Ali Akbar Mehta (b.1983, Mumbai) is a Transmedia artist, curator, and researcher. Through a research-based practice, he creates immersive cyber archives that map narratives of history, memory, and identity, through multifocal lenses of violence, conflict, and trauma. Such archival mappings – like drawings, paintings, new media works, net-based projects, poems, essays, and theoretical texts, as well as performances both of bodies and networks – are rooted in data feminist posthumanist critical theories of making visible hegemonic power relations and silenced historical materialism. His ongoing doctoral research, tentatively titled Practicing Online Performativity: Constructing Politically Conscious Archives for the Future, is interested in exploring the performative relations between online archives and their users through mediated interventions of Second Order Cybernetics, to create knowledge systems that outline a vibrant new political public sphere.

His work as performances, installations and talks have been exhibited in galleries and alternative spaces in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Helsinki, Tampere, Pori, Venice, Nova Gorica, Vienna, Turku, and Jyväskylä. Several of his projects, such as 256 Million Colours of Violence, Outsiders at Work, Ballad of the Lost Utopian Meadow and Central Park Archives, exist as permanent ongoing online projects.

He is a co-founder of the Museum of Impossible Forms, an anti-racist queer feminist project and was its Co-Artistic Director from 2018 to 2020. He currently serves on the board of TKOK ry (2021-) and Kiila ry (2019- chairperson 2021-); is a research member of the Cluster of Critical Artistic Research (CCARE) and is pursuing his Doctoral Research in the Contemporary Art Department at Aalto University, Helsinki. He holds a BFA in Drawing & Painting from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, and an MA in Visual Culture, Curating, and Contemporary Art from Aalto University, Helsinki.

In her artistic practice, Urvi Sethna has juxtaposed the cells of a grid to the structures of urban architecture through different materials and mediums. Growing in Mumbai and being surrounded by an urban environment influenced her practice and has become the subject matter for her artworks. After completing BFA (Sculpture) from M.S University (Baroda) and with the zeal to broaden her horizons and explore the world more, she pursued and completed her MFA (Intermedia) from the Academy of Art, Architecture, and Design (Czech Republic). She has been part of many exhibitions abroad as well as in India. Her art exhibition with Priyashri Art Gallery in Mumbai showcased an interactive and a modular artwork. Her practice reflects and integrates the understanding of three-dimension space which is very subtle visually but has layers of complex structure hidden inside. Thus, creating pure abstract harmony devoid of any elemental representation existing in the real world

Koshy Brahmatmaj (Koshywada) (b1992, Mumbai) is an independent zine maker and embroiderer.  At the heart of her artistic practice is the constant interrogation of memory, joy, body, space, archive, and history. Through mindful processes, she uses multiple materials to create engaging experiences. Using illustrations, collages, embroideries, and text, her works talk about interdependence, bad habits, and vagaries of life. These explorations are deeply informed by what it means to live with chronic illness - constraints and questions that Koshy has been navigating for much of her adult life. She is the co-founder of zine collective - Stale Rumours and her work has been part of independent showcases such as Queer Futures Archive, Bombay Zine Fest, and more.

My journey as an artist started on a bright summer day. Basically, the summer vacations were going on and I got to know about the art class nearby. I loved the blending of colors, brushstrokes, giving textures. So that’s how I made my first Canvas painting at a very young age.

I am based in Udaipur- The city of lakes. I am an MBA graduate with a keen interest in arts. I am a creative self-taught artist. I get my inspiration from nature and people. Exploring and experimenting with textures and colors is the essence and motivation beyond my art pieces. I believe in detailing the pieces I make.

Chetna is from Mahuva, Gujarat. She holds a  diploma in painting and drawing, a post-diploma in visual arts, and has been exploring the field of art for the last 8 years.

Vani Chawla is a commerce graduate but her main interest was always in the field of arts. She took up her childhood passion and steered it to make it her profession. She’s been painting and exhibiting her works as a freelance artist since 2004.

Vandita’s journey as an artist started on a warm summer evening of introspection; pondering on the questions, the eternal questions "What really is art" and then given the subjective nature of art she went to question "What really is art for me;" left with no other option but to add brush strokes to her first magnanimous canvas. Thus her journey started filling her life with more enchantment one brushstroke at a time. Through her art, she wishes to render a perspective, a truth, a dimension, an edge, a moment before it blends away before it blurs away.

Tushar Waghela (b) 1975 is a filmmaker and visual artist, Tushar holding a Master’s Degree in Indian Philosophy and for the past 25 years, he has been working in the field of contemporary art and experimental cinema.

