This exchange opens a potential to understand the parallel histories of Latin American and African 'technologies' and their relation to artistic practice, expanding technology to encompass both modern machines and traditional and indigenous 'techne'.

Taking as a starting point that for the Greeks, techné means both art and technique, art and technology have the same origin, revealing new modes of inhabiting the world, from stone-age tools to smart phones. Our approach is to combine a genealogy of technological and artistic histories across Global South Contexts, bringing together our respective research areas on the Anglophone, Arabic, Francophone and Lusophone African continent and Spanish speaking and Lusophone Latin America. Our material speaks to colonial and post-colonial shifts in technological and artistic practice, as well as indigenous encounters with new media.

Our central aim is to think through the potential for art to open scientific research to new ways of producing knowledge by expanding the idea of the senses beyond the human to embrace both non-human/natural/animal and technologically enhanced sensory capacities. We follow Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui to think about the problem of climate crisis from a cosmotechnical and technodiversity perspective, providing a transformative way of reflecting on our current planetary crisis, and imagining radical openings and ways of working with contemporary, historical and indigenous technologies. We intend to shape a new South-South understanding of the relationship between technology, media and information systems, thinking with cybernetics as a model of understanding how the human sensorium is remodelled by information and mediation.

Regular students at the University (students who are studying for an undergraduate or graduate degree) will not be able to register through the Educación Continua for this course. In case of registration, the Management will proceed with its return.