DIGITAL SALVAGE

This program was an experiment in system collision. Thanks to the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, we embedded participatory art and Indigenous-led storytelling inside processes usually reserved for optimization and prediction. And it was an adventure.

We tested how art and story behaves in machine environments. We used narrative to destabilize logic. We explored resilience not as an outcome, but as a system function — emergent, collective, recursive. We built stuff. We broke things. We explored the codes beneath the codes.

This project didn’t ask how AI can help communities. It asked what communities do to AI.