Connecting Past and Present Pieces: Contemporary African Digital Collage with European Colonial Experience

Africa's 'digitalization' is now a clear social, economic, and cultural phenomenon. Digital culture permeates the daily lives of many Africans and connects Africa to other regions in a way that has never been before. How are contemporary African artists changing the existing story? They are not only experimenting with digital technology, but also creating new images that project space between the past and the present, analog and digital, pre-colonial and post-colonial reality. By shortening complex perceptions to moments, overlapping reality and unreality, and reorganizing landscapes and history through multiple spatial implementations, digital collages build a world closer to neutral than concrete actions. The artists want to use digital collage to remind their values that have faded in the long history of oppression and to volatilize negatives about black culture. Through this act, the concept of modern 'memory represented by the past' is dismantled, disappeared, and the past as a dead time is revived. Another characteristic of contemporary African digital collage is that it rejects fixed identity and tries to expand it in an irregular and distracting way. By combining broken symbols through contradictory mixed styles, contemporary african digital collage that contain metaphors for deviation overthrow tradition. It aims to overturn the image of the colony through the process of "African remix," which consists of multiple images containing complex contexts of self-sustaining memories and overlapping memories that cannot be defined in language.