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Thinking the Digital Through the Indigenous

Panel discussion with invited filmmakers exploring the new languages for technology by Russel Hlongwane, Dilman Dila & Danae Tapia

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This panel discussion between Russel Hlongwane, Dilman Dila and Danae Tapia offered an alternative to the assumption that technology is a western invention; whilst problematising ‘tech tools’ through different lenses and practices. Together they unpacked how artists films propose new languages to imagine technology, beyond hardware and software.

About the artists

Russel Hlongwane

Russel Hlongwane is a cultural producer and creative industries consultant based in Durban, South Africa. His work obsesses over the tensions in Heritage/ Modernity and Culture/Tradition as it applies to black life. His practice includes cultural research, creative producing, design, film and curatorship. He is part of a number of working groups spread across the Southern African Region, the African continent more broadly and internationally. He has shown work in Munich, Marrakech, Maputo, Karlsruhe, Harare, Bristol, Tokyo as well as throughout South Africa. Russel will be in conversation with:

Dilman Dila

Dilman Dila, author of a critically acclaimed collection of short stories, A Killing in the Sun. Dilman has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2013) and for the Nommo Awards for Best Novella (2017), and long listed for the BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition (2014), among other accolades. His short fiction have featured in several anthologies, and his films include What Happened in Room 13 (2007) and The Felistas Fable (2013), which was nominated for Best First Feature by a Director at AMAA (2014).

Danae Tapia

Danae Tapia is a writer, multimedia artist and technologist born in the Chilean working class. She is a 2022-2024 resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and a researcher and lecturer of Hacking at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

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