Publication/Creation Date

February 2 2023

Creators/Contributors

Serwah Attafuah (creator)
Matt Hermans (contributor)

Description

"The idea of living within a metaverse isn't new for Serwah Attafuah. The cyber world has long been a refuge and a place of experimentation for her. In this talk, which she delivers simultaneously from within a digital landscape and live on stage, Serwah shares how online places provide a place to exist and shape her identity. As metaverses become a more common part of our cyber reality, Serwah argues that we shouldn't rely on others making the online worlds we'll inhabit but seek to create our own as acts of creative, cultural and individual expression. Serwah Attafuah is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based on Dharug land/ Western Sydney, Australia. She creates surreal cyber dreamscapes and heavenly wastelands, populated by afro-futuristic abstractions of self with strong ancestral and contemporary themes."

She states, "I realize that having to create a digital space in order to feel safe and free was an unintentional, massive political statement in and of itself. I realized that a metaverse should be governed by the person who owns it. Perhaps unlike the real world, the metaverse can't be colonized".

Related Body Part

Entire Body, Eye

Augments

Expressing, Experimenting, Exploring, Seeing, Moving, Creating, Imagining

Technology Keywords

Digital Landscapes, Virtual Worlds, Motion Capture, Sensors, Smartphones, Virtual Reality (VR), Hand Tracking, Data Gloves

Keywords

Artists , Art, Creativity, Identity, Afro-Futurism, Futurism, Culture, Mental Health, Agoraphobia, Fashion, Music , Do It Yourself (DIY), Politics, Black People, Colonialism, Decolonization

Marketing Keywords

Metaverse, Manus, Apotheosis, TED Talks, TEDxSydney

Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R-QNzzFH7A