Sandipan Nath

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on show in Rijksmuseum Twenthe for exhibition Terra Libera : Who owns the (flat)land?

Machines for Self Care, 2023
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’Ways of Landmaking’ asks what if we treat ourselves as land whose gestures are being harvested? For centuries the gestures of cows, farmers and the soil made landscapes into the lush meadows we are slowly but surely ceasing to admire. Massive transitions in our food systems will retire their bodies and welcome a new historic chapter of “land-building”. But our bodies, and the gestures with which we used to imagine and design our lives with the land have been largely displaced by technologies. How can we retrieve these gestures that our bodies no longer perform? How can we learn new ones?

Ways of Landmaking, 2023
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In this participatory audiovisual performance, visitors are encouraged to readout various English language texts into a microphone. A machine learning model tries to classify and categorize their voice, tonality and accent in an attempt to produce a speech profile for every word uttered. At the same time, the performer(s) hacks into various inaccessible online archives and databases in an attempt to retrieve accent and speech related materials. A live audiovisual composition created through archival and machine learning imaginations.

DataTone (AV Performance), 2023
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Ocean Bloom is an environmental narrative stimulated by the idea of one being trapped in a sonic storm , a giant circular whirl in the depths of the ocean. The audiovisual experience employs sonic allegory as a narrative tool to present an encounter between the biophony and the anthrophony of the North Sea, creating a new space for dialogue and understanding. A site-specific, spatio temporal composition of light and sound which explores the politics and practices of listening to more-than-human worlds.

Ocean Bloom - Rotterdam Art 2022, 2022
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Steel, Petri dishes, agar, pigment and lights

Into Thin Air, 2022
Mixed Media, 4 * 4 * 5 meters
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Steel, Petri dishes, agar, pigment and lights

Into Thin Air, 2022
Mixed Media, 4 * 4 * 5 meters
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Ocean Boom - Rotterdam Art 2022, 2022
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Ocean Boom - Rotterdam Art 2022, 2022
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Steel, Petri dishes, agar, pigment and lights

Into Thin Air, 2022
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Steel, Petri dishes, agar, pigment and lights

Into Thin Air, 2022
Mixed Media, 4 * 4 * 5 meters
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Ocean Boom - Rotterdam Art 2022, 2022
Ocean Bloom @ v2_Lab Snippet (Binaural) :

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This is a snippet from Ocean Bloom Tryday exhibition at v2_Lab for Unstable Media, Rotterdam on 23rd of July, 2021. The soundscape is based on the theme : Disturbance as a creative force. The focus is on the possibility of uncomfortable sounds or ‘disturbances’ to overcome the human/non-human dichotomy. Uncomfortable sounds are just not noise, they refer to unpleasant events and affective situations that result as disturbing or uncanny, even when they are not exactly accounted as noisy. Man made underwater sonic events such as sonar pulses, turbine motors, airguns etc. are spatialized and moved in an arrangement of speakers as audience explore a volumetric sound space.

Ocean Bloom @ v2_Lab Snippet (Binaural) : , 2021
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Spatial Sound + Light Installation, 8 Audio Channels

Ocean Bloom - @v2_Lab, 2021
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Spatial Sound + Light Installation, 8 Audio Channels

Ocean Bloom - @v2_Lab, 2021
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Sandipan Nath talks about his project Interference 53°N,42°E - v2.0 and his experience with 2020 Summer Sessions Residency at v2_Lab, Rotterdam

Interview with v2_Lab for Unstable Media, 2020
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Interference 53°N,42°E @ See Lab, The Hague

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This is a snippet form Interference 53°N,42°E exhibitted at See Lab, The Hague in July 2020. The tension charged noise symphony is generated real time as people step into the exhibition. The soundscape generated by the interaction is a unique culmination of polyrhythmic marine bioacoustics and human generated noise. A custom made software tracks the audience and recomposes the sound based on their position.

