Case study 02 / 16New media / Collaborative practice2020 - now

Television Dust

A collaborative new media practice working across moving image, interactive installations, live visuals and code-based work.

Rhea Fabian and Srinivas Vijayakumar silhouetted against projected purple and blue visuals during a Television Dust performance.
01Television Dust collaborators

Television Dust is a collaborative new media practice by Rhea Fabian and Srinivas Vijayakumar, working across moving image, interactive installations, live visuals and code-based work.

Artists
Rhea Fabian and Srinivas Vijayakumar
Based in
Chennai, India
Media
Moving image, installation, live visuals, code
Active
2020 - now
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Sound into image

Within the collaboration, Rhea primarily works on translating music and sound into visual ideas. Her role spans artistic direction, developing the visual language and flow of music videos, and shaping how audiences experience and interact with installations.

She works with a combination of visual tools and minimal code, often building on and responding to systems developed by Srinivas.

Layered red, blue and multicoloured generative forms filling a digital landscape.
02Generative moving-image work
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A shared system

This collaborative process allows ideas to move freely between art, sound, technology and interaction.

Three CRT televisions, mannequin limbs and colourful visuals arranged for the Have a Heart installation.
03Have a Heart installation
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Featured work: Have a Heart

Have a Heart is an interactive installation built around touch, pulse and the traces a body leaves within a technological system. A heart-rate sensor embedded in a mannequin hand reads each participant's pulse and reshapes the moving images distributed across three CRT televisions.

Presented at The Angular Festival in May 2026, the work brings physical computing, painting and moving image together in an encounter that only becomes complete when someone chooses to hold its hand.

04Have a Heart in use
Poster for Have a Heart showing three blue CRT televisions intertwined with brightly coloured mannequin limbs.
05Have a Heart project poster