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CURRICULUM VITAE

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

DWI-A 302 Aponalay Phone: +919674013132

Jessore Road, Ganganagar E-mail: mail@budhaditya.org

Kolkata 700132, India Website: http://budhaditya.org

Educational qualification

2017 PhD in Artistic Research and Sound Studies, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden

University. Dissertation: “Audible Absence: Searching for the Site in Sound Production”.

2010 Master of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus

University. Thesis: “Old in the new: Disseminating archival recordings in the new media”.

2007 PG Diploma in Cinema (Sound Recording), Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, India.

Academic positions, fellowships and residencies

2018 – 2019 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut.

2016 – 2017 Guest Researcher, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University.

2016 – 2017 Film Research Fellowship, SRFTI, Ministry of I & B, Govt. of India.

2016 Fellow, Falling Walls Lab, Aarhus.

2016 - Audio consultant, SilentFilm, Berlin.

2016 Artist in Residence, Q-O2, Brussels.

2015 – 2016 Artist in Residence, IEM, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria.

2014 Artist in Residence, ICST, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland.

2012 Visiting Fellow, RayFASC, University of California, Santa Cruz, US.

2011 – 2015 PhD fellow, Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen.

2011 Junior Research Fellowship, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.

2011 Artist in Residence, School of Music, Bangor University, North Wales, UK.

2010 Artist in Residence, Jaaga Urban Avantgarde Project, Bangalore, India.

2010 Artist in Residence, BAR1, India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore, India.

Teaching and guest lectures (selected)

2018 Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata.

2017 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

2017 Institute of Sonology, The Royal Conservatoire, The Hague.

2016 University of Applied Arts Vienna.

2016 IEM, Kunstuniversität Graz, Austria.

2014 Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

2014 Holbæk Kunsthøjskole, Denmark.

2014 Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.

2013 Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Berlin, Germany.

2013 MA course: ‘Sound Design for film and video’, University of Copenhagen.

2012 Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland.

2012 MA course: ‘Art of Sound in Cinema’, University of Copenhagen.

List of publication

Books:

2019 Beyond Immersion: Entertaining through Sound. London: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).

2018 Between the Headphones: Sound Practice in Indian Cinema. Bombaykala Books (forthcoming).

2017 Audible Absence: Searching for the Site in Sound Production. Leiden: Leiden University Press.

Book chapters:

2018 “Uneasy Listening: Perspectives on (Nordic) Sound Art after the Digital.” In Digital Dynamics

in Nordic Contemporary Art. Bristol: Intellect Books (in press).

2018 “The Well Tempered City: participation and intervention in sound art.” In Aceti, L. (ed.)

Leonardo Electronic Almanac 22/2 (The Cybernetic Issue). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2017 “Hyper-listening: Praxis”. In Mateus-Berr, R., and Reitstätter, L (eds.), Art & Design Education

in Times of Change (pp. 171-5). Conversations Across Cultures, de Gruyter.

2016 “Endnotes on the Margin of Listening.” In Dirty Ear Report #1. (pp. 60 -71). Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.

2016 “Émergence de nouvelles conceptions sonores.” In Faucon, T. and D’Azevedo, A. (eds.),

In/dépendances des cinémas indiens. (pp. 40-44). Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle.

2013 “Interview.” In Lane, C. & Carlyle, A. (eds.) In the Field: The Art of Field Recording (pp. 49 –

59). London: Uniformbooks.

Articles in peer-reviewed journal (selected):

2018 “Orphan Sounds: Locating Historical Recordings in Contemporary Media.” Organised Sound

23/2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in press).

2017 “Reconstructing Atmospheres: Ambient Sound in Film and Media Production.” Communication

and the Public 2/4: 352-364. London: SAGE Publication.

2017 “The World Within the Home: Tracing the Sound in Satyajit Ray’s Films.” Music, Sound, and

the Moving Image 11/2: 131 -156. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

2017 “Talking Field: Listening to the Troubled Site.” Journal for Artistic Research 13.

