23 January 2024 08:33 am Views - 95
1. Tell us a little about yourself?
2. Describe your work for Colomboscope 2024- its ties with the theme - Way of the Forest?
3. What's the inspiration behind the work?
4. What is your signature style in your art?
5. What are you looking forward to at Colomboscope and what do you hope people would take away from your work?
Roshan: I am an art director and concept artist with a background in digital media- game development being foundational to my growth as a designer. Storytelling is an integral aspect of my creative process and projects that require world building through character and environment design have always captured my interest.
Ecophora uses custom laser-cut stencils around various forms of moving LED lights. Sonar-based sensors track the movement of visitors through the space and channel behaviours through mesh-networked hardware distributed around the space. This project was inspired by cross-disciplinary exchange and the pop-culture mythology of human-nature coexistence and an experiment in exchanging methods for mutual learning.
Pankaja’s original concept was an installation inspired by the dynamic lighting elements of a traditional Thorana. This evolved over the course of several months and iterations in an exchange of ideas between Pankaja and Roshan before arriving in its current form - a narrative we hope you can experience.
Pankaja: My values in new media art revolve around community, collaboration and experimentation. Working with other artists to learn from how they think and use their tools gives life to new experiments that eventually turn into projects.
Roshan: I love the concept of inviting discussion and debate through playful and satirical work. I'm attempting to use graphic design and illustrative character design to this end; I doodle concepts of contention between contemporary and traditional views to create TechnoMythical personas. I'm a big fan of bold sketch-work and engaging with a community of similar explorers!
Pankaja: Over the past few months through Colomboscope workshops and other social events, I have met fascinating people and developed new perspectives, both in my artistic practice and in how I approach my life. I believe the upcoming festival will help me do more of the same and I hope I can spark ideas of new possibilities in others as they have done for me.
Roshan: I’ve been an enthusiastic visitor to Colomboscope for the past few years and this time,with encouragement from Pankaja and support from other artists, I'm excited to collaborate and contribute. There is an entire forest of extremely cool creative visions built by my contemporaries, and I'd love to venture in and learn.
We share a strong belief in the idea that our work must speak for itself; without the aid of an artist’s statement or wall text. We hope we are successful in this with our installation at Colomboscope this year and we’d love to hear from visitors what they've taken away from or felt within the space at Ecophora.
Colomboscope 2024 will take place 19 – 28 January. For more details and information on the lineup visit https://www.colomboscope.lk/