About

Kylie van der Merwe is a South African artist and researcher working at the intersection of art and technology. With a practice rooted in digital materiality, her work explores how evolving tools, such as augmented reality, virtual environments, and open-source data, can expand creative expression and reshape our experience of art.

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Currently completing her master’s degree in Visual Art at Nelson Mandela University, Kylie’s research investigates the phenomenology of digital exhibition spaces, transmediation, and the ontology of digital imagery. Her work spans digital artworks, interactive installations, and augmented paintings- pieces that often blur the boundaries between the tangible and intangible.

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Over the past decade, Kylie’s work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals across South Africa, USA, and Europe, including as a finalist in the Sasol New Signatures national art competition. While her current practice is largely digitally native, many works are also available as physical editions: projected, 3D printed, or mounted and embedded with interactive AR elements.