Untangler: Worlds Reimagined by Peace Olatunji
As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.
Challenge “Intercultural AI: Weaving Worlds through Art and Algorithms”
The selected project
Untangler: Worlds Reimagined
Untangler is a cross-cultural revisit on African realities to create new worlds through informed and corrected/decolonized lens of Artificial Intelligence(AI) prompting a removal of bias in LLMs(Large Language Models) on what African realities through African aesthetics, diversity, language and ideologies with a focus on African identities and African societies. To ‘untangle’ is an iterative forward and backward propagation process of fine tuning an LLM with volumes of training data and evaluating its new state to reflect the truer results in repeated cycles to produce newer models which better serves cultural authenticity.
Host institution
Gallery of Code, Abuja (NG)
European partner
GLUON, Brussels (BE)
The artist
Peace Olatunji
Peace Olatunji is a Nigerian artist, creative technologist, and cultural thinker exploring the intersections of storytelling, immersive media, and African futures. His multidisciplinary work draws from animation, XR, and artificial intelligence to interrogate digital colonialism, restore erased narratives, and amplify African visual languages in contemporary media.
Through a practice rooted in collaboration, critical research, and speculative design, Peace develops tools and experiences that challenge biased technologies while envisioning more just, inclusive digital futures. His work often engages with themes of memory, symbolism, architecture, and indigenous knowledge systems—reclaiming space for African perspectives in the evolving technological landscape.
Peace is also the founder of Dopay Interactive, a platform dedicated to boundary-pushing storytelling and visual innovation, and is actively involved in fostering transcontinental collaborations that center African voices in global creative dialogues.
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& Check-out the other selected projects for the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program:
+ Challenge 1bis: “Decoding Egwu: reclaiming indigenous intelligence through AI, dance and Igbo” – Emmanuel Ndefo & Dan Xu
+ Challenge 3: Plural Computation | “The Affogbolo’s Home” – Pierre-Christophe Gam
+ Challenge 4: Psychogeography and the Influence of AI | “Bursting the last bubble” – Tamer Elshabrawy
+ Challenge 5: Archives & Memory | “Adorned memory: Reimagining Egyptian Indigenous Archives Through Jewellery” – Khanya Mthethwa
+ Challenge 6: ZaZi: An African Educational AI Model | “LORAS AS AN ARCHIVE – A LIVING ARCHIVE” – Evans Akanyijuka
+ Challenge 7: Beyond Borders: AI, Climate, and Resource Justice in Africa | “Cry To The Water” – Chipo Mapondera
+ Challenge 8: Digital Lukasa: An Intelligent Archival Tablet | “The Memory Performer: digital reincarnation of Luba wisdom” – Mahoutondji Kinmagbo
+ Challenge 9: Provenance and Social Memory | “TERRITOIRE TISSé: Art Royal Kuba entre tradition et (R)évolution” – Melisa Kayowa
+ Challenge 10: Futurism and Geolocation | “Mobility as Memory: a decolonial AI cartography of Kinshasa” – Chinedum Muotto
+ Afropean Intelligence is bringing together 11 cultural organizations across Africa and Europe:
