Chidumaga Uzoma Orji is an indigenous futurist, visual and experiential artist and creative technologist. His work is concerned with unpacking post-colonial crises of identity, fuelling imagination in service of progressive African futures, and conceptualising a digital ethos for the 21st century that is reflective of ancestral technological modalities, all with a view to contributing to a liberated, free and healed African psyche. He is the creative director of uzoma.studio, a creative technology studio and dream lab dedicated to birthing tools, platforms and spaces that pave the way to an embodied digital future.
Read More...
Exhibitions
2023 - Akademie Schloss Solitude: Magical Hackerism residency
Achebe's Internet
2021 - 1927 Art Space: Borders, Borderlands, Crossings
Passport Mathematics
2021 - Here, There, Everywhere / Format Festival 2021
Welcome to Instaland
2020 - CultureHub ReFest
The Baptism of an Igbo Man VR Installation
2019 - Naija Tech Creatives/Abuja Art Week 2019
The Baptism of an Igbo Man Immersive VR Experience
2019 - Lagos Photo Festival
The Baptism of an Igbo Man
2018 - CSM Open Dialogue: Artists + Designers of Afro-Carribean Descent
YOU ARE THE SOUL OF A NATION
Residencies and Fellowships
February 2023 - February 2024
Prince Claus Fund Building Beyond Mentorship Program
Nigeria of my Dreams
February 2023 - April 2023
Farfara 2031
Dreaming Farfara
December 2022 - June 2023
Magical Hackerism Web Residency
Achebe's Internet
April 2022 - April 2022
Format/Derby QUAD/ Here, There, Everywhere: The New Vernacular
Welcome to Instaland
September 2020 - October 2020
Guest Projects Digital
Graveyard of Ideas
October 2020 - July 2021
Digital Earth
Untitled
Speaking Engagements & Press
PerForm Open Academy: Arts + Activations - Intentional Dreaming: A Strategy for Worldmaking
TEDx Wuse - The Ancestral Internet: Dreaming Decolonial Futures in the Digital Age
Akademie Solitude: Solitude Blog - Putting the Love into Networked Systems
Killscreen - Uzoma Orji: The Spiritual Undertones of Virtual Reality
A'naala Blog - Uzoma Orji: Swimming in the Divide (pt. 1)
ALA Blog - Uzoma Chidumaga Orji ’12 Uses Art and Technology to Explore Identities and African Realities