Interactions

Bone Flute is a public engagement project. It was first shown to the public in January 2023, as the centre-piece of my exhibition AIAIA.

I was interviewed about the project by Prof. Christo Doherty from Wits University in April 2024, for the series Arts Research Africa Dialogues. Listen here: Man Makes Flute From Own Bone.

AIAIA – Aesthetic Interventions in Artificial Intelligence in Africa

The exhibition showed my art-research work from my fellowship on the Future Hospitals project at HUMA, the Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The exhibition opened on Wednesday 25 January 2023, and ran till Sunday 5 February 2023, with a closing event on Saturday 4 February. The show opened with work in progress, which developed over the course of the exhibition. The central work on the exhibition was Bone Flute.

An informal video walkthrough of the exhibition
An installation view of Bone Flute at the opening. More material was added over the exhibition.
My collaborator Rudolph Venter talking at the opening event.

I posted some documentation of the exhibition opening on my personal Instagram account:

 
 
 
 
 
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And the closing event, see from the second slide.

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