Art from the Digital Tribes

Kanchan G Burathoki

With only five works on show, The Digital Tribe is a quiet art experience at the Siddhartha Art Gallery. The silence and emptiness of the space make you observe the works more closely, to reflect on the subject at hand, and to raise further questions as well.
An outcome of a three-day workshop led by Bulgarian artists Sofia Burchardi and Plamen Bontchev with 11 KUart students, the exhibition is about “understanding who we are in the age of hyper connectivity.”
It is needless to explain the importance of digital technology and the Internet, as I write this article on my computer and will later email it to The Week.
Nonetheless, Magsaysay Prize winner Mahabir Pun’s First Computer of Nanghi, which is a part of the exhibition, is another kind of reminder of what digital technology means to education, communication and economic development in rural parts of Nepal.
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