K. Moss 

(formerly working under the name Sultana Zana) 

 

kmoss.mois@gmail.com

https://whattt.cargo.site

https://kaldimoss.github.io/home.io/

 

Artistic Director, Walkin Studios

Co-founder of NOTAAT

Member of noise band Cynk Collective

Residencies and Grants

2022    Invited artist at Live Arts workshop, Khoj International Artists’ association

2022    Invited artist in residence at Hertz Lab, ZKM, Karlsruhe as part of Bangalore-Expanded residency program

2020    Recipient of a grant from Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and is being realised within the framework of Five Million Incidents 2019-2020

2019    Artist in Residence at ShopArt residency, 4Tables Project, Gunehar, Himachal Pradesh

 

Work

2023    Presentation and performance at hack4play, Forlay society, Kochi

2022    A study of thick and thin sounds

Live spatial concert as part Wetspace Noise Drips 1.0 - A two day sonic exploration.

Walkin studios, Bangalore. Nov 2022

2022    Moist

Installation and immersive environment 

Open day, Live arts Workshop, Khoj, New Delhi  Oct 2022

2022    Fieldness 2.0

Sonic ecological smartphone based platform, showcased as part of exhibition ‘Disturbing the Balance’. Base, Milan, Italy. Sep 2022

2022    Now is the only time, Where are you?

Spatial sound composition performed at the KUBUS, ZKM, Karlsruhe concert after a one-month residency at the Hertz Lab, ZKM, Karlsruhe

ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. March 2022

2021    Fool Meme as part of Terrain.Art exhibition Dreams.exe. Aug 2021

2020    Fieldness A blockchain-based ecological platform 

The project is a recipient of a grant from Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and is being realised within the framework of Five Million Incidents 2019-2020.  January 2020 - present

2020    Of the Millions of Possibilities  

Multi channel sound and video installation as part of the exhibition ‘WE ARE STILL ALIVE’  

India International Centre, Delhi.  January 2020

2019    The Earth lab  

Artistic research lab which led to the film ‘All the lines became invisible’ as part of the ShopArt Residency. Gunehar, Himachal Pradesh.  June 2019 ; Interaccess, Canada Oct 2020

2018    Heaven 2.0 

Multimedia installation using sound, video, hologram, QR code and a web address.

As a part of the show THE FUTURE IS HERE curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala. 

Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai January 2019

 

2018    Landscapes 

2 channel video installation with raspberry pi, camera, monitors, microscope, samples and film.

Part of the show Ecology and the Metropolis curated by Vivek Chockalingam. 

Walkin Studios, Bangalore August 2018

2018    Wa 

Film and text Installation. As a part of the show Ging-Bang curated by Vivek Chockalingam. 

Walkin Studios, Bangalore June 2018

2018    And then, 

Sound performance and installation with hay, logs, tree roots and mushrooms..

Shoonya-Centre for Art and Somatic Practices. Bangalore, May 2018

2018    Watermelon

Sound performance with hay, wood logs, plants, and 13 watermelons. Powercut Edition 2, Bangalore.  April 2018

2018    Flower 

Sound performance with hay, tree roots, plants and a flower. Partly Purple, Yelahanka, Bangalore. Mar 2018

2017    Scene after words

Screen prints, two microphones and a speaker. One Shanthi Road, Bangalore. Aug 2017

Collaborative works 

2023    Wetspace Noise Drips 2.0

Organized and conducted an immersive audio-visual event as part of Walkin Studios’ outpost at Kochi inviting 10 artists over two days. Forplay Society, Kochi.  11 - 12 March 2023

2022    Wetspace Noise Drips 1.0

Organized and conducted a spatial sonic event in collaboration with Sofy Yudiskta and Walkin Studios with live acts and sound installations by 16 artists over two days. 4- 5 Nov 2022

2021    PublicDomain.Garden

Co-directed public domain.garden as part of Walkin Studios. It is part of the studios’  2021-22 framework for research and curation. October 2021 - Ongoing

2022    Sonicular 

Performance by Cynk collective at Forplay Society, Kochi, 17 Dec 2022

2021    Take what you need

Collaborative work with Avril Stormy Unger as part of Antifreeze - an exhibition curated by Beth Troaks at the LockIn Gallery, Brighton, UK. Oct 2021

2021    Creation of Birds (NOTAAT)

Web-based work exploring human and non human languages using machine-learning algorithms, image sensing and performance of our bodies

The work was shown at the ELO conference in May-June 2021

2021    Meaning to Walk 

Video work In collaboration with Vivek Chokalingham.  Mind Over Matter, Dresden, Germany  January- Mar 2021

2019    OSCILNATION Session 0  

Multi-channel sound performance using code, analog instruments and objects by Cynk Collective. Walkin studios, Bangalore.  December 2019

Workshop (conducted)

2023    Intro to Pure Data - 3 day workshop at ABC Art Room, Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022-23

3-5 Feb 2023, Cabral Yard, Kochi

Workshops (participated)

2022    IRCAM FORUM, Paris, March 2022

2019    Artistic dissidences - workshop with Eva Bonilla and Fernando Jeminez from AV-FLOSS at MediaLab Prado in Spain  Jaaga, Bangalore, Jul 2019

2019    Cyanotype workshop with Ria Rajan at Walkin Studios, Bangalore, Jul 2019

2019    Residency at Nalanda Lab, Wardha with Marc Lee and Abhiyan Humane, Jan 2019

2018    Wild City’s Women in electronic music : with Rahul Giri and Rachel Collier. Bangalore, Apr 2018

2016    Workshop at Isro with Cathy Lane and Viv Corringham at ISRO , Feb 2018

 

Reviews and Interviews

2023    Stirworld: Talks on art, tech and law 'Align & Disrupt' conversations at IAF 2023

2023    Livemint: The future of tech-art is human

2022    Interview with Inka Magazine - Karlsruhe city magazine (print)

2022    India Art Fair panel : Artistic Practice: Mediatic Environments

2021    Reverence for spaces in-between, Interview with Compost digital online magazine

2021    Creatrix Mag: Touching the Unknown

2021    Deep fried neurons podcast: Ecological Footprints of Colonisation and Anthropocene Interventions

2020    InterAccess, Toronto: Sustainable Approaches to Making - panel discussion

2019    Indian Express: Artist Sultana Zana on her new project in the Himalayas that focuses on the conflict between man and nature

2019    Hindustan times : Decoding chaos 

 

Education

Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology

M.Cr.A (Contemporary Art Practice)

July 2016 - July 2018

 

JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida

August  2011 - May 2015

B. tech (Electronics and Instrumentation)

 

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior

Nanotechnology Research 2014-15