"Weaving Knowledge" Series at GCSC
Weaving Knowledge Event Series at GCSC
Workshop “Afro-Latinx Digital Storytelling. A Twine Journey to Narrative Decolonization” - Dr. Eduard Arriaga May 9 2023 at GCSC
Dr. Eduard Arriaga will facilitate a practical workshop on digital storytelling as both a creative and critical thinking practice to question traditional narratives (representations of time, space, and body materiality) on and about Afro-Latinx cultures. Participants will have the opportunity to explore Twine, an open-source tool to create digital games and narratives pieces. Likewise, the workshop will be a hands-on space to both discuss some narratives around Afro-Latinxs and create digital games/storytelling pieces in response to those narratives. No previous knowledge is required, although experience working with HTML or JSON will be a plus.
Keynote lecture “Afro-Brazilian Community Data Networks: Technological Hybridity, Data Decolonization and Human Reaffirmation” – Dr. Eduard Arriaga, May 9 2023 at GCSC
In this talk, Dr. Eduard Arriaga (Clark University) will present an overview of his research on Afrolatinx digital culture in the Americas, emphasizing how Afro-Brazilian groups and organizations are creating networks of hybrid technologies in search of data and technological decolonization. Dr. Arriaga will show how the studied groups adapt and adopt diverse media, digital tools, and platforms from an Afro-Brazilian Black feminism perspective to challenge data and technological determinism. Likewise, he will discuss the way these groups get connected to local, regional, and global nodes to develop critical pedagogies of the digital from the South. The talk will conclude discussing how Afro-Brazilian Community data networks become an example of hybrid Black communal digital practices that require complex approaches that go beyond the boundaries of fields such as the digital humanities.