In proposing that capitalism has died and been replaced by a techno-feudal regime, Yanis Varoufakis explains in Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism how the logic of competitive markets and profits has been replaced by the extraction of rents for access to private digital platforms.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