My current line of enquiry, during the course of this project, shifted from being introspective of how I react to my Indianness online to being sceptical of whether the internet even allows for me to understand being Indian through it. Are we accurately represented (we’re not), and if not, what does that mean for our ever-growing relationship and reliance on the internet and subsequent digital systems? I’m also thinking through this in terms of a kind of neocolonial structure, where identity continues to be shaped, filtered, and circulated through dominant Western frameworks. Is there a way to fight this or find our place within these systems, or are they by their very nature unable to accommodate us?
I’m exploring these questions through making, working with poor images, memes, reels, and parallelly-viewed indian artefacts that mimic processes of compression, remix, circulation, and archiving. The work looks at how a “glitch” identity (queer people, people of colour, female-identifying people) is flattened, recoded, and made legible within these systems.
My enquiry was informed by the following references, in case the PDF is not legible please go to the link Here to read the spreadsheet IRL.
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