Dhvāni 2021
Dhvāni is a series of responsive, self-regulating, and autonomous installations driven by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, that advocates for the values of interconnectivity, codependence, network and community with a decolonial approach. Dhvāni incorporates ritual and traditional practices from South Asia, e.g. temple bells, Buddhist Gongs, wind chimes, and Ghungroo, among others, to bring new perspectives into interactive media arts. Dhvāni contributes to an artistic research dedicated to decolonize the fields of technology-driven arts by bringing into the foreground non-Western and pre-modern ritual and traditional art practices, and facilitating their direct interaction with the predominantly Western-modernist realm of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The aim of the project is to investigate how the ritual and traditional arts practiced since pre-modern and pre-colonial times might be able to engage productively with the contemporary machines societies.
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Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
India
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a contemporary artist, researcher, and writer. Incorporating diverse media, research and creative technologies,, Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale, exhibitions, installations and live performance addressing issues of environment and ecology, migration, race, and decoloniality. His works have been widely exhibited, performed, or presented across the globe. Chattopadhyay has an expansive body of scholarly publications in artistic research, media theory and aesthetics in leading peer- reviewed journals. He is the author of five books: The Nomadic Listener (2020), The Auditory Setting (2021), Between the Headphones (2021), and Sound Practices in the Global South (2022). Chattopadhyay holds a PhD in Artistic Research and Sound Studies from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, and is currently a Visiting Professor of media art and design at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Basel.