Gaurav Singh Nijjer (b. 1994, New Delhi) is an Indian performance-maker, creative technologist and multidisciplinary designer who creates hybrid, interactive and multilingual artistic experiences. His artistic practice often looks at digital futures, climate change, posthumanism, and reimagining classic literature in modern, immersive formats, bringing 'live' technologies onto the stage. He is one-half of the Indian arts collective Kaivalya Plays and also collaborates with artists across India, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Gaurav is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Performance, Technology and Equity (PTEQ) at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, researching hybrid and intermedial live performance. He is a former German Chancellor Fellow, Chevening Scholar and Salzburg Global Fellow. More information: www.gauravnijjer.com
About the Artwork:
Title: SightLines
Medium: Digital Screen-based Audience Interactive Artwork
What does a machine think you look like? Step in front of SightLines and find out. A camera reads the light coming off your body and draws what it finds: your face as a landscape of rising and falling lines, your arms as rippling columns, your outline as a cloud of shifting points. It is you, more or less, seen by something that has never quite learned what a person is.