Interference 53°N,42°E @ See Lab, The Hague, 2020
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Graduation Project 2020 - Master Industrial Design, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague

Interference 53°N,42°E, 2020
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Interactive projection mapping , 4 Audio Channels

Interference 53°N,42°E [V1.0], 2020
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Audiovisual Installation, 8 Audio Channels

INTERFERENCE 53 N,42 E (v2.0), 2020
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Interactive projection mapping , 4 Audio Channels

Interference 53°N,42°E [V1.0], 2020
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Interactive projection mapping , 4 Audio Channels

Interference 53°N,42°E [V1.0], 2020
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Audiovisual Installation, 8 Audio Channels

INTERFERENCE 53 N,42 E (v2.0), 2020
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Spatial Sound + Light Installation, 8 Audio Channels

Ocean Bloom - @v2_Lab, 2017

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Are you sure they are your feelings?

Sandipan Nath (India, 1991) is an artist and educator based in the Hague, specializing in multimedia installations, sound art and audiovisual performances. In his artistic practice, Nath explores his own emotional landscape and personal relationship to technology and faith, of material and immaterial worlds.

Websites

Artist Website

www.sandipan.nl

Artist Collective Website

www.touchystudios.com

Social media

www.instagram.com/sandipan_/

Member of Artists’ Initiative/Collective/Incubator

Touchy Studios

Curriculum vitae

Education

2018 - 2020

Master Industrial Design Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
2011 - 2015

Electronics and Communication Engineering National Institute of Technology, Silchar - India diploma

exhibitions

2023

Imaginary Terrains Instrument inventors initiative The Hague, Netherlands Imaginary Terrains invites South Asian artists and researchers to collect and compose thoughts and memories of an unclear dissection of the subcontinent: of relics of an erased history, of the pencil that scattered the soil, of the soil that dissolved our grandmothers grave into the river, of the river that cries when the মেছা ভূত (mechhobhoot) arrives, of longing for the whispers that lie in the trunk of the lace-fita hawker. instrumentinventors.org/agenda/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95-%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE-kalponik-rekha-imaginary-terrains/ Group
2023

Terra Libera. Whose is the (flat)land? Rijksmuseum Twenthe Twenthe, Netherlands In the public event 'Who Owns the (Platte)land', Rijksmuseum Twenthe explores how people have cultivated the land and made it useful for themselves in the past centuries, and what the consequences of this are today. 'Who Owns the (Platte)land' consists of three exhibitions, artistic research and an extensive programme of activities. This accompanying publication contains an overview of the various exhibitions and the works on display. In addition, various essays discuss the theme of the project and the artistic research carried out by various artists within the framework of the project. www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl/content/3494/en/tentoonstelling-1-terra-libera Group
2023

Ways of Landmaking + Quantum Reading The Grey Space in the Middle The Hague, Netherlands ’Ways of Landmaking’ asks what if we treat ourselves as land whose gestures are being harvested? For centuries the gestures of cows, farmers and the soil made landscapes into the lush meadows we are slowly but surely ceasing to admire. Massive transitions in our food systems will retire their bodies and welcome a new historic chapter of “land-building”. But our bodies, and the gestures with which we used to imagine and design our lives with the land have been largely displaced by technologies. How can we retrieve these gestures that our bodies no longer perform? How can we learn new ones? thegreyspace.net/program/sandipan-nath/ Solo
2022

The New Current - Rotterdam Art Week 2022 Max Euwelaan 31 Rotterdam, Netherlands The New Current is a platform for talented young artists that goes beyond solely presenting artworks and focuses on opening up the art world for a new generation. www.thenewcurrent.org/ Group
2022

School for MultiSpecies Knowledges Zone2Source Amsterdam, Netherlands The Amstelpark becomes an alternative learning environment in which artists, designers and researchers from various disciplinary and cultural backgrounds come together to search for practices, knowledge and technologies that emerge from post-humanist and post-anthropocentric discourses to rethink the relation we have to our environment. What tactics do we need for – as philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers calls it – an ‘ecology of practices’, in which multi-sensory embodied knowledge and care become part of our relationship to nature again? What do we actually mean by embodied knowledge and multi-species communities—how do you do that, how does that feel, what does it take, and what behaviors and experiences are part of it? We experiment in the park and use rhythm analysis (often applied in urban planning) as an alternative method to tune in to the different rhythms of living organisms. As a previous location for an international horticultural exhibition, the Floriade of 1972, the Amstelpark is the perfect place to learn new stories, experiences and practices for nature-cultures. zone2source.net/en/event/exhibition-programme-school-for-multispecies-knowledges/ Group
2021

