Aluta Null

Aluta Null is a digital artist and game developer from Johannesburg who graduated from Wits University with an Honors Degree in Digital Arts, majoring in Game Development.

Their work spans a variety of digital mediums including extended reality and video games. Aluta commonly goes by Aluta’s Theory on social media, as a nod to the questions, thoughts, and observations they tend to litter their digital surroundings with. Offering unique commentary and expressing their cabinet of curiosities, Aluta creates, and shares visual and interactive artwork that tackles politics, perception, pop culture, and technology – often coated in cheeky irreverence – using many absurdist and punk paradigms.

Winner→ Fak’ugesi Award in XR, Johannesburg 2023

Finalist → Digital Storytelling at IDFA DocLab, Netherlands 2023

Lead visual director → VOTS at Fringe Festival , Scotland 2023

Curator of ME + THE MACHINE Exhibition → Africa Games Week, 2022

Web Designer + Art Exhibitor → Counter Consideration at STRP Festival , Netherlands 2022

XR Social Impact Grant Recipient → Electric South, Cape Town 2022

Bubblegum Artist Residency Recipient → Bubblegum Club, Johannesburg 2021

“[Aluta Null’s] ability to find the link between body and machine becomes critical when we think about technological advancements, and how these advancements continue to re-shape the human form.”

- Janice Phiri, City Press

UFO sighting by Aluta Null