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CeC & CaC 2006, The first Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave, was played out January 27-28-29, in 2006 (a Friday-Saturday-Sunday), in partnership with - and in - India international Centre, New Delhi, as a modest first iteration of a series of public incidents that were variously played out annually over the next 10 years, till 2016,
The stated intent of this first iteration was to deploy an exploratory and widely-inclusive canvas of participation & content from around India and the world, addressing the Creative Empowerment of Individuals by the burgeoning spread of Technology across multiple streams of Creative Human Endeavour.
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CeC & CaC 2006, The first Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave, was played out January 27-28-29, in 2006 (a Friday-Saturday-Sunday), in partnership with - and in - India international Centre, New Delhi, as a modest first iteration of a series of public incidents that were variously played out annually over the next 10 years, till 2016,
The stated intent of this first iteration was to deploy an exploratory and widely-inclusive canvas of participation & content from around India and the world, addressing the Creative Empowerment of Individuals by the burgeoning spread of Technology across multiple streams of Creative Human Endeavour.
CeC is the Carnival of e-Creativity a Public Forum themed "Touch-e Feel-e" for 2006. The event will be largely open to the public, and visitors are encouraged to bring along their own laptops, multimedia phones, D-cameras, music keyboards and so on to launch breakout sessions with their own works in the Gandhi-King Plaza and the Annexe rear-garden. |
CaC is the Change-agents Conclave a closed-door Peer Forum within the larger event themed "Quo Vadis?" for 2006. Largely about discourse, sharing, exchanges and networking, formally within a scheduled event on the first day of CeC & CaC (Jan. 27), but hopefully also to continue through the rest of the course of the larger event, informally on the sidelines. |
:: Participants & Content ::
Zazie (Germany/Austria)
Zazie was born in Germany, where she studied Architecture and Product Design before working for several years as a professional photographer for different Austrian and German newspapers, magazines and book publishers. She went digital in 1997, and quickly became aware of the possibilities to carry forward the interests she had developed for surrealism during her earlier studies. Her extraordinary new works soon began to be seen, and awarded, in surrealist or digital group exhibitions across the EU, USA and Australia. She has been featured as a cover-story of the "IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications" magazine, and some of her works are now even used as a basis for Arts teaching in Upper Austria. Her very popular internet web site (since 2001) showcases much of Zazie's work on an ongoing basis, but also features lots of other digital and surrealist artists, and an entire section dedicated to collaborative digital artworks and common projects.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Zazie will be personally presenting a very special collection of her digital-still-imaging in a public auditorium-session. This has been specifically formatted for the event in collaboration with Mingo, an audio-video artist and friend.
***Post-event insertion: Zazie led a digital imaging workshop for the Post-Gradutate 2nd year batch of New Media students from the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad) in the Lecture-Room of the IIC-Annexe, late-afternoon January 29.
Zazie was born in Germany, where she studied Architecture and Product Design before working for several years as a professional photographer for different Austrian and German newspapers, magazines and book publishers. She went digital in 1997, and quickly became aware of the possibilities to carry forward the interests she had developed for surrealism during her earlier studies. Her extraordinary new works soon began to be seen, and awarded, in surrealist or digital group exhibitions across the EU, USA and Australia. She has been featured as a cover-story of the "IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications" magazine, and some of her works are now even used as a basis for Arts teaching in Upper Austria. Her very popular internet web site (since 2001) showcases much of Zazie's work on an ongoing basis, but also features lots of other digital and surrealist artists, and an entire section dedicated to collaborative digital artworks and common projects.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Zazie will be personally presenting a very special collection of her digital-still-imaging in a public auditorium-session. This has been specifically formatted for the event in collaboration with Mingo, an audio-video artist and friend.
***Post-event insertion: Zazie led a digital imaging workshop for the Post-Gradutate 2nd year batch of New Media students from the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad) in the Lecture-Room of the IIC-Annexe, late-afternoon January 29.
Hannes Leopoldseder (Austria)
Hannes Leopoldseder is a Ph. D. and professor, most easily recognized internationally as co-founder of the globally iconic Ars Electronica and Linzer Klangwolke (1979), initiator of the Prix Ars Electronica (1987) and conceptualizer of the Ars Electronica Center (1991), all of which are now counted amongst the most important events and entities in the world with regard to electronics in culture and the arts. He has extensively published works in connection with the Ars Electronica, Prix Ars Electronica and the Linzer Klangwolke. His mainstream career is signposted by terms as a publisher's reader (1965), a television reporter for ORF Vienna (1967), managing director of ORF Upper Austria (1974 - 1998), a lecturer for audio-visual media at the University of Vienna (1975) and information director of ORF Vienna (1998).
Hannes Leopoldseder is a Ph. D. and professor, most easily recognized internationally as co-founder of the globally iconic Ars Electronica and Linzer Klangwolke (1979), initiator of the Prix Ars Electronica (1987) and conceptualizer of the Ars Electronica Center (1991), all of which are now counted amongst the most important events and entities in the world with regard to electronics in culture and the arts. He has extensively published works in connection with the Ars Electronica, Prix Ars Electronica and the Linzer Klangwolke. His mainstream career is signposted by terms as a publisher's reader (1965), a television reporter for ORF Vienna (1967), managing director of ORF Upper Austria (1974 - 1998), a lecturer for audio-visual media at the University of Vienna (1975) and information director of ORF Vienna (1998).
