Rashmi Sawhney is a film theorist, co-founder of the VisionMix network (www.visionmix.info) and Head of the M.A. programme in Aesthetics and Visual Cultures at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.
Abhiyan Humane is an artist and scholar practising at the intersection of Arts and Science. At Srishti, he is one of the course leaders for Experimental Media Arts and coordinates the Post Graduate Programme in Network Cultures and Land and Habitat Studies.
Aishwarya Viswanathan (b.1994) is a writer and visual artist. Her research interests include art theory, philosophy and digital visual cultures. She has recently presented a paper on the ethics of spectatorship at Boston University and is currently working on exploring the aesthetics of online video. (II MA Aesthetics and Visual Cultures)
Ameya (b.1993) is a writer who ruminates on relationships of power, desire and empathy within varying contexts. As an intersectional feminist, she sees and practices through the political personal. She has worked as an art mediator, designer, researcher, and studied multidisciplinary humanities. (I MA Aesthetics and Visual Cultures)
Avnit Singh (b.1990) is an artist whose work revolves around personal memory and the insignificant details of days. Nature and poetry remain intertwined throughout. Earlier this year, she started an alternative art space Partly Purple that encourages multi and transdisciplinary work and dialogue. (II MCrA Contemporary Art Practice)
Firas Qazi (b.1991) is an architect by training from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. His interests lie in digital storytelling and mapping cultural histories and historiography. He has worked as a design consultant and researcher. (I MA Digital Humanities)
Manvi (b.1993) is a student who works primarily with watercolour. She has worked on a site-specific installation dealing with themes of waste and anthropocentric consumption. She is interested in books as objects of art (I MCrA Contemporary Art Practice)
Pratyush’s (b.1991) works revolve around experience, sensory perception and machines. He explores both analog and digital, appealing to reduce the separation of art and science in the process.
(II MCrA Experimental Media Arts)
Preethi (b.1991) has experience as a network engineer after which she got interested in exploring the culmination of art and science. Her inquiry deals with audience interaction to digital media art forms. (I MCrA Experimental Media Arts)
Rachita Burjupati (b.1995) is a visual artist who has worked with soft sculpture and painting. Her commercial experience includes painting murals for cafes and hand-painted custom t-shirts. She is currently exploring digital media and its many forms. (I MCrA Contemporary Art Practice)
Sasha (b.1992) is a contemporary artist driven to understand perceptual and spatial relationships through his site-specific installations. His varied work environments lend themselves to choice of material, and organic development of form in context. He recently exhibited at the Kochi Muziris Biennale as part of a group show titled When We All Fall Up (2017) (II MCrA Contemporary Art Practice)
Shashank Satish (b.1991) works between the gaps of art and science, and is interested in perception and consumption of media in curated contexts of cultures and institutions. His education in architecture guides his practice in art and curation at Holy Cow! Studio, Bangalore. He has recently exhibited at group shows in Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa 2016 and EyeMyth Media Arts Festival, Mumbai 2017. (II MCrA Experimental Media Arts)
Shruti Rao (b.1987) has worked as a media professional for nine years in feature and ad films, fiction and nonfiction content production. Her areas of research interest include labour markets in the media industry, understanding the cultural economy of child artists in advertisements, and media content consumption among migrant communities in urban spaces. (II MA Knowledge Systems and Practices)
Soubhagya (b.1994) is a researcher interested in anthropology and public history. She is currently exploring how different media forms augment ethnographic research. She has worked with several communities, NGOs and media houses during her undergraduate studies in the disciplines of journalism and communication studies. (II MA Knowledge Systems and Practices)
Sultana Zana (b.1992) is an experimental media artist whose preoccupations are space-time projections and thought trajectories. She is currently working with sound and mycelium. (II MCrA Contemporary Art Practice)
Syeda Zainab (b.1995) seeks to understand and experiment with performative digital platforms. Her interest lies in social media functionality and cultural specificity in digital platforms. She is a self-taught photographer and continues to explore various photo editing modes. (II MA Digital Humanities)
Ved (b.1992) is an art student and animator who is interested in visual storytelling and narratives. He concerns himself with epistemology and its accessibility to diverse audiences, and in generating interest around multifaceted concepts. (II MCrA Digital Media Arts)
Shivani Mutneja teaches English Literature at Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune. She holds an M.phil in Cinema Studies from JNU. She spent a semester studying Creative Writing and Art History in the Aegean Center for Fine Arts, Paros, Greece in 2011. Her poems have appeared in the The Literateur, Radius (from the Center to the Edge), The Brown Critique and Nether Magazine.
Vinod (b.1992) has studied motion/graphic/visual design, animation and all aspects of filmmaking. As a diploma holder in film direction, he was a documentary filmmaker before working at IBM as an experience designer. He believes the most exciting cognitive perception is that of movement and is currently working with experimental media, projection mapping, AR and VR. (II MCrA Digital Media Arts)