Venus Ex Machina is artist Nontokozo F Sihwa. In 2018, as fellow of the performance laboratory CTM HackLab at HAU2 in Berlin, she developed her first “pirate AI” opera; she also led a workshop on radio transmitter building at Moogfest in North Carolina. Sihwa has contributed sounds and music to a range of projects including releases on NON Worldwide and Optimo Music, an installation for Hyperdub, and a score for the UK ICA & Channel 4’s Random Acts short film series. She's just released her debut long player Lux on AD93 Records.

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