Lawrence Casserley (UK)
Lawrence Casserley has devoted his professional career, as composer, conductor and performer, to real time electroacoustic music. In 1967 he became one of the first students of Electronic Music at the Royal College of Music, London, UK, on the new course taught by Tristram Cary. He later became Professor-in-Charge of Studios and Adviser for Electroacoustic Music at the RCM, before taking early retirement in 1995. He is best known for his work in free improvised music, particularly real-time processing of other musicians' sound, and has devised a special computer processing instrument for this work. He has worked with many of the finest improvisers, particularly Evan Parker, with whom he works frequently as a duo partner, in various larger groupings and in the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. He also works as a soloist, processing sounds from voice, percussion and homemade instruments. CDs have been released by ECM, Leo Records, Psi, Sargasso and Touch. Much of Casserley's work has involved collaboration with other art forms, including poets, eg Bob Cobbing, and visual artists, including Colourscape artist Peter Jones. He is a Director of the Colourscape Music Festivals, presenting contemporary music in the unique environment of the Colourscape walk-in sculpture. He also collaborates with Peter Jones on sound/light installations.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Lawrence will make two presentations: an overview of his work illustrated by recordings and photographs; and an improvised performance using a much smaller version of his computer processing instrument. He will also premiere an experimental collaboration with the Hindustani Classical vocalist Aparna Panshikar (below)
***Post-event insertion: LAwrence Casserley led an electro-acoustic workshop for the Post-Gradutate 2nd year batch of New Media students from the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), and some others, in Conference Room #1 in the IIC main campus, 9-10am January 29.
Lawrence Casserley has devoted his professional career, as composer, conductor and performer, to real time electroacoustic music. In 1967 he became one of the first students of Electronic Music at the Royal College of Music, London, UK, on the new course taught by Tristram Cary. He later became Professor-in-Charge of Studios and Adviser for Electroacoustic Music at the RCM, before taking early retirement in 1995. He is best known for his work in free improvised music, particularly real-time processing of other musicians' sound, and has devised a special computer processing instrument for this work. He has worked with many of the finest improvisers, particularly Evan Parker, with whom he works frequently as a duo partner, in various larger groupings and in the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. He also works as a soloist, processing sounds from voice, percussion and homemade instruments. CDs have been released by ECM, Leo Records, Psi, Sargasso and Touch. Much of Casserley's work has involved collaboration with other art forms, including poets, eg Bob Cobbing, and visual artists, including Colourscape artist Peter Jones. He is a Director of the Colourscape Music Festivals, presenting contemporary music in the unique environment of the Colourscape walk-in sculpture. He also collaborates with Peter Jones on sound/light installations.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Lawrence will make two presentations: an overview of his work illustrated by recordings and photographs; and an improvised performance using a much smaller version of his computer processing instrument. He will also premiere an experimental collaboration with the Hindustani Classical vocalist Aparna Panshikar (below)
***Post-event insertion: LAwrence Casserley led an electro-acoustic workshop for the Post-Gradutate 2nd year batch of New Media students from the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), and some others, in Conference Room #1 in the IIC main campus, 9-10am January 29.
Aparna Panshikar (India)
Aparna Panshikar was born into a family renowned for its passion and achievements in various forms of performing arts, and had an early introduction to Indian Classical music from her mother Meera Panshikar, a disciple of Padmavibhushan Kishori Amonkar and Pandit Bhaskarbua Joshi. Her own individual singing style has been well received, and often awarded, by audiences as well as connoisseurs in innumerable concerts around India and several other countries, with a repertoire ranged from pure-classical to semi-classical forms and also experiments with combining North and South Indian Classical music. Album releases so far include: HMV India's largest music publisher released 3 titles as "HMV presents A Voice for the New Millennium", 2000; Inreco Records released a 'jugalbandi' (fusion) between Aparna singing the Indian Classical style with Sudha Raghunathan singing the Carnatic Classical style of music, under the title "UNITY" in 2000; Mook Sound, South Korea published a fusion between Indian music composed and sung by her, and Korean music played by leading exponents from that country, under the title"Winds from Ayuta" in 2002. This won the "Critics' Best New Release Award" in South Korea for 2002; Mook Sound went on to release another title "Diamond Sutra" and "Punyapur ki Sarita" in 2003; Deep Emotions ( Silk Road Communications ) released "Shivoham" a collection of verses by Adi Shankaracharya sung by Aparna, accompanied with sarod and keyboard, 2004. In addition to her albums, she has successfully worked with Greg Turner an American musician based in South Korea playing Indonesian gamelan(!), with whom she first exchanged ideas, followed up with basic music pieces and finally created a song.. without ever meeting each other. She has worked with Kai Turnbull, of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, but Kai eventually came down to India and recorded classical pieces directly from her, modified to suit western rhythm patterns as used in pop music, to produce some interesting numbers. And when she traveled to France for a promotional tour of her album 'Shivoham', she worked with the composer and singer Rudolfe Burger to create a nice experiment and resulted in a small concert for music lovers and connoisseurs. She has participated and led various seminars and discourses in recent years and is presently taken up wit establishing her dream "Bandish ~ The School of Music", as an umbrella institution for supporting learning, research and propagation of Indian music all over the world, and also as a convergence point for musicians of all description.