soumya_ghosh@g.harvard.edu
Department of Physics
Soumya Ghosh is a PhD student in the Physics program, working in experimental integrated photonics. In Critical Media Practice, he explores his research interests through sound and installation. His research in all modes is emotionally and intellectually motivated by what Einstein once called the cosmic religious feeling: “The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims at the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. Individual existence impresses him as a sort of prison and he wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.”
This has led to work such as “Rain,” a small room-sized installation attempting to position the audience among and at the femtoscopic level of the shower of cosmic rays that constantly pass through the Earth; and “Echo,” an audio piece using recordings of lab machinery and candid interactions among scientists to explore the process of becoming integrated into a scientific community.
Soumya has published his research in outlets ranging from the Journal of Instrumentation to Ortus. He holds an ScB in Mathematical Physics and an AB in English from Brown University.