Sightlines Lab is a creative playground where Parizad D, Miss.Kotton (Caroline Stedman Mishra), Vinay Khare, MYLES, Alap Parikh, Optikbloom, and echofloat bring indigenous arts practices and sensibilities-inspired visual and digital creative expression at the festival.
Over a period of a week running up to Magnetic Fields, some of the country's most forward-thinking digital artists will work within the palace to transform spaces within the festival. The resident artists will also collaborate with Fieldlines to take the idea of residency, collaboration and performance to the next level, demonstrating a unity and confluence of music, heritage, modernity and technology.
3cone By Aaron & Alap
An interactive collaborative music making installation, featuring 3 plinths with touch based sequencers controlling drums, bass and melody.
Everyday Irregularities Alsisar Edition 2024 By Echofloat
A mixed media audio visual showcase featuring the architectural landscape of site specific and neighbouring regions in the Jhunjunu district of Rajasthan.
Living Proof By blueprints. feat Ankit Dayal & Parizad D
A three channel audio-video installation, set in an imaginary world created by the duo blueprints. It is amalgamation of eclectic soundscapes and surreal imagery that creates a hypnotic experience, while acting as a conduit that encourages people to explore their own inner realities.
VR Playground by Miss.Kotton (Caroline Stedman Mishra)
Experience the thrill of combining real world kinetic movement with dream-like visuals as you travel through abstract virtual worlds on our VR swings. Get ready to laugh, scream and hold on tight while our technology makes your brain and body believe in the impossible as you float, fly, bounce and roll through vast colourful geometric landscapes.
Meena XR (XR Installation) By Alap
In 2079 India, where cultural amnesia threatens heritage, Meenakshi, a cultural cyborg, creates the Mudra Machine — a digital game for preserving ancient dance gestures through memories of her teacher through gesture recognition, 3D Printed Mudras and a printed book.
'AI-DX 2069’ By Vinay
A satirical vision of India's post-AI landscape, where the remnants of collapsed artificial intelligence systems exist as ghostly digital echoes. Drawing inspiration from the traditional practice of TV-DXing — where enthusiasts once searched for distant television signals — the work reimagines this nostalgic hobby in a future where humans scavenge for fragments of lost AI consciousness.
The Palace On The Hill By Mridul, Vinay
A heartfelt story of ambition, struggle, and friendship told from the perspective of a young boy in fictional 90s rural India. Explore ancient palace ruins, set up your garden, cook Indian food, run errands for quirky characters, and learn about your history by making art.
Sightlines Lab artists:
Parizad D
Parizad D is a lens-based visual artist. Her practice is a combination of research driven and experimental image-making methodologies. Her work spans a range of disciplines such as: photography, film, video art, scan art, analog printing and poetry.
Miss.Kotton (Caroline Stedman Mishra)
Miss.Kotton (Caroline Stedman Mishra) is a British new media artist based in India, working across mixed media and emerging technology. Creating with AI and XR, she is known for her live visual sets as well as designing interactive installations, immersive theatrical experiences, curation/programming and technology-led innovations for festivals and brands. She is also a musicologist and published writer specialising in underground youth subculture, sound engineer and a composer/producer of sound art and electronic music.
Vinay Khare
Vinay Khare is a creative technologist and new media artist based in Pondicherry. His practice spans interactive installations, multimedia performances, generative art and immersive experiences. With a keen drive for experimentation, he enjoys conceptualising and creating multisensorial experiences that evoke awe and wonder through technology.
MYLES
MYLES is a creative technologist, musician, and visual artist whose creative pursuits traverse the realms of developing products for professional musicians to crafting immersive audio-visual experiences for the public. Rooted in a background of jazz piano and music technology, MYLES brings a unique and diverse perspective to art.
Alap Parikh
Alap is an artist, technologist, and director focused on creating immersive experiences through virtual and augmented reality and real-time audio-visual installations. He is fascinated by what it means to be part of a story and the role of narrative in participatory mediums of art.
Optikbloom
Optikbloom, the artist alias of Sanjana Singh, is an illustrator and visual artist based in Goa. She has recently worked on a wildlife conservation board game on the Nilgiris and a mushroom field guide for Bangalore. Optikbloom is currently branching out into experimenting with live visuals and generative art. She collaborated with Studio Ocupus last year to create visuals for Magnetic Fields Festival.
echofloat
Jeff Nelson a.k.a ECHOFLOAT’s visual work expands on the idea of finding rhythm in chaos, and exploring cityscapes remixed as concrete playgrounds. By underlining the old and deconstructing the new, these visual explorations pay heed to the quiet structures and spaces of our everyday existence.
