Zenvus, our agtech product, will be on exhibitions in three countries – Senegal, South Africa and Germany. The exhibitions are managed by ZKM I Karlsruhe, Germany to chronicle some of the most fascinating digital ideas out of modern Africa. For date and time, visit ZKM. When you walk into the locations – Afropixel Festival in Dakar, Wits Art Museum and Fak’ugesi Festival of African Digital Innovation in Johannesburg and center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany – check for Digital Imaginaries – Africas in Production.
ZKM I Karlsruhe will hold the research and exhibition project Digital Imaginaries – Africas in Production from November 17, 2018 until March 31, 2019. The project explores how digital practices and imaginaries shift what Africa is and can be. Digital Imaginaries brings together artist, social scientist and digital makers to trace, disturb and redirect the flux between digital practices and imaginaries. Digital Imaginaries is a joined project of Kër Thiossane, the independent center for digital art, and the Afropixel Festival in Dakar, the Wits Art Museum and Fak’ugesi Festival of African Digital Innovation in Johannesburg and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
The ZKM I Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany) will is a unique cultural institution worldwide. Established in 1989 as a foundation under public law, the ZKM is a house of all media and genres, a house of both spatial arts such as painting, photography and sculpture and time-based arts such as film, video, media art, music, dance, theater and performance. Numerous temporary exhibitions and thematic events are to be found alongside research and production in the field of new media, fundamental research and a comprehensive concept of education.