Ojasvani Dahiya
Digital Direction MA
Royal College of Art
Specialisms: Film / Digital Arts / Sound Art
Location: London, United Kingdom
Ojasvani Dahiya
First Name: Ojasvani
Last Name: Dahiya
Specialisms: Film / Digital Arts / Sound Art
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program Title: Digital Direction MA
About
Ojasvani Dahiya is exploring creating interactive and immersive experiences that look at realities of the distant past and the far future which are grounded in the present. She is currently experimenting with new and emerging forms of technology to create visual experiences informed through sound and music. Her areas of interest are post-colonial urban landscapes, identity, dreams and altered states of consciousness. Ojasvani graduated from Emerson College, Boston (2020) with a BFA in Media Arts Production, and went on to work in the Film/TV post-production industry in Los Angeles. She has recently completed an MA in Digital Direction at the Royal College of Art.
“Sheher Mein” (“In the City” in Hindi) is an illustration of the contradictory tensions between objective representations and subjective interpretations of agency in a developing urban landscape – focusing on communities that exist on the fringes, but make up the very backbone of urban ecosystems. In a country increasingly marred with internet shutdowns, censorship against voices that challenge the dominant authoritarian political narratives, and the rapid proliferation of technological access outpacing human centred development – “Sheher Mein” seeks to highlight the voices of the undercommons and illustrate representations of varying mediated relationships to reality. As a work of experimental docufiction, the format lends itself to represent a “post-truth world” and highlight the striations of marginalisation in a specific urban context and setting.
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