Damien McDuffie is a creative technologist, digital archivist, and developer primarily concerned with augmented reality (AR) art experiences. He uses Black family and historic visual archives to make collage art and tell stories of neighborhood histories hidden in plain view. Influenced by Dr. Huey P. Newton’s treatise on "Technology Question," he developed an augmented reality camera app and platform for Black archives and culture called Black Terminus AR. By way of Into the Archives, his on-going gallery exhibition series, he uses photo collage and augmented reality to extend still photos from his personal family archive and artwork into a new dimension. Each archival/art piece is taken from the family archival collections of a range of disparate family members and showcased as open-air museums of historic Black neighborhoods. His mission is to keep redlining out of the metaverse by developing and inspiring the next generation of Black creative technologists to use personal archives and still photography as a way into creative tech.
Meghna Singh is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of art and technology. Her work focuses on themes of migration, transnationalism & critical mobilities, immersive experiences within public art and the decolonization of the digital space. Working with video installation, sculpture and XR, blurring boundaries between documentary and fiction she creates immersive environments highlighting issues of ‘humanism’ through the tool of the imaginary. Her interest lies in creating public art installations that activate spaces while highlighting colonial and capitalist legacies within urban cityscapes. Meghna is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Communication & Culture at Aarhus University Denmark from 2023 to 2025. She is a fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab (2023-2025). She is a National Geographic Explorer and a fellow at the Creative Knowledge Resources, a platform for creative pedagogy and social engagement art in Africa and its diaspora. Singh co-directed Container: Witness the Invisibilised with filmmaker Simon Wood. Container has been shown at the International Venice Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Kaohsiung Film Festival, Beijing, and the Luxembourg film festival. It became the first VR film to be invited by the Nobel Prize Society to screen at the Nobel Week Dialogue in Gothenburg 2021.
Tamara Shogaolu is an international director and new media artist focused on sharing intersectional stories across mediums, platforms, and virtual and physical spaces in order to promote cross-cultural understanding and challenge preconceptions. Shogaolu is the founder and creative director of Ado Ato Pictures. She is an international director and new media artist with a track record in featuring her work at film festivals, galleries, and museums worldwide, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Indonesia. Her innovative approach to storytelling has led to sources like The Guardian and Vogue Magazine naming her a leader in the field of new and immersive media. She is a 2018 Sundance Institute New Frontier Lab Programs Fellow and a 2019 Gouden Kalf Nominee. Shogaolu is an artist interested in pushing herself and others around her outside the boundaries of traditional storytelling. She strives to share stories across mediums, platforms, and virtual and physical spaces in order to promote cross-cultural understanding and challenge preconceptions.
Kristoffer Ørum (b. Copenhagen, 1975) is an interdisciplinary system that has produced a long series of demonstrations, acts of wilful misunderstanding and weird transmissions both in and outside of the Technosphere. Based in a basement, he works in the intersection between daily life and speculative digital histories. He holds dual degrees from Technosmiths College in London and the Royal Danish Academy of Speculative Arts in Copenhagen. He believes that all artists’ biographies are works of fiction and should be read as such.
Sahar Sajadieh is a computational performance artivist (artist + activist) and theorist. She is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts with a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Sahar graduated with a dual BSc–BA degree in Computer Science and Theater from the University of British Columbia and received her Master’s Degree from the Performance Studies program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She was previously an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University.
Sahar’s research lies at the intersection of computational arts, artificial intelligence, social justice-oriented design, and performance/media theory. She is interested in the creative and critical applications of natural language processing, machine learning, extended reality, and robotics as means of storytelling, poetic expression, and social intervention. For Sahar, art practice is a form of activism, a way to challenge the public’s comfort zone and provoke dialogues about difficult, unspoken issues in society. Her research focuses on making interactive technologies and artificial intelligence more alive and their societal applications more ethical.
Ada Ada Ada is an algorithmic artist, who works within an intersectional eco-feminist framework.
She works with gender, queerness and bodies as perceived by computers through algorithms, software, "artificial intelligence" and more.
Ada moves between art forms, and so far, her practice has included performative photography, generative art, net art, writing, interactive installations as well as live "artificial intelligence" performance.
The question at the heart of Ada's art practice is: How can algorithms be used to understand and challenge experiences of gender and bodies in novel ways?
