Ars Electronica Festival · 2026
Adventures of the Witch's Garden
by Mardiya Siba
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2026
Mardiya Siba's “Adventures of the Witch's Garden” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2026, category Digital Humanity.
Adventures of the Witch’s Garden (AWG) is an adventure game designed with the purpose of fostering play as care, while preserving African stories of communal growth and resistance. The project is based on real stories gathered through research conducted in Ghana to examine technological surveillance as violence and…
About Mardiya Siba
Mardiya Siba Yahaya (GH) is a multi-genre technologist, researcher, and technology community movement builder. They run the Flowers and Gardening Studio, co-creating communal technology infrastructures and archiving knowledge through play, creative data work…
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