Dr. Pk Langshaw

Biography

pk langshaw is the director of the d_verse lab at the Hexagram/Concordia Institute for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies. The lab investigates how poetic introspection intersects with hybrid practices, exploring themes of diverse, reverse, inversion, transversal, and reversible designs. Their research and creation works are informed by sociological projects, utilizing designed forms that mediate content through sensor-controlled environments, garments, video, photography, and real-time interfaces with adaptive screen projections. Central to Langshaw's work are sustainability principles that encompass ecological, socio-cultural, and economic aspects, while being studied and utilized within specific technological contexts and material forms. The research promotes a unified strategy for nomadic performance environments, emphasizing the importance of internet networks and democratic sites for communication and interaction. The exploration of social design, media arts, collective creations, and urban futures threads throughout their public art and social interventions, contributing to meaningful discourse around democratic values and ethnocultural diversity.

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