Antariksha Studio / Goa, India
Culture, imagination
and other futures.
An intergenerational collective reimagining cultural narratives through games, performances and new media.
Founders / Creative forces
Founded in 2020, Antariksha Studio explores South Asian futurism, decolonial perspectives and digital repatriation through emerging media.
Dance
Jayalakshmi Eshwar
A Bharatanatyam artist, choreographer and teacher. Her production Antariksha Sanchar seeded this world; her knowledge of gesture and storytelling shapes Jeymi and the game’s movement.
About & links
A Bharatanatyam artist, choreographer and teacher. Her production Antariksha Sanchar seeded this world; her knowledge of gesture and storytelling shapes Jeymi and the game’s movement.
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Acharya Jayalakshmi Eshwar is an internationally renowned Indian Bharatanatyam exponent, choreographer, educator and author with a career spanning over five decades. Celebrated for blending classical tradition with modern multimedia experimentation, she is a leading figure of the Kalakshetra style. She is Founder-Director of the Abhinayaa Centre of Dance. Her four instructional books include Bharatanatyam: How To... and Hastha Prayogaah. She has developed educational materials for NCERT and is the longstanding Head of the Bharatanatyam Department at Triveni Kala Sangam.
Jayalakshmi Eshwar
Dreams
Avinash Kumar
A designer, researcher, visual artist and co-founder of Quicksand. Avinash develops ANTARA across games, live visuals, performance and artistic collaborations.
About & links
A designer, researcher, visual artist and co-founder of Quicksand. Avinash develops ANTARA across games, live visuals, performance and artistic collaborations.
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Quicksand is a research and futures practice working on social impact driven innovation in the Global South. Avinash leads participatory design processes and evidence-based storytelling at Quicksand. As creative director of Antariksha Studio, he has been building video games and transmedia around Indian multicultural heritage since 2013. He is a founder-director of UnBox Festival, EyeMyth Media Arts Festival and Worldbuilder, and has curated Indian design and art festivals, residencies and productions.
Quicksand
Music
Murthovic
Sri Rama Murthy, known as Murthovic, connects Carnatic traditions, field recordings and electronic composition. His music spans albums, live performance and play.
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Sri Rama Murthy, known as Murthovic, connects Carnatic traditions, field recordings and electronic composition. His music spans albums, live performance and play.
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Murthovic is an Indian electronic music composer, DJ, sound designer and ethnomusicological researcher based in Hyderabad. He has been a foundational presence in India’s underground electronic music scene for over two decades. His experimental, genre-fluid music bridges traditional Indian musical forms with techno, house, bass and IDM, drawing on Carnatic and Hindustani melodies, soul, funk, disco and early 1990s electronica.
MurthovicCollaborators / Building the world
Many hands.
One world.
Gameplay director
Chris Solarski
Chris Solarski is a transmedia director and acclaimed author based in Zurich, Switzerland. His current practice focuses on cultural game jams and museum-based participatory experiences that invite people to playfully explore identity, creativity and cultural heritage through game design—blending physical and digital media.
About & links
An author, artist and teacher working at the intersection of art and video games. His experience includes character and environment art at Sony Computer Entertainment in London.
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Drawing on a background spanning game development at Sony Computer Entertainment, traditional art and interaction design, Chris has developed internationally recognised methods for bringing artistic expression, embodiment and human connection into interactive experiences. His work includes the Kinaesthetic Time Capsules™ method, museum toolkits that empower communities to co-author cultural experiences, and data-driven installations that transform research into participatory encounters. Chris has presented this work internationally at organisations including the Smithsonian Museum, Disney Research, SXSW and Google.
Lead 3D artist
Praphul P Ambika
Praphul P Ambika is an Indian digital sculptor, character artist and Lead 3D Artist based in Kochi, Kerala. His work spans character sculpting, cultural worldbuilding, AAA video games and multimedia art installations.
About & links
A 3D artist with experience across more than eight AAA games through Dhruva Interactive, including work associated with the Forza series and Quantum Break.
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As a Lead 3D Artist at Dhruva Interactive, Praphul contributed to more than eight major AAA titles, including work on the Forza series, Quantum Break, Star Wars projects, Enemy Front and Operation Flashpoint. He is the core in-house Lead 3D Artist for Antariksha Studio and a creative contributor to Elsewhere in India, the immersive media project, live audiovisual performance and exhibition series co-directed by Avinash Kumar (Thiruda) and Murthovic.
Storytelling director
Yuvraj Jha
Yuvraj Jha is an Indian concept artist, writer and creative researcher. He is the founder of Monkeyverse, an independent worldbuilding and speculative design studio creating culturally rooted visual storytelling across video games, streaming series and new media art.
About & links
Working as Monkeyverse, Yuvraj is a concept designer and illustrator, and a long-standing member of the Antariksha team. Trained at the FZD School, his practice spans worldbuilding, art and film.
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Yuvraj’s recent work explores speculative futures: how environments might adapt to ecological crisis and rapid technological change. He developed environment art and worldbuilding for All Will Rise with Speculative Agency. His piece A Day in the Life of Muziris was selected for the 2026 Game Maker’s Sketchbook. His independent projects Thousand Arms and Signals explore human stories through memory, addiction and the planetary climate crisis.
3D art
Sarbeswar Kalita
About & links
A character artist and founder of Crazylion Art Studio. Sarbeswar contributes to the project’s 3D art and character development.
Artist portfolioGame development
Gomathi Shanker
About & links
A game developer and co-founder of Dwarven Brothers, contributing to the project’s experiments in interactive play.
Developer profileCreative technology
Varun Ramanna
About & links
A creative director and multidisciplinary artist working across animation, visual effects and interactive entertainment. Varun founded Shapeshifter Digital.
Artist portfolioCollaborating studios
Nadabrahma Studio · Shapeshifter Studio
Dwarven Brothers · Grizzly Bear Studio
The makers.
Credits from the Antariksha Sanchar project archive.
IP & concept
Cultural director
Creative director
Art director
Music director
- Sri Rama Murthy (Murthovic)
Concept artists
- Avinash Kumar (Thiruda)
- Yuvraj Jha (Monkeyverse)
- Abhinav Mishra
- Bhaskar Rac
- Dhruv Chakkamadam
- Girish Krishnan Ramdas
- Painter Rajeev
3D artists
- Sarbeswar Kalita
- Praphul P. Ambika
- Ragha Krishnamoorthi
- Ashish Kashyap
Game programmers
- Romit Raj
- Gomathi S. Krishnamoorthi
Animation
- Yash Chandak
- Navdeep (Vero9)
- Aural Eye Studio
- Saket Ghaisas
- Underground Worm
Illustrators
- Rahul Arora
- Derek Domnic D’souza
- Aashit Singh
- Gaurav Wakankar
- Santanu Hazarika
- Ghost Animation
- Svabhu & Viplov
- Abhishek Singh
- Supreetha CK
Dancers
- Jayalakshmi Eshwar
- Sakshi Anandam
- Anannya Chatterjee
- Shwetha Gopalakrishnan
- S. Sushmita
- Subasree Arvind
- Nandita Nambiar
- Maya Ratnam
Research
- Salil Parekh
- Jarudhi Negi
- Kabir Lessel David
Arts management
- Jyoti Narayan
- Shilpi Gupta
- Kenneth Lobo
Incubated by
- British Council & AHRC
- Quicksand
- Unbox Cultural Futures
- Red Bull Music India
Assistant music producer
In print.
In conversation.
Selected press, films and talks trace the world’s journey from Antariksha Sanchar to ANTARA.
Press, media & talks
