Kooj
works as a film maker, digital media artist and creative producer who has a particular
interest in progressing cultural, artistic, social and historical
issues from migrant perspectives within broad, global and local
contexts. Particular aesthetic concerns include occurrences of threes,
non-linearity, multiple re-formatting and musical interaction. He has
been exhibited and published across the UK and internationally, has
worked with many artists and communities at all levels and featuring at
festivals such as VIDEO POSITIVE, ISEA and SIGGRAPH. Kooj has founded
and run a number of groups and organisations such as the Virtual
Migrants artists collective focusing on race, migration and
globalisation, and undertakes projects, commissions and consultancies
according to their merits at the time. He has a long-standing interest
in education in its broadest sense and has previously worked as a
scientist, a teacher, a community worker and as a musician. He also
maintains an active involvement in various socio-political movements.