The lecture performance will present African Accelerationism (AA), a new conceptual framework that challenges dominant technology paradigms of progress by imagining technological futures rooted in African liberation and self-determination. The performance will feature a theoretical unpacking of AA using an essayistic lecture style, spoken word, and the presentation of a home-made wearable electronic sound instrument by the artist-inventor Dr Mark Mushiva.
○Über die Künstler*innen
Mushiva is a Berlin-based Namibian technologist, street poet, and multidisciplinary artist. His work focuses on making games, cinematic 3D worlds, and wearable AI devices that try to subvert the colonial legacies of today's technologies, a decolonial insurgent design that helps gesture towards a more just and equitable future. He holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Trento (Italy) and has written various works on games as socio-technical interventions for social interaction and cultural preservation. Mushiva currently works as a computational researcher at the investigative agency Forensis/Forensic Architecture, where he explores the environmental impacts of German colonialism in Namibia and military occupation using remote sensing tools, machine learning, and decolonial frameworks of thought.
