10 African Artists Using Technology as Their Canvas – RisePEI

The so-called web of issues (IoT), together with large knowledge, synthetic intelligence, and blockchain, proceed to form the way forward for inventive observe the world over—and never solely within the U.S. and Europe, which have tended to be the main target of most digital artwork surveys. On this fast-digitizing panorama, a brand new era of African artists have emerged who’re utilizing digital expertise as their canvas to create artwork and to disseminate their work.

This era of artists embracing digital artwork are on the vanguard of aesthetic innovation, creating art work that explores socioeconomic and political realities, collective reminiscences, and the variety of experiences on the continent and in its diaspora. To survey these artists, ARTnews has chosen 10 who provide immersive digital artwork experiences of notice.