Ocean Bloom - Tryday V2_Lab for the Unstable Media Rotterdam, Netherlands Making use of 4DSOUND software, the installation explores spatial sound as a medium for accessing hearing underwater. Using sound holograms as dimensional objects in space, the work invites visitors to experience spatial depth and dimensionality in all directions, as in an underwater sonic environment. Together with composer and media artist Sól Ey, Sandipan Nath seeks to address the possibility of uncomfortable sounds and disturbances to overcome the decentralization of human primacy, opening up to nonhuman and material agencies. v2.nl/events/tryday-sandipan-nath-ocean-bloom/?searchterm=ocean%20bloom Solo
2020

The New Intimacy Dutch Design Week 2020 Eindhoven, Netherlands nterference 53°N,42°E is a research project dealing with human generated underwater noise pollution in the North Sea. With three different iterations (v1.0, v2.0 and v3.0), it focuses on different multimedia and multisensory ways to represent and experience the chaotic underwater sonic environment. ddw.nl/en/programme/personal/3904/interference-530n420e Group
2020

KUNSTAVOND XL: SUMMER SESSIONS 2020 v2_Lab for the Unstable Media Rotterdam, Netherlands nterference 53°N,42°E - (v2.0) focuses in particular on shipping noise which directly overlaps the frequency band of acoustic communication used by many marine animals. Using recordings made near the shores of Texel, Interference 53°N,42°E aims to produce indicative data for mapping the distribution and directionality of continuous underwater noise in the North Sea v2.nl/archive/works/interference-53degn-42dege?searchterm=interfe Group

Projects

2023
DataTone Sandipan Nath The Hague, Netherlands sandipan.nl/DataTone-2023 In this participatory audiovisual performance, visitors are encouraged to readout various English language texts into a microphone. A machine learning model tries to classify and categorize their voice, tonality and accent in an attempt to produce a speech profile for every word uttered. At the same time, the performer(s) hacks into various inaccessible online archives and databases in an attempt to retrieve accent and speech related materials. A live audiovisual composition created through archival and machine learning imaginations.
2023
Ways of Landmaking Sandipan Nath The Hague, Netherlands sandipan.nl/Ways-of-Landmaking-2023 Ways of Landmaking asks what if we treat ourselves as land whose gestures are being harvested? For centuries the gestures of cows, farmers and the soil made landscapes into the lush meadows we are slowly but surely ceasing to admire. Massive transitions in our food systems will retire their bodies and welcome a new historic chapter of “land-building”. But our bodies, and the gestures with which we used to imagine and design our lives with the land have been largely displaced by technologies. How can we retrieve these gestures that our bodies no longer perform? How can we learn new ones?
2022
Machines for Self Care Sandipan Nath The Hague, Netherlands sandipan.nl/Machines-for-Self-Care-2023 With ‘Machines for self care’, Sandipan develops Samar’s philosophical fieldwork “Listening, with dairy cows” where they learn to harness muted human sensory capacities to access the conversations that cows have amongst themselves and with their environments. Using metaphors, parables and vicarious encounters with the farms’ rhythms, the work involves viewers in forms of expression possible at farms.
2021
Ocean Bloom Sandipan Nath Den Haag / Rotterdam, Netherlands stimuleringsfonds.nl/nl/toekenningen/ocean_bloom/6463/ Making use of 4DSOUND software, the installation explores spatial sound as a medium for accessing hearing underwater. Using sound holograms as dimensional objects in space, the work invites visitors to experience spatial depth and dimensionality in all directions, as in an underwater sonic environment. Together with composer and media artist Sól Ey, Sandipan Nath seeks to address the possibility of uncomfortable sounds and disturbances to overcome the decentralization of human primacy, opening up to nonhuman and material agencies.
2020
INTERFERENCE 53 N,42 E - v2.0 V2_Institute for the Unstable Media and Nederlands Instituut Voor Beeld en Geluid Den Haag / Rotterdam, Netherlands v2.nl/archive/works/interference-53degn-42dege?searchterm=interfe As visitors interact with the installation, their movement data is fed into a custom ambisonic sound engine which creates a three dimensional sound field based on spherical harmonic expansions of the field. With an 8-channel 3D surround sound and full HD projectors, a real-time space mapping is created. The soundscape generated by the interaction is a unique culmination of polyrhythmic marine bioacoustics and human generated noise recorded near the shores of Texel. By intertwining space, sound and image, the installation makes an appeal to create an embodied feeling of the noise pollution marine animals experience everyday.
2020
INTERFERENCE 53 N,42 E - v1.0 Sandipan Nath Den Haag, Netherlands graduation2020.kabk.nl/students/sandipan-nath Interference 53°N,42°E is an interactive and immersive audio-visual installation that uses the metaphor of ship traffic in the North Sea to critically investigate the effects of anthropogenic underwater noise pollution. The work focuses on shipping noise in particular which directly overlaps the frequency band of acoustic communication signals used by many marine animals. The coordinates in the name is the location (Texel, Netherlands) where the noise were recorded over the course of 2 years starting January 2018.