2017 “Beyond Matter: Object-disoriented Sound Art.” Seismograf/DMT (special issue).

2017 “Making Sites Audible: Ambient Sound in Practice.” Sonologia proceedings, NuSom.

2016 “Being There: Evocation of the Site in Contemporary Indian Cinema.” Journal of Sonic Studies

12. Leiden: Leiden University Press.

2015 “Auditory (Con)texts: Writing on Sound.” Ear │ Wave │ Event 2.

2015 “The Auditory Spectacle: designing sound for the ‘dubbing era’ of Indian cinema.” The New

Soundtrack 5/1: 55–68. Edinburg: Edinburgh University Press.

2014 “An Elegy for the City: Composing the Urban Character.” Leonardo Music Journal

24/12: 49-51. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2014 “Sonic drifting: sound, city and psychogeography.” SoundEffects 3/3: 138 – 152.

2014 “Object-Disoriented Sound: Listening in the Post-Digital Condition.” APRJA 3/1, AIAS Press.

2013 “Auditory Situations: Notes from Nowhere.” Journal of Sonic Studies 4. Leiden University Press.

2013 “The cinematic soundscape:” SoundEffects 2/2: 65 – 78.

2012 “Sonic menageries: composing the sound of place.” Organised Sound 17/3: 223-229.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2007 “Sound Memories.” Journal of the Moving Image 6: 102-111. Jadavpur University Press.

Conference papers (selected):

2017 “Against Immersion: Towards a discursive situation in sound art”, inSonic2017: Immersive

Future symposium, ZKM Karlsruhe, December.

2017 “Expanded Object: Rereading the History of Sound Art”, ISACS17, ZKM Karlsruhe, Sept.

2017 “Migration and Media Arts”, University of Cologne, September.

2017 “Decomposing Landscape: Hearing the Troubled Site”, ISEA2017, Manizales, June.

2016 “Making Sites Audible: Ambient Sound in Practice.” Sonologia, São Paulo, November

2016 “Beyond Matter: Object-disoriented Sound Art.” International conference: Sound Art Matters,

Aarhus University, June.

2016 “Unwriting Sound: A Poetic Intervention.” International Conference on Artistic Research, The

Royal Academy of Art, and Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, April.

2015 “Writing on Sound/Writing with Sound.” Media Art History Conference: Re-CREATE 2015,

Hexagram and UQAM, Montréal, November.

2014 “Audible Evidence: Recognition of site in the contemporary sound artworks.” Visible Evidence

21, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, December.

2014 “The Sonified Cinema: a study in the emergence of sound in the Indian popular culture.” ADI

conference, University of Copenhagen, October.

2014 “From Soundtrack to the Sound Environment: Listening in the Post-digital Cinema.”

ESSA2014, Sound Studies Conference, University of Copenhagen, June.

2013 “Auditory (Con)texts: Textualizing the Sonic Phenomena.” International conference:

‘Literature, Media, Sound’, Aarhus University, November .

2013 “Hyper-listening: sound, contemplation and the sonic explosion.” Dirty Ear Forum, Bergen

Academy of Art and Design, Norway, November.

2013 “Sonified Cinema.” International conference: ‘Dépendance/Indépendance: les cinémas indiens’,

Université Sorbonne nouvelle-Paris 3, France, November.

2013 “Subject-Oriented Sound Art: The Curious Case of Auto-Curating.” ISACS, ZKM Karlsruhe,

Germany, August.

2012 “Post-cinematic Sound: theorizing sound in the digital realm of cinema.” PhD Conference:

Expression, Sensation, Mediation, Copenhagen, December.

2012 “The Well Tempered City: participation and intervention in sound art.” IMAC

Conference/RE-NEW, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, November.

2012 “Sonification of Cinema: studying the use of location sound in Indian films.” Music & The

Moving Image conference, New York University, New York, USA, June.

