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Dream Technologies and Ancestral Images: Reimagining Digital Art as Cultural Repair

ByRichelle SteynNov 25, 20257 mins

“Nice Aunties’ work hints at a future for digital art that is more human, more ritualised, and more ancestrally grounded. Cobb and Slattery provide the philosophical scaffolding; Khoi and San traditions offer the ethical and imaginal inheritance; dream technologies, fictional or real, show how images are medicine. What emerges is a powerful proposition: digital art can become a contemporary dream…

Timekeepers of the Anthropocene: Digital Art in the Grammar of Ancestral Time

ByRichelle SteynNov 24, 20254 mins

Tewame Tiyolicha Kawitl: Timekeepers of the Anthropocene (invites us) to rethink how we hold time, and how digital art might become a vessel for repairing its ruptures. The colonial and industrial eras (of the Anthropocene) imposed a linear, extractive temporality—one that measures productivity rather than reciprocity, acceleration rather than attunement. It is this regime of time .. that has destabilised…

The Quiet Extractive Machine: How Soft-Power Art Non-Profits are Rewriting Africa’s Future in VR

ByRichelle SteynNov 21, 20256 mins

There is a new kind of extractive industry rising quietly across the African cultural landscape—nothing as obvious as mining, nothing as brutal as the colonial museum raid. Instead, it arrives with friendly logos, “innovation labs,” creative grants, workshops for emerging storytellers, and the promise of global visibility.

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