Ranu Mukherjee makes hybrid work in painting, film, performance, and installation to expand imaginative capacities. She is also co-founder of the artist avatar 0rphan drift, along with long time collaborator Maggie Roberts.

Artist avatar 0rphan Drift emerged in the mid 1990s in London. Their works in video, collage, installation, and in publications such as the epic book cyberpositive presciently foreshadowed the coming reconfiguring of social and perceptual space via the nascent internet. 0rphan Drift has explored the boundaries of machine and human vision since, taking diverse forms, working and collaborating across knowledge systems and shifting artistic strategies in accordance with the changing exigencies of the time.

0rphan drift installations, performances, and speculative fictions have been exhibited, screened, and performed in gallery and museum spaces for over three decades. Recent exhibitions include May the other Live in Me, Laboratoria Art and Science, Moscow; Monitor: Surveillance, Data and the New Panoptic, ICA MECA, Maine; If AI Were Cephalopod, Telematic San Francisco; Seismic: Art meets Science, Giant gallery, UK; Still I Rise: Gender, Feminisms and Resistance, Nottingham Contemporary and De La Warr Pavilion and Arnolfini, UK; Matter Fictions, Berardo Museum Lisbon; Speculative Frictions, PDX Contemporary, Portland Or; Eat Code and Die, Lomex Gallery NY. Their work is featured in Fictioning, The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy, by David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan, 2019; Interalia Magazine and Strike Art #77 on Ai, both 2023.