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selected digital art works:
FROM H TO O (2003) interactive single-screen digital multimedia installation Sole artist, director, production, post-production, authoring A range of dramatic scenarios in which dysentery affects a young woman to varying degrees, from almost no illness to near death. Each is split into beginnings, middles and ends which must be configured through the windows of a fruit-machine game format.
REKINDLE (2003) interactive video works on five touch-screens Sole artist, director, production, post-production, authoring People and poets converse with diverse historical objects through imaginative and dramatic oral response using scratch-film digital effects. Permanent display at the Manchester Museum.
META-MOTION (2002) interactive art CD-ROM installation and published work. Sole artist-director, production, co-post-production/authoring Non-linear narratives on the parallel mental, physical and material preparations and self-discipline for both athletes and community endeavours, a Commonwealth Games 2002 artists’ commission/exhibition.
TERMINAL FRONTIERS (2002-5) Series of digital art installations Lead artist-director, co-production/post-production/authoring A collaborative digital art project for Virtual Migrants with Keith Piper which will produce multimedia art works about asylum and globalisation. Shown at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (Sept 2002) and the ICA, London (Oct 2002). Includes the acclaimed 3-screen installation WHAT IF I’M NOT REAL.
BOUNDLESS SKY (2002) 3-screen multimedia-video installation Director, co-production, all post-production A semi-animated self-searching journey for a contemporary Bharat Natyam dancer inspired by the process of athleticism, fused with digital graphics and fine-ink drawings. 2002 tour including The Lowry (M’chester), St Georges Hall (Liverpool), Leeds Armoury, Luton Airport, and Chatsworth House (Derbyshire). (Single-screen compiled version also available).
WE ARE HERE… (2001) Interactive educational CD-ROM published work. Co-director, co-production/post-production, co-author/programmer An educational resource exploring immigration and asylum in Britain, for Virtual Migrants Assoc. exhibited in Manchester and Birmingham in 2001 and on sale via Virtual Migrants Assoc.
OBSERVE-INTERPRET-REACT (2001) Multimedia video and web-based series of works. Digital video production/post-production & web co-production/authoring Commissioned by Manchester United Football Club exploring cultural diversity and sport, comprising video works and a website. Co-produced as the first residency artists to work with Man. Utd., includes my film FROM PUNJAB TO FOOTBALL as the focal work premiered at the Manchester United Museum.
RESONANT REFLECTIONS (2000) Interactive CD-ROM published work. Sole artist - all roles and authoring An extension of 'Resonance' in response to the 'Virtual Revolutions' pan-European artists collaboration (1998-2000). Published on FACT’s "VR: ACT and READ" artists CD-ROM.
RESONANCE (1999) Digital multimedia and video installation. Sole artist - all development, production roles and post-production/authoring A commissioned multi-screen installation and CD-ROM linking migrant settlers in Britain with the colonial and industrial legacy that brought them here. Exhibited at galleries/festivals in Oldham, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Sheffield, London, Ohio (USA), & Paris (for ISEA2000).
47-97 NACH-URAL STRUGGLE (1997) Interactive CD-ROM installation. Lead Artist & Project Director. How a law of gravity relates to anti-colonial/anti-racist struggles focusing on the 50 years since South Asian Independence in 1947. For Video-Positive97 plus tour incl. Glasgow, Preston, Birmingham and London.
EVEN AS WE SPEAK (1995) Multi-screen video/slide/audio installation. Project director & collaborating artist A collage of thoughts about race and identity within an Asian context, with artists Shaheen Merali and Mukhtar Dar. For Video-Positive95 and featured on FACT's "SHARED EXPERIENCE" CD-ROM.