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The India Habitat Centre's Art Journal The India Habitat Centre’s Art Journal Volume 9, April 2008 - March 2009 1 Editor: Dr. Alka Pande, Prof. Dr. Nils Röller Editorial Coordinators: Shilpa Sawant, Sadaf Raza, Marina Sawall Visual Arts Gallery Support: Krishna Kapur, Suprabha Nayak, Saurabh Rai, Kushal Singh Translator of German Essays: Ritu Khanna Design: Parthiv Shah Design Assistants: Shraboni Roy, Madhur Mangal Centre for Media and Alternative Communication Tel.: 91-11-2649 8106, 2649 8977 www.cmaconline.org email: [email protected] Printed and Published by Raj Liberhan on behalf of: India Habitat Centre Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003 Email: [email protected] Tel.: 91-11-4366 2024-25; Fax: 91-11-2468 2010-11 Printed at Archana, www.archanapress.com IHC 2009 ContentsContents 5 Director’s Note: Raj Liberhan, IHC 6 Note on Collaboration: Chandrika Grover Ralleigh, Head, Pro Helvetia, India 7 Curatorial Note: Dr. Alka Pande, IHC 9 Editorial Note: Prof. Dr. Nils Röller, ZHDK Essays 12 The Fickleness of Novelty: Shuddhabrata Sengupta 17 A reflection on perspective in art, science and digital media: Karan Sher Singh 22 Celebrating with anti-coagulants Ten Years of SHIBEN: Abhishek Hazra 26 Old Language in a New World: Alice Cicolini 31 New Media Art and its Obsolete Present: Shukla Sawant 35 New Media interventions from Bangalore: Suresh Jayaram 42 The New Music of New Media in India: Shankar Barua 48 The Way Things Go: Vilém Flusser 50 Programmes as space for thought?: Tabea Lurk 65 Variantology and Archaeology of the Media: Siegfried Zielinski 67 The Myth is the Message: Adrian Notz 74 Media authorship: Giaco Schiesser 77 HOME MADE and do-it-yourself: Dominik Landwehr 80 The DACollection/DAStore project: Annette Schindler and Reinhard Storz 82 Building bridges: Peter Schneider 85 Interview with Bob Bishop - A trend of computing 88 Xcult.org - the Swiss internet platform: Reinhard Storz 90 Public Art, Sociology, and the Theory of Art: Some Preliminary Remarks: Christoph Schenker 93 Not everything is predictable: Verena Kuni 98 Copyright and Freedom of Art in the 21st Century: Felix Stalder 101 Swiss Knife of Communication: Nils Röller Events of the Gallery Section I Visual Arts Gallery Section II Open Palm Court Gallery Section III Experimental Arts Gallery Other Events Awards & Fellowships Promising Artist Award 2009 Excellence in Ceramics 2009 Fellowship for Photography 2009 Calendar Subscription Forms Annual Arts Journal Art India Magazine Director’sDirector’s NoteNote If the idiom of art has become extensive and found ever increasing constituencies, it has also become more complex and didactic. To someone who has been brought up on the standard equation of paint + brush + canvas = artists, the present day boundaries are moving beyond this horizon. It over awes but it exhilarates. It challenges understanding but rewards comprehension. It makes you feel at once illiterate and ignites an urge to get into a classroom without any anxiety about your station or time of life. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the world of digital art. Here the canvas is your screen, and the technology driven keyboards help you create dynamic images conveying hundreds of thoughts. A landscape or a portrait or even abstract art on the customary canvas is frozen in time even though conversations around it ‘animate’, for as long as the work gets displayed. Electronics and collateral technology makes art pulsate whenever it interferes with the viewer. So, argue or accept, the digital arts and new media are part of our lives and these will continue to push the boundaries of excellence as scientific discoveries occupy more space in our life. It is in a sense an obeisance to the new Gods, a reverence to their creations that IHC’s Annual Art Journal of this year seeks to celebrate. The widespread interest evoked in digital arts makes it all the more necessary to bring out different perspectives ranging from the exponents to the critics. There is also a bit of history about this medium included in this journal. There is little doubt that electronic media has transformed the way the world lives, breathes and talks. We now live in exponential times. Not environmental any more, but truly exponential. It is history in the making as its roots go on further than the present. We have yet to fathom the full scope of the New Media. Till now, what has emerged is breath taking, so the future can transform the idiom of New Media. Raj Liberhan Director India Habitat Centre 5 NoteNote onon CollaborationCollaboration Pro Helvetia New Delhi takes great pleasure in having had the opportunity to work together with the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre in the production of its Journal for 2009. Last year, we supported the Promising Artist of the Year, Ashish Ghosh who will have a residency