Chinedum Muotto’s digital and AI-driven practice explores the intersections of technology, ancestry, and imagination—where data becomes a medium of memory and restitution. Through generative systems, algorithmic storytelling, and speculative design, they reimagine African futures rooted in care, ecology, and radical possibility. Their works operate as living interfaces between art, code, and consciousness, revealing the spiritual and political textures of our algorithmic age.
This body of work emerges from the intersection of justice, gender, and geography. Across these scenes, Nigerian women—Igbo, Ogoni, Hausa, Kanuri, and Fulani—are not symbolic figures; they are engineers of renewal. Their hands command both ancestral codes and emerging technologies. Created as part of the Reimagining Hope residency 2025 co-hosted by the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy and MADhouse by Tikera Africa. It now sites as part of the NIgerian National Collection.
I, Congo
AI is my quarry and Congo is no object: these images mine the algorithmic gaze itself, where children, machines, and minerals are rendered as “resources” in a world built on extraction. By collaging storm-pits, robot overseers, and a classroom turned worksite, the series asks who profits from cobalt dreams and how data quietly inherits colonial infrastructure—while sketching counter-myths of learning, kinship, and refusal. Not reportage but propositions, the works try to convert ore into memory and surveillance into witness, prototyping futures in which Congolese children author the technologies made from their ground.
This Skin of Mine - AI Generated
This Skin of Mine confronts the algorithmic and medical erasure of Black skin within histories of epidemiology and visual documentation. Using AI as both mirror and microscope, the work fabricates portraits that exaggerate pathology to expose how scientific and aesthetic gazes have long misread melanin. Between beauty and discomfort, these images ask what it means to render healing when technology itself has learned to see Blackness as disease.
Dark Matta - AI Generated
Dark Matta emerges from an early dialogue between machine imagination and ancestral knowing, where darkness is not absence but origin. Through spectral landscapes and silhouettes in communion with molten terrains, the work meditates on the unseen forces—spiritual, geological, and historical—that bind Black bodies to the earth’s deep memory. These AI renderings become acts of return, imagining dark matter as both cosmic lineage and a ground from which new futures might grow.
War - AI GENERATED
War visualizes the algorithmic theatre of modern conflict—where drones, surveillance, and propaganda merge into a new architecture of control. Set beneath the cold light of an artificial moon, the work reimagines warfare not as distant spectacle but as a lived algorithm—coded, automated, and omnipresent. Through these AI renderings, Chinedum Muotto exposes the eerie symmetry between peacekeeping and domination, asking what becomes of humanity when technology learns to enforce obedience.
Augmented Reality
Wet Floor – Wet Floor is an augmented reality performance that reanimates the ubiquitous caution sign as a stage for postcolonial bodies slipping between visibility and erasure. Through the Bepart app, the viewer’s device becomes both witness and accomplice, revealing an unseen choreography of labor, exhaustion, and resilience embedded in public space. Blurring satire and survival, the work exposes how caution becomes spectacle, and how the body—forever cleaning, falling, rising—remains the unseen infrastructure of the world.
Performance Guide
Download Bepart on your mobile device/tablet Android click here. IOS click here
Once downloaded and installed, open the Bepart app on your device, depending on the location of the (Wet Floor marker), allow sufficient distance and use the camera function through the Bepart app to scan the Wet Floor image and enjoy the show.