PODCASTS · S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Voices
As part of S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence, CHRONIQUES curates “S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Voices”, a 4-chapter podcast series designed as a space for meta reflection. Every episode invites African artists and researchers to reflect on how artificial intelligence could intersect better with African cultures, memory, identity, and creative practices. Throughout the 10 sessions, we’ll question the technological biases shaping our digital present. These conversations unfold as an open format, allowing ideas, experiences, and imaginaries to go beyond technical or solution-driven discussions.
Echoing the artistic residencies supported by the programme, the series nurtures ethical and situated understandings of technological futures.
PART ONE · VOICES & NARRATIVES
01 · Rewriting the Code: Decolonizing Narratives
Moderated and curated by:
Céline Delatte – CHRONIQUES
With the precious support of Ilaria Bondavalli.
Through the practices of multi-disciplinary artist Tewa Barnosa and narrative expert, professor and researcher Lusike Mukhongo, the conversation reveals how digital infrastructures, media platforms, and emerging AI systems often inherit older mechanisms of domination: deciding whose stories are told, whose conflicts are amplified, and whose realities are erased or simplified.
02 · Time Travellers: Memory, Futures, and the loop of AI
Moderated and curated by:
Céline Delatte – CHRONIQUES
With the precious support of Ilaria Bondavalli.
Through the voices of antidisciplinary artist and creative researcher Ethel Tawe and digital artist and creative (afro)technologist Uzoma Orji, the conversation moves between past and future, archives and speculation, asking how African cosmologies and ancestral knowledge systems can reshape the way we think about technology. Rather than treating time as linear and progress as inevitable, the episode invites us to look back in order to move forward — echoing the philosophy of the Sankofa bird.
03 · Should we still talk about Afrofuturism?
Moderated and curated by:
Céline Delatte – CHRONIQUES
With the precious support of Ilaria Bondavalli.
Through the perspectives of lawyer and policy researcher Adwoa Ankoma and cultural operator Patrick Mudekereza, the conversation explores the shift from westernized perspectives toward “African Speculative Futures”—a lens that centers local realities, pluralistic stories, and the “useful dreams” of a continent in flux.
PART TWO · DATA OBJECTS & MEMORY
04 · Données tissées.
Aux racines du code.
Moderated and curated by:
Céline Delatte – CHRONIQUES
With the precious support of Ilaria Bondavalli.
À travers les regards de l’artiste transmédia Diane Cescutti et de l’artiste numérique Cécile Babiole, la conversation explore les liens souvent invisibilisés entre traditions textiles, computation et technologies contemporaines. En écho à la résidence Territoires Tissés de Melisa Kayowa, l’épisode interroge les récits dominants de l’innovation en mettant en lumière des savoir-faire, des contributions féminines et des connaissances non occidentales longtemps laissés à la marge de l’histoire officielle des technologies.
05 · Stolen Artifacts:
Physical & Virtual Restitutions
Moderated and curated by:
Céline Delatte – CHRONIQUES
With the precious support of Ilaria Bondavalli and Nora Pessarossi.
Through the perspectives of curator, researcher, and artist Cheria Essieke-Bayer and Ben Myres (CEO Nyamakop), the conversation explores the political, symbolic, and technological dimensions of restitution. Echoing Khanya Mthethwa’s residency project Adorned Memory, the episode moves beyond the return of looted artefacts to examine questions of memory, ownership, cultural continuity, and repair, while reflecting on how artists are imagining new forms of physical and virtual reclamation.