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Aparna will present a premiere performance of an experimental collaboration with Lawrence Casserley (above)
Aparna Panshikar was born into a family renowned for its passion and achievements in various forms of performing arts, and had an early introduction to Indian Classical music from her mother Meera Panshikar, a disciple of Padmavibhushan Kishori Amonkar and Pandit Bhaskarbua Joshi. Her own individual singing style has been well received, and often awarded, by audiences as well as connoisseurs in innumerable concerts around India and several other countries, with a repertoire ranged from pure-classical to semi-classical forms and also experiments with combining North and South Indian Classical music. Album releases so far include: HMV India's largest music publisher released 3 titles as "HMV presents A Voice for the New Millennium", 2000; Inreco Records released a 'jugalbandi' (fusion) between Aparna singing the Indian Classical style with Sudha Raghunathan singing the Carnatic Classical style of music, under the title "UNITY" in 2000; Mook Sound, South Korea published a fusion between Indian music composed and sung by her, and Korean music played by leading exponents from that country, under the title"Winds from Ayuta" in 2002. This won the "Critics' Best New Release Award" in South Korea for 2002; Mook Sound went on to release another title "Diamond Sutra" and "Punyapur ki Sarita" in 2003; Deep Emotions ( Silk Road Communications ) released "Shivoham" a collection of verses by Adi Shankaracharya sung by Aparna, accompanied with sarod and keyboard, 2004. In addition to her albums, she has successfully worked with Greg Turner an American musician based in South Korea playing Indonesian gamelan(!), with whom she first exchanged ideas, followed up with basic music pieces and finally created a song.. without ever meeting each other. She has worked with Kai Turnbull, of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, but Kai eventually came down to India and recorded classical pieces directly from her, modified to suit western rhythm patterns as used in pop music, to produce some interesting numbers. And when she traveled to France for a promotional tour of her album 'Shivoham', she worked with the composer and singer Rudolfe Burger to create a nice experiment and resulted in a small concert for music lovers and connoisseurs. She has participated and led various seminars and discourses in recent years and is presently taken up wit establishing her dream "Bandish ~ The School of Music", as an umbrella institution for supporting learning, research and propagation of Indian music all over the world, and also as a convergence point for musicians of all description.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Aparna will present a premiere performance of an experimental collaboration with Lawrence Casserley (above)
Basak Senova (Turkey)
Basak Senova is a curator, writer and designer, based in Istanbul. She has a MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University; attended the 7th Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam in 2002; publications on art, technology and mass media since 1995, and lectures, initiating projects and curating exhibitions in Turkey and Europe since 1996; founding member of NOMAD; recently started Upgrade!Istanbul. Most recent curatorial projects: "ctrl-alt-del" sound art project series (since 2003), "NOMAD-TV.network 01", "loosing.ctrl", "The 23rd International Contemporary Artists Istanbul and Diyarbakir Exhibitions", and contributed "Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance" as one of the curators of the project.
NOMAD is an independent formation founded in 2002. It targets to produce and experiment new patterns in the digital art sphere by using various lenses of other disciplines. The infrastructure is based on technical and theoretical levels to provide collaborations with affiliations of artists. Since 2002, NOMAD has developed various local and international projects; collaborated with <rotor> Gallery, Marres, Hedah, kuda.org, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Steim, V2, Interspace-Sofia, Sabreen Studio, press to exit project space-Pro Helvetia Skopje, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Siemens-Sanat, Forum StadtPark-Graz participated and organized projects for Transmediale 2005, ZKM|Karlsruhe, International Istanbul Biennial and The Trans_European Picnic: The Art and Media of Accession. NOMAD is also organizing ctrl_alt_del since 2003. It was the first sound-art festival realized in Turkey, in September 2003. More than 30 people from 16 different countries contributed to the project in 2003. In 2005, ctrl_alt_del also took place in the "positionings" section of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial with 57 names from 12 countries. NOMAD is also organizing Upgrade!Istanbul at santralistanbul.
