KALDI MOSS
Moss is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in sense perception, time, networked systems, insect perception, tree intelligence and experiences of beings that are not human.
Moss’ (they/them) practice spans sound, film, browser-based art and bio art. They are part of a community of engineers and technologists, and are invested in exploring alternate methods of knowledge production. Their video and installation work has been shown in multiple exhibitions in Milan, Toronto, Dresden, Brighton, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Himachal and Goa.
They are a part of Cynk Collective, a noise band producing immersive audiovisual concerts. In addition, they are the artistic director at Walkin Studios,an independent multidisciplinary art studio and project space in Bangalore, India and have co-founded the collective NOTAAT with artist Puneet Jain.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
SCULPTURE, SOFTWARE, DATA
In the 1970s, broadcast media restructured the domestic space. Fifty years later, social media is restructuring democracies and bodies. And with this, a new category of the user as a political entity has emerged. The user isn't just a citizen who votes or a consumer who buys. The user is shaped by affective media streams—their attention, emotional responses, and behavioral patterns become the raw material that feeds back into the system. The user generates data that trains the next iteration of media. The user isn't just surveilled or manipulated; the user is where the material conditions of contemporary politics are enacted.
Recon is a media monitoring and analysis tool that treats information streams like audio signals—applying sound synthesis and signal processing techniques to political and social media data. It functions as a "forensic console" for deconstructing how narratives are manufactured and circulated. Recon positions itself as active political practice, not critique.
All data has flat ontological importance. We need simple tools—held by us, not subject to subscription or service. Tools that let the user become an operator: the sickle and hammer of the technological age. The tool should give its operator direct access to this mediatic infrastructure—not to observe it from a distance, but to operate on it.
KHOJ, NEW DELHI
JUL 2025
EXPERIMENTS WITH VIOLENCE
PERFORMATIVE EXPERIMENT
Two performers, a chainsaw and six wooden chairs.
The experiment focuses on the relationship between humans, technology, and the creative and destructive potential of tools. The central part of the experimental set-up is a chainsaw. Several wooden chairs are placed in the room and are constantly rearranged. In this ever-changing constellation, one can reflect on power relations while the potentiality of the chainsaw is explored; not knowing if and when the moment of destruction has come.
PERFORMATIVE EXPERIMENT WITH CELLO VALENTA, PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALINA TIPHAGNE
HACKER-IN-RESIDENCE
AT THE (SGMK) SWISS MECHATRONICS ART SOCIETY, BITWASHERAI, ZURICH
+ performance Archipelago: Art and Science Investigations in Times of Unstable Knowledge
+ HOME_MADE 2024 Homemade summer camp is an yearly community event of makers and hackers.
+ performance Archipelago: Art and Science Investigations in Times of Unstable Knowledge
+ HOME_MADE 2024 Homemade summer camp is an yearly community event of makers and hackers.
LYING DOWN WITH TIME
EXPERIMENTS WITH SPEAKERS AND PIPES / PHYSICAL FILTERS
"Apparatuses do not merely facilitate measurements; they produce (in) different worlds." — Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
Lying Down With Time is in response to Moss’s observation of people in Zurich and their loyalty to clock time. How does this relate to the idea of freedom and what does this mean for someone who conceives and lives time differently?
In an attempt create an apparatus that can sharpen the question, Moss explores a series of incremental experiments, entangling ideas taken from computer science research (Time, clocks and ordering of events in a distributed network, Leslie et. al.) and biology with philosophy and electronics.
"The measurement of time is not just about clocks ticking; it involves complex cultural and philosophical frameworks that dictate our understanding of temporal reality." — Sundar Sarukkai”
"Apparatuses do not merely facilitate measurements; they produce (in) different worlds." — Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
Lying Down With Time is in response to Moss’s observation of people in Zurich and their loyalty to clock time. How does this relate to the idea of freedom and what does this mean for someone who conceives and lives time differently?
In an attempt create an apparatus that can sharpen the question, Moss explores a series of incremental experiments, entangling ideas taken from computer science research (Time, clocks and ordering of events in a distributed network, Leslie et. al.) and biology with philosophy and electronics.
"The measurement of time is not just about clocks ticking; it involves complex cultural and philosophical frameworks that dictate our understanding of temporal reality." — Sundar Sarukkai”