College Sessions — ISRO
College is a series of lectures, workshops, and performances by practitioners working across sound, text, visual media, computation, and performance.
The first session took place on August 08, 2025.
Speakers & Contributors#
Chitra Ganesh Chitra Ganesh spoke about their practice encompasses drawing, painting, comics, installation, video art, and animation. Through studies in literature, semiotics, social theory, science fiction, and historical and mythic texts, Ganesh attempts to reconcile representations of femininity, sexuality, and power absent from the artistic and literary canons.
Dhruva Gowda Storz Dhruva Gowda Storz is a researcher at the intersection of art, media archeology, and computing. Formerly at ISRO, he is now a PhD student at EPFL’s Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He spoke about his Phd thesis that is reviving the lost virtual reality of the 19th century through contemporary AI and VR
Ranjith Hegde Ranjith Hegde is a computational artist, interdisciplinary performer, and systems designer whose practice spans sound, performance, code, and pedagogy. Trained as a violinist, Ranjith’s creative trajectory evolved from extended instrumental performance into interdisciplinary collaborations with dancers, theater-makers, and visual artists. He spoke about MayaFlux, a new multimedia programming environment that reimagines digital creation. Anant Rohmetra Anant Rohmetra is an artist and music technologist whose work spans electronic composition, spatial audio, and interactive sound systems. At the first college session he spoke about using machine learning tools and libraries like Wekinator & Pytorch along with sensors like microphones and leap motion for creative application. In the second college session, he played an acousmatic performance on an 8 channel sound system. Srishti Laptop Orchestra The Srishti Laptop Orchestra performed using browser based tools to communicate between laptops to design instruments and perform with them. The music was generative and algorithmic. The orchestra was conducted by Ujjwal Agarwal.