For CeC & CaC 2006, Basak Senova will deliver an overview of the e-Creative scene in Turkey in a public auditorium session. She has also compiled a special collection of short videos for screening in a lecture-room segment of the event. This is entitled "Snapshot 1" and includes:
1. Turkish Light Arts (2002) ExtraStruggle ~ 00:04:11
2. I/O Information Overbloated (2005) Erhan Muratoglu ~ 00:03:00
3. Derdimi Anla (1998) ZeN ~ 00:05:07
4. Istatistiklal (2004) Erhan Muratoglu - Ertug Uçar - Simge Goksoy ~ 00:08:15
5. Deniz (2005-2006) Cem Yardimci John Barret ~ 00:02:43
6. Lost Postcard (2004-2005) Selda Asal - Ceren Oykut ~ 00:05:00
7. Down-Under (2005) Güven Çatak ~ 00:02:47
8. Abstraction (2004) Serap Dogan ~ 00:05:00
9. SeashellSea (2004) Ozlem Sulak ~ 00:03:16
Basak Senova is a curator, writer and designer, based in Istanbul. She has a MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University; attended the 7th Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam in 2002; publications on art, technology and mass media since 1995, and lectures, initiating projects and curating exhibitions in Turkey and Europe since 1996; founding member of NOMAD; recently started Upgrade!Istanbul. Most recent curatorial projects: "ctrl-alt-del" sound art project series (since 2003), "NOMAD-TV.network 01", "loosing.ctrl", "The 23rd International Contemporary Artists Istanbul and Diyarbakir Exhibitions", and contributed "Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance" as one of the curators of the project.
NOMAD is an independent formation founded in 2002. It targets to produce and experiment new patterns in the digital art sphere by using various lenses of other disciplines. The infrastructure is based on technical and theoretical levels to provide collaborations with affiliations of artists. Since 2002, NOMAD has developed various local and international projects; collaborated with <rotor> Gallery, Marres, Hedah, kuda.org, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Steim, V2, Interspace-Sofia, Sabreen Studio, press to exit project space-Pro Helvetia Skopje, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Siemens-Sanat, Forum StadtPark-Graz participated and organized projects for Transmediale 2005, ZKM|Karlsruhe, International Istanbul Biennial and The Trans_European Picnic: The Art and Media of Accession. NOMAD is also organizing ctrl_alt_del since 2003. It was the first sound-art festival realized in Turkey, in September 2003. More than 30 people from 16 different countries contributed to the project in 2003. In 2005, ctrl_alt_del also took place in the "positionings" section of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial with 57 names from 12 countries. NOMAD is also organizing Upgrade!Istanbul at santralistanbul.
For CeC & CaC 2006, Basak Senova will deliver an overview of the e-Creative scene in Turkey in a public auditorium session. She has also compiled a special collection of short videos for screening in a lecture-room segment of the event. This is entitled "Snapshot 1" and includes:
1. Turkish Light Arts (2002) ExtraStruggle ~ 00:04:11
2. I/O Information Overbloated (2005) Erhan Muratoglu ~ 00:03:00
3. Derdimi Anla (1998) ZeN ~ 00:05:07
4. Istatistiklal (2004) Erhan Muratoglu - Ertug Uçar - Simge Goksoy ~ 00:08:15
5. Deniz (2005-2006) Cem Yardimci John Barret ~ 00:02:43
6. Lost Postcard (2004-2005) Selda Asal - Ceren Oykut ~ 00:05:00
7. Down-Under (2005) Güven Çatak ~ 00:02:47
8. Abstraction (2004) Serap Dogan ~ 00:05:00
9. SeashellSea (2004) Ozlem Sulak ~ 00:03:16
Curtis Bahn (USA)
Curtis Bahn is a composer and improviser specializing in live interactive electronic performance. Currently he is Associate Professor of Computer Music Composition/ Performance at the Integrated Electronic Arts (iEAR) Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Curtis is a frequent lecturer on electronically extended instruments and human/computer interaction in the arts. He has taught at the Columbia University Computer Music Center (CMC), Brown, NYU, Princeton and CUNY. His music has been presented at Lincoln Center, the International Society of Bassists World Conference, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), Performance Studies International (PSI), the World Acoustic Ecology Conference, the Styrian Autumn Festival, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Musik Aktuell, the Saalfeldon Jazz Festival, Mobius, Zeitgeist, and the Boston CyberArts Festival in Boston, Engine 27, Galapagos, Tonic, Context, and the Kitchen in N.Y.C. He recently released a solo CD, "r!g," available from the Electronic Music Foundation, and a duo CD of his duo "interface" with violinist Dan Trueman entitled "./swank," through cycling74, and a DVD of live electronic improvisation with "interface," and Pauline Oliveros.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Curtis will deliver a special overview presentation of his work, but he will not be able to bring in his rig for an actual performance.
Curtis Bahn is a composer and improviser specializing in live interactive electronic performance. Currently he is Associate Professor of Computer Music Composition/ Performance at the Integrated Electronic Arts (iEAR) Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Curtis is a frequent lecturer on electronically extended instruments and human/computer interaction in the arts. He has taught at the Columbia University Computer Music Center (CMC), Brown, NYU, Princeton and CUNY. His music has been presented at Lincoln Center, the International Society of Bassists World Conference, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), Performance Studies International (PSI), the World Acoustic Ecology Conference, the Styrian Autumn Festival, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Musik Aktuell, the Saalfeldon Jazz Festival, Mobius, Zeitgeist, and the Boston CyberArts Festival in Boston, Engine 27, Galapagos, Tonic, Context, and the Kitchen in N.Y.C. He recently released a solo CD, "r!g," available from the Electronic Music Foundation, and a duo CD of his duo "interface" with violinist Dan Trueman entitled "./swank," through cycling74, and a DVD of live electronic improvisation with "interface," and Pauline Oliveros.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Curtis will deliver a special overview presentation of his work, but he will not be able to bring in his rig for an actual performance.
