Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
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Ongoing project Decomposing Landscape creates a discursive situation instead of a traditionally immersive experience in media arts, in order to facilitate an in-depth and contemplative observation of ecologically troubled land sites in the Global Souths. The aim of the work is to nurture relational and affective engagement with the narratives of such lands and environments to form public action. With a media auto-ethnographic approach, the project traces the slow decay of these habitual land sites with the help of digital convergence, staging augmented environments for a site-aware interpenetration between sound, video and still images – geared for an audiovisual and extended VR exhibition.
Who is Budhaditya Chattopadhyay?
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a contemporary artist, researcher, and writer. Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale installations and live performance addressing contemporary 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 four 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 at the Critical Media Lab, Basel, Switzerland.