Digitofagia

Digitofagia interviews Brazilian artist-activists who worked together on tactical art and media projects, digital culture and free and open source technologies in the early 2000s in Brazil, bringing to light theories and practices that are in line with social justice and the democratization of communication. From an intersectional and decolonial perspective, it sought Afro-diasporic, feminist and originary contributions that touch on the material and subjective aspects of a territory on the margins of capitalism and that uses this place as a locus of power and (re-)connection. With a methodology based on decolonial authors, black feminism, Latin American and community feminism, as well as considerations about an original perspective that inevitably permeates Brazilian reality, the thesis carries this polyphony of conceptual and epistemological intersections. It also uses mixed methods from digital humanities to expand its own situated knowledge. As such, this research is also a contribution to overcoming the asymmetry of ethnic, racial and gender knowledge about information and communication technologies, art and technology, shedding light on creative, political and intellectual resistances that are transversal and experimental. As a result, we have powerful interviews that promote biographies and works essential to today's world marked by digital neocolonialism.