Projects

Daladala Verse is the convergence of the mobility stories of the past and future, narrated using XR technologies, blurring the line between tech, art and culture while paying homage to Tanzania’s longest-serving public mini-bus transportation called Daladala.

The Oracle is a transdisciplinary artwork exploring the future of cities governed by algorithms and acts like a portal. Continuously transforming, the artwork generates an oracular vision of the near future by analysing thousands of city-wide data inputs to make predictive outputs. The machine re-mediates all the collected data, suggesting data consciousness, thereby implying that…

The project utilized artistic processes to unravel the ecological impact and human rights violations inherent in hardware production. The goal was to raise awareness and generate knowledge on alternative commodity chains for hardware production. Following principles of de-growth, it called for decentralized, ethical and sustainable forms of manufacturing electronics. Building on their expertise in queering…

VRJ Palestine project experiments and explores the possibilities and limitations of using Virtual Reality tools to recapture places lost during the 1948 Nakba and its aftermath. This is achieved by virtually reconstructing the demolished Palestinian villages based on available archival data and survivors’ accounts.

Black Body Radiation: Rescripting Data Bodies is a collaborative art project by Ameera Kawash and Ama BE. It reimagines relationships between embodiment and datafication, interlinking live performance, AI-generated avatars, and body sensor networks to challenge dominant configurations of identity, data and commodification. Drawing from African masquerade and the concept of avatars, it integrates live performance…