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 ten 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.
