Samir Bhowmik

Samir Bhowmik is a Helsinki-based multi-disciplinary artist, architect, and scholar currently serving as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow (2022-2027) at the University of the Arts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts. His work bridges extractivism, ecology, and technology through performance art, installation, and research.

• Doctor of Arts (2016) from Aalto University
• Master of Architecture (2003) from the University of Maryland

Research interests include environmental art, machine learning in performance, media archaeology, and infrastructure studies. His projects like Heat Work and Dances with Service Robots interrogate human-machine entanglements and resource extraction. Recent publications emphasize data ethics and energy sustainability in artistic practices.

His artistic methodology combines motion capture, 3D animation, and supervised ML to critique ecological impacts of digital systems. Projects such as Memory Machines explore concealed infrastructural sites in libraries, questioning how data, heat, and energy sustain cultural memory.