Novembre Numérique 2025 - Redefining Reality
11 - 29 November 2025 at Alliance Française Nairobi, Kenya
Paula Karanja, Kevin Karanja (Atroklept), Natasha Khanyola, Leon Malu, Shadrack Munene, Ellie Obati ‘Kidd Volt’, Joanne Oluoch, Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt
Redefining Reality is a group exhibition of audiovisual and experimental immersive digital art, curated as part of the international annual Novembre Numérique (Digital Cultures Festival).
Latent Mirror is an interactive, immersive experience that serves as a modern optical toy, inviting you to play with your own reflection through the lens of machine intelligence. You will get a conceptual version of the image that’s deeply tied to the model’s training data. The latent connects what it “sees” in the image to what it has “learned” over millions of examples, compressing visual content into a format that’s fast to process and rich with possibilities.
Created by Paula Karanja, Kevin Karanja (Atroklept) and Natasha Khanyola.
PNGS Only!
29th October 2022 at iHub Senteu Plaza, Nairobi, Kenya
Paula Karanja, Felix Attari, Michelle Pike and Joshua Mwavita
PNG Only! is an initiative that provides digital artists with a platform to connect and learn from one another, as well as showcase their work in Augmented Reality. A Fallohide Africa and iHub effort.
This first initiative took the form of a 4-week boot camp where 4 digital artists would come to get training on how to incorporate augmented reality into their digital work. Spearheaded by Fallohide Africa, an Extended Reality Creative Studio, the inaugural cohort received training on how to adapt their artworks for Augmented Reality.
Zandra Rhodes Gallery, UCA, Rochester, in 2016
Michael Joseph Art Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, in 2016
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, in 2017
Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, in 2018
MASK artists (Kenya): Paula Karanja, Churchill Ongere, Fahima Munene, Edwin Wainaina, Samson Lazima Jali, Louis Tamlyn, Alan Kiptoo and Shela Foster
UCA animators: Emily Clarkson, Steven Payne, Samantha Niemczyk, Ethan Shilling, Vikki Kerslake and Nat Urwin.
In 2015, eight winners of the MASK Awards 2015 from Kenya collaborated virtually with six animation graduates from the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Rochester, UK, on an innovative project titled ‘Transformation/Mabadiliko’, transforming seven traditional artworks —including paintings, drawings and installations—into dynamic animations, shifting the focus from static art to interactive, immersive learning experiences