International exchanges/Residencies

2024

Berlin School of Sound Berlin, Germany "Generative Music Production in Max and Max for Live" offers a unique opportunity for sound artists, musicians, and electronic music producers to immerse themselves in the world of algorithmic composition and interactive sonic environments. It is designed to foster experimentation and innovation in generative music. Participants will delve into the intricacies of Max/MSP and Max for Live, learning to create dynamic and evolving musical systems that can generate unique compositions in real-time. The program will encourage artists to push the boundaries of traditional music production, exploring how code and algorithms can be harnessed to create ever-changing sonic landscapes. www.berlinschoolofsound.com/
2022

Zone2Source Amsterdam, Netherlands The School for MultiSpecies Knowledges is a multi-year project organized by Zone2Source with Irina Shapiro from Open Set . Together with participants and the public, the School explores new learning environments to rethink our relationship with other organisms and the consequences for the way we live together. The results will be bundled into an exhibition and a series of workshops and discussions. The previous edition of the School for MultiSpecies Knowledges took place on May 27, 2021 for day #1 , and June 28, 2021 for day #2 . The next School for MultiSpecies Knowledges will take place during the Shadow Floriade from May 16 – July 3, 2022. The open call for the School is currently open , click here for more information and the application criteria. zone2source.net/en/school-of-multispecies-knowledges-2/
2020

Summer Sessions, Network for Talent Development [V2_Lab for Unstable Media & MoTA] Rotterdam, Netherlands The Summer Sessions are short-term international art and technology residencies for emerging artists and designers. A network of cultural organizations all over the world sponsors and hosts the residencies. v2.nl/events/summer-sessions-2020

Commissions

2025

Dancing in the Frame Next Nature Museum Eindhoven, Netherlands More and more young people move within the small frame of their phone screen, especially on TikTok. Even while dancing, they unconsciously stay within an imaginary frame to create the perfect video. Dancing in the Frame brings this to life. Step into a life-sized phone and experience the limits of the digital frame yourself. Sensors in the frame detect when you move beyond the edges and trigger a signal. This way, you’ll feel how your freedom is restricted by the screen—even when you think you're moving freely. nextnature.org/nl/museum/digital-wellness-center finished
2022

Into Thin Air Stichting Schemerlicht Nijmegen, Netherlands Into Thin Air, a mixed-media sculpture that forms an urban air archive and floating microbial ecosystem. It consists of an impressive curtain of thousands of petri dishes that represent a cross-section of layers of air. Hidden in the layers are dishes with agar that capture invisible particles in the air and thus represent the microbial footprint of the Goffertpark. By making this shared reality visible, visitors become aware of the invisible pet animals that constantly surround us. That sheds new light on the relationship between our bodies and our environment, allowing us to rethink what it means to be human. schemerlichtfestival.nl/ finished
2021

Data West 2021 Tante Netty Eindhoven, Netherlands Data Art commissioned for a Social Design project in the district of Woensel West, Eindhoven. tantenetty.nl/project/open-call-data-west/
2021

