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Name: Mustafa Maluka

Date of birth: 21-11-1976

Place of birth: Cape Town, South Africa

Place of Residence: Amsterdam/Cape Town


Education

2002 - 2006 PhD Candidate in Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. My PhD dissertation - when broadly defined - focuses on urban African youth and their relationship with hip-hop culture and technology. I am conducting six case studies focusing on six cities: Accra, Algiers, Cape Town, Dakar, Dar Es Salaam, and Nairobi.

1999 - 2001 De Ateliers, Post-graduate Art Institute (M.A. equivalent), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1994 - 1995 Two years towards a three year National Diploma in Graphic design, Peninsula Technicon, Cape Town, South Africa

1993 - Matric, St.Andrew`s High School, Elsies River, Cape Town, South Africa


Exhibitions

Selected group shows:  
2005 - [[R][R][F]2005--->XP, Hilchot Shehenim, Israeli Digital Art Lab, Holon, Israel
          - BASICS Festival, Salzburg, Austria
          - South African Art 1840-Now, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa


2004 - [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP, National Museum of Contemporary Art/Kalinderu MediaLab, Bucaresti, Romania 
          - Bergen Electronic Arts Centre Bergen, Norway
          - New Media Art Festival Bangkok, Thailand
          - New Media Art Festival Bangkok, Thailand
          - Split International Film Festival, Split, Croatia
          - PEAM 2004, Pescara Electronic Art Meeting, Pescara, Italy
          - Now Music Streaming Festival, Berlin
          - VI Salon Y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital, Havanna, Cuba
          - Version'04 Festival, Invisible Networks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
          - public_media_ space Festival, Yerewan, Armenia
          - West Coast Numusic & Electronic Arts Festival, Stavanger, Norway
          - Biennale of Electronic Art, Perth, Australia
          - International ShortFilm Festival, Nuremberg, Germany
          - Orilla'04, 1st International Exhibition of Digital Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, Argentina
          - West 404 - Festival of Electronic Art, Rosario, Argentina
          - FILE - Electronic Language Festival, SESI Art Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
          - Internet Live Streaming "Endlosfilm", University of Bremen, Germany
          - Personal Affects, Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, NY
          - OUTVIDEO, Ekaterinburg, Russia
        

2003 - Guess Who, Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, Zwolle, The Netherlands
          - Afrika Hier en Nu, Centrum Beeldende Kust, Emmen, The Netherlands          

2002 - The 4th Biennale of The Pan-African Circle of Artists Lagos, Nigeria.
          - Crossing Boundaries and Frontiers, Centre Soleil d’Afrique, Bamako, Mali
          - Interactive Arts Festival.01, Kwang Fong Gallery, California Lutheran   University, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

2000 - (W)interface, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
          - Portrait Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

1999 - Staking Claims, The Granary, Cape Town, South Africa
          - Project Conflux, Luxembourg/Cape Town/Paris
          - Postcards from South Africa, Axis Gallery, New York, USA
          - Oos Wes Tuis Bes, Oudshoorn, South Africa

1998 - Childhood, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
          - !Xoe site-specific, Ibis art centre, Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa


Solo shows


2005 - Accented Living (a rough guide), Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2002 - Bad for Your Health/Wrong Colour, www.vmcaa.com/maluka, Virtual Museum of Contemporary African Art

           - The Realness, Gallerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands

2001 - Hard Living (an ethnomethodological approach), de Ateliers, Amsterdam

2000 - Maluka 2000, de Twee Wezen, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands

1998 - The (unstoppable) rapist, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa

1997 - Melanin Millennium, Mau-Mau Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa


Residencies

2005 - Art Omi International Arts Centre, NY, USA

1998 - Thami Mnyele Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1997 - Robben Island Museum, Robben Island, South Africa