The Fak’ugesi Conference titled The Future of Creative Innovation & Technology is happening today, the 14th of September. We had a conversation with Benoît Hické, the curator of the French film festival F.A.M.E. He is also one of the panelists for the conference discussion titled ‘Sonic Visions: Understanding new collaborations in film, design and music’….
For its 6th year A MAZE. is welcoming African and international game developers, digital activists and digital artists to Johannesburg in order to trade ideas and techniques related to indie game development and playful media. A MAZE. / Johannesburg forms a part of the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival and includes talks, workshops and a…
Having been captivated by the world of gaming from when he received a PlayStation for his 7th birthday, Cukia Kimani knew that he wanted to be part of that world. “From the moment I put it on and saw the magic on the screen, I knew I had to become one of those magicians making…
Now in its 4th year, the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival is a celebration of technology, creativity, collaboration and innovation from across the African continent. The festival includes a range of seminars, talks, exhibitions, workshops, hack-a- thons, films, artists, games, innovation riots and music. With highlights including the Fak’ugesi Conference, Making Weekend as well as…
Onyx Ashanti is a musician, programmer, 3D print-designer, writer, performer, inventor…a self described child of the internet, and disciple of the open source philosophy. He is the creator of a new way to combine improvisation, dance and sound design with his invention “Beatjazz”, which merges between art and science, representing the intersection of hardware, software…
The category digital art includes a wide variety of artistic practices. Digital artist and curator Jepchumba describes this form of art as encompassing artwork whose production and presentation uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative process. Post African Futures, referring to an exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in 2015, and used in…
The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel – The Neuromancer by William Gibson A preamble of creaking wooden stairs. Navigating historical remnants – a building reclaimed. Ascending the landing. Within the antique walls of The Cosmopolitan the contemporary Hazard Gallery is housed. Pressed ceilings peeled back,…
German digital artist Lorenz Potthast is spending time in South Africa to present on his MA project on the oceanic routes of the internet as well as to be part of the opening of a new gallery space in Durban called TheOtherRoom. His background is in design but has always had an interest in digital…
It was a Friday. A sickle shaped moon dissipated beyond the horizon. As the sun rose, bleeding orange hues into dawn, the internet was birthed. It first appeared in the public domain on the 30th of April 1993. In its infancy of dial-up lines and teething connections, it brought with it the democratization of information….
A historical Imperialism, articulated through invasion and occupation. A systematic division spawned from the imaginations of white men to conquer for capital gains. A continent sliced up by the butcher’s knife of colonialism. Corners of conflict, fictioned intersections amputated and dislocated. A coloniality that runs through the semi-visible veins of demarcated territory. The divide between…
