Fak’ugesi 2018 and Zimbabwean Residents at ‘Digital Imaginaries: Africas in...
Fak’ugesi Festival is excited to announce that outcomes from the 2018 Festival and collaboration with the Wits Art Museum will be shown on Digital Imaginaries: Africas in Production at the ZKM (Centre...
View ArticleSource Code Gallery Launching
Source Code Gallery curated by Fak’ugesi Festival and hosted by the Tshimologong Innovation Precinct is a digital arts and creative technology showcase and development gallery. Their temporary location...
View Article2019 Call for Illustrators Open!
We are ready for Fak’ugesi Festival 2019, and kicking it off in a search for talent! Are you are illustrator, graphic designer or animator and think you can be the 2019 Official Fak’ugesi Illustrator?...
View Article2 X ARTS RESIDENCIES @ FAK’UGESI 2019 – APPLY NOW
We are super excited to announce two residencies at Fak’ugesi Festival this year. Apply before 1 July 2019. Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Residency: Is our annual one month digital arts residency In...
View Article2019 Poster Illustration Finalists and Winner – Leigh Le Roux!
We are super delighted to reveal from almost 40 submissions the following runners up and winning work for the 2019 Fak’ugesi Festival Poster Illustration contest – OWN YOUR FORCE ! It was very very...
View ArticleCultural Economies Forum – 4th July 2019
We invite you to join our Cultural Economies Forum, which will take place on Thursday 4 July, at the Goethe-Institut. Presented in association with Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival,...
View ArticleSave the Date – 2019 Program
From 30 August to 8 September 2019 the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival will return to Johannesburg to explore and celebrate technology and creativity by Africans for Africa. The 2019...
View Article2019 FAK’UGESI & ANIMATION SA CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
AnimationSA is proud to announce the call out for a short film screening taking place at Fakugesi digital festival in September 2019 during the Cultural economies conference. The screening call is for...
View Article2019 FAK’UGESI ARCADE: CALL FOR GAMES
Fak’ugesi Arcade: Exhibition Open Call An open call for submissions to the Fak’ugesi Arcade Exhibition during Fak’ugesi Festival 2019. This exhibition will be open to the public during the festival and...
View ArticleJOIN THE INTERNET YAMI-ICHI @ FAK’UGESI 2019
From meme-cookies, gifs and bracelets made of hard drive cables, to 3-D prints of your bestie and scratch cards that promise a prize of 25,000 Twitter followers; such treasures can be found at Internet...
View ArticleBlockchain Hack-a-thon for Creative Industries
Blockchain coder, legal expert, crypto obsessor or work in the creative & cultural industries? Sign up to develop solutions for the media & creative industry. AnimationSA and Fak’ugesi African...
View ArticleCultural Economies Digital Innovation Conference at Fak’ugesi African Digital...
A Cultural Economies Conference will take place on 5 and 6 September 2019, presented by the Goethe-Institut South Africa in Johannesburg’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct, as part of the...
View ArticleDigital makers invited to ‘Own Your Force’ as Fak’ugesi African Digital...
Cross-sector digital creative technology at 2019 Fak’ugesi Festival – Africa’s best creative digital workshops, talks, pitches and digital art exhibitions From 30 August to 8 September 2019 the...
View ArticleWinners of the Blockchain for Creative Industries Hackathon 2019!
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Blockchain for Creative Industries Hackathon Winners from 2019 Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival! The Blockchain for Creative Industries...
View Article2019 Games Research Round Table
The Game Research Roundtable brought together at the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival in Johannesburg, researchers working in Southern and Eastern Africa to give insights from their work...
View ArticleBlockchain for the Creative Industries
Outcomes of the 2019 Fak’ugesi Festival Blockachain for the Creative Industries Hackathon and Panel Discussion. The Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival commissioned CoinEd, an education...
View ArticleFak’ugesi Arcade: Futures and Networking
Fak’ugesi Arcade is a branch of The Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival, which has a focus on game development locally and internationally. It aims to promote, sustain and grow the game...
View ArticleCall for Projects – Digital lab Africa #4
Out partner at Tshimologong, Digital Lab Africa is calling all African creatives to submit their projects in animation, video game, digital art, immersive realities and music. Creatives and cultural...
View ArticlePartner Project – Masidlale Fak’ugesi Arcade Box
Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival and Masidlale in Soweto South Africa aim to expose people within Southern Africa to locally and regionally made games. The Arcade Box project was initially...
View ArticleOpen Call – CairoTronica
Our amazing African-Sister Festival in Egypt in Cairo – Cairotronica has an Open Call for work in the theme of Data Fictions. Applications in both English and Arabic are accepted. Cairotronica –...
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