Afro Cyber Resistance
Tabita Rezaire
HD Video essay, 18min26s, 2014. Created for Fakugesi Digital Africa Conference, Johannesburg.
Rezaire’s video essay Afro Cyber Resistance, adapted from her text of the same title, explores Internet art practices in South Africa as a manifestation of cultural dissent towards western hegemony. Looking at digital, cultural, and political means of resistance and media activism on the Internet, Afro Cyber Resistance is a socially engaged gesture that aims to challenge the representation of African bodies and cultures through online practices.
Full length written essay published in Post African Futures, Technoetic Arts, volume 12, issue 2-3, London: Intellect. Available at: https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=19166/