EVENTS
Manthia Diawara
AI: African Intelligence
Berlin International Film Festival
16.02. – 26.02.2023
Manthia Diawara, AI: African Intelligence, 2022, film still
The 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, which takes place from 16 to 26 February 2023, presents the international premiere of AI: African Intelligence (2022), the latest essay film by Manthia Diawara. The film has been selected for the Forum Expanded, a programme that aims to expand the understanding of what film is, to test the boundaries of convention and open up fresh perspectives to help grasp cinema and how it relates to the world in new ways.
Produced by Maumaus/Lumiar Cité, AI: African Intelligence explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession among traditional fishing villages of the Atlantic coast of Senegal and the emergence of new technology frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence. Considering the confluence of tradition and modernity, Diawara questions how we could move from disembodied machines towards a more humane and spiritual control of algorithms. Could Africa be the context of emergence of such improbable algorithms?
AI: African Intelligence
A film by Manthia Diawara
Produced by Maumaus/Lumiar Cité
Commissioned by Gluon, Brussels
Supported by Snowball, Creative Europe, Horizon 2020 S+T+ARTS Programme of the European Union, Portuguese Ministry of Culture/Directorate General of the Arts
Maumaus
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1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
Monday to Friday, 10h00 to 13h00,
14h30 to 19h00
Tel: + 351 21 352 11 55
maumaus@maumaus.org
Upcoming:
Maumaus
Lecture | 24.06.2025 | 19h
The lecture will be in English. Entry is free and limited to the number of seats available.
Upcoming:
Howard Singerman
Local Art Worlds (or Imaginary Geographies with Real Effects)
Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
Seminar | 24, 25, 26.06. 11h – 13h, 14h – 16h
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 15.06.2025. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Current:
In collaboration with Lumiar Cité:
Coumba Samba
deutschland
Kunstverein in Hamburg
24.05 – 10.08.2025
23.05 | 19h Opening of the exhibition
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité is funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar.
