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Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Untitled (White Horse on a Beach), 2014

Liniker - Zero

Leikeli47: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

vernacular algorithms

Anni Albers, Study for Camino Real, 1967

#FilmmakerFriday | Frances Bodomo

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Tell us about a project you’re currently working.

I’m currently working on my first feature film, based on my short film Afronauts (which premiered at Sundance and the Berlinale in 2014). It’s about a group of Zambians who, in the 1960s, attempted to make it to the moon in spite of their lack of access to the cutting-edge technology of the time.

I’m really proud of the short film because it’s the film that taught me artistic perseverance. It was really hard on my collaborators and myself to create a hot summer desert on a cold beach in New Jersey! We walked away from the shoot with barely enough to stitch a film together. Editing took months & included a lot of pensive breaks. My editor, the uber-talented Sara Shaw, and I went down many crazy paths to come to the one we picture-locked on. We were so sure and so unsure. We sent it out into the world knowing we had stuck to our guns, but not knowing what it would be in the eyes of others. It’s been an exhilarating, surprising ride ever since.

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African Fractals … self organizing, recursive design patterns in african culture 

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Grandma Ruby’s African Statue Heads from the project The Notion of Family, 2007

Faith Ringgold, Committee to Defend the Panthers, poster, 1970

Kara Walker,  The Crossing, 2017

“The day of the Inauguration, Kara Walker, a painter and installation artist, couldn’t turn on the news; she started painting. The result is a monumental, nine-by-twelve-foot work, alluding to Emanuel Leutze’s 1851 Washington Crossing the Delaware.” 

Deana Lawson, Jouvert, Flatbush, Brooklyn, 2015

Henry Taylor, The Times They Ain’t A Changin’, Fast Enough, 2017

Demetrius Oliver, Till, 2004

Black Arthur Blythe, Bush Baby, 1978

Faith Ringgold, Black Light Series #10: Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger, 1969

Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Man Smoking/Malcolm X), from the Kitchen Table series, 1990

August Černigoj, The Rebellion of the Young, 1972

Kerry James Marshall, Black Artist (Studio View), 2002

Barkley L. Hendricks, Lawdy Mama, 1969

Barkley L. Hendricks, Icon for My Man Superman (Superman never saved any black people - Bobby Seale), 1969

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qzXHXQ0Ers)

If Not Now, When? Models for Resistance in SF

Both fantasy and SF present alternative visions of the world; but some of these visions are helpful, and others are not. Some are dystopian, some are utopian. Some are hierarchical, some are egalit…

“In science fiction novels and dramas, the evil or oppression to be resisted is often systemic, and identifiable as a human construct, the outcome of a complex web of causality…”

The fact is, I don’t think SF can be really utopian. I mean utopia presupposes a pretty static, unchanging, and rather tyrannical world. You know: ‘I know the best way to live, and I’m going to tell you how to do it, and if you dare do anything else…’

Samuel R. Delany, interviewed in 1986, “On Triton and other matters” (via notesonresistance)

Fulani Boys, Jos, Nigeria in the early 90’s by Mike Blyth

AfroSuperHero: Kesiah Jones aka Captain Rugged, occupe les rues de Lagos prêt à défendre le pauvre et l'opprimé. 

Musique Kesiah Jones - Illustrations Native Maqari

Jeune officier Chaïgir - 11 mars 1970 - Photographe Al Rashid Mahdi

Participer c'est prendre part, apporter une part et bénéficier, nous dit Joelle Zask dans Participer. C'est la philosophie de Dieuf Dieul - faire et prendre, en wolof- un des groupes qui a fait la musique sénégalaise des années 1970-1980. 

Ruby Bridges escorted by U.S. Marshals to attend the first grade, 1960

Lu dans Oruun : Vitshois, un artiste épris de “librisme”...

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Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo est sans doute un des artistes congolais contemporains qui va marquer sa génération. Ayant développé une technique de collage à partir d'images récoltées dans les magazines de mode, cet artiste travaille sur le message d'un monde globalisé et dans le même temps chaotique d'où peut sortir quelque chose d'inédit. Sa notion de contemporanéité se rapporte ainsi à une idée de création résultant de rencontres, de chocs et de brassage des cultures. Héritier de la philosophie du librisme, Vitshois questionne de manière quasi permanente la place de l'art congolais sur l'échiquier du marché de l'art contemporain international. C'est donc dans une volonté d'échapper aux frontières géographiques et culturelles qu'il a créé sa propre structure à Kinshasa. Il propose à des jeunes artistes congolais sortis de l'académie des Beaux-Arts un lieu où ils peuvent venir expérimenter, échanger, apprendre et développer à travers leur travail une identité artistique propre. Une identité libérée de tout carcan et autres cases dans lesquelles, malheureusement, on essaie souvent de les confiner.

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Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism

Angolans have found a clever way to share files using Wikipedia Zero and Facebook’s Free Basics, but what happens to the existing Wikipedia community?

soulevements #remember Marikana #south africa 2014

Lekker photos. The tokolos has been very busy in Jozi. #tokolosstencils