Artificial Intelligence and Digital Colonialism in Sepideh Takshi’s Virtual Exhibition
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Colonialism in Sepideh Takshi’s Virtual Exhibition
Publish Date: 2026-07-08 04:07:00
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The immersive online exhibition by Iranian artist Sepideh Takshi, curated by Victor Murari, examines algorithmic systems, mechanisms of technical censorship, and the political use of archives, offering a critical reflection on power structures and data manipulation in the contemporary world.
The current international debate centered on artificial intelligence systems, data flow management, and modern digital control methodologies finds a point of convergence in the new virtual exhibition titled *Sepideh Takshi: After the Archive, the Body Speaks*. The exhibition, curated by Victor Murari with digital production by Thayani Costa, is presented as an online experience accessible via a dedicated interactive platform (clickhere for the online exhibition).
This digital space brings together the video works, three-dimensional environments, generative structures, and algorithmic processes that characterize the recent body of work by Iranian artist Sepideh Takshi. The exhibition aims to analyze and bring to light the technological infrastructures that govern contemporary society, with a particular focus on criteria for automatic cataloging, practices of technical censorship, and the ways in which images and collective memories are processed in the age of advanced computational software.
The exhibition project serves as a direct curatorial extension of a previous research project conducted by Murari himself, titled *Decolonial Atlas: Mapping Artists that Challenge Digital Colonialism*. The theoretical core of the initiative lies in the need to understand how today’s digital devices have moved beyond the purely representational function of reality to become active agents, capable of determining what qualifies to be displayed, validated, archived, or, conversely,…
