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As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.Challenge “Intercultural AI: Weaving Worlds through Art and Algorithms” The selected projectUntangler: 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

As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.Challenge “Provenance and Social Memory” The selected projectTERRITOIRE TISSés: Kuba Royal Art between Tradition and (R)evolution 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 of Kuba

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

As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.Challenge “Digital Lukasa: An Intelligent Archival Tablet” The selected projectThe Memory Performer 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 community memory in the DRC through artificial intelligence. The

As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.Challenge “ZaZi: An African Educational AI Model” The selected projectLoRAs as an Archive, A Living Archive LORAs as an Archive, A Living Archive is an interactive art project that explores how memory and possibility can be reactivated by transforming archives into a living immersive installation through the use

As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.Challenge “Beyond Borders: AI, Climate, and Resource Justice in Africa” The selected projectCry to the Water Cry to the Water is an immersive, AI-facilitated ceremonial experience exploring how ancestral knowledge, particularly African water rituals encoded in traditional music, can shape ethical, spiritually grounded uses of AI to address

As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.Challenge “Archives and Memory” The selected projectAdorned Memory: Reimagining Egyptian Indigenous Archives Through Jewellery Adorned Memory explores Nubian adornment traditions and how jewellery acts as a living archive of memory, identity, and resistance. Through community collaboration, oral history, and digital experimentation, Dr Mthethwa will create sculptural jewellery pieces

As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.Challenge “Psychogeography and the Influence of AI” The selected projectBursting the Last Bubble Bursting the Last Bubble is my new interactive sound art project – a mobile app that guides you on a walk through Alexandria’s historic center, where sound and memory intertwine. As you move, the app

As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.Challenge “Plural Computation” The selected projectThe Affogbolo’s Home The Affogbolo’s Home is a speculative art project that imagines everyday life in Abuja, Nigeria, in the year 2100, through the eyes of a fictional family. Blending storytelling, architecture, and ancestral wisdom, the project explores how we might eat, play,