Sumugan Sivanesan maintains an unorthodox practice across sound, video and installation – often employing experimental and occult means to make sense of contemporary events.

Recent activities include:

Dig a hole to Borroloola: 888 exhibition - China Heights Sydney

The Bowels of the Earth: Underbelly Public Arts Lab 2008, Carraigeworks Sydney

theweathergroup_U: Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island

Gang Festival: Indonesia – Australia creative exchange, 2008. [Blogged here]

Sounds Unusual: Northern Territory Festival / Road Trip / Residency of New Music and Art, 2007. [Photo documentation here]

Underbelly: Public Arts Lab + Festival, Carriageworks, Sydney, 2007. [Documented here]

Musique Provocateur, documents his various musical activities. He has also released sound and video works on Cronica Electronica.

His video works have been included in international events such as Videobrasil (Brasil, 2005), Club Transmediale (Germany 2004), Electrofringe (Australia 2003), Abstraction Now (Vienna 2003), The International Symposium for Electronic Art (Japan 2002), d>ART (Australia 2002 & 2004), Liquid Architecture (Australia 2002 & 2004 - 05), Experimenta (Australia 2001).

He was co-director for Electrofringe in 2005-06 – a skills and development festival for experimental, digital, electronic and new media culture, in the regional centre of Newcastle NSW.

He is an active participant of cross disciplinary media action / art gang boat-people.org.

He is based in Sydney, Australia.