Their Mind Over Matter* project provides a contemporary imagination of the eastern philosophical concepts of Maya, Atman and Brahman in the context of modern-day digital intelligence and technology. Brahman and Atman together examine duality and oneness in all existence. Maya connotes the "power or the principle that conceals the true character of spiritual reality – The Brahman-Atman”.
The project attempts to connect these three ancient eastern philosophical concepts with our post-modern understanding of consciousness/reality, through a predominantly visual interface via interventions generated by underlying code/technology. Here, the code/technological intervention itself will be representative of our understanding/interpretation of the concept of Brahman. The user/audience perceives/experiences the code or Brahman, through visual interventions – Maya, that are manifestations of the code in the sensory realm.
*Mind Over Matter, a virtual residency under the banner of Digital bangaloREsidency-Expanded, is a collaboration between the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, Walkin Studios Bangalore and Netzwerk Medien Kunst // C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts, Dresden, Germany. The projects of the participating artists will be presented at the Museum Technische Sammlungen in Dresden, Germany as part of an international media art exhibition in November 2020.