Digital Colonialism

🇮🇹 Controllo dei Media e Disinformazione in Italia: La Sfida del Colonialismo Digitale alla Sovranità Informativa

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1. Introduzione L’Italia possiede una ricca tradizione giornalistica che risale a pubblicazioni centenarie come il Corriere della Sera e La Repubblica. Attualmente, il paese affronta una trasformazione radicale nel suo ecosistema mediatico. L’avvento delle piattaforme digitali globali rappresenta una profonda riconfigurazione delle strutture di potere informativo, caratterizzando quello che ricercatori come Stefano Quintarelli (2021) e […]

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Zahy Tentehar: Ancestral Systems in Hostile Territories

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Where digital interfaces flicker like ancestral bonfires, Zahy Tentehar rewrites colonial protocols in the Tenetehara language. A Guajajara artist-programmer, she does not “translate” cultures—she dismantles the syntax of power. Her work functions as an epistemological antivirus, infecting the operating system of contemporary art with forest commands—lines of code that disable cultural firewalls and restore original

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IA/AI: Artificial Intelligence, Art, and Indigeneity

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The relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and art has become a relevant field of critical and aesthetic exploration in recent years. However, when this intersection expands to include the perspective of historically marginalized communities, such as Indigenous peoples of Latin America, new possibilities arise. The project “IA/AI: Artificial Intelligence, Art, and Indigeneity” proposes a critical

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Ozzo Ukumari: Between Ancestrality and Digitality

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At the intersection of contemporary technology and ancestral knowledge lies the work of Ozzo Ukumari (born Oscar Octavio Soza Figueroa, 1985, Agua de Castilla, Bolivia), a multidisciplinary artist whose production offers a unique perspective on the tensions inherent to what we can call digital colonialism. With a degree in Art from the Gabriel René Moreno

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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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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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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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