S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence seeks to critically explore the role of AI within African contexts by fostering Afro-European dialogue and supporting artistic and research practices that challenge dominant technological narratives. As part of the project, CHRONIQUES is curating a series of 10 online Expert Talks bringing together researchers, technologists, and cultural practitioners from Africa and Europe. Rooted in live exchange and collective reflection, these conversations are designed as open spaces to question how artificial intelligence intersects with culture, memory, creativity and society. Through these sessions, we aim to share critical and contextual perspectives on emerging technologies, and build long-term bridges across disciplines, geographies, and knowledge systems.
Upcoming
Special episode.
Unlearning Models
In S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence, we called them “Flying Experts”: European mentors who supported, alongside the African hosting partners, artists-in-residence in navigating the intersections of AI, local challenges and artistic research. Through their exchanges, they helped shape projects, overcome obstacles and open new perspectives. For this final Expert Talk, we invite four of them to reflect on a question that has accompanied the programme from the very beginning: how can we unlearn dominant models in order to imagine, create and innovate differently?
Thursday, June 18 · 4 PM CET
Code to join the meeting: 754923
Adjunct Professor for the B.A. in Music Technology and Production program at Monterrey Campus
Diego Mellado
New media art restoration, Researcher
Artist, professor in the Audiovisual department at LUCA School of Arts, KU Leuven, and senior researcher in the Immersive Art Space at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
Past Talks
Chapter I · The Groundwork — Decolonizing Knowledge and Research Practices
#1 · Reclaiming Representation:
Situated Voices in Art and Research
January 14, 2026. With Mutanu Kyany’a, Head of Programmes and Outreach| African Digital Heritage and Paulo Luís Almeida, Chair of Cost Action Artistic Intelligence.
#2 · Located Research:
The City as a Site of Memory and Justice
January 28, 2026. With Dr Huda Tayob, Architectural historian Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art, Johanna Sadiki, Research Associate and PhD Candidate and Omar Nagati, co-founder of CLUSTER.
Chapter II · The Invisible Layers
#3 · AI in Context: Development, Sovereignty, and the African Digital Ecosystem
February 12, 2026. With Tatenda Tavingeyi, Project Coordinator of an AI Of Our Own, Koketso Masuluke, Founder of Duende Meraki Cartel and Paulin Melatagia, Associate Professor at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon.
#4 · Archives, Data & Memory: Reimagining Collective Knowledge through AI
March 14, 2026. With Ethel Tawe, Antidisciplinary artist and researcher and Islam Shabana, Interdisciplinary artist and digital media designer.
Chapter III · The Living Practice in the Digital Age
#5 · Art, Science and the Politics of Digital Creation – Who defines the systems behind the digital imagination?
March 25, 2026. With Oscar Ekponimo Software Design Engineer + Chief Innovation Officer and Founder of Gallery of Code, Alexandre Saunier
Professor, LUCA School of Arts, KU Leuven + Senior researcher, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and Kayode B. Olajide Trustee for Cultural and Historical Advisory on Built Spaces, FeelNubia.
#6 · Reclaiming the Future: From Low-Tech Materials to Afrofuturist Imagination
April 8, 2026. How can artists reclaim technological materials — from high-tech infrastructures to low-tech and recycled media — as tools for
Afrofuturist artistic expression and imagination? With Cyrus Kabiru Multi-disciplinary artist and Tracian Meikle Interim Director, 32º East.
Chapter IV · Speculative Design, Sustainable Futures
#7 · Policy by Design:
how can artistic practice inform public policy?
April 22, 2026. Artistic innovation often moves faster than institutions allow. This panel explores how artistic and cultural practices can inform more ethical, inclusive and sustainable public policies — especially in the context of Africa–Europe cooperation. With Adwoa Ankoma
South African lawyer and policy researcher at Electric South, Avril Joffe
Development economist and visiting researcher at Wits School of Governance and Elise Cuny Chair of the Board, Culture Solutions.
In partnership with
Culture Solutions.
