In 2018, I was invited to present my sound art projects at the annual Design Indaba conference in Cape Town in front of an auditorium of 1500 people. I discussed the inspiration and motivation behind my sound machines, highlighting the necessity to create open-source projects that contested public space by using sound.
The full video of the presentation can be seen below.
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Photo: Colin Gwesu.
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Photo: Colin Gwesu.
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'Global Grads' from left to right: Iwo Borkowicz, Shaakira Jassat, Amna Elshandaweely, Peter Veenstra, Ravi Naidoo, Tomo Kihara, Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, Aleksandra Gosiewski, and Renata Souza. Photo: Colin Gwesu.
Acknowledgments: Design Indaba, Ravi Naidoo, Neo Maditla, Juanita Ferreira, Tina Breidi, Niel De Waal Meiring, Colin Gwesu, Robyn Pretorius, Ibteshaam Valley, Stefan Benade, Lauren Fletcher, James Webb, Unathi Mkonto, Francis Burger.