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Anais-karenin

Participating Project	Local Creator Residency Program
Activity Base	Ito-city (Shizuoka)
City / Place stayed	Tokyo
Period	2025.5 - 2025.7

Purpose of the residency

I aim to explore technology’s colonial legacy in modern ontology. Tokyo’s urban landscape offers a crucial site to investigate how technology mediates ecology in cosmopolitan environments, revealing its colonial heritage and contemporary impact.

Plan during the residency

• Study and record local cases of interaction between AI and traditional knowledge, such as projects that mix AI and Kampo medicine in Japan.
  
• Interview local AI experts, researchers on colonialism, and ecology/global warm scholars.
• Make an ontological chart scheme based on local and bibliographical research.
  
• Create a decolonial database.
  
• Generate work data as sound, image, and video.

Activities during the residency

During the residency, I intended to explore the colonial legacy of technology in modern ontology, focusing on how it mediates ecology in contemporary society. Focusing on local and historical aspects, I investigated the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and ancestral knowledge from a critical perspective. Researching Japan’s technological history from the Tokugawa period to modernization, I examined how knowledge-making shaped the systematization and extractivist gaze on medicinal plants and minerals, aiming to excavate the resilience of the curved-circular temporality of herbal-geo cosmologies.

Outcome of the residency

Through my research activities, I have been able to create a series of complex ontological charts. These will be transformed into a booklet to accompany the works. Each chart serves as a research foundation for composing the sculptures and images for the exhibition. Due to the complexity of the research, this project will be a long-term endeavor, continuously evolving into multiple works.

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