Alumni Profile: Victoria Muthiani

January 13, 2026

SFPC Alumni Profiles is a series featuring students who are practicing poetic computation in their communities and work.

Where are you from and where are you living now?

Victoria Muthiani: I'm from Kenya, I move around the nation a lot. I connect to different ecosystems which is part of my practice.

When did you study at SFPC?

VM: HTTPoetics in 2023 and Digital Love Languages in 2024.

How would you describe your work or practice?

VM: I'm a full-time artist, which means that I confront people with my vulnerability, I illuminate the collective shadows we outcast because of violences like colonialism. I write, produce music, rap, feel and embark into the unknown as tools of healing and acts of sovereignty. The projects I put out are coordinates for the collective, guiding and inspiring them to step out of their comfort zones.

Can you share about a project you made while studying at SFPC?

VM: During DLL I worked on a concept called Ancestral Technologies, a spiritual reflection on the African minerals used to create technologies. We learnt how to make folder poems in the terminal. My folder poem was a prayer to the spirits inside the minerals, where the terminal became a sacred place to acknowledge the land where the minerals are from.

What are some other projects you have worked on before or after your time at SFPC?

VM: I've mostly been working on a collaborative and ongoing project with my partner Antony Mwangi, Skater Mtrue, an interdisciplinary space. We're primarily thinking about blackness, indigeneity, and the unity of all black people (“bagwantu” in Zulu). So far, we've outlined the concept of the unity of all black people through hip hop.

How do you define poetic computation?

VM: I would define poetic computation as the remembering of the catastrophic conditions which have brought our technology to where it is, and at the same time, the rewriting of that by using it as a tool for liberation.

What is a meaningful fact, lesson, or something else that you learned at SFPC? Does it impact your work today? If so, how?

VM: This would have to be the guest lecture by Mindy Seu on the sexual history of the internet. By the end of the lecture, I felt how the internet was built from the catastrophic perspectives of white men. The connection to how sex workers shaped the internet was new information to me, I currently feel that as a celebration especially with the anti-misogynoir stance Skater Mtrue has for black female rappers.

Who is an artist, scholar, political organizer, scientist or leader who inspires you?

VM: I've been reading Assata Shakur's autobiography. It's really such an honour to connect this deeply with the Shakur lineage. Reading it alongside Stella Nyanzi's poetry book Don't Come In My Mouth has been my regular act of militancy.

Is there anything else you would like to share?

VM: I love SFPC, I keep recommending it to anyone who is interested in learning how to code.

Follow Skater Mtrue’s work through Instagram.