THREE FIELDS was an international digital arts collaboration launched in 2025 bringing together artists, cultural organisations, and creative technologists across India, South Africa, and the UK to explore environmentally conscious creative digital practices.
Artists Deepa Reddy (India), Samukelisiwe Siphesihle Dube (South Africa) and Kaajal Modi’s (UK) prototype artwork offers fragments of an ongoing body of collective practices and insights into the artists’ process. Stories of migration, preservation, exchange and distribution unfolded, connected by the use of binaural sound, an immersive technology capable of providing an embodied, resonant experience in the listener, without the environmental impact of other VR/AR technologies.
At its core, THREE FIELDS supported a process-led collaboration, prioritising experimentation, learning and reflection over a final artwork. Ambitions to embed environmental sustainability and access considerations were carried over not only in the subject matter of the work, but in our methods, technologies, and rhythms of collaboration itself.
Knowledge sharing and presentations of the artwork were shared through a residency in Leeds Kirkgate Market, talk at Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival in Johannesburg, a prototype binaural soundscape installation at EyeMyth Media Arts Festival in Delhi. The binaural soundscapes are now archived online.
THREE FIELDS: Listening to spices as seeds, plants, and landscapes
Presented at EyeMyth Media Arts Festival in Delhi, 21-22 February 2026
Conscious of the many ways in which movements of plants, people, and food have made modern food systems as they are—whether forced and desired, engineered and organic, industrial and personal—conversations between the artists gravitated towards food migrations.
A key modality throughout the collaboration has been listening: to each other, to stories that specific ingredients such as spices carry, to the interstices between things loudly and commonly known, and the gaps where no sounds go.
What do we hear when we listen to spices speaking? The prototype exhibited at EyeMyth explores this via three unique binaural soundscapes, each of them returning us to ecologies and landscapes lost in mass commerce and industrial-scale production.
THREE FIELDS is an international co-comission between Abandon Normal Devices, Arts Catalyst, Fak’ugesi, Fast Familiar and Unbox. Funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants and supported using public funding by Arts Council England.