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:
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[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