Diggermode: A film from ‘Australia’

Diggermode questions the social and environmental ethics of technology in constructing, storing and sharing our images, whether in surveillance databases, museum archives or online. Using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Joel Sherwood Spring has created landscapes in the style of acclaimed Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira being torn apart by mining machinery, and has trained another AI to answer questions like ‘Who’s your Mob? ’Presumably, anyone could do this – but should anyone be able to appropriate Indigenous art from the internet? How do we protect our knowledge in digital spaces? Does sand used to make silicon microchips contain memories of Country?