November 13, 2025 at 7:00 P.M.

Ostrove Auditorium 

Techno-Cultural Futures: Reimagining AI Literacy with Black and Brown Artists in Providence

This talk explores 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.

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.

Special thanks to our co-sponsors: 

• The Linde Packman Lab for Biosciences Innovation
• The Pugh Center
• The Center for the Arts and Humanities
• The Department of African-American Studies
• The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• The Department of Science, Technology, and Society