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Moara Tupinambá: Art, Memory, and the Decolonization of Digital Space

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Contemporary art, in its multiplicity, has become a battlefield where hegemonic narratives are contested and power structures inherited from colonialism are challenged. It is within this terrain that Moara Tupinambá’s work (Belém do Pará, 1983) emerges as an act of re-existence, intertwining ancestry, memory, and critique of Indigenous erasure while confronting the mechanisms of digital […]

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The New Stage of Art: Digital Exhibitions and the Transformation of Aesthetic Experience

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Digital art exhibitions are a phenomenon that redefines the way we interact with artistic production. Through virtual platforms, these exhibitions organize collections and information in digital environments accessible via the Internet, recreating the experience of a traditional museum but with unique characteristics. By eliminating geographical and temporal barriers, they offer a new way of artistic

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Digital Crossroads: Emo de Medeiros and the Art of Hybrid Resistance

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Emo de Medeiros is a Beninese-French artist who lives and works between Cotonou, Benin, and Paris. His work spans multiple media, including sculpture, video, photography, performance, installations, and textiles. Blending tradition and technology, he explores themes of identity, globalization, digital colonialism, and cultural transformation. His central concept, “contexture,” proposes a holistic interconnectivity, examining the fusion

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Fragments of Resistance: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and the Digital Colonial Gaze

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Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1972, develops work that interweaves the post-colonial world, ethnography, and theater to create films, videos, installations, and sound experiences. Her artistic practice focuses on anarchist communities, the relationship between art and labor, and post-military territories, exploring how narrative and improvisation shape the understanding of history

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Joana Moll and Digital Colonialism: Infrastructure, Surveillance, and Environmental Impact

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Joana Moll, an artist and researcher based in Barcelona and Berlin, develops work that critically investigates the impacts of techno-capitalist narratives on the literacy of machines, humans, and ecosystems. Her projects address key contemporary issues, such as the materiality of the internet, surveillance, social profiling, digital interfaces, and the energy consumption of technological infrastructures. The

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Decolonial Curation: Rethinking Museums and Their Legacies

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Decolonial curation proposes a critical review of traditional museum practices, seeking to dismantle the colonial legacies that have shaped the production and dissemination of knowledge within these institutions. This effort aims to make museum spaces more inclusive, representative, and equitable, ensuring that multiple voices and perspectives are incorporated into the construction of historical and cultural

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Eli Cortiñas: Critical Perspectives on Digital Colonialism

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Eli Cortiñas, born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in 1979, is a visual artist of Cuban descent who resides and works in Berlin. Her artistic practice investigates cinematic memory through the analysis and reassembly of pre-existing footage, combining it with her film, video, and sound recordings. Cortiñas collects, organizes, and classifies diverse materials,

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Mimi Ọnụọha: Art, Technology, and Digital Colonialism

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Mimi Ọnụọha, a Nigerian-American artist based in Brooklyn, explores the intersection of art, technology, and society through installations, videos, websites, and texts. Her work examines the absences in data collection systems and questions the sociopolitical implications of these processes. By investigating the gaps in digital records, the artist exposes the power structures that influence contemporary

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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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