<nettime-ann> [call] Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa -- extended deadline, call for papers and artworks

[Michelle Kasprzak <michelle.kasprzak@m-iti.org>]

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Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa is a conference and 
exhibition which will be hosted by the Critical Technical Practice 
laboratory at the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute in Funchal, 
Portugal.

The conference brings scholars, technologists, and cultural producers 
together on the island of Madeira: a European territory off the coast of 
Africa, a historical site of mutual entanglement between the Atlantic 
continents, and a point of departure for European expansion. Here we’ll 
strategize ways to revisit, reframe, and recode the future of technology 
on and for both continents.

What can African theorists, technologists, and cultural producers do to 
generate alternatives to the influx of neocolonial narratives of tech 
entrepreneurship? What are key epistemologies and ways of being which 
are endemic in Africa that should be offered to the world through new 
systems and processes? How can an African information economy avoid the 
dynamics of the resource curse, where connectivity is extractive and 
exercised upon African citizens rather than by and through them? What 
can Western technologists do differently, and what are the spaces for 
collaboration?

This conference aims to reinvestigate these relationships and more in 
order to engender dialog between African and Western audiences and 
participants, who should leave Madeira equipped with new strategies and 
new collaborative partnerships.

We are accepting papers, creative works, and technologies that explore 
or demonstrate alternative socio-technical approaches. Contributions 
should be grounded in analysis and move toward synthesis: we hope to 
paint the "art of the [radical] possible" and generatenew threads and 
pathways for the development of fresh technologies.

For details on how to submit an artwork or paper, please visit: 
https://snta.m-iti.org/

Extended Submission Deadline: May 12, 2017
Conference/exhibition Dates: September 1-2 2017



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Michelle Kasprzak
PhD Candidate
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI)
Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), University of Porto

Mobile: +351 967600092

http://blogs.fe.up.pt/michelle/
http://about.me/mkasprzak
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