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Imagining Otherwise Under Conditions of Impunity

ByRichelle SteynJan 2, 20266 mins

“Capitalism does not merely constrain change; it organises which forms of suffering matter, which legal rulings are enforced, and which crimes are indefinitely deferred. It functions as a selective enforcement regime, shielding actors embedded in military, financial, and diplomatic infrastructures from consequence.”

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…

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Pak’s NFT “The Merge” has the Potential to Revolutionise the Art World

ByRichelle SteynAug 13, 20238 mins
“The Merge” project was successful because it was able to tap into a global community of people who were interested in participating in an experiment to create a unique and decentralized work of art. This is a new type of collaborative crowdfunding that has the potential to revolutionize the way art is created, owned and funded.

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 planet’s climate and our collective nervous system.
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