On Thursday 20 October at the Instituto Cervantes, we started a conversation that we hope will continue on the theme of new technologies and their social impact. The aim was to provide a framework for the ‘Thinking Technology‘ workshop series where we want to critically analyse the impact that technology has on our lives, the technological illusion created by the […]
Animation: Carolina García Cataño Date: Jeudi 20 octobre Heure: 18:30h Lieu: Instituto Cervantes (125, Av. Cheikh Anta Diop , Dakar (10700)) Comment les imaginaires du futur sont construits par la technologie. Comment la connaissance est produite? Comment les données sont collectées et qui y a accès? Qui cree les algorithmes qui gèrent nos vies? Avec une vision critique des technologies […]
Animation: Fatou Cissé et Carolina García-Cataño Date: Samedi 22 octobre Heure: 14h à 17h Lieu: Instituto Cervantes (125, Av. Cheikh Anta Diop , Dakar (10700)) Le nombre de participant(e)s est limité à 25, SVP inscrivez vous à l’avance. La technologie a pris les rênes de la vie quotidienne, chaque action que nous faisons, chaque geste que nous accomplissons passe presque […]
Between August 4 and 7, Centre Kiné Diop was invited to the conference organized by Women in Exile in Berlin, a self-organized refugee women’s group, which has been working for the empowerment of refugee women for 20 years, took place. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, they organized an international women’s conference where the Centre Kiné Diop (a project supported by […]
From July 4 to 13, the training was held at the Blaise Senghor Regional Cultural Center financed by ACERCA (Spanish cooperation agency training program) which goal was to train artists and cultural agents to promote the formalization and professionalization of the Senegalese cultural sector by improving their skills in project management and online communication. The training was attended by 24 […]
We have been using the web, basically since it was available, we have seen it grow, how it has evolved and become more complex. All these years we have done consultancy, development and training around how to do your own website. Despite social networks, we still believe that professionals need their own website, as a way to put into value […]
This project consists of a series of 5 workshops on different topics, whose common thread will be to enable participants to benefit from a holistic approach when formalizing their artistic projects. More and more artists, who are just starting out, or consolidated artists but coming from more informal ways of doing things, need to formalize their career or cultural projects, […]
Publicado en Lobo Suelto el 7 de mayo de 2022 A finales de marzo de 2022 se celebraron los “Ateliers de la pensée #4” (talleres de pensamiento) bajo el título « Cosmologies du lien et formes de vie » (cosmologías del vínculo y formas de vida) organizados por Felwin Sarr y Achille Mbembé en el auditorio del Museo de Civilizaciones […]
In the moment where everything is turning virtual, and “technology” is taking over our lives, we are committed to recovering the body, putting it at the center to redefine the relationship between body and technology, to understand how technology is changing us as it becomes part of us but listening to what our body has to say about it. We […]
We are witnessing a kind of global collapse, from climate change, to the crisis of representative democracies, to the intrusion of technology into people’s private lives, fake news, or COVID19 pandemic. There are no articulated answers to this global collapse, that can show a clear path to follow. Technological solutionism wants to create the illusion everything can be solve through […]