Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness / Russel Hlongwane – Substance Point (ZA), Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson – Lo-Def Film Factory (ZA)
Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness is a creative research project by South African artists Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze, and Amy Wilson. In fabricating a fictional institute and its archive, the artists imagine vernacular technological practices operating across the African continent. The artists embed archival footage and 3D scanned elements within game-engine and AI-generated pixel landscapes to traverse new geopolitical imaginaries: with portable ‘backpack laboratories,’ the crop field, smelting furnace, forest or river becomes a mobile laboratory, a workshop.
Credit: Knoetze Hlongwane and Amy Louise Wilson
Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness / Russel Hlongwane – Substance Point (ZA), Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson – Lo-Def Film Factory (ZA)
Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness is a creative research project by South African artists Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze, and Amy Wilson. In fabricating a fictional institute and its archive, the artists imagine vernacular technological practices operating across the African continent. The artists embed archival footage and 3D scanned elements within game-engine and AI-generated pixel landscapes to traverse new geopolitical imaginaries: with portable ‘backpack laboratories,’ the crop field, smelting furnace, forest or river becomes a mobile laboratory, a workshop.
Credit: Knoetze Hlongwane and Amy Louise Wilson