VIEWING TIMES
| FRIDAY |
02.06.2017 |
10H00 - 20H00 |
| SATURDAY |
03.06.2017 |
10H00 - 18H00 |
| SUNDAY |
04.06.2017 |
10H00 - 18H00 |
Electric South and the Goethe-Institut present the South African premiere of „New Dimensions – Virtual Reality Africa“, a selection of Virtual Reality (VR) productions from Kenya, Senegal and Ghana. Each of these works offers a view of the vibrant, diverse and ever-changing cultural landscape of contemporary Africa.
Included is the VR work “Spirit Robot” by Ghanaian science fiction author and founder of the Afrocyberpunk website Jonathan Dotse who explored the Chale Wote Street Art Festival in Accra. Kenyan photographer Ng’endo Mukii produced a poetic city symphony on Nairobi in the VR piece “Nairobi Berries”, consisting of her lyrical voice-over alongside surreal, layered images of the city. Senegalese fashion designer Selly Raby Kane presents a magical 360 piece, in which a little girl is chosen to discover the invisible Dakar. Kenyan “The Nest Collective” created an interactive work set in the distant future, when a group of Africans have left the Earth to create a colony on a distant planet.
"New Dimensions – Virtual Reality Africa“ will show within Virtual Encounters – an exhibition of creative multi-platform, documentary storytelling, curated by Ingrid Kopp and forming part of the 2017 Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival. Expect a spectacle of award-winning Virtual Reality, Interactive and documentary video games!
In Johannesburg, there will be a Q&A with Steven Markovitz and Ng’endo Mukii, director of Nairobi Berries, on Saturday 3 June
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