Researchers in Michigan used AI to recreate a prehistoric land bridge, complete with digital wildlife.

She described the caribou looked like they were roller skating because they didn't exactly walk.

They say it's Thursday January 25th, but we know it's really Science Friday. I'm Scifry producer Charles Bourquist.

In this episode we'll see how archaeologists are using AI to track the paths of prehistoric Caribou to see where artifacts from ancient

hunters might be located. But first, a conversation about indigenous art and its intersection with spaceflight. Here's Ira Flado.

The patterns woven in textiles can tell a powerful story and Sarah Rosalina knows this well.

She's a multidisciplinary artist who blends ancient mediums and indigenous knowledge with data and new technology.

She's collaborated with NASA JPL, the LA County Museum of Art Tech Lab, and her work is currently

featured at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio until February 4th.

Sci-Fi producer and host of our podcast, Universe of Art,

D Peter Schmidt, sat down with Rosalina to talk about her collaborations with scientists, space

colonization, and how she views technological advancements through an

indigenous lens. Here's D. When Sarah Rosalina thinks about the loom, she thinks about computer

programming. It's an extension of your body being an algorithm.

Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first algorithm design for a computer said she'd been inspired by the

Jakartaoom developed in the 1800s, which used a binary punch card to mass produce intricate

textile designs.

In that approach, blending old mediums with new tech, sums up Rosalina's approach to

her own art.

She's an assistant professor of art at UC Santa Barbara based in LA, and she's of Waraka descent, indigenous people native to what is now parts of Mexico and the southwestern United States.

She works in these old art forms, textiles and pottery, but uses AI and data visualization as part of the creative process.

It's a way to process for feelings about how modern society is progressing.

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