Gayatri Parameswaran

Co-founder
Gayatri, a dark skinned woman with black hair tied up in a bun, is pictured outdoors. She wears red round earrings, and smiles at the camera. She wears a grey striped top with red central pattern.
Foto/Bild Credit
Felix Gaedtke

Gayatri Parameswaran is a multi-award winning writer, director and producer of immersive works. She was born and raised in India and is currently based in Berlin, where she co-founded NowHere Media -- a storytelling studio that views contemporary issues through a critical lens. Gayatri’s artistic practice lies at the intersection of storytelling, technology and societal impact.
Her work has been exhibited at the Venice International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, IDFA, Festival de Cannes, United Nations and beyond. She is a Sundance New Frontier alumnus, has won the Tribeca Storyscapes Award for Best Immersive, SXSW Best Use of Immersive Arts and the Lumiere Award for Best VR documentary among other accolades. Gayatri is a guest lecturer at universities such as the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, Hochschule für Medien, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft (HMKW), Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and Züricher Hochschule der Kunst (ZHdK).

Sessions

KUSUNDA :: a VR experience about language revitalisation

Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Gaedtke

Info
Location: Club

KUSUNDA is a voice-driven virtual reality experience that explores what makes a language fall asleep and what it takes to wake one up. Lil Bahadur, an indigenous Kusunda shaman, is resigned to the fact that he has forgotten his mother tongue, while his granddaughter Hema is determined to revitalise the language
Installation
English
Medien
Off Stage