Artist Bio:
Vivek (b. 1986, Abu Dhabi) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker of South Asian-Indian ethnicity working at the intersection of moving image, spoken word, sound, text, devised performance and digital art. Working predominantly in an experimental idiom that emphasizes contingency of process and a visceral subjective experience for the viewer, Vivek is interested in extending the moving image beyond the screen into an immersive, “expanded cinema” experience that incorporates the spatiality of newer forms like projection mapping, xR, 3D modeling and computational imagery. His work often deals with themes such as the ambiguities of the creative process, the predicament of subjectivity in the digital age, technological dystopia, urban alienation and angst (thanks in no small part to years of living a double life as artist and tech worker.)
Vivek trained in cinematography at the prestigious Mindscreen Film Institute in Chennai, India and has worked on several independent films screened at venues including International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Scary Cow Film Festival in San Francisco, and Mono X Festival in New York, among others. Born and raised as an Indian diasporic kid in the Middle East before moving to the US as a young adult, he feels both at home and forever in exile everywhere he goes.
