Biography

Komal Goswami is an Administrative Assistant for the School of Art + Art History (SAAH) within the College of the Arts (COTA) at the University of Florida (UF). She writes the school's e-newsletter, the SA+AH now, and manages their Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Goswami also answers the phone to field general questions about the SAAH and greets visitors at the SAAH administration office, where she makes office supplies purchases, receives and distributes mail, manages the office copiers, tracks the events on all the school's online platforms, coordinates details for faculty/staff searches and travel/budget/finance administration, and she assists with arrangement accommodations for visitors.

Outside the SAAH, Goswami is a new media artist  who primarily works in video, sound, 3D/CG generation, and generative art practices making audio, visual, and audiovisual experiences.

Komal Goswami's art investigates the concept of "living in the hyphen," exploring identity, performance, and speculation between the physical and digital realms. The Hyphenverse, Goswami's long-term 3D-character-based world, is a speculative world that blurs the lines between the digital and physical realms with the employment of self-insertion and emotional abstraction to determine the "real" from the "reel." Intrigued by the expansion of new media art practices and with research interests spanning digital aesthetics, dreams, filmmaking, surrealism, theatricality, performance, metaphors, and humor often from Western media and Indian media influences, Goswami’s work overall reflects her fascination with the evolving landscape of human expression, meaning, and thought in an increasingly digitally assimilated world.

Goswami earned her BFA in Art + Technology with a minor in Theatre from the University of Florida (UF) in 2023, where she served as President of the Digital Arts Media Network and curated new media exhibitions such as 2G00DHOTD@MN.V4 at 4Most Gallery (Gainesville, FL) and LAiZY ((Experiments in ARTificial Intelligence)) at the Constance and Linton Grinter Gallery (Gainesville, FL). In the final year of her undergraduate studies, Goswami was nominated for the 34th Annual University Student Exhibition at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and a recipient of the E. Robert Langley Scholarship Fund as well. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention (Gainesville, FL), Gary R. Libby Focus Gallery (Gainesville, FL), 621 Gallery (Tallahassee, FL), The Art Department (Renfrewshire, Scotland), among others. Screenings include the 2nd Annual Chroma Art Film Festival at Superblue Miami (Miami, FL), the Computer Art Congress 8 at the National University of La Plata (La Plata, Argentina), the 16th & 18th Annual Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach (Panama City Beach, FL), among others. Her artwork has also been published in Labocine and Hu Magazine.

While continuing to make new artwork, Goswami is currently in the process of writing further about conceptual frameworks discovered within her artistic practice