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Arab Futurism: [Grieving (the Future) ; Dreaming (the Future)]

In a moment where futures are distributed unevenly and narratives hijacked by the western gaze, Arab Futurism is emerging as a question and a movement that interrogates historical narratives; a reflection on what is, was and could be. Situated within this framework, this project is a language-based exploration of arab visual culture and imagination which aims to contribute to a counterculture of thought, expression of identity.  Inspired by works by Etal Adnan, Fritz Leiber and Reza Negarestani, it creates an interactive semi-encrypted plane where chronological time shrinks to the momentary, unchronological now where past-present-future historical  narratives can be interrogated, neither utopian or dystopian, where cities disintegrate and technology melts into spiders and peals.

Arab Futurism, Postcolonial imagination, Speculative aesthetics, Gen AI

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