Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an artist, media practitioner, researcher, and writer. Incorporating diverse media, creative technologies and research, Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale installation and live performance addressing contemporary issues of environment and ecology, migration, race and decoloniality. Chattopadhyay has received numerous residencies, fellowships, and international awards, e.g. PRIX Ars Electronica 2011, Computer Space Festival 2014, Confluence 2021. His works have been widely exhibited, performed or presented across the globe, and released by Gruenrekorder (DE) and Touch (UK). Chattopadhyay has an expansive body of scholarly publications in the areas of media art history, theory and aesthetics, cinema and sound studies in leading peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of four books including The Nomadic Listener (2020), The Auditory Setting (2021), and Between the Headphones (2021). Chattopadhyay holds a PhD in Artistic Research and Sound Studies from Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, and an MA in New Media from the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University.
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Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
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Join IXDM.distro at I Never Read art book fair in Basel on June 13 at 5:30 pm for a launch of the latest publications from the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures.
Friday, 24th May 2024
Critical Media Lab & online
What kind of education is needed to support biodiversity in landscapes, and to develop practices of environmental justice? Building on Leanne Simpson’s evocation of land as pedagogy, this one-day workshop explores practices that align with Indigenous land-based knowledge transmission principles, aiming to take land as a source of knowledge, a way of grounding a system of reciprocal social relations and ethical practices.
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
Colloquium session with Audio Leakage Community, a group of artists and scholars who share their various perspectives on the critical agency of leakages. Hosted by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay.
28 August – 3 September 2023
Continuing Education programme on listening as a creative and critical practice, led by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and guest lecturer Brandon LaBelle.
Our institute and transmediale are launching a new partnership for the 2023 festival edition a model, a map, a fiction.
1–5 February 2023
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
IXDM invites everyone to join us for the inaugural lectures by our new Head of Research Helen V. Pritchard, and Visting Professors Viktor Bedö and Budhaditya Chattopadhyay.
Funded by the Practice-to-Science grant of SNSF.