Not the Only One
2018
Not The Only One (N'TOO) is the multigenerational memoir of the artist’s black American family told from the “mind” of an artificial intelligence (AI) of evolving intellect. It is a voice-interactive AI entity designed, trained, and aligned with the needs and ideals of black and brown people who are drastically underrepresented in the tech sector. This entity is being developed to reflect, and be empowered to pursue the goals of its community through machine learning, a subfield of computer science that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed, creating a new kind of automated archive. Not only does N’TOO look like and emanate data derived from the position of blackness, it will also be designed and programmed by us.