She combines data, theory and computation to view human experience through new lenses and perspectives.
Her work often deals directly with societal struggles, concerns and politics, for example through data visualization or performative engagements, and her identity as a trans woman often informs the work she does.
Ada's works have been exhibited in Copenhagen, New York, Paris, Valencia, Berlin and more.
She is awkward, complex, and has a quirk to her expression. Residing and working in Johannesburg, South Africa and the cyber village called the Internet. Natalie Paneng is a new media artist using installation and digital magic to birth new worlds and surrealist narratives in which she performs. Natalie Paneng (b.1996) received her BA Honours in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand in 2018 and was awarded the Humanities Leon Gluckman Prize for the best piece of creative work.
Paneng makes use of both her self-taught digital skills and theatre background to create multidisciplinary digital art/new media art. Through her work, Paneng investigates the role of the alternative black woman within warping narratives, using herself as a medium to prompt others to explore their own internal surrealist worlds.
Through her work, she normalises this plane of existence while offering the viewer the chance to enter into her dreams, her thoughts and her digital mind- describing herself as a worldbuilder, Paneng sees her growing practice as a way to navigate and share these realities through digital artistic process.
Phyllis Akinyi (she/her) is a Danish-Kenyan dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and dance researcher. She works within the realm of flamenco and has spent many years researching and highlighting its African and diasporic expressions. Her artistic practice centers a continuous investigation of the ‘betwixt and between’ - researching entanglements of movement, culture, and identity, from an anthropological lens of bodies caught in cultural ‘in-betweens’.
Akinyi plays with stretching the (imagined) limitations of flamenco, both in time, space, sound and movement, often taking flamenco on a journey away from the traditional stage and into a site-specific and/or durational performance frame - a frame she calls Spatial Listening, where flamenco meets performance art, Africanist Spirituality, and sonic movement.
Her work is represented on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in various forms; performance, teaching, lectures, and lab sessions, and her interdisciplinary approach has lead her to wear many hats - currently including; artistic director of Diasporic Dimensions - a dance/performance association, co-editor of the anthology trilogy ‘Afro-Nordic Perspectives on Performance’, and artist council for Copenhagen based artist residency HAUT.
Akinyi lives between Madrid and Copenhagen.
Link:
Phyllis Akinyi @ Phyllisakinyi.com
Meet Dalin Waldo, Your Local Electricity Witch!
Esoteric engineer & co-founder of Nægtularism. Expert in elliptic engineering, crafting intuitive synthesizers. Designer of The Ethermorphic FM Analyzer & ENNER synthesizer, turning operators into Emotional Machine Activators! Passionate about challenging concert norms, creating spaces where the audience is fully present, without the distraction of beer. Join for a journey into the aesthetic electricity.
Xenia Xamanek is a multidisciplinary artist and musician currently based in Copenhagen. They hold a BA in electronic composition from DIEM, Aarhus.
With their distinct approach and eternal curiosity Xenia Xamanek has created a wide-ranging artistic universe in constant transformation. Xenia Xamanek's music productions, as well as their live performances, installation work and DJ sets, welcomes an unpredictable mixture of sounds and expressions which with its volatile aesthetic and shifting emotions evokes new touching worlds.
With a drive for dissolving systems and merging into presence, while having a fierce eye towards future worlds and a strong connection to the past, Xenia Xamanek’s Danish/Honduran/Nicaraguan ancestry and personal POV remains a structure which guides the fluid and always unpredictable stylistic trajectories.
Xenia’s recent work has been revolving around themes such as the voice separated from the body, the paranormal, emotional landscapes, longing and (non)belonging among other things.
Devising connectivity the Copenhagen-based artist has been involved in numerous collaborations focusing on site-specific sound art, audiovisual performances and much more, as well as being one of the founders of the music platform and label UUMPHFF music.
Suziethecockroach is a Brazilian-born and Copenhagen-based DJ and interdisciplinary artist. Suzie works at the intersection of writing, music, and movement; and has spent the past couple of years developing a language that encompasses all these practices into a hybrid of interactive performances and embodied prose. Her debut novel titled “Figure 8” is set to be published in 2024. She is currently taking a Bachelor in English Literature at the University of Copenhagen.
