Digi-Dub Club

by: Phace

Digi-Dub Club is a smaller VRChat world by Phace, released in October 2020. It runs on PC, and holds up to 32 players per instance.

Digi-Dub Club is a new artwork for global remote access in VRChat․ It extends the world of Dubship I Black Starliner （2019 ongoing） a monumental music-making wire-art sculpture exhibited at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town in 2019‚ into shared VR․ The larger Dubship project takes place over the centenary period of the Jamaican political activist Marcus Garveys work from a century ago in establishing the Black Star Line shipping company （1919 - 1922） with the intention of returning the descendants of African slaves from the US and Caribbean back to Africa․ This new work centres on an animated 3D scan of the sculpture at the heart of the work to create a sonified‚ interactive social space an environment in which people can somotrine and interact with the work and the issues it engages with․ Digi-Dub Club is an African Robots vs SPACECRAFT project by Ralph Borland with Jason Stapleton‚ Sean Devonport‚ Lewis Kaluzi‚ Farai Kanyemba‚ and Franco Shidume․ This project was developed with the support of the African Culture Funds Solidarity Fund for Artists and Cultural Organizations in Africa․

Tags: dubship panafricanism dub garvey afrofuturism