Canvas | Nouf Aljowaysir

Leila Lebreton speaks with Nouf Aljowaysir for Canvas, tracing the artist’s exploration of identity, belonging, and inherited histories through AI and open-source technologies. Drawing on personal genealogy and colonial-era image archives, the conversation foregrounds how Aljowaysir reframes absence and bias within digital systems, using machine learning not to generate futures, but to critically reconstruct the conditions through which histories are seen and understood. 

 
 
 
April 1, 2026