The 30 DLA#3 finalist projects have been announced! Our DLA experts reviewed all the applications and here they are... 6 projects per category (Animation, Digital Music, Video Game, Virtual Reality) will compete in the Online Final Pitch Competition, from the 15th to the 28th of April 2019. The 10 winners will be announced on the [...]
NewImages : the festival of digital creation and virtual worlds from 19 to 23 June in Paris! Images should not only be watched and analyzed: they should be lived, felt and palpable. Forward-looking and cutting-edge, the NewImages Festival provides a fresh approach to innovative creative techniques. Focusing on content and artistic creation, NewImages is at the [...]
Introducing the newest Tshimologong Digital Hub’s project: Source Code Gallery. Hosted at Tshimologong Innovation Precinct, Source Code Gallery is a creative technology and digital content showcase and development space. The project is curated by Fak’ugesi Festival and in partnership with Digital Lab Africa and other organisations such as the Wits School of Arts, JAM Lab [...]
Focus on Tshimologong’s Sound Jam at the Africa Rising International Film Festival Africa Rising International Film Festival is an event aiming to raise awareness about African Cinema and its impact on economy in African countries and other developing countries, and to offer opportunities of partnership with international companies. Launched for the first time in 2018, [...]
The famous Johannesburg media marketplace hosted Tshimologong and the DLA to kick off the 2018 call for projects From the 14th to the 16th of November 2018, DISCOP, the “One Stop Shop” for B2B content in Africa, organised its 6th edition of its market in Johannesburg. Launched in 2012, the event is now the first content production [...]
Tshimologong Precinct hosting a very special Hackaton, created by DLA and in partnership with IFAS. The French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) restored in 2018 the original records from the Rivonia Trial, a major South-African event that took place between October 1963 and June 1964, leading to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and several other [...]
DLA#1 VR winners selected for the 2018 Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Sundance Institute has announced the six projects selected for the annual New Frontier Story Lab, which supports independent artists working at the cutting-edge convergence of film, art, media, live performance and technology. The New Frontier Story Lab is a week-long immersive experience that empowers [...]
South African Twist @NewImages Festival 4-8 April, 2018 NewImages is a place of discovery and experimentation within everyone’s reach, but it is also a meeting place for professionals of the virtual reality and immersive technologies industry! This year the festival honours the African continent and especially South Africa. Tegan Bristow, director of the Fak'ugesi African [...]
Digital Lab Africa is pleased to partner with the Berlinale Africa Hub that will showcase the 4 VR experiences directed by the participants of the 1st DLA 48h VR Film Jam in Johannesburg. The Berlinale Africa Hub (Feb 16-21) at the EFM is coming back for its second edition! Thanks to a very successful first [...]
31 January, 2018: immersive experiences and debate to explore the "Power to the Imagination" Initiated by the French Institute in Paris, the Night of Ideas is a worldwide event settled in collaboration with most of the French Institutes around the world. This year, in Johannesburg, the Night of Ideas will take place on the 31st [...]
