MFA 2026 Artists MFA 2026 Artists: MITRAAVRS

About MITRAAVRS

അനാമിക പൊന്തൻ, better known as MITRAAVRS, is a multimedia artist and educator exploring memory, fragmented identity, and non-linear narratives through hypertext and experimental web-based formats. Born in India and raised across Oman and Dubai before relocating to the United States at twenty-three, their transnational upbringing shapes an interest in shifting selves and unstable temporalities within narrative form. Holding a BFA in 3D Modelling and Animation from SAE Institute Dubai, they merge drawing, web technologies, and creative coding to build hybrid narrative spaces and interactive systems. They have exhibited work with New Bedford Arts Illuminated and Hatch Street Studios.

MITRAAVRS has also worked as a Gallery Assistant and currently serves as a Teaching Fellow at UMass Dartmouth, supporting students in developing foundational digital media skills.

Statement

My practice explores memory and identity as something unstable and continually rewritten. Working across illustration, animation, hypertext, and experimental web-based media, I construct narrative systems that resist linearity and unfold through user interaction. I am interested in how multiple temporalities and identities can coexist in digital environments without resolution.

Much of my work emerges from lived experiences of displacement and reorientation. I approach identity as something continually assembled and reassembled across different contexts. This manifests in my projects as shifting narrative voices and unstable interfaces that obscure as much as they reveal. Memory becomes less of a record of the past and more a speculative space that is partial and often unreliable.

A significant influence on my work is the visual and structural language of early web graphics and browser-based environments. I am drawn to the aesthetics of early internet spaces as a reflection of a moment when the web felt more fragmented, personal, and in flux. I revisit these visual systems to think through memory and identity, since both are similarly imperfect and prone to distortion. The instability of early web design is both a formal and conceptual tool, allowing me to build environments that are constantly shifting.

My interest as a multimedia artist is in building worlds that simultaneously feel intimate and inaccessible, where viewers are invited in, but never given complete resolution.

Website: mitraavrs.carrd.co