Digital artist, filmmaker, creative producer, Kooj has worked with international artists such as Keith Piper and Shahidul Alam. Founder of artist collective Virtual Migrants and with his company Metaceptive, he artistically interweaves social justice, environment and diversity. Widely exhibited including Arnolfini (Bristol), ICA (London), internationally including San Diego, Paris, Toronto. Has won an award for digital arts connecting refugees with climate change, and produced / curated 'Footprint Modulation' exhibition on climate migration across five venues in Durham. Other climate arts work includes ‘Chamada From Chico Mendes’, interactive art combining documentary, poetry and sound from across the world; ‘Buy This’ evolving series of two-screen interactive video installations connecting consumerism displacement and environmental degradation.
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