Janus Fouché

Janus Fouché is a South African digital artist working in multimedia projects ranging from immersive interactive sound installations and virtual reality and animation to self-organizing biological systems. He focuses on cybernetics and the digital space and AI as a parallel, abstract, but increasingly present reality, with its own philosophy and aesthetics to be constructed, explored, and interrogated. Fragments of both digital and physical worlds are pulled into one another to create new, unexpected relationships. Algorithms that describe artificial life in line drawings, collages of film, and animation meet motion-captured puppets and mechanical anthropomorphisms. He is most active as a collaborator, working with contemporary artists, composers, performers, and filmmakers such as William Kentridge, Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh, Žana Marović, Sabine Theunissen, Joslyn Barnes, Walter Murch, Marcus Neustetter, Jane Taylor, Mikhael Subotzky, Jason Mitcham, Jonas Lundquist, Gavan Eckhart, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, João Orecchia, Julia Burnham, Library Special Projects [LSP], Blessing Ngobeni, and Deborah Bell.

While completing his postgraduate degree (with honors) in multimedia, Fouché began an internship at William Kentridge’s studio in 2011 and, in an ongoing subsequent working relationship, has taken on editorial roles in several international Kentridge projects and performances, most notably Oh To Believe in Another World, City Deep, Kaboom!, The Head & the Load, More Sweetly Play the Dance, and Right Into Her Arms. He is a frequent collaborator at the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg.