Sumugan Sivanesan

Sumugan Sivanesan  is an anti-disciplinary writer, researcher and artist. His interests intersect the areas of Contemporary Art and Activism, Media Arts, Multispecies Politics, Queer Theory, Tamil Diaspora Studies and Anticolonialism. He was a 2017 recipient of a Create NSW 360 Visions Virtual Reality Development Initiative to attend a month-long intensive at the School for Machines, Making and Make-Believe, Berlin. In June 2016, he completed a six month residency at the Institute for English and American Studies (Cultural Studies) at the University of Potsdam supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to research ‘Urban Eco-politics of the Anthropocene.’ Sivanesan has also been active with the experimental documentary collective theweathergroup_U and the activist media/art gang boat-people.org.He lives between Berlin and Sydney.

Sumugan Sivanesan is part of the Be.Bop 2018 Team.