Dhruv Kumar
With a background in architecture, I started fiddling with interactive technologies.
Which then became my passion, and ultimately my career. Have been doing this for almost 8 years now.
Now I live on a 'smart' boat in London canals, and focus on art-tech-sensible projects.
2023-Now. Creative Technologist & Founder at Livegrid, London.
2021-2023. Creative Technologist at Connected Environments, UCL, London.
2018-2021. Creative Technologist at Jason Bruges Studio, London.
2015-2017. Founder at BHUM while working at Experiential Design Labs, New Delhi.
2015-2017. Architect at several architectural studios, New Delhi.
2017-2018. M.Arch at Design for Performance and Interaction, UCL, London.
2018-2015. B.Arch at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.
The Centre permanently exhibited at Museum of Future, Dubai.
The Centre published on Artling.com
Latent Facade permanently exhibited at Cambridge Science Park, London
Variegation Index permanently exhibited at Regents Place, London
Variegation Index exhibited at The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition 2022 at York Art Gallery
Variegation Index top 20 finalist The Aesthetica Art Prize and published in Future 2022
Exhibited at Ars Electronica 2018
Presented at London IoT Meetup 2018
Second position at UCL Innovation competition 2018
Presented at DAAD Innovation platform 2017
‘Best Shelter Design’ awarded by NASA 2014
Making more and more effort to shift my practice and be good. This is not easy and border-line paralysing but there's no way around.
Get some sensors, lights, motors and similar assortments. Put them together with code and love. And voila, you have art. Now just wait for people to interact with it and look at you with admiring eyes (sometimes wtf looks). You are an artist now.
So much can be done with sensible use of modern technologies in our daily lives. And the 'so much' can be good or bad depending on who is in control. I like to keep it with me and people I know to make useful and invisible things. Connection to internet is not compulsory but can help sometimes.
Have been avoiding this because it's too mainstream but finally getting around to it. This website is the first big project. Learning more with each passing day.
