Hemant Sreekumar Artist & Technologist
Hemant Sreekumar is an Indian artist & technologist. He was born in Tellicherry, Kerala, India in 1980. He has studied aesthetics, fine arts and later pursued computer media, data studies & human-computer interaction (HCI). Artistically he performs synthetic audio compositions using principles of emergence and noise. He also produces visual media including prints and light based works. His works respond to notions of decay, generative bias and loss of semantics. With a long history in tinkering with radio frequencies, broken appliances and crushed magnetic tapes, since the last 15 years he employs code and data mediated processes to construct time based environments with fluctuating textures.