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Akwetey

@akwetey

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Ma je lɛ nɔ 🇬🇭
Build the world
Artist / Technologist / Musician
London / Mexico City / New York
@royalcollegeofart Class of '26

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No one: "You must now spawn dragons and doves from your arms"

"Games" (0:00:59) , 2026
Single channel video
@akwetey

#games
#play
#new
#video
#art taken in Côte d'Azur - French Riviera by @akwetey

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6 months ago

This International Women's Day I celebrate my mother, Dr. Sophia Aryeetey Orraca-Tetteh, who with a lifetime of wisdom, grace, and vision continues to shape everyday how I approach the world.

I mean look at the style y'all💥✊🏾💯🇬🇭
This photo was taken her first year at the University of Lagon Medical School in Ghana
📷(Accra, 1971) 🌹🌹🌹
@sophiaorracatetteh

#celebrate
#mothers
#mother
#woman
#women

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i̇nternationalwomensday by @akwetey

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7 months ago

SYNAPTIC ARCHITECTURE was the conceptual and poetic framing for a night inspired by metaphors of neurological structures and techno-sensory connections. The exhibition Synaptic Architecture at the @tate on June 26th, 2026, aimed to explore sensory design, collaboration and emergent behavior. This one night event mapped how exhibited and performed sensory inputs form connective patterns of output , attention, memory and affect with each live slot acting as signal and neural firing.

@noise.rca and @thegrin.io and @tate were pleased to present Synaptic Architecture at the Tate Modern's Tate Lates series to a lively crowd. The night staged curated installations, hybrid performances and short live-music performances woven with interluded DJ transitions, and screen based works showcased along the perimeter of the Tate's 2nd floor Blavatnik Room.

I'd like to thank my fellow Curatorial Team of @thegrin.io founder and @boilerroomtv co-founder founder Thristian Richards @thristian , Gyuri Kim @pour_ri_ri_ri , @palasabomble , Rishab Sharma @_bnshra_ , and Julia Halasy @meta4ngelic , and @noise.rca @rca_digitaldirection, Ariel Haviland and the entire @tate staff and community for putting in tireless work to help achieve a monumental feat of curating 25 amazing talents from an array of programs at London's equally renowned @theroyalcollegeofart

NOISE, or The Network of Installation Sound Experience, is an RCA wide platform exploring the dynamics of sound experience as it relates to the synaptic interaction and context of other senses and materials in public space.

Artists & Exhibitors
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@anniee.zip
@a2yon9q7
@sparrookc0
@emmaroseharvey
@zeng.deyu @tengwanggggggggggggg
@tongniu_
@maryamkhadema
@martacqt
@pour_ri_ri_ri
@chens_x10
@jiwonk.00
@palasabomble
@_bnshra_
@yqshaw17
@_lakshmividyasagar_
@_lavender_field_
@meta4ngelic
@andydunken_ad
@chiefxu7878
@xiaoyaomaa
@luojingyuvip
@akwetey
@itsyolaaaaa
@smadzadzalyte
@jrayorjoshua
@lilyanndesign0419
@jainehum
@vigilescalera___
@akwetey
@shellyyy_verse
@hritwikkant

Photo Credit: Shani Monica, Tate Lates
@rca_digitaldirection

Video By: @akwetey
Music By: @akwetey by @akwetey

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3 months ago

I'm happy to share that I will debut a new work. I give a monumental thank you to @rebekahtolleydigitalist for the opportunity to exhibit and include my latest work, "Ghosted:Training Models for Sonic Visibility", at @britishartfair , to be held at the @saatchi_gallery in London this week from |September 24-27th.

Ghosted: Training Models For Sonic Visibility in Other Humans will be exhibited and showcased among works of my fellow @royalcollegeofart alumni and contemporary peers in the 2026 British Art Fair Spotlight section titled Digitalism:NEXT.

"Digitalism brings together artists and galleries working at the forefront of art's evolving relationship with technology and ways of making."
@sebkoseda

Investigating urgent contexts and emerging directions in the wake of AI
"I am commiting my art and thinking to consider new, untethered, and tangible materials that can transcend ideas of doom psychology and use physical computation, image, and digital life to tell a new story." -AK

Ghosted: Training Models For Sonic Visibility in Other Humans, is an interactive DIY sound-to-vision augmented reality device and accompanying audio visual digital story which addresses the present need for new and preserving tools of expressivity in the event of human othering, neglect, disenfranchisement via systemic invisibility or deletion.

🎫 Visit Booth D22:ticket link in bio

📍SAATCHI GALLERY, D22
DUKE OF YORK'S HQ, KINGS RD.
LONDON, SW3 4RY

Thurs 24 12-9 pm
Fri 25 11-9 pm
Sat 26 11-7 pm
Sun 27 11-5 pm

THE | TRACK: " LA CROIX" (00:00:30)
In this video a live data responsive virtual iteration of the physical "Ghosted" work is set to a freestyle I made in 2021 during a much cherished time of reflection, creativity, friendship and community in Mexico City. Un shout out a todo mi gente en la ciudad. Amo con Todo la fuerza de dios y volviendo pronto✊🏾

La Croix , 2021
Beat : @rob.evn
Freestyle: @akwetey
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...lookout for the new single on @specialkrystal

-AK

#Digitalism #SaatchiGallery #Arte #BritishArtFair #ContemporaryArt #Art taken in Saatchi Gallery by @akwetey

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a month ago

How's the fit?

