RESEARCH
DIGITAL GANDHARA IS AN INTER-INSTITUTIONAL WEB ARCHIVE FOR EXPLORING ANCIENT BUDDHIST SITES AND ARTIFACTS [HARVARD CAMLAB, 2024]
SILENT SUMMER IS A COMMUNITY SCIENTIST’S DIGITAL GUIDEBOOK TO THREATENED MIGRATORY BIRDS ON CAPE ANN, MA [HARVARD OFFICE FOR URBANIZATION, 2024]
MY RIVER MAKES NUMBERS MY RIVER MAKES LOVE IS A LECTURE ON COLONIAL CARTOGRAPHIC DATA AND INTERSPECIES KINSHIP ON THE INDUS RIVER [UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM, 2023]
MANGROVE ECOLOGIES IS A CATALOG OF REFORESTATION KNOWLEDGE IN THE INDUS DELTA [HARVARD DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, 2022]
HIYOKECHI IS A SPATIAL READING OF TOKYO’S PUBLIC PARKS WITHIN THE HISTORY OF DISASTER MITIGATION [HARVARD REAL ESTATE, 2023]
OASIS IS A SATELLITE IMAGING BASED MODEL FOR ECOLOGICALLY-ATTUNED MIGRATION IN THE SAHEL [SPATIAL DESIGN FOR CLIMATE MIGRATION, 2024]
FORENSIC WATERS IS A MAPPING PROJECT THAT TRACES GROUNDWATER SALINITY FROM COLONIAL DAMS TO ANCIENT HARAPPAN HERITAGE [CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, 2022]
WEATHER ISLANDS IS A MODEL FOR EROSION-DRIVEN LANDSCAPES IN RIVERINE ECOSYSTEMS [CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, 2019]
INDUS ATLAS IS A MAPPING AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WATER-MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE INDUS BASIN [HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, 2022]
FILM
TENDING IS A SONIC FILM ON PRACTICES OF LAND REPAIR AND CARE WITHIN THE FLOOD ZONES OF GLACIAL LAKES IN THE ROLWALING VALLEY OF NEPAL
HYMNS FOR GLACIA IS A FILM DOCUMENTING THE LOSS OF GLACIAL LANDS AND LIFE ALONG THE KARAKORUM HIGHWAY IN NORTHERN PAKISTAN [MIT, 2024]
INSTALLATION
WE ARE ONE IS A MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION NARRATING A HISTORIC WOMEN’S LABOR MOVEMENT IN INDIA [HARVARD CGIS, 2024]
AUDIO AVIARY IS AN INSTALLATION FOR COMMUNICATING WITH THREATENED BIRDS USING FIELD RECORDINGS MADE BY COMMUNITY SCIENTISTS [GUND HALL, 2024]
SONIC WEATHERS IS A STAGE INSTALLATION AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE USING SOUNDS, INSTRUMENTS, AND VOCALS FROM THE HIMALAYA [KIRKLAND GALLERY, 2024]
SPOOKY TECHNOLOGY IS AN EXHIBITION OF UNSETTLING DATA-MINING AND MOTION-RESPONSIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN DOMESTIC SPACE [CMU IDEATE, 2022]
SONIC WEATHERS
Installation and Sensory Performance Using
Field Recordings, Vocals, and Musical Traditions of the Himalaya
Kirkland Gallery
(2023)
Collaborators:
Pravah Khandekhar, Shivesh Sood,
Manaswi Mishra, Aakash Rao, Volkan Efe
AUDIO AVIARY is a bird sound installation at Gund Hall. In opposition to its colonial history of capture and ecological conquest, this Aviary is positioned not a technology of capture. It is instead a sort of telephone. Public participants use the installation to call, sing, to surrounding birds. Speakers then transmit ‘citizen’-recorded sounds from Cape Ann to Cambridge — rehearsing a call, between the places where threatened species live now and the environments they will adapt to. In attuning to these changes, we participate in their collective sounds for an interspecies future.
AUDIO AVIARY is a bird sound installation at Gund Hall. In opposition to its colonial history of capture and ecological conquest, this Aviary is positioned not a technology of capture. It is instead a sort of telephone. Public participants use the installation to call, sing, to surrounding birds. Speakers then transmit ‘citizen’-recorded sounds from Cape Ann to Cambridge — rehearsing a call, between the places where threatened species live now and the environments they will adapt to. In attuning to these changes, we participate in their collective sounds for an interspecies future.