Prasanto Kumar Roy (India)
Prasanto Kumar Roy is president and chief editor of the Business Magazines Group at CyberMedia (India). This includes the leading fortnightly Dataquest and monthly Voice&Data, the DQ Week network of three regional weekly IT business newspapers, and the fortnightly DQ Channels India. A technology journalist, hands-on user and electronics enthusiast for the past 20 years, Roy studied in Delhi's St Xavier's School and then graduated in Physics (Hons) from St Stephen's College in 1988. Through high school, college and for two years afterward, he freelanced for newspapers, weeklies, city magazines, and technical monthlies, writing on a range of subjects from technology, audio and analog electronics to travel and leisure, cuisine and literary reviews. He joined CyberMedia's Dataquest as assistant editor in1990, moved to PCQuest in 1993, and over the next six years started the PCQ Online electronic bulletin board, Computers@Home, PCQ Labs, and the PC Quest CD-ROMs (the latter two being firsts in Asia). From 1996-99 he was editor of the PC magazines group, comprising PCQuest, Computers@Home, and PCQ Labs, and in 1999 he moved to the Dataquest group, and subsequently re-aligned Dataquest's focus for an enterprise/CIO audience. Roy is actively interested in enterprise technology, mobile computing and telephony, the Internet, photography, reading and travel.
The 23-year-old CyberMedia is Asia's largest infotech publishing group, with nine publications in India, and elsewhere, including the Business Magazine Group's four titles and six publications, as well as PCQuest, Living Digital and BioSpectrum. Other CyberMedia group companies include the infotech market research company IDC (India), the expositions company CyberMedia Events, the Internet company CIOL.com, and the content outsourcing company, CyberMedia Services.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Prasanto Kumar Roy will deliver a special presentation on future technologies (with bias towards creative tools), in a public auditorium segment of the event.
Prasanto Kumar Roy is president and chief editor of the Business Magazines Group at CyberMedia (India). This includes the leading fortnightly Dataquest and monthly Voice&Data, the DQ Week network of three regional weekly IT business newspapers, and the fortnightly DQ Channels India. A technology journalist, hands-on user and electronics enthusiast for the past 20 years, Roy studied in Delhi's St Xavier's School and then graduated in Physics (Hons) from St Stephen's College in 1988. Through high school, college and for two years afterward, he freelanced for newspapers, weeklies, city magazines, and technical monthlies, writing on a range of subjects from technology, audio and analog electronics to travel and leisure, cuisine and literary reviews. He joined CyberMedia's Dataquest as assistant editor in1990, moved to PCQuest in 1993, and over the next six years started the PCQ Online electronic bulletin board, Computers@Home, PCQ Labs, and the PC Quest CD-ROMs (the latter two being firsts in Asia). From 1996-99 he was editor of the PC magazines group, comprising PCQuest, Computers@Home, and PCQ Labs, and in 1999 he moved to the Dataquest group, and subsequently re-aligned Dataquest's focus for an enterprise/CIO audience. Roy is actively interested in enterprise technology, mobile computing and telephony, the Internet, photography, reading and travel.
The 23-year-old CyberMedia is Asia's largest infotech publishing group, with nine publications in India, and elsewhere, including the Business Magazine Group's four titles and six publications, as well as PCQuest, Living Digital and BioSpectrum. Other CyberMedia group companies include the infotech market research company IDC (India), the expositions company CyberMedia Events, the Internet company CIOL.com, and the content outsourcing company, CyberMedia Services.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Prasanto Kumar Roy will deliver a special presentation on future technologies (with bias towards creative tools), in a public auditorium segment of the event.
Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman (Slovenia)
Igor Stromajer is an intimate mobile communicator and multimedia communication artist, who researches tactical emotional states and traumatic low-tech emotional strategies. He has shown his work at more than a hundred exhibitions and festivals in forty-two countries and received a number of awards (Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, and Maribor). A graduate of The Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he mainly works and lives, he also lectures at universities and contemporary art institutes in Europe, USA and Canada as a visiting-artist-in-residence. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Centre National d'art et de Culture Georges Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, France; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Moderna Galerija - the Slovene Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Computerfinearts Gallery - net and media art collection, New York, USA; and permanently exhibited at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany. Since 1996, Igor runs Intima Virtual Base, a contemporary arts institute that he describes as "an artistic mark for low-tech tactical emotional communication art, contemporary arts actions and sound research. Basic substance: the intimate, ascetic and interactive aesthetics."
