Digital Repatriation
Rest of WorldEditorial Illustration
Rest of World is a nonprofit publication that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. They commissioned us to create an Animated Editorial Illustration to accompany a feature story on Digital Repatriation.
The story followed The @lootynft digital heist of the Benin Bronzes, and explored the role of technology in the broader repatriation debate. We were also inspired by Nora al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles’s digital heist of the Nefertiti bust, housed at the Neues Museum, where they created a 3D copy of the bust, releasing it online under Creative Commons. We played around with the bust, creating digital sculpts of our own.
Project Information
Art Direction by Munira Mutaher
Animation by Deepti Megh
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