Samara Sallam, a stateless Palestinian born in Damascus in 1991, has trained as a visual artist, journalist, and hypnotherapist. Through multi-layered narratives, Sallam investigates the social, cultural, and political intersections of language, body, and psyche.
Sallam holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and BA from the Funen Art Academy. Furthermore, Sallam has studied visual arts at L’école Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Algeria and journalism at Damascus University in Syria.
Documentary Director, National Film School of Denmark.
From short films released online, to cinematic experiences, to exhibitions, to collaborations with performance artists, my artistic practice crosses multiple artforms.
All my work, regardless of format, revolves around the right to dream.
Felis Dos, a self-taught visual artist hailing from the Brazilian countryside, draws profound inspiration from his upbringing rich in faith, working-class consciousness, and spirituality. His artistic journey is a compelling exploration of destruction, uncertainty, and discomfort—a passionate endeavor to challenge entrenched narratives. Felis's visual language is characterized by vivid imagery and symbolism, creating a powerful and universal dialogue that transcends the limitations of spoken or written words, resonating deeply with thehuman soul. Felis graduated with degrees in Philosophy and Logistics in Brazil and has called Silkeborg, Denmark, home since 2018.
My name is Andrea Hansine Dyekjær (born 1999), I'm a performance artist and anthropology student from Copenhagen. I see the way I am working with ideas and materials as an extension of my anthropological studies at the University of Copenhagen. In my artistic practice, my wondering about the social world that people inhabit becomes a practical and material investigation - anthropology in action.
Incorporating elements of improv and comedy, my work is influenced by my experiences in satire and absurdity, notably through collaboration with comedian Eva Jin on a satire podcast about a karate club, which is currently in production.
As a member of the newly formed performance group “Havarikommissionen,” with Simone Aaberg Kærn and Kim Lykke, I engage in the examination of crashes within the art realm. Our work incorporates elements of humor, weaving in misunderstandings and voids. This approach will be reflected in our first performance at the Danish Heartland Festival in June.
I am motivated by the potential of making artworks with impact on our social lives, and how the creation of an artwork can be an intervention or an act of activism.
Damien McDuffie is a creative technologist, digital archivist, and developer primarily concerned with augmented reality (AR) art experiences. He uses Black family and historic visual archives to make collage art and tell stories of neighborhood histories hidden in plain view. Influenced by Dr. Huey P. Newton’s treatise on "Technology Question," he developed an augmented reality camera app and platform for Black archives and culture called Black Terminus AR. By way of Into the Archives, his on-going gallery exhibition series, he uses photo collage and augmented reality to extend still photos from his personal family archive and artwork into a new dimension. Each archival/art piece is taken from the family archival collections of a range of disparate family members and showcased as open-air museums of historic Black neighborhoods. His mission is to keep redlining out of the metaverse by developing and inspiring the next generation of Black creative technologists to use personal archives and still photography as a way into creative tech.
Meghna Singh is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of art and technology. Her work focuses on themes of migration, transnationalism & critical mobilities, immersive experiences within public art and the decolonization of the digital space. Working with video installation, sculpture and XR, blurring boundaries between documentary and fiction she creates immersive environments highlighting issues of ‘humanism’ through the tool of the imaginary. Her interest lies in creating public art installations that activate spaces while highlighting colonial and capitalist legacies within urban cityscapes. Meghna is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Communication & Culture at Aarhus University Denmark from 2023 to 2025. She is a fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab (2023-2025). She is a National Geographic Explorer and a fellow at the Creative Knowledge Resources, a platform for creative pedagogy and social engagement art in Africa and its diaspora. Singh co-directed Container: Witness the Invisibilised with filmmaker Simon Wood. Container has been shown at the International Venice Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Kaohsiung Film Festival, Beijing, and the Luxembourg film festival. It became the first VR film to be invited by the Nobel Prize Society to screen at the Nobel Week Dialogue in Gothenburg 2021.
Tamara Shogaolu is an international director and new media artist focused on sharing intersectional stories across mediums, platforms, and virtual and physical spaces in order to promote cross-cultural understanding and challenge preconceptions. Shogaolu is the founder and creative director of Ado Ato Pictures. She is an international director and new media artist with a track record in featuring her work at film festivals, galleries, and museums worldwide, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Indonesia. Her innovative approach to storytelling has led to sources like The Guardian and Vogue Magazine naming her a leader in the field of new and immersive media. She is a 2018 Sundance Institute New Frontier Lab Programs Fellow and a 2019 Gouden Kalf Nominee. Shogaolu is an artist interested in pushing herself and others around her outside the boundaries of traditional storytelling. She strives to share stories across mediums, platforms, and virtual and physical spaces in order to promote cross-cultural understanding and challenge preconceptions.
