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Interactive projection = Power LED - Language processing. Sepedi letters appear when you move and the letters not in the language (c,y,x,z) repeatively in places. Where there is not. The power led is indication of a functioning circut so you the current are here.
O GONA
javacsript code, projecter, camera
16:9
2025
Le kae? RE GONA
handmade paper, joko tea, mesh fabric,wire, photographic montage, acetate sheets, projection mapping, shells, tortoise shells, seawater bottles, USB cables, fabric prints, construction metal, laptops, net, code (Processing), motion sensor, video, projector, print on glossy paper, wood, cd's
2025
An Arduino circuit board requires all its components to connect and function together. No part works in isolation, and current must flow through a specific pathway to complete the circuit. This work applies that logic to understanding the communities around me and knowledge systems they offer. Bare motho ke motho ka batho. Just as an Arduino needs each component connected to work, community requires interconnection between all elements.
YOU the viewer enter not as an observer but as electrical current (I) itself, moving through voltage (V) and encountering resistance (R). As you walk through the space, you embody Ohm's Law: I = V/R. The works hold voltage—cultural power as potential energy. The space creates resistance: your body must move between elements, trigger sensors, touch surfaces. Conceptually, resistance emerges in the friction between colonial cartography and community maps, between Arduino terminology and shells, between languages that may require decoding. This friction is necessary—without it, meaning short-circuits. The Setlokwa greeting "Le kae?" where are they/you, pulses through the exhibition. Without your movement nothing activates. The body completes the circuit. Through interacting with the space.
This work challenges the binary between "traditional" and "modern" technology by positioning shells, handmade joko paper, language, and maps as knowledge circuits that have always existed with their own logic and flow. They are not primitive precursors to "real" technology; they ARE technology, operating as interconnected systems where meaning emerges through relationship and movement. You are the current, the works are voltage potentials, and the space creates resistance that generates meaning. Break one connection, and the entire system fails.
Re Gona…Re batho ka batho
An Arduino circuit board requires all its components to connect and function together. No part works in isolation, and current must flow through a specific pathway to complete the circuit. This work applies that logic to understanding the communities around me and knowledge systems they offer. Bare motho ke motho ka batho. Just as an Arduino needs each component connected to work, community requires interconnection between all elements.
YOU the viewer enter not as an observer but as electrical current (I) itself, moving through voltage (V) and encountering resistance (R). As you walk through the space, you embody Ohm's Law: I = V/R. The works hold voltage—cultural power as potential energy. The space creates resistance: your body must move between elements, trigger sensors, touch surfaces. Conceptually, resistance emerges in the friction between colonial cartography and community maps, between Arduino terminology and shells, between languages that may require decoding. This friction is necessary—without it, meaning short-circuits. The Setlokwa greeting "Le kae?" where are they/you, pulses through the exhibition. Without your movement nothing activates. The body completes the circuit. Through interacting with the space.
This work challenges the binary between "traditional" and "modern" technology by positioning shells, handmade joko paper, language, and maps as knowledge circuits that have always existed with their own logic and flow. They are not primitive precursors to "real" technology; they ARE technology, operating as interconnected systems where meaning emerges through relationship and movement. You are the current, the works are voltage potentials, and the space creates resistance that generates meaning. Break one connection, and the entire system fails.
Re Gona…Re batho ka batho
An Arduino circuit board requires all its components to connect and function together. No part works in isolation, and current must flow through a specific pathway to complete the circuit. This work applies that logic to understanding the communities around me and knowledge systems they offer. Bare motho ke motho ka batho. Just as an Arduino needs each component connected to work, community requires interconnection between all elements.
YOU the viewer enter not as an observer but as electrical current (I) itself, moving through voltage (V) and encountering resistance (R). As you walk through the space, you embody Ohm's Law: I = V/R. The works hold voltage—cultural power as potential energy. The space creates resistance: your body must move between elements, trigger sensors, touch surfaces. Conceptually, resistance emerges in the friction between colonial cartography and community maps, between Arduino terminology and shells, between languages that may require decoding. This friction is necessary—without it, meaning short-circuits. The Setlokwa greeting "Le kae?" where are they/you, pulses through the exhibition. Without your movement nothing activates. The body completes the circuit. Through interacting with the space.
This work challenges the binary between "traditional" and "modern" technology by positioning shells, handmade joko paper, language, and maps as knowledge circuits that have always existed with their own logic and flow. They are not primitive precursors to "real" technology; they ARE technology, operating as interconnected systems where meaning emerges through relationship and movement. You are the current, the works are voltage potentials, and the space creates resistance that generates meaning. Break one connection, and the entire system fails.
Re Gona…Re batho ka batho
