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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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In this follow-up, we delve deeper into another ten transformative ideas that threaten to upend the status quo. From questioning the morality of AI-driven warfare to envisioning decentralized alternatives to economic growth, these ideas reveal the fault lines of our time.

Why South African Digital Art Needs Its Own Space

ByRichelle SteynJun 9, 20254 mins
“In a country where the need to rewrite the past is still urgent, digital art should not be reduced to tokenized pixels. It should be part of a national cultural ecosystem that allows truth, disruption, and ordinary complexity to emerge.”

Navigating the Slippery Fusion of Entertainment, Documentary and Indoctrination

ByRichelle SteynJun 6, 20258 mins
If the 20th century taught us to be literate, the 21st must teach us to be perceptually sovereign. In an era where belief is engineered and perception curated, our deepest freedom lies in our ability to hold the line between story and truth, between being moved and being manipulated.
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