Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, Jury Panelist, Artist and Photographer

In this episode, we are joined by Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, an internationally exhibited and published German-Ghanaian visual artist and documentary photographer based in Zürich, Switzerland. 

Her work is frequently awarded for exploring new territories through image-making, research, and human connection. She equally engages in documentary work and conceptual arts and has an active practice in the NFT and web3 space, most notably with her project Behold The Ocean.

 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Why Akosua believes digital art is absolutely necessary and how NFTs and web3 are technological and cultural tools
• Why and how Akosua made it a point to get outside the echo chamber of web3 
• Her perspective on how the digital art revolution started 
• How Clubhouse created a gateway for global conversations in a different way than social media had before 
• The biggest challenges Akosua faced in creating digital art and how she overcame them 
• Why the marriage of work and technology and forming communities with the courage to communicate about their work excites her most about digital art 
• Why the blockchain’s decentralized system is the most resilient storage solution digital artists have
• Akosua’s Behold the Ocean project based in Patagonia and how she got involved in this passion project 
• Her top three pieces of advice for artists