{"id":34952,"date":"2022-11-22T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?p=34952"},"modified":"2023-06-06T12:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T10:55:20","slug":"achebes-internet-proverbial-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/achebes-internet-proverbial-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"Achebe\u2019s Internet: Proverbial Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,843,844],"project_type":[817,725,731,735,741,743],"class_list":["post-34952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2022","project-magical-hackerism-or-the-elasticity-of-resilience","project_type-web-residencies","project_type-formats","project_type-web-residents","project_type-spheres-of-practice","project_type-digital","project_type-themes"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":false,"img":[34954],"img_gallery_format":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Departing from a deep consideration of proverbs as a linguistic technology that can counter hegemonic notions of time and being<em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/achebes-internet.common.garden\/\">Achebe\u2019s Internet<\/a><\/em> (A.I.) considers how proverb making can inform an approach to the digital that acknowledges local contexts and enshrines situated knowledge production. By designing a network protocol (code-named Proverbial Protocol) that harnesses Conversational Energy to facilitate the creation, exploration and exchange of interpersonal and communal wisdom, <em>Achebe\u2019s Internet<\/em> investigates how we can leverage the internet\u2019s materiality to connect with the oldest technology we have, our intuitions. The project\u2019s goal is to unearth healthier alternative forms of being within a digital landscape defined by information overwhelm, and to extend the understanding of the digital beyond a Silicon Valley-led cosmology. This will activate its benefits for the people that this narrative has historically excluded in the most embodied way possible.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p class=\"is-size-6\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><strong>Chidumaga Uzoma Orji<\/strong>\u00a0is a visual\/digital\/web artist and creative\/spiritual technologist. His work is concerned with unpacking postcolonial crises of identity, fueling imagination in service of progressive African futures, and exploring ancestral spirituality through a contemporary lens. He lives and works in\u00a0 the serene hills of Abuja, Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_cta","bgcolor":"has-bg-blue","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"cta_link":{"type":"url","value":"https:\/\/achebes-internet.common.garden\/","title":"Achebes Internet (AI)","target":true},"cta_txt":"Achebes Internet (AI)","cta_button_txt":"VISIT WEB RESIDENCY PROJECT"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_cta","bgcolor":"has-bg-lila","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"cta_link":{"type":"url","value":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/putting-the-love-into-networked-systems\/","title":"Putting the Love into Networked Systems","target":true},"cta_txt":"\u00bbPutting the Love Into Networked Systems\u00ab. Uzoma Orji in conversation with Neema Githere\u00a0","cta_button_txt":"Read more"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=34952"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=34952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}