Rajat Sharma
MA in Media Arts and Practices, ALUMNI AU
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Rajat is a visual artist from Delhi, having finished his Masters in Media Arts and Practices from AU, UNG. Mostly dealing in disciplines of Films, Video Art, Printmaking and Digital Collages, his projects locate harmony between digital and analogue workflows. The political implications of his art do not rest on the reproduction of the subject matter but alter the social (and historical) reality through new modes of representation. These are not centred around replicating reality as one experiences it in our everyday lives but expose the contradictions of reality, thus revealing that social reality is not natural but perhaps subject to change. This formal abstraction allows him to politicise the aspects of social life one considers unquestionable.
2020-present: Interdisciplinary PhD at University of Ljubljana (Filozofska Fakulteta and AGRFT)
2018: Graduated in MA in Media Arts and Practices from AU, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia (Exchange semester in Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest and Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka)
2015: M.F.Tech. from NIFT, New Delhi, India
2013: Graduated in Bachelor’s of Technology (Mechanical and Automation) from GGS Indraprastha University , New Delhi, India
References
EXHIBITIONS:
• “Churchill’s rabbits”, Digital collage, Decolonise your Body, BPC New York, November 2019
• “Loading Europa” and “How it feels”, Digital collage gif, STIFF GIF festival, SKC Rijeka, October 2019
• “The right last supper”, Digital collage, Hiša Layer, Kranj (Slovenia), June-August 2019
• “Oda Konsumerisma”, Cyanotype triptych, Timisoara (Romania), September 2018
• “Genesis Mitosis”, Experimental Video Film, Exploited Reality (Town Hall Arts), Trowbridge (UK), March 2017
• “La chambre des cauchemars”, Digital collage, Micro/Macro, SKC Rijeka (Croatia), July 2016
• “Hospitality”, Performance, Art on the Street Market, Lublin (Poland) June 2016
• “Babylon”, “Ignoranza Humana”, “Cold Meat”, Selected short films, KINO-OTOK, Izola (Slovenia), June 2016,
2018,2019
• “Je Suis Refugee”, Site specific intervention/performance, Budapest (Hungary), May 2016
• ”Collective memory”, Experimental audiovisual, Mapping the local exhibition (Telep), FOOTnotes
(Kisuzem),-,Budapest, May 2016
• Pixxelpoint, Multimedia exhibition, MGNG, Nova Gorica (Slovenia), November 2015
• Wasteland, Site-specific/performance, New Delhi (India), August 2014
INTERNSHIPS:
• Video Intern/Film Mentor for KINOATLEJE, June-September 2017.
• Video diarist at the BUSHO festival, July-June 2016.
(Budapest Short film festival)
WORKSHOPS:
• Mentored ‘Yallah workshop’ for young migrant film makers, Hamburg 2019
• Innsbruck Film campus-2018
• Seminar on ‘Postcolonial gender Identity’ at Collective Ground – Symposium on the Notions of Sameness, Gorica
2018
• My Machine-2016
• IDEATE- 2016