Tegan Bristow

Dr. Tegan Bristow is the Director of the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa since 2016, Senior Lecturer in Interactive Digital Media at the Wits School of the Arts – with a specialisation on African Art, Culture and Technology and Editor in Chief and Digital Editor of the Ellipses Journal for Creative Research. Bristow is additionally a developer of interactive digital media in installation, performance, screen-based and online media.

In 2017 Bristow completed her PhD on Decoloniality and Actional Methodologies in Art and Cultural Practices in African Cultures of Technology, which she wrote with the Planetary Collegium at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts at Plymouth University in the U.K.