Vulane Mthembu - /divide by zero research
Founder of /divide by zero research. Guest Editor for the University of Stellenbosch’s Africa Open Institut for Music, Research and Innovation HERRI journal AI in Africa segment. Jury member for the Loeries, AI2Amplify Global Fellowship and Art+Computation Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V and Zentrum für Kunst und Medien TAMING AI speaker as well as NAO Robots in Residence programming coordinator.
Former Vice-President for KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts contemporary art gallery. Innovation and Gamebox Curator for Sub-Saharan Africa: Goethe-Institut e.V. University of KwaZulu-Natal Web and Technical Projects Head. Former Information Technology educator. Panellist for A MAZE. Berlin - International Games and Playful Media Festival. Co-created the first room store with Apple for the Durban International Film Festival. Collaborated with SpielFabrique and Ubisoft in the African Game Development Studio Mapping project.
The Machine Speaks
We are ancestors in our lifetime – AI and African data, AI can either reduce or reinforce societal stratification if the data is skewed and inaccurate. Despite Africa being at the forefront of this revolution in terms of innovation and current work done in this field, cognitive bias imbued by the creators and Big Tech still influence the models immensely. We’ll share some of the work of African technologists, researchers, scientists and artists while asking the big questions.
