In December of 2022, British contemporary artist Es Devlin installed a public sculpture in concert with the Endangered Language Alliance, “Your Voices,” outside of New York’s Lincoln Center. The work responds to anthropologist Wade Davis’s observation: “Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem ... See more

decolonial theory and Indigenous data governance principles. Rather than advocating for mere inclusion, it argues for epistemic pluralism and solidarity, urging a reorientation of AI from extractive to relational ontologies.