Brane Zorman is a com-poser, pro-duce-r & sound-tech-manipulator based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. As a solo artist and a composer he has composed and produced music for more than 30 theatre and dance performances, film, video, internet projects, sound installations. He has released several theatre soundtrack CDs as well as couple dance EPs for various Slovenian labels, produced and recorded the first CD soundtrack in Slovenia (1992) and also the first DTS surround encoded soundtrack for a theatre performance in Slovenia (2001). He is the mastermind behind the BeitThroN project, which is considered to be one of the pioneers and creators of the techno-electronic-dance scene in Slovenia. As a video and audio artist he collaborates with Irena Pivka on the CONA / ZONE projects - a series of audio-visual projects which study conflicting situations of contemporary social relations regarding migration, human trafficking, social, cultural and physical borders, conflicts between individual and society, minor and majority. CONA / ZONE projects are the constantly changing stories of individuals from the areas of developing socio-political, cultural and territorial relations which can lead to both extremely homogeneous cohabitation and being, as well as to cataclysmic and unsolvable conflicting frictions and situations. Brane Zorman Vs BeitThroN also works with internet artist Igor Stromajer on a worldwide recognizable internet projects Ballettikka Internettikka which is a serial of tactical art projects which began in 2001 with the exploration of internet ballet. It explores wireless internet ballet performances combined with guerilla tactics and mobile live internet broadcasting strategies.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Brane Zorman & Igor Stromajer will perform an intermedia project titled "Oppera Internettikka Bollywooddikka <low-tech IT e -Bollywood>". This is produced by Intima Virtual Base - Institute for Contemporary Arts, Slovenia, in collaboration with Maska and Cona, supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, with special inputs from Bojana Kunst and Irena Pivka. The video-segments of this performance will be shot in New Delhi on January 26 (Republic Day) and edited overnight for screening. There will be a live webcast of this performance, as announced on: http://www.intima.org/oppera/oib
Igor Stromajer is an intimate mobile communicator and multimedia communication artist, who researches tactical emotional states and traumatic low-tech emotional strategies. He has shown his work at more than a hundred exhibitions and festivals in forty-two countries and received a number of awards (Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, and Maribor). A graduate of The Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he mainly works and lives, he also lectures at universities and contemporary art institutes in Europe, USA and Canada as a visiting-artist-in-residence. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Centre National d'art et de Culture Georges Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, France; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Moderna Galerija - the Slovene Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Computerfinearts Gallery - net and media art collection, New York, USA; and permanently exhibited at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany. Since 1996, Igor runs Intima Virtual Base, a contemporary arts institute that he describes as "an artistic mark for low-tech tactical emotional communication art, contemporary arts actions and sound research. Basic substance: the intimate, ascetic and interactive aesthetics."
Brane Zorman is a com-poser, pro-duce-r & sound-tech-manipulator based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. As a solo artist and a composer he has composed and produced music for more than 30 theatre and dance performances, film, video, internet projects, sound installations. He has released several theatre soundtrack CDs as well as couple dance EPs for various Slovenian labels, produced and recorded the first CD soundtrack in Slovenia (1992) and also the first DTS surround encoded soundtrack for a theatre performance in Slovenia (2001). He is the mastermind behind the BeitThroN project, which is considered to be one of the pioneers and creators of the techno-electronic-dance scene in Slovenia. As a video and audio artist he collaborates with Irena Pivka on the CONA / ZONE projects - a series of audio-visual projects which study conflicting situations of contemporary social relations regarding migration, human trafficking, social, cultural and physical borders, conflicts between individual and society, minor and majority. CONA / ZONE projects are the constantly changing stories of individuals from the areas of developing socio-political, cultural and territorial relations which can lead to both extremely homogeneous cohabitation and being, as well as to cataclysmic and unsolvable conflicting frictions and situations. Brane Zorman Vs BeitThroN also works with internet artist Igor Stromajer on a worldwide recognizable internet projects Ballettikka Internettikka which is a serial of tactical art projects which began in 2001 with the exploration of internet ballet. It explores wireless internet ballet performances combined with guerilla tactics and mobile live internet broadcasting strategies.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Brane Zorman & Igor Stromajer will perform an intermedia project titled "Oppera Internettikka Bollywooddikka <low-tech IT e -Bollywood>". This is produced by Intima Virtual Base - Institute for Contemporary Arts, Slovenia, in collaboration with Maska and Cona, supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, with special inputs from Bojana Kunst and Irena Pivka. The video-segments of this performance will be shot in New Delhi on January 26 (Republic Day) and edited overnight for screening. There will be a live webcast of this performance, as announced on: http://www.intima.org/oppera/oib
Aditya Dev Sood (India)
Aditya Dev Sood is Founder and CEO of CKS Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (Center For Knowledge Societies). With foundational training in Design and Critical Theory at the University of Michigan, he is now completing doctorates in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and South Asian Languages from the University of Chicago. A former Fulbright scholar, he maintains a multidisciplinary interest in social research, design, technology and education. At CKS, he has directed the research, design and planning of several projects geared towards non-traditional users of media and technology. He has also submitted various papers and spoken extensively at international fora on the role information and communication technologies plays in development. He initiated the 'Learning Lab' project which uses mobile phones for education, funded by Nokia Insight and Foresight. He has directed the 'Used in India' media archeology installation and show, which is a multidisciplinary documentation project that captures the innovative ways in which Indians have used media and technology in the 20th century. 'Used in India' was unveiled at the Doors of Perception Conference in March 2005, and has since traveled to the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, as a part of the PixelAche festival of electronic arts. Aditya is also the India Director of the 'Doors of Perception' Design Conference.