Kristoffer Ørum (b. Copenhagen, 1975) is an interdisciplinary system that has produced a long series of demonstrations, acts of wilful misunderstanding and weird transmissions both in and outside of the Technosphere. Based in a basement, he works in the intersection between daily life and speculative digital histories. He holds dual degrees from Technosmiths College in London and the Royal Danish Academy of Speculative Arts in Copenhagen. He believes that all artists’ biographies are works of fiction and should be read as such.
Sahar Sajadieh is a computational performance artivist (artist + activist) and theorist. She is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts with a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Sahar graduated with a dual BSc–BA degree in Computer Science and Theater from the University of British Columbia and received her Master’s Degree from the Performance Studies program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She was previously an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University.
Sahar’s research lies at the intersection of computational arts, artificial intelligence, social justice-oriented design, and performance/media theory. She is interested in the creative and critical applications of natural language processing, machine learning, extended reality, and robotics as means of storytelling, poetic expression, and social intervention. For Sahar, art practice is a form of activism, a way to challenge the public’s comfort zone and provoke dialogues about difficult, unspoken issues in society. Her research focuses on making interactive technologies and artificial intelligence more alive and their societal applications more ethical.
Ada Ada Ada is an algorithmic artist, who works within an intersectional eco-feminist framework.
She works with gender, queerness and bodies as perceived by computers through algorithms, software, "artificial intelligence" and more.
Ada moves between art forms, and so far, her practice has included performative photography, generative art, net art, writing, interactive installations as well as live "artificial intelligence" performance.
The question at the heart of Ada's art practice is: How can algorithms be used to understand and challenge experiences of gender and bodies in novel ways?
She combines data, theory and computation to view human experience through new lenses and perspectives.
Her work often deals directly with societal struggles, concerns and politics, for example through data visualization or performative engagements, and her identity as a trans woman often informs the work she does.
Ada's works have been exhibited in Copenhagen, New York, Paris, Valencia, Berlin and more.
She is awkward, complex, and has a quirk to her expression. Residing and working in Johannesburg, South Africa and the cyber village called the Internet. Natalie Paneng is a new media artist using installation and digital magic to birth new worlds and surrealist narratives in which she performs. Natalie Paneng (b.1996) received her BA Honours in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand in 2018 and was awarded the Humanities Leon Gluckman Prize for the best piece of creative work.
Paneng makes use of both her self-taught digital skills and theatre background to create multidisciplinary digital art/new media art. Through her work, Paneng investigates the role of the alternative black woman within warping narratives, using herself as a medium to prompt others to explore their own internal surrealist worlds.
Through her work, she normalises this plane of existence while offering the viewer the chance to enter into her dreams, her thoughts and her digital mind- describing herself as a worldbuilder, Paneng sees her growing practice as a way to navigate and share these realities through digital artistic process.
Phyllis Akinyi (she/her) is a Danish-Kenyan dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and dance researcher. She works within the realm of flamenco and has spent many years researching and highlighting its African and diasporic expressions. Her artistic practice centers a continuous investigation of the ‘betwixt and between’ - researching entanglements of movement, culture, and identity, from an anthropological lens of bodies caught in cultural ‘in-betweens’.
Akinyi plays with stretching the (imagined) limitations of flamenco, both in time, space, sound and movement, often taking flamenco on a journey away from the traditional stage and into a site-specific and/or durational performance frame - a frame she calls Spatial Listening, where flamenco meets performance art, Africanist Spirituality, and sonic movement.
Her work is represented on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in various forms; performance, teaching, lectures, and lab sessions, and her interdisciplinary approach has lead her to wear many hats - currently including; artistic director of Diasporic Dimensions - a dance/performance association, co-editor of the anthology trilogy ‘Afro-Nordic Perspectives on Performance’, and artist council for Copenhagen based artist residency HAUT.
Akinyi lives between Madrid and Copenhagen.
Link:
Phyllis Akinyi @ Phyllisakinyi.com
Meet Dalin Waldo, Your Local Electricity Witch!
