K. Moss
(formerly working under the name Sultana Zana)
kmoss.mois@gmail.com
https://kaldimoss.github.io/home.io/
Artistic Director, Walkin Studios
Co-founder of NOTAAT
Member of noise band Cynk Collective
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
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
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
Multi-channel sound performance using code, analog instruments and objects by Cynk Collective. Walkin studios, Bangalore. December 2019
2023 Intro to Pure Data - 3 day workshop at ABC Art Room, Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022-23
3-5 Feb 2023, Cabral Yard, Kochi
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
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