Aditya Dev Sood is Founder and CEO of CKS Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (Center For Knowledge Societies). With foundational training in Design and Critical Theory at the University of Michigan, he is now completing doctorates in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and South Asian Languages from the University of Chicago. A former Fulbright scholar, he maintains a multidisciplinary interest in social research, design, technology and education. At CKS, he has directed the research, design and planning of several projects geared towards non-traditional users of media and technology. He has also submitted various papers and spoken extensively at international fora on the role information and communication technologies plays in development. He initiated the 'Learning Lab' project which uses mobile phones for education, funded by Nokia Insight and Foresight. He has directed the 'Used in India' media archeology installation and show, which is a multidisciplinary documentation project that captures the innovative ways in which Indians have used media and technology in the 20th century. 'Used in India' was unveiled at the Doors of Perception Conference in March 2005, and has since traveled to the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, as a part of the PixelAche festival of electronic arts. Aditya is also the India Director of the 'Doors of Perception' Design Conference.
Ashim Ghosh (India)
Ashim Ghosh is a multiple media expert and educator, with interventions ranging from multi-channel audio design, to international corporate communications, video and photography. He has traveled widely, across India and across the world, having exhibited and performed globally. His recent photographic work Home Street Home : images of poverty engages with and problematises captioned photojournalism, while opening up a dialogue on the power hierarchies of languages. Ashim's ongoing audiovisual work on masculinity has come together in a solo performance The Missing Ling : perspectives on masculinity with live music, original songs and imagery. Ashim now mostly lives in Kumaon, and claims to have hung on to his inimitable sense of humour in these dark times
In CeC & CaC 2006, Ashim will deliver a special performance of "pair on the treadmill multichannel soundscape & live music with digital imagery"
Ashim Ghosh is a multiple media expert and educator, with interventions ranging from multi-channel audio design, to international corporate communications, video and photography. He has traveled widely, across India and across the world, having exhibited and performed globally. His recent photographic work Home Street Home : images of poverty engages with and problematises captioned photojournalism, while opening up a dialogue on the power hierarchies of languages. Ashim's ongoing audiovisual work on masculinity has come together in a solo performance The Missing Ling : perspectives on masculinity with live music, original songs and imagery. Ashim now mostly lives in Kumaon, and claims to have hung on to his inimitable sense of humour in these dark times
In CeC & CaC 2006, Ashim will deliver a special performance of "pair on the treadmill multichannel soundscape & live music with digital imagery"
Pradeep Gupta (India)
Pradeep Gupta is an engineer from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. He is the Chairman of the CyberMedia Group, South Asia's first and largest specialty media house and amongst India's top five magazine publishers. The group's eleven publications lead in their respective domains, including infotech (Dataquest, PCQuest, DQ Channels, DQ Weeks, Global Outsourcing), telecom (Voice&Data), consumer electronics (Living Digital) and biotech (BioSpectrum). The group has expanded vertically, consolidating the ICT space, as well as horizontally with other media products including online (www.ciol.com), events and television. The group's media services include market research (IDC India), job board (CyberMedia Dice), content outsourcing, multimedia, and media education (School of Convergence). CyberMedia is a public company with a market cap of $40m. Pradeep is also the Chairman of PanIIT India and a member of the IIT Delhi Advisory Council. He is on the Board of Kaleidoscope Entertainment; Board Member of TiE, Delhi; Secretary, Association of Indian Magazines; and General Partner of Infinity Ventures. He was the past Chairman of e-Gurucool, and is recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award of IIT Delhi, 2001.
Pradeep Gupta is an engineer from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. He is the Chairman of the CyberMedia Group, South Asia's first and largest specialty media house and amongst India's top five magazine publishers. The group's eleven publications lead in their respective domains, including infotech (Dataquest, PCQuest, DQ Channels, DQ Weeks, Global Outsourcing), telecom (Voice&Data), consumer electronics (Living Digital) and biotech (BioSpectrum). The group has expanded vertically, consolidating the ICT space, as well as horizontally with other media products including online (www.ciol.com), events and television. The group's media services include market research (IDC India), job board (CyberMedia Dice), content outsourcing, multimedia, and media education (School of Convergence). CyberMedia is a public company with a market cap of $40m. Pradeep is also the Chairman of PanIIT India and a member of the IIT Delhi Advisory Council. He is on the Board of Kaleidoscope Entertainment; Board Member of TiE, Delhi; Secretary, Association of Indian Magazines; and General Partner of Infinity Ventures. He was the past Chairman of e-Gurucool, and is recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award of IIT Delhi, 2001.
