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Kyta will host a visiting artist or creative professional every week to engage with the residents and members of the local community. The visiting artist will conduct a workshop, deliver a presentation or engineer a live collaboration during his or her session as part of the schedule.
KYTA 2014: Visiting Artists
Jaya quit her job as a full-time science editor four years ago to go explore the universe. Her time at Leiden University (studying astronomy for two years) in the Netherlands changed the way she saw light. And changed the way she saw life. She’s been working with astronomy and physics outreach since and is compelled to share with people what she has learnt through projects like Universe in a Box, an activity kit to inspire 4 to 10 year olds about the universe and now 'The Story of Light' - a project to take astrophysics and quantum mechanics to the public through exciting stories and themes. She's also taken to studying about Indian spiritual culture exploring the realms of desire, form, and formless in Buddhism and Hinduism. She still loves to make a living out of editing.
Jaya & Nash (The Story of Light) (India)
12TH APRIL-11TH MAY, 2014
KALGA, HIMACHAL PRADESH
Nash is a graphic/web designer (http://www.antiflutter.com) who now wants to use his powers for good. Through The Story of Light, he wishes to educate audiences, to shock and awe, to make them smile and whistle, to spark their minds, to see the world from a different angle.
Romika Chawla (India)
Romika is currently practising as a entertainment and media lawyer with Delhi-based firm, Neo Juris. She advises some of the best known names in the Indian entertainment business besides a range of diverse clients. She is based in Mumbai.
At KYTA, Romika will deliver a session about Intellectual Property rights and collaborate with the artists to understand their rights and liberties as creative professionals.
Ami Shroff (India)
Ami Behram Shroff has been a flair bartender since 2003. A self-managed freelancer throughout.She was amongst the first 2 women in India to step into flair bartending professionally. She has been acclaimed and recognised on a few occasions by the media & stood in the top 3 in a few flair bartending competitions.
Along with mixing her own recipes with flair; she comes alive in another element when she flips and tosses bottles on fire- "fire flairing", Contact ball manipulation & juggling walnuts.Also finds herself to be a wanderer (more than anything else).
She believes that, the juggling arts, flair and other tasks involving hand-eye coordination (climbing, surfing etc.) are all connected with one another. Thus exploring one area naturally & beautifully improves the others. Her workshop would be structured around hand-eye coordination.
Roshni Mistry (India)
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” - Aldous Huxley.
Things known; Roshni Mistry, Yoga therapist by profession from big old Mumbai city. Born and raised in Mumbai, I had the pleasure of attending the best school and colleges Mumbai has to offer and freedom to really explore job opportunity, finally guiding me toward Yoga. After practicing Yoga for 4 years in school , I was reconnected to Yoga during my Masters in Manipal University.
Someone who values the journey more than the destination, has always enjoyed travel and adventure be it a local train in Mumbai or a bike ride up to Rajasthan. Hoping to make a difference in Indian medical rehabilitation with Yoga Therapy is an eventual destination, in no hurry to reach.
Things unknown; life and what it has in store for this 25 year old dreamer, and everything that is in between is me Roshni Mistry.
Vinny Bhagat (India)
We are alleged to have five senses. It's never really enough. So rather than dwell on these shortcomings, the more pragmatic and creatively inclined amongst us seek ways to transverse and transpose these boundaries as opposed to being limited by them.
Since 2005 as Shivnakaun, Vinny has been working towards representing what we hear as not merely auditory cues to reference memory and moment, but also what we see, enriching the experience of sound by merging it with the visual. Under the guise of Shivnakaun & Sin;drome, using real time generative & synthesis tools, custom software and tailored algorithms, Vinny forges spaces - either in bounded arenas, via real time interaction over the internet world wide, and everywhere in between - to allow for those subject to his vision a far richer palette of cues on which we can see what we are listening to. His work has been shared and showcased from Russia to Australia, both live and via broadband connectivity that can allow for all of this to happen from his base of New Delhi. Shivnakaun pioneered the concept of distributed performances & remote venues since 2007, connecting isolated artists in real time via internet. As a curator of Online Concert Series, LiveRoom featured artists from varying disciplines such as sound, music, architecture, digital drawing, photography ,dance & live visual performance.
Avi Rebello [From Ear to Ear] (India)
An advertising guy all his life, Avi (as he is known to most) took a break from the corporate-work world two years ago. He now delivers value to his clients through value to their customers.
When he’s not doing that, he travels on his bike, keenly observes the world as we see it, listens to music, watches movies, thinks up and discusses ideas (and sometimes works on them too), discovers new tastes; spending every moment visiting a place he has no clue about – a place called Avinash Rebello.
Join him as he disembarks on the KYTA journey with closed eyes and an open mind. It takes him a step closer in his initiative of working with the visually impaired to explore new worlds with them.