His video arts, installations, short films and experimental cinemas have been shown in many museums, galleries, universities and more than 150 international film festivals such as Cannes Film Festival, London Asian Film Festival,  British Film Institute, The Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris, Mumbai Film Festival and many more.

Tushar had created 14 short and experimental films. Contributed to many international collective cinema and art projects. The Gray is his first full-length Hindi feature film released on Amazon Prime Video and Fox's digital platform Tubitv.

Tushar is currently working on his recent Pop Art series of paintings called Without Ticket using street art, spray painting and mixed media techniques. Besides making paintings. He is now working on his next full-length Hindi feature film and web series to be released next year on theatres and prestigious OTT platforms.

I'm a Passionate Photographer born and bought up in Delhi, India. I started my career as a full-time Product Photographer, also working as a freelance street & travel photographer. For the last four years, I have been shooting stills for personal as well as professional clients.

My love of travel long preceded my love of photography. I love exploring new places and capturing them through my lens. I tend to spend all my free time traveling. I love photography and try to learn something new every day. I believe in the power of visuals. I put a lot of effort into my work and I hope that my passion for travel & photography can translate into something special for the viewers. I love what I do, as well as the people and places I photograph. Each person and every place has its own story. Other than Travel & Street I also love doing Portrait, Food, Wildlife, Macro & Architecture photography.

Rupa Choradia currently lives and works between the USA and India. She is interested in the infinity of the inner spiritual space and the ornamental/decorative/material beauty of the outer world. She weaves ideas of spiritual and decorative onto canvas so that the unknown and the known aspects of life reinforce each other.

Ria Shanker's international heritage inspires her signature aesthetic style. She describes herself as 'a global citizen'. Originally from India, she spent most of her life in the Middle East; in Bahrain, and recently, Dubai. Her background is a melting pot of cultures with unique qualities, which influenced what would become her creative expression. As a child visiting her family in Orissa, India, she would watch in awe as they drew beautiful intricate patterns with semi-liquid rice paste on the entrance to the family temple. These patterns left a lasting impression and eventually formed part of the creative signature in her artworks.

Ria is fascinated by the strength of women of different cultures and the close bond they share with creation. The complexity of the mind, emotions, and intuition are common subjects of her work - a homage to the wonders of nature and women alike. She considers this to be beautiful in its most natural form. Her artwork aims to encourage the viewer to pause for thought and contemplate life's endless opportunities for learning and how this can be interpreted as an expression of creativity.

Nehha Kandhari is a Mumbai-based self-taught artist. Having cleared her CA Inter and acquiring NCFM Certification, she went on to join her family business. Her bent towards spirituality and Vastu made her learn Vastu and Feng Shui. One thing led to another and she became a certified healer in access consciousness and Reiki.

Having realized the importance and need of Vastu she came up with the Vastu Compliant Paintings where she used her knowledge of Vastu, Astrology and Reiki to create an artwork that will enhance the positive energy of a particular direction. The main focus of her paintings is to bring comfort, fortune and creativity to the life of the residents. The paintings help to open new business opportunities, improve finance, improve bonding of family members, bring mental clarity and rekindle love and compassion.

Meghansh is a Delhi, NCR based artist. His was a long journey with less stability and more creativity. The more life challenged him the more he excelled. This tussle produced the two distant relatives in accordance – Black which is 'profound' and White which is 'pure.' He has full faith in these two non-colours using which he has created stunning long series. With strong narratives and visually powerful artworks, Meghansh expresses personal experiences of day-to-day life and his perception of spirituality and connection with the omnipresent, the gormless.

Loveleen Bajaj is a Pune Based Visual Artist who is inspired by the meshed nature of the fabric. This very nature of strands brings forth her expression of art through various media across surfaces like fabric, wood, cement, pulpwood paper, and metal. She has worked for almost a decade in HR before following her quest to unravel deep-seated human conflicts, thereby challenging the way we have seen the world in its finite and infinite way. To express her work, she centers it around sometimes known and sometimes lesser-known concepts of love, karma, existence, relationships, and the very paradox that life is.

Her choice of expression is heavily influenced by the ethereal nature of the relationship between action and reaction. Loveleen has collaborated with brands like Levi’s, OML, Livspace, Taj, Art n Found, Hyatt, Radisson, The Design House & she also has been a resident participant in the Method rooftop Residency, Mumbai.

Lokesh is a finance professional working with one of the Big 4 consulting firms with an affinity towards nature and wildlife. His love for nature and wildlife ignited in 2013, and ever since he has been traveling to different wildlife reserves and sanctuaries. His most recent work has been authoring a coffee table book “Forest Archives”. He is currently working with the Forest department of Odisha to create a fine art coffee table book showcasing the state’s wildlife biodiversity.