Disruptive Worlds: In-conversation in Gather with Jazmin Morris and Ama Dogbe

Ama Dogbe is a British-Ghanaian artist whose work engages with a range of personal and societal themes through digital mediums including video games, digital animations and audio-visual installations. Her processes use self-taught and collaborative techniques to arrive at experimental and unconventional outcomes. She and Jazmin Morris will come together virtually in Gather to discuss themes of creating digital environments that centre marginalised identities and disrupt the mainstream aesthetic, immersive & Interactive worldbuilding and representation in the gaming industry. 

If you’d like to connect in person, please also join us for Worlds within Worlds with Jazmin Morris and Michelle Collier on 28 July or a Games Night on 14 August.

Jazmin Morris is a Creative Computing Artist and Educator based in West Yorkshire. Her practice and pedagogy consider the historical trajectories of modern technology and critically speculate on the landscape of human-computer interaction. Using free and open-source tools, Jazmin crafts participatory digital works that challenge power dynamics and hierarchies within cyberspace, with a particular emphasis on the processes of simulating culture and identity. Despite her critical approach, Jazmin appreciates the early days of the internet and is a huge fan of the classic gaming icon, Super Mario 64.

Ama Dogbe is a British-Ghanaian artist who builds experimental video games, digital animations and audio-visual installations to explore autobiographical and utopian themes. Moving freely between digital and analogue media, from photogrammetry to painting, she takes an experimental DIY and collaborative approach to new technologies, producing unconventional outcomes. Ama is a 2024/25 FLAMIN Fellow whose recent solo exhibition Signs of Love was held at Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough (2024). She has been commissioned by Spike Island (2023), Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (2023), tiatafahodzi (2022) and Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester (2021).

Sandbox is part of Commons, a joint commitment by AND and SODA to platform emerging art forms and push the boundaries of digital practice. Devised as a prompt to rethink our approaches to digital practices, the programme and ask explores if we can develop new models for commissioning, experiencing, interpreting and preserving digital art that reflect the inherent values of digital culture.

This programme is a collaboration between Abandon Normal Devices (AND) and Modal gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts (SODA). AND is supported with public funding from Arts Council England.