Ranu Mukherjee

Ranu Mukherjee uses digital media, pigment, inks, and text to make both static and dynamic pictures. She creates a presence through surface that oscillates between fictional and observed organic and synthetic worlds. She is guided by interests in physical consciousness, otherness, futurism, fiction, and conditions of excess. Her practice also involves the creation of artistic entities. Her emergent years were spent working as orphan drift, a 4.5-person, London-based artist collective that made video and AV performance, collage, text, and print work. Orphan drift work used an extensive amount of sample and remix, treating information as matter and the image as a unit of contagion. In 1994 the collective published the cyberpunk novel, titled 0(rphan)d(rift>) (Cyberpositive/Cabinet Editions).

Ranu is currently collaborating on "peritopia" (place at the edges) and trying to make a machine for growing tentacles. Venues include Cabinet Gallery, Tate Modern, Barbican Center, Beaconsfield, and ICA, London; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Barbara Thumm, Berlin; Helen Pitt and Artspeak, Vancouver; Bang, Capetown; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and the Raindance and Oberhausen International Film Festivals.

In 2000 she codirected and edited Lineaments of the Lwa, a film essay on Haitian Vodou tradition with British filmmaker Leah Gordon and artist Maggie Roberts. She has worked with electronica artists Apache61 and Kode9, and has done live projections for countless audiovisual events.