EMEKA OGBOH is a Fine and Applied Arts graduate of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, a cultural activist and a new media artist who explores indigenous iconography and pictograms and its re-invention as ideas for contemporary technology and new media.

Emeka co founded the one room shack a design team whose concern is chiefly in fashioning new ideas on creativity that employ both the mainstream orthodox/new (media) technologies as well as alternative creative strategies.

He has participated in local and international media workshops and exhibitions notably amongst them the Alexandria international Media and Lights Arts workshop (AMALA) in Alexandria Egypt (October 2007). There he exhibited a 2.5 metre mixed media installation (lights, wood and newspapers) that was inspired by the Egyptian obelisk and hieroglyphs of which he interpreted using nsibidi and uli symbols. This exhibition also coincided with the Alexandria Biennale.

Emeka’s work was one of the 30 best for the Brain Project, an International Digital Visual Arts competition and was exhibited at the State Library in Trieste Italy from 23rd November to 5th December 2007.

He attended the Fayoum Winter Academy in Egypt February 2008 where he exhibited a five minutes short film and a Sound and Video installation of Lake Qarun in one of the Academy’s bathroom.

Emeka is inspired by the environment around him and His creative research interest explores the thin line between narcissism and structures of power. He is fascinated by the fusion of art and technology and conceptualizes art in One’s and Zero’s.