Puneet is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), eXtended Reality (XR), artificial intelligence, and disability studies. Puneet’s artistic and academic practice challenges the ableism embedded in XR technologies—an umbrella term for virtual/augmented reality and wearable interfaces. He is currently intensively engaged in hacking and modifying XR technologies to make them accessible to people with disabilities, particularly his friends with spinal cord injuries/tetraplegia.

Puneet works closely with disabled artists and activists, using adapted, accessible XR technologies as artistic strategies to tell immersive stories that challenge common stereotypes about disabilities. Puneet’s work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Culturgest (Lisbon, Portugal), ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany), xCoAx (Treviso, Italy), and Khoj Studios (Delhi, India), among others. He is currently a doctoral student at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and a Research Fellow at Immersive Arts Space, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland. He holds a Master’s degree in computer and data science and previously worked in the Interaction Design Lab at IISc Bangalore and as a data scientist at SAP Labs Bangalore.