Alex Mkwizu is a multidisciplinary artist with over four(04) years of experience, passionate about experimenting with different mediums and leveraging digital technologies. His work focuses on new media, particularly AI (Artificial Intelligence), Data and XR (Extended Reality) to enhance human storytelling capabilities.
Alex has contributed to several award-winning creative projects, including a C-Section VR Training Simulation, the first of its kind across 42 African countries which competed in the Meta AR/VR Africa Metathon curated by IMISI3D. He was recognized as an award-winning young photographer by Invision Africa, with his work exhibited at Michigan State University. He also received recognition as an AI Generative Artist, winning a competition curated by Shutterstock and AI4Good, with his work exhibited in Geneva.
Through the True Blue Fellowship, Alex has produced an XR film documentary addressing the coral reef crisis and highlighting Marine Protected Areas along the Indian Ocean. Most recently, he was awarded Best VR Project at Creation Africa 2025 (Lagos Edition) , through his project Kilwa Chronicles VR. And has also been selected to produce a VR Experience about AI Singularity by MSU ( Michigan State University ) Museum Labs titled Baraza. Alex has also built Paintball 255 an afro-themed paintball VR game to challenge western and asian themes or environments in interactive media and experiences. In addition to that, Alex has curated several TEDx events, including TEDxUniversityOfDarEsSalaam and TEDxZanzibar, amplifying local narratives to global audiences.
NB: My community has currently partnered with DataCamp Donates to offer 350 Datacamp scholarships for consecutive 3 years incase you are interested to be a beneficiary : Datacamp Community Tanzania Applications 26'
4 years as a GitHub Campus Expert 🐙, where I worked closely with fellow Campus Experts to organize technical workshops, hackathons, tech career fairs, and Twitter Spaces aimed at building sustainable tech communities. These initiatives helped students develop market-relevant technical skills while creating opportunities to network with IT professionals.
I also raised awareness of the GitHub Education Pack and the GitHub Campus Expert Program, showing students how to leverage these resources effectively.
During this time, I organized over 30 tech events, conferences, and workshops, engaging more than 3,000 students.
2 years as a Postman Student expert, where I worked with students and communities to advocate for API literacy, consuming APIs, designing APIs, API security and deploying APIs, have run workshops impacting more than 100+ students in cooperation with fellow community leaders in universities and outside universities.
I am currently working on establishing an open source Africa chapter in Tanzania , Dar es Salaam advocating for open source and welcoming newbies to contribute to open source projects as means to learn , give back to the community and build their portfolios. Started with hosting the first Hacktoberfest event in Tanzania , Dar es Salaam.
I love curating and creating in the arts 🎨. With my phone 📱 and camera 📸, I enjoy photography 📷 and videography 📹, capturing images and motion that tell meaningful stories.
On my PC 💻, I’m a seasoned graphic designer 🎨🖌️, creative photographer 📸, and video editor 📹. I also explore immersive art, generative art, game design, and video art installations.
Offline, I write poetry 📜, do pencil sketching 📝, and enjoy reading books 📚.
My artwork is the result of lived experiences, my own, those who came before me, and those I share with others today. It centers on the exploration of humanity and culture from an Afro-centred perspective, while simultaneously seeking to emancipate existing narratives from all forms of bondage, whether self-imposed, colonial, or neo-colonial.
The work sets a tone rather than a conclusion. Meaning is ultimately shaped by the audience through their own lived experiences. It is created to provoke questions that, as humans, we often avoid or run from, yet deeply contemplate. Through this provocation, the work aims to drive critical conversations that enable us, collectively as people of the African continent, to progress through constructive dialogue and shared, unique experiences.
My practice heavily leverages technology, particularly new media such as Extended Reality (XR), projection mapping, and artificial intelligence, while remaining grounded in first-hand narratives and lived realities. My faith and belief are that technology has the power to enhance how we tell our stories. I am committed to experimenting, exploring, and pushing these tools to do exactly that, with the intention of changing one life at a time.
- 🔭 I’m currently working on Fulusi ( an open-source fintech platform that collects different forex rates from banks, stock prices and government mutual fund prices ) for normal citizen to compare prices and get the best.
- I am building the first full-immersive design studio in Tanzania Seede XR
- 🌱 I am learning data science, machine learning and AI 📊 📈 📉 💹.
- 👯 I’m looking to collaborators on Fulusi
- 🤔 I’m looking for help with a mentor to grow career-wise
- 💬 Ask me about Python 🐍, Data Science 📈 , XR
- 📫 How to reach me: 📧 alexgmkwizu@gmail.com
- 😄 Pronouns: He | Him | Man
- ⚡ Fun fact: Wanted to be a Priest 😆 when I was young, then an Electrical Engineer, then a Mechanical Engineer, now I am a software engineer because I believe will solve effectively problems within my communities and be able to scale them.
Made with love ❤️. By Alex Mkwizu with help from GPRM