HATOR
following the visions of ancestors and teachers;
seeking the lights of othered gods
cosmos-magine
what is the role of the interface
in the formation of contemporary consciousness?
how has the digital interface transformed our ways of being?
"When the others thought you should be initiated I opposed the idea. I had a good reason: you can bring words out of your mind and put them in paper for all to read. [...] it was because I wanted you to live. I never thought you would make it
-Dagara elder, from "Of Waters and Spirits" by Malidoma Patrice Somé
TSUKANKA
YUTSU
e-merging learnings
BLACK
IS
ALL COLORS
MAKING LOVE
THE MOST PROFOUND AND MUTILATING CRIME OF COLONIALISM IS THE IMPOSITION OF A DOMINANT LANGUAGE: THE DEPARTURE FROM A MOTHER TONG IS THE A DEFINITIVE FORM OF EXILE,
A JOURNEY OF NO RETURN FOR THE SOUL
THE DIGITAL INTERFACE, OUR NEW UNIVERSALLY DOMINANT LANGUAGE HAS COME TO SECLUDE OUR IMAGINATIONS, CULTURES AND EXISTENCES, WEBBING NEW ENCLOSURES FOR OUR E-MERGING BEINGS; IT'S ARCHITECTURES CONJURE E-MERGING FORMS OF SOCIAL CONTROL- NEW MANIFESTATIONS OF THE COLONIAL SPELL
THESE PORTALS OPEN JOURNEYS OF INVESTIGATIONS ABOUT THIS DOMINANT LANGUAGE, ITS NATURE AND ROLE IN SHAPING OUR EXISTENCES, AND ITS TRANSFORMATIVE POETIC AND SOCIAL POTENTIALS
How to carry on the legacy of ancestral wisdoms, in the voices of their custodians?
How to safely carry, preserve and disseminate ancestral knowledges online?
linear languages are instrumental to ontological obliteration
"Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home"
'Letter on Humanism'. Martin Heidegger
THE INTRICACIES OF E-MERGIN SPACES MANIFEST THE TRUE NATURE OF OUR TRANSDIMENSIONAL EXISTENCES
what are the poetic potentials of the digital interface?
"When the others thought you should be initiated I opposed the idea. I had a good reason: you can bring words out of your mind and put them in paper for all to read. [...] it was because I wanted you to live. I never thought you would make it
-Dagara elder, from "Of Waters and Spirits" by Malidoma Patrice Somé
"I cannot come home again.
I have changed too much. It is my mind that has changed.
I can never come home again"
-From "I Heard the Owl Call my Name" by Margaret Craven
how to safely engage indigenous communities in the online global dialogue?
What else is possible?
MAGINES ARE ALTERNATIVE DIGITAL INTERFACES, DESIGN PRACTICES AS AN URGENT EFFORT OF CULTURAL RESSISTANCE
HYPERTRIBX:
E-MERGING TERRITORIES,
NEWLY IMAGINED HEALING ENVIRONMENTS, SOCIAL RELATIONS BASED ON RULES ON ENGAGEMENT ENVISIONED BY AND FOR COMMUNITIES