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Territoires tissés by Melisa Kayowa A S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Residency.Challenge “Provenance and Social Memory” Host institutionAcadémie des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa (CD) European partnerAfrica Museum, Tervuren (BE) Territoires tissés (Woven Territories) is a project that traces the journeys and trajectories of various Congolese art objects since their contact with the West. Focusing particularly on the ancestral techniques […]

As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.Challenge “Futurism and Geolocation” The selected projectMobility as Memory Mobility as Memory is a creative research project that reimagines how people move through the city of Kinshasa—not just as transport, but as a powerful way of remembering. Many of the roads and structures in Kinshasa today were built

The Memory Performer by Mahoutondji Kinmagbo A S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Residency.Challenge “Digital Lukasa: An Intelligent Archival Tablet” Host institutionKrithika Art Projects, Kinshasa (CD) European partnerAfrica Museum, Tervuren (BE) The Memory Performer is an artistic project that reimagines the traditional Luba memory tablet, the Lukasa, as a digital device. The project aims to preserve culture and

LORAs as an Archive, A Living Archive by Evans Akanyijuka A S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Residency.Challenge “ZaZi: An African Educational AI Model” Host institutionThe Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg (ZA) European partnerCHRONIQUES, Marseille (FR) LoRA as an Archive is the answer to the question posed by ZaZi the 6th Start Challenge, which tasked the respondent to create

Cry to the Waterby Chipo Mapondera A S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Residency.Challenge “Beyond Borders: AI, Climate, and Resource Justice in Africa” Host institutionINTERFERENCE, Tunis (TN) European partnerCHRONIQUES, Marseille (FR) The selected projectCry to the Water Cry to the Water is an immersive, AI-facilitated ritual experience exploring how ancestral knowledge, particularly Tunisian water rituals, can shape ethical,

Adorned Memory by Khanya Mthethwa A S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Residency.Challenge “Archives and Memory” Host institutionB’sarya for Arts, Alexandria (EG) European partnerCHRONIQUES, Marseille (FR) The project “Adorned Memory” explores Egyptian indigenous adornment practices as living archives of memory and identity. It focuses on how these traditions, often excluded from formal records, can be preserved and honored

Peripheral Mode by Tamer Elshabrawy A S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Residency.Challenge “Psychogeography and the Influence of AI Host institutionB’sarya for Arts, Alexandria (EG) European partnerCHRONIQUES, Marseille (FR) Peripheral Mode is a GPS-based audio-visual walk through which the artist explores the psychogeography of Alexandria: the subtle exchange between urban atmosphere and emotional life. Psychogeography is understood here

The House We Dreamed by Pierre-Christophe Gam A S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Residency.Challenge “Plural Computation” Host institutionGallery of Code, Abuja (NG) European partnerGLUON, Brussels (BE) The House We Dreamed  is a speculative WebVR installation and physical exhibition composed from dreams gathered across African communities. The project offers a profound vision of tomorrow through the lens of

Decoding Egwu by Emmanuel Ndefo & Dan Xu A S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence Residency.Challenge “Intercultural AI: Weaving Worlds through Art and Algorithms” Host institutionGallery of Code, Abuja (NG) European partnerGLUON, Brussels (BE) Decoding Egwu is a cross-disciplinary project that reimagines dance and intelligence through the Igbo concept of egwu — a word encompassing dance, music, play,