Sayak Shome

Sayak Shome, born on July 28, 1990, is an interdisciplinary artist from Durgapur, West Bengal, India. He has a BTech degree in Electronics and Communications engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology, India and an MFA degree from the University of Cincinnati, US, where he learned about interdisciplinary art practices/theories. His work there has been part of several exhibitions or performances, in places such as the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, The Carnegie, Covington and the University of Georgia, Athens in the US, to name a few. He has also taught multiple Art and Filmmaking undergraduate courses in the US, before his student visa ran out. He likes exploring and thinking about the di/in-gestion of stimuli across the digital-real divide/multi(ap)plication. He sometimes presents his observations, experiments or imaginations in the form of digital files, codes, objects, projections or installations. The idea of oceans(of data) being held in glasses(servers) amuses him. If someday all the digitals were to be made material, would it completely (land)fill up the planet, he wonders. When one becomes a flickering hologram, perpetually displaced across the digital real estate, where time is archived in such a way that existence is atemporal, how do they metamorphose?