VIRTUAL WORLDS & VISUAL ART : EVANS AKANYIJUKA
Evans Akanyijuka is one of a handful of visual artists in Uganda that dare to voyage into the phenomena of virtual reality. Digital art, how it exists in the first place and how it operates amongst other art forms on the contemporary art scene, is seemingly still a thing of alien utterance here in Uganda. It appears that the question of tangibility in conjunction with the matter of replication within digital spaces cultivate a certain climate of hesitation with regards to authenticity. This is especially amongst lovers of the quintessential traditional art forms such as painting on canvas and drawing on paper. However, with the shifting dynamic in the global contemporary art sphere lately, the conversation is quite progressively becoming less about what the art is and more about what the art does. This is not only manifesting in the materiality and practice around traditional art forms but also, it has further opened up myriad doors for eccentric and newfangled art forms such as insta
