Komal Goswami

Being accustomed to Western and Indian media and culture and becoming more used to using a computer or device for anything, the notion of “living ON a hyphen” establishes her conceptions. As a result, her work is often fueled with speculative narratives in the "reel world," where the notions of the "real world" are contemplated. The "reel world" is established through the line between performance and performativity, methods of self-insertion, notions of time, culture, and emotion, and through considering the distinctions between the digital and physical worlds. She transforms the significance of the speculative world through systems and values from "the real world" being metaphorically represented or perceived in "the reel world." This approach to her artistic practice allows her to illuminate what may often be overlooked in "the real world," especially aspects of human expression and the experience of emotion as the world becomes more digitally assimilated.

Mainly through 3D, AI, image, animation, and video-based works, Goswami often factors the notions of performance through "the actor" when they are put through a set of circumstances in the speculative world. The ability to be wholly vulnerable to a generalized audience is seen through the experimental cinema, An Imminent Disquietude. She questions how to disrupt the sense of self through the soundscape Purgatory, the 3D composite image Clowning Around, and the 3D/AI/experimental cinema Brain Melt. Since the 3D composite image DEEROID, Goswami has further integrated the use of AI programs such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney for her video works to question how the sense of self and identity can be either authenticated or artificialized through the more digitally assimilated world she continues to become accustomed to.