Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an artist, media practitioner, researcher, and writer. Incorporating diverse media, creative technologies and research, Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale installation and live performance to address contemporary issues of environment and ecology, migration, race and decoloniality. He holds a PhD in Artistic Research and Sound Studies from Leiden University, The Netherlands (2017), and a Master of Arts degree in New Media from Aarhus University, Denmark, after graduating from SRFTI, India’s prestigious national film school. Chattopadhyay is a Google AMI fellow, Charles Wallace scholar, and a Prince Claus grantee. He has received several residencies and international awards, notably a First Prize in the Computer Space Festival, Sofia, Honorary Mention at PRIX Ars Electronica, Linz, and Cyland Media Arts award. Chattopadhyay’s works have been exhibited, performed or presented at venues across the globe, among others in Transmediale, Berlin; Experimenta Biennale, Grenoble; ZKM Karlsruhe; TodaysArt Festival, and Rewire Festival, The Hague; Donau Festival, Krems; Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín; Kunstuniversität Graz; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; RE-NEW Digital Arts Festival, Copenhagen; RRS Museo Reina Sofía Radio, Madrid; Q-O2, Brussels; Sluice Screens, London; Akusmata, Helsinki; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; CTM, Berlin; Errant Sound, Berlin; CPH PIX, Copenhagen; Hochschule Darmstadt; SoundFjord, London; Deutschlandradio, Berlin; Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt; Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague; Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt; Novembre Numérique festival; The Wrong Biennale; and Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, and released by Gruenrekorder (Germany) and Touch (UK). Chattopadhyay has an expansive body of scholarly publication in the areas of media arts and aesthetics, cinema and sound studies in leading peer-reviewed journals, most notably in Organised Sound, Journal of Sonic Studies, The New Soundtrack, SoundEffects, Ear │ Wave │ Event, Journal for Artistic Research, Leonardo Music Journal, Music, Sound, and Moving Images, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Chattopadhyay is the author of four books: The Nomadic Listener(2020), The Auditory Setting (2021) Between the Headphones (2021), and Sound Practices in the Global South (in press, 2022). Between 2018 and 2019, Chattopadhyay was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the American University of Beirut. In 2020 - 2021, Chattopadhyay was a curator for The Listening Biennial. He is the founding director of the public media advocacy platform Sound Across.

Website: https://budhaditya.org/

Books/monographs:

• Chattopadhyay, B. (2024). Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media: History, Practices, and Production. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2022). Sound Practices in the Global South: Co-listening to Resounding Plurilogues. London: Palgrave Macmillan (in press).
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2021). The Auditory Setting: Environmental Sounds in Film and Media Arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2021). Between the Headphones: Listening to the Practitioner. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2021). The Nomadic Listener. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
  

Book chapters (most recent)

• Chattopadhyay, B. (2024). “Mise-en-sonore: Placemaking in Fiction Film versus Audiovisual Media Artwork”. In Roche, D and Gaudin, A (eds.), Sound/Space in Film: Craft, Aesthetics, Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Forthcoming).
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2024). “Sonic Disjunctions: Critical Listening to Ashish Avikunthak’s Filmworks”. In Paunksnis, S (ed.). Ashish Avikunthak. NY: Bloomsbury. (In Press).
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2024). “OM”. In Herzogenrath, B. (ed.), A Sound Word Almanac. NY: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-word-almanac-9798765109052/
  
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2023). “Dhvāni: Resonance”, in Herzogenrath, B. (ed.), Concepts: A Travelogue. New York: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/concepts-9781501375316/
  
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2023). “Co-listening: Theory and Practice”, in LaBelle, Brandon (ed.), The Listening Biennial Reader. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press. https://errantbodies.org/project/listening-biennial-reader-1
  