Shorter essays (selected):

2018 “Cosmic Resonance: Sounding outside, listening within”, in The Omniphonic Reader.

2017 “Against Immersion”, Sonic Field, August.

2017 “Autolistening”, Exercises in Listening issue 3.

2016 “The Politics of Not-listening.” Sonic Field, November.

2016 “Ambient sound: presence, embodiment and the spatial turn.” Sonic Field, June.

2014 “Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s Object Disorientation.” NY Arts Magazine, April.

2014 “The Invisible Sound.” IASA journal 42.

2013 “The Grande Syntagmatique.” The Field Reporter, January.

2012 “Soundhunting in a city.” Field Notes 03.

2012 “Certain Observations on the Evolution of Sound in Indian Cinema”, CPH PIX.

2010 “Documenting sound: notes from the field“, Docschool, January - April, pp. 43-46.

Solo exhibition

2017 Resonating Field, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague, November.

2017 Exile and Other Syndromes, Rogaland Kunstsenter/Screen City Biennial, October.

2016 Passage to the City, The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery, Christchurch, 1 – 30 March.

2016 Exile and Other Syndromes (pilot version), CUBE, IEM, Kunstuniversität Graz, January.

2014 The Well Tempered City, RRS Museo Reina Sofía Radio, Madrid, November 2014.

2013 The Room within a View, Widget Art Gallery, Rome, May – June.

2012 Dismantling a Sound-work in Six Easy Steps, Akusmata, Helsinki, October-November.

Group exhibition

2018 Resounding Field, New Ecologies, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, September.

2017 Talking Frame, Resonant Worlds, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, September.

2017 Exile and Other Syndromes, Nacht van Kunst & Kennis, Leiden, September.

2017 Decomposing Landscape, ISEA2017/International Image Festival, Manizales, June.

2015-2016 A Day in the Life of a Listener, Listenings, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín.

2014 A Table is a Table, Nålen, Copenhagen, July.

2014 Mind Your Own Dizziness, Transmediale, Berlin, January – February.

2013 The Well Tempered City, Spazioersetti Gallery, Udine, Italy, May.

2013 Listening and its discontents, Errant Bodies, Transmediale, Berlin, Jan – Feb.

2013 The Well Tempered City, Khoj, New Delhi, February

2011 this_location, Studio 21, CIMA, Calcutta, India, April.

2010 The well-tempered Jaaga, Jaaga, Bangalore, India, December.

2010 Audible Absence, Select II, Bangalore, India, October - November.

2010 Eye Contact with the City, Rococo Art Gallery, Bangalore, India, September-October.

2009 Kolkata, Architecture Biennial Rotterdam.

2008-2009 The Four Corners, Religare Arts Gallery, New Delhi, India.

2008 Passage, Private Flat 4.1, Firenze, Italy.

2008 San Lorenzo, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Firenze, Italy.

Discography (selected)

2018 A Nomad’s Guide to Listening, Touch, London (forthcoming).

2016 Wandering Shadows of Sound, Impulsive Habitat, Bogotá.

2015 Decomposing Landscape, Touch, London.

2014 San Lorenzo, Phonophon, Frankfurt AM.

2014 A Day in the Life of a Listener, Gruenrekorder, Frankfurt AM.

2013 Elegy for Bangalore, Gruenrekorder, Frankfurt AM.

2011 Eye Contact with the City, Touch, London.

2008 Landscape in Metamorphoses, Gruenrekorder, Frankfurt AM.

2006 Benaras, Gruenrekorder, Frankfurt AM.

2006 On the move, 33.99 Records/M12 label, Berlin.

List of concerts, live performance and broadcasts (selected)

2017 documenta14 (Public Radio), Kassel and Berlin.

