‘Kamituga | Digital Gold’ invites visitors to look beneath the shiny surfaces of the mobile tech industry and engage with the concrete challenges and living conditions of artisanal miners. ‘Kamituga | Digital Gold’ was part of the exhibition Planet Digital (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, February – June 2022) and has now been conceived in a reduced version. Visitors will experience the contrasts between cleanly polished, shiny surfaces of tablets and smartphones and portraits of miners in Congo, work their way through the scan of a mine via an interactive experience and listen to an interview with Salomé, a worker sharing stories from her everyday life.
Immersive Arts Space, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK)
In cooperation with: University of Zurich
Commissioned by: Museum für Gestaltung
Supported by: DIZH and Stiftung Mercator Schweiz