Ancestral Algoryhthms is a new practice-led research project that I am developing. It explores the intersections between sound, interaction design, and motion as tools for reimagining African narratives. This research challenges the persistent notion that African art exists outside of technological development, instead tracing innovation embedded within African material cultures and sonic archives. Drawing on Yuk Hui’s notion of cosmotechnics, the study explores how technology may be understood through culturally situated relations between time, sound, spirituality, materiality, and/or imagination.
Research outcomes take shape through new media art, which functions both as speculative interfaces for engagement and as digital sites for the preservation of cultural memory. Ultimately, this study aims to contribute to a growing field of African new media art, by exploring how African narratives may be rewritten in a digital age through forms of visual resistance.
More on this case study coming soon.
Disciplines:
Art Direction, New Media Art, Research
Credits:
Beadwork images courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum
