Praba Pilar will present Nixtamalízaté-té-té at the 2023 Taboo, Transgression and Transcendence in Art and Science Conference. Nixtamalízaté-té-té is a new body of work co-created with artificial intelligence companions,  image generation tools, and platforms. We work with these systems as co-constructors of a future/past beyond extraction capitalism (the Extractocene). The title is a play on Calle-13’s popular song “Atrévete-te-te” (2005), which in English is “be daring.” Nixtamalízaté-té-té dares AIs to really join the multi-dimensional world of technological pluriversality, one that is always already parallel to algorithms of oppression.

The international conference Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT) is an interdisciplinary and nomadic event, where both practitioners as well as theorists present and discuss the status of art-science and/or art & technology. The conference focuses (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality, as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. The full program of the conference will be announced in 30 June 2023.