Pushing Digital Boundaries
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What if the future of digital storytelling begins not with artificial intelligence, but with memory? Through the Ethiopian philosophy of tizita, Yatreda has developed one of the most original visual languages in contemporary African art, weaving oral history, ritual, photography, film, and digital media into immersive worlds where the past remains vividly present. Their work is setting a new…
Chepkemboi J. Mang'ira on beadwork as archive, the Maasai court cases nobody remembers when they type a prompt, and what a community-led AI framework would actually require.
A new generation of African game developers, concept artists, and world-builders is doing something the industry has never seen before — placing Africa at the centre of interactive worlds, and inviting African digital artists into a billion-dollar creative pipeline.
On 28 May 2026, Tiwani Contemporary — one of the few galleries in the world with a stated commitment to contemporary African and diaspora art — closed its doors on Cork Street in Mayfair. The lights went out while a show was still hanging. Breaking Down Realities, the final exhibition, featured Nifemi Marcus-Bello, Hadassa Ngamba, […]
Introduction The moment presence changes everything There is a moment in every immersive experience — the precise second when a viewer stops looking at your work and starts standing inside it — that no other medium can replicate. Extended reality makes that moment possible. And for African digital artists, it carries a particular weight: the […]
This is the world of Vince Fraser: a London-born artist of Jamaican heritage who, over three decades in the creative industries, has become one of the most singular and purposeful voices in global digital art. His work does not exist in a gallery in any conventional sense. It lives in immersive environments in Las Vegas […]
Collage has never been a neutral act. From the moment an image is cut free from its original context and placed beside another, a claim is being made — about what belongs together, about whose stories share a frame, about who gets to reconstruct the world. For African artists working digitally today, that claim is […]
There is a word in Yoruba — aṣẹ — that describes the divine energy running through all living things: the power to make things happen, to produce change, to bring the sacred into contact with the material world. It is not metaphor. It is not nostalgia. It is an active, present force that Yoruba cosmology […]
There is a Chinua Achebe proverb that Emmanuel Ndefo likes to return to: “A person who doesn’t travel would say that their mother cooks the best soup.” It is, in many ways, the key that unlocks everything about this Lagos-and-Europe-spanning artist — a man whose entire creative practice is built at the crossroads of journeys […]
Reclaiming History Through Play How Relooted transforms repatriation into an African-futurist stealth experience In recent years, conversations around the return of African artifacts looted during colonialism have intensified across museums, governments, and cultural institutions worldwide. Yet few projects have approached the issue with the imagination, urgency, and playfulness of Relooted, an…