2017 SPEKTRUM, Berlin.

2017 Paviljonas, Vilnius.

2017 Alte Feuerwache Kino, Köln.

2017 Studio Loos, Den Haag.

2016 Kultūros Baras Kablys, Vilnius.

2016 Helicotrema Festival, Venice.

2016 Q-O2, Brussels.

2016 Vorspiel, transmediale, Berlin.

2015 CKUT 90.3 FM, Montreal.

2015 Phonophon, Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt AM.

2015 SPEKTRUM, Berlin.

2015 Donau Festival, Krems, Austria.

2015 Sonorities Festival, Queen's University Belfast.

2014 TodaysArt festival, Studio Loos, Den Haag, The Netherlands.

2014 Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen.

2014 Vejen Kunstmuseum, Vejen, Denmark

2014 Leth and Gori, Copenhagen.

2014 Resonance104.4fm, London.

2014 Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.

2014 Maraa, Bangalore.

2013 Resonance104.4fm, London.

2012 CPH PIX, Cinemateket, Copenhagen.

2012 Hochschule Darmstadt, Dieburg, Germany.

2012 SOUND//SPACE, SoundFjord, London.

2012 Klangkunst, Deutschlandradio, Berlin.

2012 Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen.

2012 Københavns Rådhus, Copenhagen.

2012 Byens Lys, Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen.

2012 Radio24syv, Copenhagen.

2011 Blipfonica, School of Music, Bangor University, North Wales.

2011 Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt AM.

2010 Studio21, CIMA, Kolkata.

2009 Programmet for Lydkunst, 102.9 FM, Copenhagen

2008 Center for Advanced Visualization and Interaction (CAVI), Aarhus, Denmark.

2008 Hôrbar, Hamburg.

2008 7.stock, Dresden.

2008 EretikArt, Firenze.

2008 CTM, Transmediale, Berlin.

2006 Wanderlust, Frankfurt am main.

Filmography (selected)

2018 Echoing Field, VR – 360 degrees video, binaural audio (forthcoming).

2015 Talking Field, HD/ VR – multi-channel, 55 minutes, Sluice Screens, London.

2012 Presence, Digital Video, 18 minutes, Le triennale, Palais De Tokyo, Paris.

2011 in_transience, Digital Video, 24 minutes, CMCS, India/WIA, Poland.

2007 The Remains, 16 mm, 10 minutes, SRFTI, India.

Grants and scholarships

2018 - 2019 Project grant, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi.

2017 Leiden University Fund, The Netherlands.

2016 Grant for Artistic Residency, Kunstuniversität Graz, Austria.

2015 Research grant, Asian Dynamics Initiative, Copenhagen.

2014 Research grant, Asian Dynamics Initiative, Copenhagen.

2013 Research grant, Christian og Ottilia Brorsons Rejselegat, Copenhagen.

2012 Travel grant, Danish Research School in Media and Communication, Copenhagen.

2011-2014 PhD scholarship, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

2011 Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship, London.

2009-2011 Development grant: media art project, Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam.

2007-2009 Master of Arts scholarship, CoMundus Consortium, European Commission.

2006-2007 Fellowship grant: media archiving project, Sarai (CSDS), New Delhi.

Prizes and awards

2017 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.

2016 The Dot award, New Media Writing Prize, London.

2015 Sluice Screens Award, London.

2015 BSA-sponsored Early-Career Award, SCSMI, London.

2014 First prize, Computer and Electronic Music, Computer Space Festival, Sofia.

2011 Honorary Mention, PRIX Ars Electronica, Linz.

2010 PRIX Phonurgia Nova, Arles, France.

2007 First prize, First Frames film festival, New Delhi.

2006 Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin.

Talks, artistic presentation and workshops

2018 Jardins Efémeros festival, Viseu, Portugal.

2017 ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany.

2016 Q-O2, Brussels, Belgium.

2016 The Gujral Foundation, New Delhi.

2016 Kabinetas, Kaunas, Lithuania.

2016 Falling Walls Lab, Aarhus University, Denmark.

2015 University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria.

Other activities

2016 - Editor, Sonic Field – an interdisciplinary journal around sound studies and aural culture.