufresno.edu.
Sponsors
The California Arts Project
Fresno State | Kremen School of Education and Human Development
Fresno State | ASI