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Chipo Mapondera

Chipo Mapondera is a Zimbabwean artist and creative technologist whose practice reimagines AI and immersive technologies through Indigenous knowledge, ritual and ceremony. Working across immersive installation, film, sound and interactive media, Chipo creates embodied experiences that explore water, climate, cultural memory and alternative technological futures rooted in care, reciprocity and ancestral ways of knowing.

In Helsinki, Mapondera will continue developing KUCHEMA, a multi-country artistic research project exploring Indigenous water knowledge and alternative AI design. The residency will provide an opportunity to learn from Sámi culture and consider how Indigenous knowledge systems can inform more relational climate and technological futures.

Chipo Mapondera will participate in the Recoding Realities Residency at M-Cult in Helsinki in November 2026.

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