African Robots
Anthropophagic Octopus식인낙지 From 22 May – 30 June 2019, African Robots lead artist Ralph Borland was on an art residency at the Asia Culture Centre in Gwangju, South Korea, with support from Business and Arts South Africa, making work for exhibition at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2019.
Dubship I – Black Starliner (2019) This project, a collaboration between African Robots and our sister project SPACECRAFT, was created in 2019 with funding from the National Arts Council of South Africa, and exhibited in the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town, South Africa, as part of the exhibition Still Here Tomorrow… from […]
AfroBots Exhibition Starling 1.2 was exhibited on the show AfroBots at the Natural History Museum in Kigali in 2016 as part of a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum London and Rwandan National Museums, under the project AfriDesignX (this was one of a few collaborations between African Robots and AfriDesignX). We were honoured to […]
Vitra Design Museum As part of our association with Maker Library Network via our friends at Thingking, we were invited to make a second Starling for their Maker Library Network exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany in 2015. So was born Starling 1.1, which uses a hacked pirate iPod to play back a […]
Our first African Robots workshop! In late April 2015, African Robots, with a grant from Pro Helvetia’s Ant Funding programme for cross-border collaboration, ran a series of workshops at HIFA2015, the International Festival of the Arts in Harare.