Contemporary Art

🇧🇷 Mapa Conceitual de Arte digital

A arte digital Ă© um dos campos da arte contemporânea que abriga práticas artĂ­sticas desenvolvidas por meio de tecnologias digitais. Quando pensamos nesse ecossistema, Ă© Ăştil imaginá-lo como um macrossistema que sustenta linguagens diversas que vĂŁo desde experimentos algorĂ­tmicos atĂ© ambientes imersivos. Nesse conjunto, a Media Art aparece como a categoria geral que acolhe formas […]

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The Path of Digital Art: From BitCurator to Public Visualization

In the field of contemporary curatorship, understanding the complete journey of a digital artwork, from its incorporation into a collection to its public exhibition, is essential to ensure not only its technical preservation but also the integrity of its meanings. Digital art is made of code, formats, software, and supports that age quickly. Caring for

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Techno-Feudalism and the Fiefdom of Digital Art

In proposing that capitalism has died and been replaced by a techno-feudal regime, Yanis Varoufakis explains in Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism how the logic of competitive markets and profits has been replaced by the extraction of rents for access to private digital platforms. According to the author, what killed capitalism was capital itself in its

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Zahy Tentehar: Ancestral Systems in Hostile Territories

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

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

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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Kadu Xukuru: Indigenous Futurism and the Decolonization of Digital Space

The growing presence of indigenous artists in the contemporary art field provokes significant ruptures in the hegemonic discourses that historically control the art system. Among them, Kadu Xukuru (also known as Kadu Tapuya) stands out, a 26-year-old visual artist and cultural producer from the Xukuru do Ororubá people, whose work reconfigures the relationships between indigenous

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

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

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

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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