German digital artist Lorenz Potthast is spending time in South Africa to present on his MA project on the oceanic routes of the internet as well as to be part of the opening of a new gallery space in Durban called TheOtherRoom. His background is in design but has always had an interest in digital…
It was a Friday. A sickle shaped moon dissipated beyond the horizon. As the sun rose, bleeding orange hues into dawn, the internet was birthed. It first appeared in the public domain on the 30th of April 1993. In its infancy of dial-up lines and teething connections, it brought with it the democratization of information….
A historical Imperialism, articulated through invasion and occupation. A systematic division spawned from the imaginations of white men to conquer for capital gains. A continent sliced up by the butcher’s knife of colonialism. Corners of conflict, fictioned intersections amputated and dislocated. A coloniality that runs through the semi-visible veins of demarcated territory. The divide between…
