Dhruv Jani

Dhruv Jani is the founder of an independent games and arts practice studio called Oleomingus.
He works at the intersections of postcolonial writing and interactive-fiction, and explores the use of hypertext as a tool of alternate historiography.

Through an exploration of electronic literature, his games have critiqued how the stories of our various identities are remembered and exploited, especially across the procedurally mediated
systems and databases of the modern-day Internet. And his work explores the possibility of using videogame spaces as sites of protest and reparation against such neo-colonial erasure.

He is the recipient of AMAZE new talent award, the recipient of an arts practice grant from the India Foundation for the Arts. He is a partner at the Improvising Futures Grant at IICSI, University of Guelph, and serves on the advisory committee at Game Artists International Network and also at DIGRA India chapter. He is currently a resident at Anant University, Ahmedabad and he has been a resident at the India Art Fair and at Khoj Artists Association in Delhi. His games and writings have been exhibited at V&A and Somerset house London, Serendipity Arts Festival Goa, Bartlett School of Arch, Phoenix gallery Leicester, Jawahar Kala Kendra Jaipur, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts New York, Kill Screen in Los Angeles and VGA at Chicago, among other places.