The five Fak'ugesi Digital Africa commissioned curators speak about the work, its meaning and importance for African Digital Art.
Watch introductions videos from each of the five online curators, who they are and why the exhibitions are important to African Digital Art.
Ghanian curator Elisabeth Efua Sutherland on Time, the Earth, and Death are Living Things, as Stories are. A co-created digital storytelling exhibition which maps the North, South, East & West of the continent into a rich, interactive platform that explores a collective understanding of what it means to be African in the digital age.
Faye Kabali-Kagwa a South African / Ugandan producer and social activist on #DearUs, Matric 2020, a whatsApp driven exhibition that speaks to the lives of 6 South African teenagers living through a global pandemic at what should be the pinnacle of their schooling career.
South African curator and artist Nkhensani Mkhari speaking about Misava, an online exhibition that seeks to refigure the digital as a site for radical healing and the manifestation of new metaphors of consciousness. Working with a host of radical local and international digital artists.
Soweto based PRE-EMPT Group Collective with Spatial Fabrications: An Uninhabitable World a nonlinear Web VR orbiting around three animated films within a 360 environment. These views strive to warp the clinical and pristine by engaging the computer screen, it's politics and representations through various decolonial interventions.
And our face-filter artist Durban based Xopher Wallace presents The AFRIDELIC trip: faces of digital realites exploring themes influenced by African mysticism, using augmented reality as a realm of interaction between humanity and the spiritual or cosmic realms.
