To reimagine the future of tech, we need radical voices that don’t just critique systems but offer bold, creative alternatives.
We’ve highlighted three of the many contributors who are doing exactly that through movement, makeup, and critical writing.These profiles show how creativity is a tool for change, and how every glitch, no matter the medium, helps rewrite what is possible.
Each contribution embodies a different mode of glitching, disrupting the default, imagining new paths and helping build a digital culture rooted in care, resistance, and representation.
Lethabo Motseleng brings a sharp, grounded lens to Johannesburg’s creative scenes, shaped by their background in youth journalism and podcasting. Their contribution to Glitching the Future documents how everyday innovation emerges in response to systemic limits, where technology is reclaimed, remixed, and made to serve local visions.
Their work highlights how everyday tools become launchpads for resistance, culture, and community. From music made on smartphones to fashion communities built on group chats, Mosteleng reveals a city alive with resourceful experimentation. These are not glitches in the system, they are intentional rewrites. Lethabo’s work celebrates the self-taught, the under-resourced, and the collective imagination shaping a digital culture rooted in place, people, and possibility.
New Kyd’s movement and spoken word piece is a physical response to Glitching the Future; a reclamation of agency through the body.
Combining somatic techniques, choreography, and language, the work explores how we can shift out of prescribed identities and narratives. It resists the pressure to be legible, knowable, or defined by systems that rarely see us fully.
This is not a performance that explains. Rather it moves. It disrupts. It proposes that the glitch is not an error, but a method and a way to reimagine who we are becoming, beyond code, category or constraint.
Makeup as resistance. Identity as disruption. For Johannesburg-based makeup artist So Delicious (@s.o_thebaddestdame), beauty isn’t just aesthetic—it's political. So Delicious uses makeup as a form of radical self-expression and resistance.
“We need to talk about the problem in order to be listened to and to create change in this world,” she says.
In a digital world shaped by Western, male-centric power structures, So Delicious reclaims the mirror as a tool for storytelling, where identity is fluid, unapologetic, and alive. A bold disruption of the default settings we’ve inherited from Big Tech and mainstream culture. can be found here -
🔧 Follow the tutorial by So Delicious 🎥 Drop a 30-sec video of your own makeup look inspired by Glitching The Future 📲 Post on at least 2 platforms (Instagram, Twitter or Facebook) 💸 Win ZAR4000 + a feature on our socials! ⛔️ Entries close on the 14th of July 2025.
This project has been made possible by a grant for internationalisation of the design sector from the Creative Industries Fund NL (Het Stimuleeringsfonds), Het Cultuurfonds, De Vriendenloterij and all the wonderful people who supported the project through our crowdfunding campaign.
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