In our current age of YouTube, viral TikToks, and Instagram influencers, when anyone with access to a camera has a platform, we can easily forget that what we see on our screens is far from neutral. An increasing body of research shows how racial bias is built into the algorithms of contemporary imaging technologies, and how the history of lens-based media—and its techniques of capturing, recording, and control—is inextricably connected to imperialism and colonization.

“How I See It: Blak Art and Film” confronted this legacy of the colonial gaze through humor and disruption. Curated by Kate ten