Esoteric engineer & co-founder of Nægtularism. Expert in elliptic engineering, crafting intuitive synthesizers. Designer of The Ethermorphic FM Analyzer & ENNER synthesizer, turning operators into Emotional Machine Activators! Passionate about challenging concert norms, creating spaces where the audience is fully present, without the distraction of beer. Join for a journey into the aesthetic electricity.
Xenia Xamanek is a multidisciplinary artist and musician currently based in Copenhagen. They hold a BA in electronic composition from DIEM, Aarhus.
With their distinct approach and eternal curiosity Xenia Xamanek has created a wide-ranging artistic universe in constant transformation. Xenia Xamanek's music productions, as well as their live performances, installation work and DJ sets, welcomes an unpredictable mixture of sounds and expressions which with its volatile aesthetic and shifting emotions evokes new touching worlds.
With a drive for dissolving systems and merging into presence, while having a fierce eye towards future worlds and a strong connection to the past, Xenia Xamanek’s Danish/Honduran/Nicaraguan ancestry and personal POV remains a structure which guides the fluid and always unpredictable stylistic trajectories.
Xenia’s recent work has been revolving around themes such as the voice separated from the body, the paranormal, emotional landscapes, longing and (non)belonging among other things.
Devising connectivity the Copenhagen-based artist has been involved in numerous collaborations focusing on site-specific sound art, audiovisual performances and much more, as well as being one of the founders of the music platform and label UUMPHFF music.
Suziethecockroach is a Brazilian-born and Copenhagen-based DJ and interdisciplinary artist. Suzie works at the intersection of writing, music, and movement; and has spent the past couple of years developing a language that encompasses all these practices into a hybrid of interactive performances and embodied prose. Her debut novel titled “Figure 8” is set to be published in 2024. She is currently taking a Bachelor in English Literature at the University of Copenhagen.
Samara Sallam, a stateless Palestinian born in Damascus in 1991, has trained as a visual artist, journalist, and hypnotherapist. Through multi-layered narratives, Sallam investigates the social, cultural, and political intersections of language, body, and psyche.
Sallam holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and BA from the Funen Art Academy. Furthermore, Sallam has studied visual arts at L’école Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Algeria and journalism at Damascus University in Syria.
Documentary Director, National Film School of Denmark.
From short films released online, to cinematic experiences, to exhibitions, to collaborations with performance artists, my artistic practice crosses multiple artforms.
All my work, regardless of format, revolves around the right to dream.
Felis Dos, a self-taught visual artist hailing from the Brazilian countryside, draws profound inspiration from his upbringing rich in faith, working-class consciousness, and spirituality. His artistic journey is a compelling exploration of destruction, uncertainty, and discomfort—a passionate endeavor to challenge entrenched narratives. Felis's visual language is characterized by vivid imagery and symbolism, creating a powerful and universal dialogue that transcends the limitations of spoken or written words, resonating deeply with thehuman soul. Felis graduated with degrees in Philosophy and Logistics in Brazil and has called Silkeborg, Denmark, home since 2018.
My name is Andrea Hansine Dyekjær (born 1999), I'm a performance artist and anthropology student from Copenhagen. I see the way I am working with ideas and materials as an extension of my anthropological studies at the University of Copenhagen. In my artistic practice, my wondering about the social world that people inhabit becomes a practical and material investigation - anthropology in action.
Incorporating elements of improv and comedy, my work is influenced by my experiences in satire and absurdity, notably through collaboration with comedian Eva Jin on a satire podcast about a karate club, which is currently in production.
As a member of the newly formed performance group “Havarikommissionen,” with Simone Aaberg Kærn and Kim Lykke, I engage in the examination of crashes within the art realm. Our work incorporates elements of humor, weaving in misunderstandings and voids. This approach will be reflected in our first performance at the Danish Heartland Festival in June.
I am motivated by the potential of making artworks with impact on our social lives, and how the creation of an artwork can be an intervention or an act of activism.
Contact: Britta Timm Knudsen (norbtk@cc.au.dk)
Institute for Communication and Culture, ARTS, Aarhus University
Grant info: AUFF NOVA Grant 1.6. 2023 – 31.12.2025 (2.489.900 DKK)
Bevillingsnummer: AUFF-E-2022-9-7
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