"I wanted to create narrative portraits of the uncertainty in the nervous system of a global digital machine at the brink of collapse — an imprint of our Digital Earth in this critical moment."
Through his work, Francois Knoetze challenges the status of ‘progress’ and ‘mechanisation’ as solely Western notions while reiterating the historical and current contribution of Africa to technological developments, both materially and not.
An essay by Heba Y. Amin: A Universal View From Nowhere: Tracing the Boundaries of Digital Space