What Sôhkêpayin is…

An Indigenous lead group of artists and designers from many different Indigenous and colonial nations. Our work blends Indigenous perspectives from people working in the lands that are currently known as Canada, Australia, and the United States of America.

What Sôhkêpayin does…

The Sôhkêpayin project joins human innovation with the gifts of the natural world. The long-term goal of this project is to develop an AI model that uses real data from the environment to create new outputs, including visualizations that highlight the complex connections found in nature. This process will inspire new artwork focused on the four elements: earth, water, air and fire.

This Indigenous-led initiative combines AI with environmentalism and Indigenous ways of knowing to help build a better future. Baerg has recruited a team of Indigenous contributors to inform this international, multi-year project.