by Fabiane M. Borges (originally) Conversation around technoshamanism in the center of Digital Living Research Commons in the Department of Information Studies & Digital Design at the University of Aarhus. We talked about the traditions of festivals before the festivals of technoshamanism, such as Brazilian tactical media, Digitofagy, Submidialogy, MSST (Satellitless Movement), etc. We presented Read more »
by Fabiane M. Borges (originally) In 12 of August of 2017 we did the second meeting of technoshamanism in Aarhus/ Denmark, here is the open call “Technoshamanism in Aarhus, Rethinking ancestrality and technology” (2017). The first one was in november of 2014 with the name “technomagic and technoshamanism meeting in Aarhus“. It was made at Read more »
FREE RADIO Moderated by Carsten Agger 14:00-14:45 What is technoshamanism? How does it work and what does it want? What political issues does it raise? Introduction by Fabiane M. Borges, input from various participants 14:45-15:15 What and how may we learn about Chinese text censorship with machine learning? (Winnie Soon) 15:15-15:45 Decolonization and self-organization (Carsten Read more »
Interview with Fabiane M. Borges published on May 21, 20171 By Bia Martins and Reynaldo Carvalho – translated by Carsten Agger Also available in PDF format In a state of permanent warfare and fierce disputes over visions of the future, technoshamanism emerges as a resistance and as an endeavour to influence contemporary thinking, technological production, Read more »
One of the more important parts of the 1st Festival of Technoshamanism (previously covered here, here and here) was several points of collaboration with the local Pataxó Indians. The Pataxó is an indigenous people of about 12,000 people who live in the extreme south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, mainly in the area between Read more »
Many artists and theatre people participated in the 1st International Festival for Technoshamanism, and this fact conspired with the festival’s theme – the confluence of technology and shamanism – to create a number of interesting performances and happenings. Below is a selection of images which attempts to give an impression of a few of these Read more »