Anjali Sundaram

 

Professional history

Anjali Sundaram is a media artist and cinematographer. Before coming to Simon’s Rock College, she taught film at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, and Montana State University. Using narrative, stop-motion animation, installation, and mock-documentary, Anjali explores culture, identity, and globalization in relation to memory, autobiography, imagined futures, and pseudoscience.

Publications/Book Chapters/Exhibitions/Performances

Her multimedia collaborations with the collective I, Daughter of Kong have appeared at The Lab and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, Swing Space in New York, Co-Lab in Austin, and Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic in Zagreb, Croatia. Her film and video work has screened at microcinemas and film festivals nationally and abroad. She has received awards from the Princess Grace Foundation and the Robin Eickman Foundation and was recently an artist in residence at A Ship in the Woods, in Del Mar, California. Anjali is currently working on a feature film about Silicon Valley and its relation to the often overlooked economic underclass—South Asian hookers, temporary workers, and nannies, among others—that undergird the mega-prosperity of the computer and social-media industries.