in Basel as part of Pro Helvetia’s Residencies programme in 2010. The Residencies programme is open for application until the end of January every year. Drs Nils Roeller and Alka Pande first met in December 2008 and spoke about this collaboration and to see it fructify in such a satisfactory way is very rewarding — over twenty pieces in all from India and Switzerland — some from people who pioneered ‘new media’ in both countries. I am sure the Journal will be of interest to art theorists and practitioners alike, both here and there, and I thank both the editors for the energy and enthusiasm they invested in the project. It would not be out of place here to mention the quiet, but significant, contribution on the part of the translator, Ritu Khanna in making the German texts accessible to the readers of this edition. Chandrika Grover Ralleigh Head, India Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council www.prohelvetia.in 6 Curatorial Note As a human being the artist may have many moods and Department of Art and Media at the University a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is ‘man’ in of the Arts Zurich, where he teaches Media and a higher sense he is ‘collective man’ one who carries Cultural Theory and is also co-director of the and shapes the unconscious, psychic life of mankind. special field of Media Art, Röller is literally at (Carl Jung) the forefront of the development of New Media Practices. IN 1938 the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, I was presented with an irresistible opportunity on during his trip to India was honoured with three a platter and I grabbed it. I approached Chandrika doctorates from Allahabad, Benaras and Calcutta Grover the Head of the Swiss Arts Council, the universities. The sculptor, painter and art historian Pro Helvetia in India to come on board as a Alice Boner (1889-1981) from Zurich, who spent more collaborator for the project, which she did. And than 45 years at the banks of the Ganga, in Benaras, ever since we have all been on a roll working was awarded the “Padmabhushan” in 1974 by the closely together to produce a document which is Indian President for her outstanding scholarly work a pioneering one in the disciple. New Media in on Indian art, especially sculpture and architecture the realm of art practice is still in its nascent stage is a reflection of the slim yet tenous link with in India. A bit of an oxymoron for a country like India. During the years of World War II well known India which is providing the top human resources Swiss travel writer Ella Maillard, spent a number of in the area of Information Technology and scientific years in the ashram of Ramana Maharishi, south of research in the top laboratories globally. Madras, and reflected her unique experience in the Röller had great insights into the history and novel “Ti Puss”. practice of New Media in the German speaking The philosophy of the land and the spirituality has world of Europe. Having read philosophy at the been a constant source of engagement with the Swiss, post graduate level, a practicing poet, he brought mainly artists and intellectuals. They have been long in a dimension in his approach to investigate fascinated with the historic and cultural splendour, New Media which also finds echoes within the and the puzzling diversity of India. historical context of India’s cultural and aesthetic development. Sacred geometry, Yantras and the rasa Swiss Banking, the Swiss watch Industry and the theory from ancient Indian cultural practices have Swiss chemical industry too has a shared present a certain resonance in New Media art practices. with us here in India. Similar scientific thought processes are applied Continuing the tradition of applauding, we thought of in the broad landscape of what is defined as now collaborating on the most innovative realm of art, New Media art. The New Media and invited niche artists and writers New Media art by its very nature encompasses all on the common platform of Annual Arts Journal. artworks created with technologies from digital The seed of the journal on New Media started art, to computer graphics, computer animation, exactly a year ago when we invited Nils Röller virtual art, internet art, interactive art technologies, to give a lecture on the ABC of New Media Art at computer robotics, and art as biotechnology. New the Habitat Centre. In an intense and passionate Media is closely related to and often derived lecture Roller gave a gentle introduction to New from technologies of telecommunications, mobile Media Practices in Switzerland. As a lecturer in the phones, and computer software technologies. The 7 key to this practice stems from conceptual and Media interventions from Bangalore presents a virtual art, and also the more performance based niche development from Bangalore a nerve centre digital works i.e.
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