Varsha Iyengar
Varsha Iyengar is a creative technologist and movement practitioner based in San Francisco, USA and Bangalore, India. Her work largely involves integrating movement and technology to create multifaceted immersive performance environments. With formal training in Bharathanatyam and Contemporary dance, Varsha has been a dancer for Nritarutya, an Indian Contemporary dance company in Bangalore, India. She is also a founding member of Driven Arts Collective, a California-based collective where she has developed works such as CELSO, Khora, and Digital Milk, which explores themes of digital futures co-authored by humans and AI-driven emerging technologies. These pieces have been presented at CounterPulse, SAFEhouse Arts, and ODC in San Francisco, supported by grants such as the [CLTC](https://cltc.berkeley.edu/artscontest/). Her academic work and research based on data capture and analysis of vernacular movement have been presented at multiple conferences including MOCO and CHI. She also sits on the Board of Directors at CCAM, an artist-run platform based in Chicago. Varsha’s work is rooted in inquiry and multidisciplinary collaboration, inviting equitable and critical examinations of technology within an arts practice. Her current project, Decoding Digital Bodies, investigates how movement influences robotics research and development, with a particular focus on Boston Dynamics Spot robots. She is also directing and producing an international project based in India, Where Things Go, which is an exploration of the intricate and often unseen relationships we have with everyday objects and technological tools.