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Stephanie Dinkins: Art, AI, and the Fight Against Digital Colonialism

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Stephanie Dinkins is a transdisciplinary American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work explores artificial intelligence (AI) and its intersections with race, gender, and history. Dinkins aims to “create a culturally attuned AI entity in collaboration with programmers and engineers and in close consultation with local communities of color that reflects and is empowered […]

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Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: Art, Digital Colonialism, and Invisible Narratives

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Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are Lebanese filmmakers and artists born in Beirut in 1969. Their partnership spans various artistic languages, including feature films, documentaries, video installations, photography, sculptures, performative lectures, and texts. University professors in Lebanon and Europe, they have built a body of visual research that delves into personal and political archives, mapping

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The Decolonial Museum: Concept, Curatorship, and Public Participation

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Museums have historically played a central role in shaping cultural narratives and preserving heritage. However, many of them are deeply rooted in colonial structures that have marginalized and silenced certain social groups. The decolonial museum establishes itself as a space that questions these practices and seeks to transform cultural institutions, making them more inclusive and

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Hifa Cybe and Digital Colonialism: A Critical Analysis

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Hifa Cybe, also known as Luiza Jesus do Prado, is a Brazilian transdisciplinary artist whose work lies at the complex intersection of art, science, and politics. Born in Guaratinguetá, São Paulo, in 1988, and currently residing in the state capital, Cybe employs various artistic tools to explore themes such as memory, decolonization, marginalization of femininity,

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Denilson Baniwa and Digital Colonialism: Art, Resistance, and Decolonization

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Denilson Baniwa, an artist-activist born in the Darí village in the heart of the Amazon, embodies techno-ancestral intervention in the world of contemporary art. His work, spanning painting, performance, activism, and curatorship, engages in a dialogue that echoes through time, intertwining the ancestral traditions of his people with present-day digital tools. Baniwa wields art as

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Wu Tsang and Digital Colonialism: Marginalized Narratives in the Contemporary Digital Space

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Wu Tsang, filmmaker, artist, and performer born in 1982, has built a body of work that explores central themes such as identity, marginalization, and representation. Educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.F.A., 2004) and the University of California in Los Angeles (M.F.A., 2010), Tsang utilizes the hybrid between documentary and fiction

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The Materiality of the Virtual: Aesthetic and Conceptual Paradigms in Post-Internet Art

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Post-internet art embodies a historical rupture in twenty-first-century artistic practices, establishing itself through an intrinsic relationship with digital technologies. This cultural phenomenon manifests a critical positioning towards the omnipresence of the internet in contemporary society, articulating complex formulations regarding the intersection between materiality and virtuality. The dissolution of boundaries between digital and physical domains underpins

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Subaltern Poetics: A Critical Analysis of Power Relations in Contemporary Art

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Within the evolving discourse of contemporary aesthetic theory, the epistemological framework of Subaltern Poetics constitutes a vital theoretical intervention that problematizes conventional paradigms of power relations and representational practices in contemporary art, while simultaneously interrogating the ontological assumptions underlying traditional artistic hierarchies. This theoretical framework derives from the intersection between the Aristotelian notion of poetics

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How Are Local and Indigenous Cultures Impacted by Digital Colonialism in Art?

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In a world where algorithms dictate trends and art is translated into pixels, digital colonialism emerges as the new face of old habits. Beneath the promising glow of global technologies, local and Indigenous cultures face a subtle yet persistent erasure. Is digitalization the promise of democratization, or just a recycled version of ancient power dynamics?

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How Is the Monetization of Digital Art Connected to Digital Colonialism?

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The monetization of digital art is deeply linked to digital colonialism, reflecting the dynamics of data exploitation, the imposition of Western cultural values, and technological hegemony. While technology promises democratization and creative opportunities, it often reinforces historical inequalities, transforming the digital space into an extension of colonial and capitalist practices. Data Exploitation and Surveillance CapitalismData

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