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A First Experiment with Python: Artwork Inventory Generator

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Over the past few months, I’ve been dedicating time to learning the fundamentals of Python programming, with a particular focus on understanding how code can intersect with artistic practices, curatorial work, and collection management. As a beginner, this journey has been challenging and stimulating, a dive into the logic, structure, and creative possibilities that, not […]

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Cultural Repatriation and Video Games: The Case of Relooted

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The game Relooted, developed by the South African studio Nyamakop, offers a singular approach to the issue of cultural repatriation of African heritage. Set in the near future, the game is structured around a fictional narrative grounded in historical reality: the extraction, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, of hundreds of African artifacts by colonial

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ATMOSPHERIC FRACTALIZATION FORMULA IN NON-EUCLIDEAN FIELDS

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This project represents an artistic investigation that utilizes scientific data and visual expression, proposing an “Atmospheric Fractalization Formula in Non-Euclidean Fields”. The work explores how meteorological precision can be transmuted into poetic language through generative algorithms, creating an autonomous aesthetic experience that feeds off the atmospheric conditions of São Paulo. At the heart of this

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Taxonomy, Ontology and Controlled Vocabulary in Cultural Heritage Cataloging: Conceptual Foundations, Practical Applications and Decolonial Perspectives

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The systematic organization of knowledge derived from artistic and cultural objects constitutes both an epistemological and practical challenge of considerable complexity. These challenges are not merely technical; they are deeply entangled with political, cultural, and ideological dimensions. In the contemporary context of museological collection management, three foundational concepts emerge as structural pillars: taxonomy, ontology, and

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Decolonial Critique of Sarah Jilani’s Proposal: Beyond Universalism and Economic Reductionism

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Decolonial Critique of Sarah Jilani’s Proposal: Beyond Universalism and Economic Reductionism What motivates me to write this text is to propose a critical response to Sarah Jilani’s article “The Trap of Catchalls”, published in ArtReview on May 16, 2025. I acknowledge the urgency of her argument: generic terms like “Global South” or “Global Majority” can indeed erase complex

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Zombies of Late Capitalism: Hauntology, Lost Futures, and Eco-Social Critique in Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die

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In Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die (2019), the director does not resurrect zombies—he exposes the necrotic corpses we had grown accustomed to ignoring. Set in Centerville, a fictional town whose very name feels like a ready-made joke (“Center” of nowhere), the film’s undead do not rise by accident. They are summoned by polar fracking, a drilling operation

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🇧🇷 Zumbis do Capitalismo Tardio: Hauntologia, Futuros Perdidos e a Crítica Eco-Social em ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ de Jim Jarmusch

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No filme “The Dead Don’t Die” (Os Mortos Não Morrem, 2019), o diretor de Jim Jarmusch não ressuscita zumbis — expõe os cadáveres necrosados que já estávamos acostumados a ignorar. A história se passa em Centerville, cidade fictícia onde até o nome parece uma piada pronta (“Centro” de lugar nenhum). Nela, os mortos não saem

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