A virtual innovation festival aims to explore the digital culture of today.
Wits University’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct and Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg has confirmed the Fak’ugesi Digital Innovation Festival 2020 programme will run live, online for one month from 20 October to 20 November 2020.
Now in its seventh year, Fak’ugesi is a celebration of technology and creativity by Africans for Africa. Under the theme #powertothepixel , the 2020 festival aims to bring regional and international audiences together through three major focus areas of; African digital art, heritage and technology, Fak’ugesi arcade. A major festival highlight is the work of anonymous South African artist a.k.a Xopher Wallace, who is the Fak’ugesi Festival 2020 #powertothepixel featured augmented reality (AR) artist.
He is a winner of one of the curatorial commissions for digital art with an exhibition titled The Afridelic trip: Faces of mixed realities. The exciting virtual programme launches with the opening of eight online digital art exhibitions which will be ‘always on and free’, taking place online, on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.
These and other contributions in the African Digital Art line-up will explore everything in digital culture today from the lives of South African teenagers in matric living through a global pandemic, to the premiere screenings of short animations from the Tshimologong Development Studio’s Young Director Programme.
