subir che selia

I was born in Jitra, Malaysia and am now living and working as a media artist and researcher in Berlin, Germany. I studied architecture in Kuala Lumpur and media art and design in Weimar. I have academic and work experience in art and media practices including architecture, journalism, event management, media communication and performance. I have a Ph.D. in Media Art from the Bauhaus-University Weimar.

I am interested in exploring questions of the everyday, through the lenses of audio and video. My current approach of choice is through visual/acoustic anthropologies and sensory studies. How do we see and hear ourselves and the world around us?

My research primarily focuses on experimenting with ways to understand “Image”. For my dissertation, the focus was on the nature and limitations of “Image” in the context of its sensory experience in blindness. In a re-imagining exercise of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave where i substituted a blind protagonist among the sighted prisoners in the Cave and followed his journey to seeing the Sun outside, I proposed ways to establish theoretical and metaphorical connections between seeing, blindness, aesthetics and the audio-visual media hoping to better understand and ask more questions about “Image”.

I am also open for collaborations, both for theoretical and/or practical projects. Please contact me if you are interested and have some suggestions. E-mail info(at)subircheselia.com