HUMA Intro

From March 2021 – February 2023 I was a research fellow on the project ‘Future Hospitals: 4IR and Ethics of Care in Africa‘ at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, I was part of a team investigating the impact of emerging technologies on healthcare in Africa. This research related to my creative work with technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), 3D printing and CNC processes, and interactive electronics (particularly through my projects African Robots and SPACECRAFT). My research culminated in an exhibition, AIAIA – Aesthetic Interventions in Artificial Intelligence in Africa, with the project Bone Flute at its centre – a collaboration with a surgeon and a musician to make a flute from a 3D-printed replica of my femur, obtained through medical scan at a public hospital. Posts related to my research at HUMA are below. For more posts and ways to navigate them, go to my Journal.