Keeping the human in the virtual

This seminar series brings together artists, scholars, researchers and organizers from South Africa, Mexico, U.S., Iran, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Botswana, Peru and Sweden, to share the interdisciplinary, aesthetic and transcultural nature of Black Study. 

Ana Sanchez-Colberg

Ana offers her perspective as an artist (not a policy maker) on  the idea of ‘decolonization’ as a necessary aspect of the paradigm shift towards digitality. Sanchez Colberg proposes that terms such as access and diversity means more than content engagement and must include ways to shape and determine methodologies, technologies and resources necessary to be political participants in the digital realm. In her thinking the popular assumption of digital ‘universality’ of programs like Biden-Harris ‘Internet for all’ could potentially and unwittingly hide neo-colonial biases of ageism, race, ethnicity, north/south global divides under its populist and expansive cloak.

Ana Sanchez Colberg is a choreographer, scholar, multidisciplinary artist, who after  40 years in EU has relocated to her native Puerto Rico where she has established a non-profit organization VISION.AI.R-E Inc. The company follows an artistic-research approach in its projects to expand the relationship between arts and new technologies. Under the motto that “all universes should be accessible and diverse”, the company strives to reach the highest artistic merits whilst also promoting positive social impact, utilising creative engagement with technology to improve the quality of life for the benefit of society as a whole, however with a special commitment to support the under-represented population (eg, women, the elderly, the disabled) in our modern complex world. 

Ana’s presentation will be followed by a conversation with Paola Torres Nuñez Del Prado, Ph.D student at SKH.

Seminar Resources:

Research/Decoding Digital Democracy in Africa

Decolonizing the Digital Feminism and intersec tech

Decolonizing creativity in the digital era

Harle, J & Abdila A. (2019) Decolonising the Digital: Technology as Cultural Practice, Tactical Space:

www.anasanchezcolberg.com