Lecturer in the Robotics Department and in-house Robotics Systems Designer
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About
Abhishek Narula is an artist, designer, and educator whose work investigates computation, digitality, and automation as both material and concept. Through kinetic sculpture, autonomous systems, and robotics, he develops installations that examine computational aesthetics and the logics of technological systems. His work often reveals paradoxes, inconsistencies, and disruptions as sites for poetic experience. Through his practice, he seeks to cultivate an alternative discourse around systems where one can moves beyond spectacle and productivity, toward an open-ended engagement with presence, process, and being.
Narula was born in New Delhi, India, and currently resides in Michigan. He is a Lecturer in the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan and serves as the department’s in-house Robotics Systems Designer, where he develops and maintains the MBot Educational Platform. He previously held a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University.
His work has been exhibited at international venues such as the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Science Gallery Detroit, Speculum Artium Media Festival in Slovenia, New Media Caucus (NMC), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, WaveFarm, The Boulder Public Library, The Boulder Creative Collective Warehouse, The Hyde Park Art Center, Sector 2337 Art Gallery & Printing Press, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI), International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), and Infosys Pathfinders Institute, among others. He is a member of Wetware Instruments, a performance duo working at the intersection of sound, chemistry, biology, and digital technology.
