The 2022 Buffalo Humanities Festival will investigate the many complex, often paradoxical, ways artificial intelligence now intervenes in our lives with the help of artists, scholars and community activists who will showcase the integration of algorithms, machine learning, and other forms of artificial intelligence in both common and other-wordly applications.

AfroRithms from the Future is an inclusive, design thinking, story-telling game built on the principle of shifting from a center of Western cultural views to alternative future worlds where Black and BIPOC cultural perspectives are at the forefront. An explicit goal is to “democratize the future [and to] intentionally anticipate democratic anti-racist futures where Black and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) futures matter.”

Join us for an evening with Ahmed Best and Lonny J Avi Brooks as we gather to play and imagine an equitable future, advanced through technology. We’ve invited featured guest players from the community, but all are welcome to join in the game!

Featured Guest Players
Taylor Coleman, PhD Candidate, Africana and American Studies, UB
Chanon Judson, Visiting Associate Professor, Theatre & Dance, UB
Donte McFadden, Director, Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, UB
Samina Raja, Professor, Urban and Regional Planning and Director, Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab (“The Food Lab”), UB

This is a free event. Please use the link below to register.

The bar at The Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle (at Torn Space Theater) will open at 5:00pm before this event (cash only).