Khanuja Neeta is an interaction design researcher and visual artist. Born in Gujarat, 1985, her art journey started with her design education at the National Institute of Design, India in 2003. At NID, she got exposure to the fields of animation, film and video, embedded systems, body and space, to mention a few. These generated her interest in tangible media and installation art. After graduation, she worked at a design studio in Ahmedabad, India as a co-founder and principal interaction designer. Her inclination in the area of design for special needs inspired her to join a dual degree Master’s program in Media Architecture at the Bauhaus Universitat, Germany, and Master of Science in Architecture at the Buffalo University, New York. Being at Bauhaus played an important role in her learning about self and made her aware of her aesthetic preferences. Her style matured and found home in black and white. The timelessness and simplicity of black and white, line drawings gave her a sense of peace. Later, she pursued movement arts and mixed media from Attakalari center for movement arts, India. This opened opportunities for her to explore the overlaps between moving lines and bodies. To find a parallel in 2 dimensionalities of lines with 3-dimensional movements of accommodating bodies in space. Her work is an inquiry of how the complexity of self and life can be simplified and presented in lines while still holding its essence. Currently based in Pittsburgh, Neeta Khanuja continues to explore different material and expressions for her work, As a Ph.D. student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Her interest in textile emerged as she pursued the fabric painting course at CMU School of Drama with Brian Russman. Her current work explores materializing the visuals in embroidery art form and patch work that is local artwork in her homeplace in India. In her recent work she focuses on how embroidery and patchwork can be manifested within the constraints of black and white and how one can map the ephemeral nature and temporality of improvisation on slow and patient format of sewing. 

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