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2022). ”Hyper-listening and Co-listening: Reflections on Sound, Selfhood, and Solidarity”, in Woodland, Sarah and Vachon, Wolfgang (eds.), Sonic Engagement: The ethics and aesthetics of community engaged audio practice. London: Routledge (in press).
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2021). ”Co-listening”, in The Listening Reader. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2021). “The Sonic Drifter”, in Piga, B., Siret, D., and Thibaud, J-P. (eds.), Experiential Walks: Experiencing, Interpreting, Representing (Multisensory) Environments. NY: Springer.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2021). “Howl Redux: On Noisific(a)tion”, in Law and the Senses: Hear. London: University of Westminster Press.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2021). “Unrecording Nature”, in Kuljuntausta, Petri (ed.), Sound, Art, and Climate Change. Helsinki: The Frequency Association.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2020). ”Walking and Listening as Self-designing in Contemporary Urban Environments”, in Twemlow, Alice (ed.), Walking as a Research Method in Art & Design. Den Haag: KABK. 
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2019). “Uneasy Listening: Perspectives on (Nordic) Sound Art after the Digital”, in Toft, T. (ed.) Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art (pp. 179-196). Bristol: Intellect.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2018). “Cosmic Resonance: Sounding outside, listening within”, in Stuart Hyatt (ed.), Metaphonics: The Field Works Listener’s Guide. Heijningen: Jap Sam Books.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2018). “The Well Tempered City: participation and intervention in sound art”, in Aceti, L. (ed.), Leonardo Electronic Almanac 22/2 (The Cybernetic). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2017). “Hyper-listening: Praxis”, in Mateus-Berr, R., and Reitstätter, L (eds.), Art & Design Education in Times of Change (pp. 171-5). Conversations Across Cultures, Vienna: de Gruyter.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals (most recent):

• Chattopadhyay, B. (2024). “Auralizing Archives: Post-digital Emancipation of Colonial Artifacts”. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, special issue Sound|Archives (in progress).
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2023). “An Equal Sound”, Rewire Festival catalogue 2023. https://www.rewirefestival.nl/feature/an-equal-sound
  
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2023). “Re-sounding Souths”, CTM Festival Journal 2023. https://www.ctm-festival.de/magazine/re-sounding-souths
  
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2022). “On Pre-colonial Indigenous (Sound) Technologies”. Proceedings of Politics of the Machines – Rogue Research. Berlin: BCS Learning & Development. https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236%2Fewic%2FPOM2021.4
  
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2022). “Room Ambience: Home as Heard in Film and Media Arts”. Journal of Sonic Studies 22. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1440447/1440448
  
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2021). “Uncolonising Early Sound Recordings”. The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, Special Issue: Sound, Colonialism, and Power.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2020). “Unperforming Sound: From the Margins of Artistic Research”. Nivel 13
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2020). “Post-immersion: Towards a Discursive Situation in Sound Art.” RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research 12. 
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2019). “Listening in/to Exile: Migration and Media Arts.” VIS Journal 2.
• Chattopadhyay, B. & Papadomanolaki, M. (2019). “Eye Contact with the City: A Discourse on Contemporary Urban Sounds.”[in]Transition 6.2.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2018). “Canonization and the Color of Sound Studies”. Sounding Out!
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2018).“Orphan Sounds: Locating Historical Recordings in Contemporary Media.” Organised Sound 23/2: 181-188. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2017). “Reconstructing Atmospheres: Ambient Sound in Film and Media Production.” Communication and the Public 13. London: SAGE Publication.
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2017). “Talking Field: Listening to the Troubled Site.” Journal for Artistic Research 13.  
• Chattopadhyay, B. (2017). “Beyond Matter: Object-disoriented Sound Art.” Seismograf/DMT (special issue).

• 2024: Co-sounding: Towards a Sonorous Land, Errant Sound gallery, Berlin, February 2024. https://errantsound.net/projects/exhibitions/
• 2023–2024: Landing: Rituals for Situated Sonic Reverence, Terra Libera, Rijksmuseum Twente, September 2023 – January 2024. https://www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl/content/3473/en/artistic-research
• 2023: Co-sounding: Towards a Sonorous Land, Polyphonic Landscapes, Zone2Source, Amsterdam, October 2023 – March 2024.  https://polyphoniclandscapes.artez.nl, https://zone2source.net/en/tentoonstelling/polyphonic-landscapes-2/
• 2023: Swār from Dhvāni project, ISEA2023, Paris, May – June 2023. https://isea2023.isea-international.org/fr/programme/view/66/psych-e