Afrofuturism and Feminism

As a keen follower of The Nest Collective and Jepchumba and her website AfricanDigitalArts, this video is worth a watch from the BOZAR: Connects Africa events.

Digital Lab Africa: Animation, Games, VR and more.

This year's Digital Lab Africa winners have been announced following online votes for a series of pitches ranging from games to animation from a variety of different African countries this initiative is definitely something to look out for.

As described on the Digital Lab Africa website...

Digital Lab Africa: the reference platform for next-gen content 

Digital Lab Africa (DLA) is the 1st platform dedicated to creative content (web creation, virtual reality, video game, animation, digital music) linked with innovation in Africa (francophone & anglophone). The very idea of DLA is to incubate emerging creative talent by offering them a springboard to jump-start and accelerate their projects with the support and expertise of DLA partners & ecosystem (studios, event, producers, broadcasters, distributors, experts…) 

The winners from the pitch competition were announced today


• ANIMATION
Dimbit by Feben Elias (ETHIOPIA) See pitch below: 




Nwavu, the Blind Man by João Graça (MOZAMBIQUE)
 
• DIGITAL MUSIC
Request Africa by Ali Dennis (KENYA)
Mbira Online by Tafadzwa Sharaunga (ZIMBABWE)

• VIDEO GAME
Shadow Tongue by Alex Robert Ynclan & Thuso Terence Sibisi (SOUTH AFRICA)
Project Lumpa by Mwaaba Alec Mugala (ZAMBIA)
 
• VIRTUAL REALITY
Last Night A Haircut Saved My Life by Roxanne Dalton (SOUTH AFRICA)
II Worlds by Naomi van Niekerk  & Arnaud van Vliet (SOUTH AFRICA)

• WEB CREATION
Future Lab Africa by Jepchumba (KENYA)


Watch Jepchumba from AfricanDigitalArt pitch below: 

The NEST in Kenya

Visual arts, film, music, photography, fashion... these are some of the aspects that the artists at The NEST in Nairobi, Kenya are exploring.

What is the NEST?

The NEST is a multidisciplinary collaborative of ten Kenyans, working collectively since 2012 with the aim of exploring our troubling modern identities, re-imagining our pasts and inhabiting mythical African futures.

Included in their portfolio of work one can find
'Stories of Our Lives', 'The Old Order of Things' and recently 'To Catch a Dream'