<CODING COLONIES/>


Medium: Live coding, audiovisual performance, poetry
Tools: Hydra, Ableton

London, United Kingdom,  Fall 2024


‘Coding ‘Colonies’ is a live coding performance that acts as an extension of previous research, where I examine the internet and media technologies as embodiments of digital colonialism. Through this framework, modes of extraction, exploitation, and appropriation between the West and the global South have worked closely with the development of technology; the age of colonialism has not been erased but merely transformed and codified through embodied processes and procedures by emerging technologies. This performance then, aims to highlight the legacy of colonialism across time and (cyber)space, and to shed a light on how it fixates roles within the tech space across race, class, and gender, defining a ‘digitized’, ‘innovative,’ ‘modern’ West that both subjugates and relies on ‘pre-digital’, ‘technologically illiterate’, and ‘primitive’ global South.

Performance Video

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