Spatial Audio Toolkit - Immersive Environments Redrum Bureau B.V. Ede, Netherlands As part of Bouwen aan talent 2021 programme (Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie ) together with Redrum Bureau, Sandipan is building tool-sets to create large textured soundscapes that explore space, movement, and interaction. As part of the research track, he is also exploring the use of gestural control to create improvised spatial audio experiences. The goal is to develope a multi-use platform for interactive audio-visual installations for a wide range of applications in museums, learning environments and commercial spaces. www.redrumbureau.com/

Publications

2024

Listening: a Research Method in Art and Design Book KABK Lectorate Design Alice Twemlow The Hague, Netherlands www.kabk.nl/en/lectorates/design/listening-a-research-method-in-art-design-2 The 240-page full-colour publication, designed by Niels Schraderand edited by Alice Twemlow, contains a rich array of essays, Q&As, and project reflections contributed by members of the extended KABK research community who have met and discussed the content at Design Lectorate Research Clubs during the previous year.
2022

The interactive installation by Jeroen Snik and Sandipan Nath Catalog Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Jeroen Junte Rotterdam, Netherlands

reviews

2023

Ocean Bloom, light and sound deep immersion Magazine Neural Italy neural.it/2023/04/ocean-bloom-light-and-sound-deep-immersion/ This Neural.it article reviews Sandipan Nath's "Ocean Bloom," an immersive light and sound installation. It explores how the project creates a deep sensory experience, delving into the intersection of art, technology, and environmental awareness through sonic allegory.
2020

Video interview with Sandipan Nath about his 2020 Summer Sessions project. Website v2_Lab for Unstable Media Rotterdam, Netherlands vimeo.com/469710933 Sandipan Nath talks about his project Interference 53°N,42°E - v2.0 and his experience with 2020 Summer Sessions Residency at v2_Lab, Rotterdam

Awards and grants

2023

Maker’s Scheme - Ways of Landmaking Gemeente Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands The "Makersregeling Gemeente Den Haag" is a grant program that supports artists and performers in The Hague by providing financial resources to foster their artistic development under the guidance of a cultural organization.
2023

Quantum’s Got Talent Waag Futurelab Amsterdam, Netherlands Quantum's Got Talent aims to explore connections between music, sound and audiovisual art and quantum physics through artistic experimentation, resulting in live performances, exhibitions, installations and other types of interactions with Dutch audiences.
2023

Talent Development Scheme Creative Industries Fund, NL Rotterdam, Netherlands For the artistic and professional development of emerging designers and makers active in the field of design, architecture or digital culture and the cross-overs between them.
2023

PRO Research - Machines for Self Care (sinds 2004) Stroom, Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands A meeting with a linguist that listens to cows inspired Samar to conduct fieldwork at Utrecht local dairy farm. Amongst many lessons from the dairy cows, by the end of their fieldwork, Samar had inadvertently learnt to feel plants.
2022

Pro Kunstprojecten for Ocean Bloom (sinds 2004) Stroom, Den Haag Den Haag, Netherlands
2022

Start-up Subsidy Digital Culture - Hxr Voice Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Rotterdam, Netherlands
2022

Start subsidy Digital Culture- DataTone Creative Industries Fund, NL Rotterdam, Netherlands With a focus on staging encounters with algorithms,DataTone wants to bring forward the creative agency of machine learning algorithms outside the realm of data extraction, colonialism, capital accumulation, automation, control and bias.
2021

Building talent 2021 Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Rotterdam, Netherlands With Building talent , the Stimulation Fund wants to strengthen the connection of starting makers and designers with the professional field and support the professional field by creating extra space for in-depth research and experiment. In this way, the fund aims to contribute to strengthening knowledge, experience, the network and entrepreneurship of starters.
2020

Master Industrial Design Award Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands Award for the best project - Master Industrial Design - Graduation 2020
2020

Start-up Subsidy Digital Culture - Ocean Bloom Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Rotterdam, Netherlands With the Digital Culture Grant Scheme, the Creative Industries Fund NL supports projects that contribute to the quality, development or understanding of the field of digital culture. The scheme is in line with the Fund's objectives to promote the development of artistic quality, to stimulate experiment and research and to support reflection and debate.

Secondary art-related activities

2022 - 2022

Steering Committee - Soundings 2022, Akademie der Künste Berlin On-going
2021 - 2021

Curation - Lecture Series - Origin and ideologies of design by Master Industrial Design Department, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague On-going