Images courtesy Isaac Kariuki & Tamar Clarke-Brown. 2017
CBT
Digital startup (c.2017) established by Tamar Clarke-Brown & Isaac Kariuki
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Digital startup (c.2017) established by Tamar Clarke-Brown & Isaac Kariuki
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‘CBT’ (Coding : Braiding : Transmission) is an experiment in digital activism and critical aesthetics combining the DIY practices of coding and braiding. Intertwining physical and digital communication, this digital startup run by Tamar Clarke-Brown and Isaac Kariuki investigates the link between coding and braiding technologies, and the potential of shared closed networks. In this networked-salon, each strand of hair that is woven and unwoven; signals information passing, the encryption and decryption of private messaging.
The Internet is a communication zone, a space to share knowledge and resources and create new material realities, whilst hair braiding is part of a historical and cultural tradition that has spread throughout the African Diaspora. It might also be considered as an ancient technology. How might such practices support radical ideas and possibilities in the digital age? What are the possibilities of entanglement?
DATES
August 2019 - CONNECTING AFRO FUTURES. FASHION X HAIR X DESIGN (Publication). Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin.
March 2019 - CBT. Digital Abstraction - Coding for (In)visibility. Space Studios.
January 2019. Without You I'm Nothing. Somerset House.
November 2018 - CBT: Pull Requests. Tate Modern.
October 2017 - CBT. Coding: Braiding: Transmission. Late at Tate Britain: Cut & Colour. Tate Britain.
November 2017 - CBT: Pull Requests. Protein Studios.
January 2018 - CBT: Pull Requests. Afrotech Fest.
March 10 2018 - May 13 - CBT: Pull Requests. Kadist Foundation, Paris.
June 2018 - CBT: pour me water. Cob Gallery, London.
30 November 2018 - Uniqlo Tate Lates: Anni Albers. Tate Modern, London.