VJ Zombie is a Boston-based visual jockey and video artist from Madras, India, whose work explores the transformative power of light and its ability to reshape spaces. Since 2010, his practice has intersected music, visual storytelling, and technology, curating live visuals for artists such as Four Tet, Skrillex, Shpongle, and HVOB. In addition to his live performances, he hosts experimental audiovisual gatherings in Boston through Fels, a local artist collective, helping to foster the region's dynamic creative community.

 

With a minimal aesthetic and a meticulous approach, he crafts surreal, dreamlike experiences using projection mapping, custom-built LED fixtures, and generative, audio/motion-reactive visuals. His recent collaboration with illustrator Emma Lucille combines her live drawings in his VJ sets, creating a dynamic interplay between stark, code-based generative geometric forms and organic, hand-drawn lines—intricately choreographing a dance between the two in real time.

In 2014, he was one of the visual artists selected by the Berlin-based design collective Pfadfinderei to participate in the Border Movement Video Lab, where he collaborated with cutting-edge South Asian AV artists to transform a neglected cinema in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with multiple projection and light installations. Over the years, VJ Zombie has performed at renowned festivals such as Magnetic Fields Festival (2014-2018), globally recognized for pushing future-facing sounds from India and around the world in a 17th-century palace in Rajasthan, Pettah Interchange in Colombo, and VH1 Supersonic, leaving a lasting mark on the global festival scene with his unique artistic vision.