Meet Chipo Mapondera at Dar Bach Hamba!
Between cultural heritage, water scarcity, and ancestral practices, her research unfolds through AI-driven explorations.
Join us for an artist talk and screening!
In the framework of S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence, a project funded by the European Union as part of the S+T+ARTS initiative.
In partnership with @biennalechroniques
We are honoured to welcome the artist Chipo Mapondera[a] for residency challenge #7 Beyond Borders: AI, Climate, and Resource Justice in Africa.
Chipo is a Creative Technologist weaving African heritage and emerging technologies into immersive, ancestral experiences. Her project, Cry to the Water, is an AI-facilitated ritual installation that draws on Tunisian water rituals, oral histories and ancestral archives to confront water scarcity, climate crisis and resource justice, building a relational technology that resists extractive logics and opens space for healing and sustainable futures.
In the framework of S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence, a project funded by the European Union as part of the S+T+ARTS initiative.
In partnership with @biennalechroniques
A new identity for a new chapter.
هوية جديدة لفصل جديد
We’ve always believed that culture needs infrastructure — spaces to think, platforms to create, frameworks to grow. Today, that belief takes a new form.
Momentum — For Contemporary Culture is a Tunisian NGO building ecosystems for contemporary art, curatorial research, and cultural exchange across North Africa and beyond.
آمنّا دائماً بأن الثقافة تحتاج بنية تحتية — فضاءات للتفكير، ومنصات للإبداع، وأطراً للنمو. اليوم، يأخذ هذا الإيمان شكلاً جديداً.
زخم — للثقافة المعاصرة منظمة تونسية غير حكومية تبني أنظمة بيئية للفن المعاصر والبحث الكيوريتوري والتبادل الثقافي في شمال أفريقيا وما وراءها.
Created by @_iuliard
This work began with water.
And everything else followed.
ROOTS — It Begins With Water.
A meditation on flow, transformation, and connection, where organic life and digital materiality meet through glitch, texture, and movement.
Thank you @seedjerba
Credit raw videos: @ghassen.ez 🙏🏻
#glitch #newmediaart #digitalpoetry #experimentalvideo #light
Projected onto the historic façade of St. Joseph’s Church in Houmt Souk, OBK’s “Sun” was an interactive digital intervention transforming the building’s mid-19th-century architecture into a canvas for cosmic storytelling.
On the limestone surface, four stellar forms are composed of spinning, energy-rich centers that generate continually shifting fields of color and particles across large-scale, two-channel projections.
Three of these radiant bodies, situated high across the twin towers and upper façade, are pre-recorded animations; a fourth, positioned above the main entrance, unfolds live in real time, its evolving form responding to the gestures and movement of passersby, tracked by a Kinect sensor. As visitors move, their presence shapes and animates this digital "sun," forging a dialogue between cosmic evolution and collective human energy.
“Sun” was not only a poetic rendering of astrophysics; it gestured toward the aspirations of a “Kardashev Type II” civilization, one capable of harnessing the full energy of its parent star. The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is capable of harnessing and using. The measure was proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964, and was named after him.
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