Professor Sandeep Bhagwati

Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory

In August 2006, Professor Bhagwati was appointed Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory (Tier 2) jointly in the Department of Music and Department of Theatre. 

The goal of the CRC program is to ensure that Canadian universities “achieve the highest levels of research excellence to become world-class research centres in the global, knowledge-based economy.”

Profile

Composer and performance artist Sandeep Bhagwati believes art in today’s digitalized and globalized world cannot be contained within any one culture, discipline or medium. Since art is influenced by many different forms of experience, his interest is in interdisciplinary, intercultural, intermedia and interactive (Inter-X) approaches to art.

Creative practice constantly evolves: composers make films, actors use wearable computers, artists design miming robots and traditional dancers compose real-time electronic music. In his well-equipped, state-of-the-art Matralab (Music/Movement/Media Art Theatre/Theory Research Agency Laboratory), housed at Hexagram-Concordia, Professor Bhagwati studies and designs complex, pioneering art forms and strives to make them accessible to everyone.

His research and collaborations with local and international artists include explorations of how sound moves in space (sound spatialization), altering sound with digital interfaces (using a digital wand), live performance interfacing with immersive technologies, and the merging traditional and digital art.

Biography

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