@saatchi_gallery
@britishartfair
#Digitalism
#London
#debut
#lfg
✊🏾 taken in Saatchi Gallery by @akwetey

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21 days ago

In the chaos of the whirl I'm thankful to express my gratitude. I have a space to work. I'm thankful to have Sun, working hands, plants and mi Ponchiito.

🎹🎶 Many years behind but I want to thank the @joakim_bouaziz and @justinstrauss1 for the love in getting me one of my fav trx , Afro Cowboy Electroneer @william_onyeabor 's "Good Name".

✅ This record. @davidbyrneofficial 's @luakabop and @ericwellesnystrom had the presence of spirit to bring this 80's keyboard King from #WestAfrica to the forefront. The covers album "Atomic Bomb" features myself, @hot.chip @thevaccines @joakim_bouaziz @davidterranova and dub legend #scientist

🎥🖌️ Finishing touches on ∆∆
Dos Meninas, 2024 by @akwetey

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3 years ago

Window Tripper is a narrative short film made by MA Digital Direction @rca_digitaldirection student, Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh.

It tells a story of psychotropic recovery exploring the journey of a young computer science turned engineering student, alongside his mentor – a female coded AI application.

Akwetey will show his work @BritishFilmInstitute alongside other @rcasoc graduating students next week as part of the #RCA2026 Festival of Communication.

#DigitalArt #DigitalNarrative #AI by @akwetey

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3 months ago

Ghanaian + American RCA Digital direction student Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh explores the idea of ‘synesthetic materiality’ in which his different areas of interest from music, media and technology are combined to rethink the future of art as it also relates to ancestral authorisation.

His exhibited work questions what remnants of cultural artefacts re-live their efficacy in forms that together honour, destroy and renew meaning. See his work within Translation Issues? exhibition from 1st July-17th July by @akwetey

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4 months ago

We are pleased to announce our showcase at DIGITALISM:NEXT as part of British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery. @saatchi_gallery @britishartfair

As alumni and peers of the Royal College of Art @royalcollegeofart ,we expand our relationship to DIGITALISM through Parathetics: the organisation of heterogeneous modes of perception, representation and operation through adjacency. Image, data, algorithm, machine process and material object coexist without reduction to a common language. Clinical definition and conceptual rendering operate as coequal, parallel tracks—challenging, disrupting and informing one another, with neither acting as an absolute foundation.

Our collective works will be on show 24-27 September 2026

SAATCHI GALLERY: D22
DUKE OF YORK’S HQ, KING’S RD,
LONDON SW3 4RY

Artists on show (order of posts):
ANDY FANGDI LIU andydunken_ad
OLIVIA MCCALLUM via.xe
ANA VIGIL ESCALERA @anavigile__
EMMA ROSE HARVEY @ermenstudio
AKWETEY ORRACA-TETTEH @akwetey
ANNIE ZIYING LIU @anniee.zip
JINGYU LUO @luojingyuvip
PIN-YU WU @artpinyuwu
HANG LAN @_lanhang
PRANAV BABU @p.b_design

#Digitalism #SaatchiGallery #BritishArtFair #ContemporaryArt #DigitalArt taken in Saatchi Gallery by @akwetey

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a month ago

Noise RCA and thegrin.io are pleased to present Synaptic Architecture at the Tate Modern’s Tate Lates series this Friday June 26th from 6-9:30 PM.

The night stages curated installations, hybrid performances and short live-music performances woven with interluded DJ transitions, and screen based works showcased along the perimeter of the Tate’s 2nd floor Blavatnik Room.

NOISE, or The Network of Installation Sound Experience, is an RCA wide platform exploring the dynamics of sound experience as it relates to the synaptic interaction and context of other senses and materials in public space.

(Free Entry) by @akwetey

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4 months ago

One must not lose himself amidst a storm
So as to enjoy cakes, wine, and her sunshine

Whitewater Weekend, 2017. 9’ x 4.5’ [274 cm x 137cm] @akwetey

#white
#water
#weekend
#theweekend
#keepyourheadup
#headsup
#watchout
#watch
#look
#above
#water
#ice
#sleet
#snow
#sun

#painting
#paintingoftheday🎨🖌️
#paint
#painters
#art
#arte by @akwetey

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a year ago

Introducing Ponchi, guardian of the art galaxy and newest adoptee in the AK familyyy. Thank you to mi gran amiga @vemosvemos_it y su hermano por la fe y consciencia. Vamos a proteger 🐺 y seguir con poder. #gratitude #respeto

#ponchito #ponchi
#dog #doggo #perro
#perrito #cachorro
#new #art #family #husky
#huskypuppy #pup #puppy
#love by @akwetey

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4 years ago