Love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris
The Silicon Valley utopia has been morphing into the dystopia of reactionary technology. The violence of the digital space and the bias caused by the monopoly of technological development in the hands of a few but immense companies make it increasingly easy to give up on the attempt to have a conscious, resilient, and restorative participation in these technologies and networks.
The invitation to Neema Githere aims to bring to the conversation the possibility of "dreaming among the ruins of Big Tech," a phrase from the Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. In her work, Githere investigates how technology can align with spiritual and community values. Her concept of "Afropresentism" for example, proposes the digital reappearance of the Afro-diasporic in the face of systems that tend to render it invisible or distort it. Another example is "Data Healing," a proposal for a digital rehabilitation clinic that helps heal the psychosocial trauma caused by social media and algorithmic technology.
*The conversations will be held in English and subtitled in CatalanNeema Githere
Neema Githere is an artist, curator, and guerrilla theorist based in the #digitaldiaspora whose work explores love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris. Having dreamt themselves into the world via the internet from an early age, Neema Githere's work prototypes relationality-as-art through experiments that span curation, community organizing, social design, travel and image-making. Githere (b. Nairobi) has been building a research-based embodiment practice since 2016, beginning with a project entitled #digitaldiaspora - inspired by Anna Everett's Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace (SUNY Press, 2009) - which traveled to over 20 countries exploring how Afrodiasporic creatives were articulatig new identities on- and offline. Their practice has evolved into an examination of networked repair through cyber-cartography, with a focus on Afropresentism - an inquiry into how descendents of exile can invoke somatic attunement amidst systematised algorithmic displacement. Githere's concept of Afropresentism -a term they coined in 2017 to explore diasporic embodiment in the age of Big Data-has influenced conferences and exhibitions in four continents. Githere is a co-curator of the 2026 edition of transmediale, alongside Juan Pablo García Sossa.
Marta Peirano
Marta Peirano is a journalist, essayist, and populariser specializing in technology and power. She is an analyst for EL PAÍS and RNE. Her most recent books are 'The Enemy Knows the System: Manipulation of Ideas, People, and Influences in the Aftermath of the Attention Economy' and 'Against the Future: Citizen Resistance Against Climate Feudalism'.
Duration
1 hour 30 minutes
Dates
Sunday 8th of February 2026 from 13.00 to 14.00h
Price
Advance tickets
Morning sessions (Seeds of futurity + Love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris): 4€, reduced 3€ (library card or Friends of the Fundació)
Afternoon session (All this global dysphoria): 4€, reduced 3€
Full day with lunch included: 9€
Tickets at the door
Morning sessions (Seeds of futurity + Love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris): 5€, reduced 4€
Afternoon session (All this global dysphoria): 5€, reduced 4€