Nathalie Boseul Shin (& Jean A. Lee & Yangachi) (Korea)
Nathalie Boseul Shin is curator, exhibition team manager, storyteller, writer, project manager. She was born in S. Korea where she studied Philosophy and Aesthetics before beginning her professional career as a curator at the Lotte Art Center in 1998, and then from 1999 to 2000 for '21C young artists group', when she curated "flag art festival" in the Yeouido Public Park, and "Coal Mine Exhibition" in Gohan Coal Mine Village, with over 100 artists from Korea and Japan. Her media based career started in 2000 at Art Center Nabi, as one of the starting members, where she organized symposiums and exhibitions until 2002. She also organized the media performing event "Audio-Visual Matrix" at this time. Since 2003, she has been the Exhibition Team Manager of <media_city Seoul>, which is the Seoul International Media Art Biennale, but she also organizes exhibitions as an independent curator, such as "Forbidden Fruit", "middle_corea" and "the show must go on". On September 2005, she curated "digital playground" at Uijeongbu Arts Center with 18 international artists, and her lastest project "middle_corea" will be presented at Stuttgart Kunstverein, Germany, Feb 2006. She has presented workshops and symposiums at events and institutions such as Transmediale in Germany, and Goldsmith College in the UK, and has extensively written exhibition reviews, essays and papers for artists for art journal. Her primary interests lie in media education, digital sublime and community programs, and she is presently preparing another independent project closely connected with media art archiving and community, called "Tabernacle".
Nathalie Boseul Shin is curator, exhibition team manager, storyteller, writer, project manager. She was born in S. Korea where she studied Philosophy and Aesthetics before beginning her professional career as a curator at the Lotte Art Center in 1998, and then from 1999 to 2000 for '21C young artists group', when she curated "flag art festival" in the Yeouido Public Park, and "Coal Mine Exhibition" in Gohan Coal Mine Village, with over 100 artists from Korea and Japan. Her media based career started in 2000 at Art Center Nabi, as one of the starting members, where she organized symposiums and exhibitions until 2002. She also organized the media performing event "Audio-Visual Matrix" at this time. Since 2003, she has been the Exhibition Team Manager of <media_city Seoul>, which is the Seoul International Media Art Biennale, but she also organizes exhibitions as an independent curator, such as "Forbidden Fruit", "middle_corea" and "the show must go on". On September 2005, she curated "digital playground" at Uijeongbu Arts Center with 18 international artists, and her lastest project "middle_corea" will be presented at Stuttgart Kunstverein, Germany, Feb 2006. She has presented workshops and symposiums at events and institutions such as Transmediale in Germany, and Goldsmith College in the UK, and has extensively written exhibition reviews, essays and papers for artists for art journal. Her primary interests lie in media education, digital sublime and community programs, and she is presently preparing another independent project closely connected with media art archiving and community, called "Tabernacle".
National Institute of Design: Milindo Taid & New Media Students (India)
The National Institute of Design (NID) is perhaps India's foremost multidisciplinary institution in the field of design education, applied research, training, design consultancy services and outreach programmes. It is internationally recognized as a pioneer in industrial design education after Bauhaus and Ulm in Germany, and has been awarded several significant national and international awards for its relentless pursuit of excellence since establishment as an autonomous institution in 1961. Several new initiatives have been launched at the turn of millennia to meet challenges of the emerging e-economy, with design positioned as an integrating strategic tool for competitive advantage, problem solving and creating breakthrough opportunities. The institute offers world-class professional education in various design domains through Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate Diploma Programmes, and graduates are internationally sought after in key sectors of commerce, industry and social development as creative catalysts and thought leaders.
e-creative New Media Design @ NID: The programme aims to nurture new media designers, thinkers and practitioners, conversant with emerging modes of human communication and communication technologies and the dynamics therein, articulated within a larger socio-cultural discourse. A PAIR approach (Participatory, Anticipatory, Inclusive, Radical) broadly informs the New Media programme at the NID, where it offers an opportunity to question, explore, transform, innovate and invent the new and emerging communication media. New and old media skills often overlap and combine into new, diverse skill sets. New media professionals need to have a solid footing in not only new technologies, but also in all traditional media representation techniques.
e-creative Animation Film Design @ NID: The NID is the only institute in India that offers a world-class animation film design course with the right environment, opportunity and inspiration for animators to express, experiment and communicate through this unique medium. The vision of the NID's professional education programme in animation is to spread animation across the country, and to establish global quality animation production with a strong Indian identity.
e-creative Film & Video Communication Design @ NID: The primary aim of the film and video communication programme is to train versatile communicators, fluent in conception and production of short films on a range of educational, cultural, social, entertainment and marketing communication needs. Graduates of this programme have gone on to rewarding careers within the broad spectrum of the moving image industry. These include television channels, production houses, advertising agencies, interactive media ventures and government and voluntary bodies having a communication agenda.
Participating New Media Students: Devyani Arya, Shweta Grampurohit, Basangauda Inamdar, Pallavi Kulkarni, Lakshmi Kumar, Ruchira Parihar, Ruta Potnis, Arul Prabhu, Gayatri Sathe, Abhishek Shrivastava, Eva.
Milindo Taid coordinates the New Media programme at the NID. He holds a Masters Degree in Mass Communication from the Mass Communication Research Centre, Delhi, and regularly conducts courses in Film Language, Cinema Studies, Film Theory, Visual Thinking, Elements of Moving Images, Cross Cultural Studies, Media Studies and Studio Programming, among others. Several of the projects (moving images as well as interactive) that he has guided, have had national as well as international recognitions. He represented the NID at the first 'World Creative Forum' in London, UK, 2003 and also guided and led NID's accolade winning projects in the Siemens Micro-Movie (Siemens SX1 mobile phone) worldwide short film contest, interfilm, Berlin in 2004. He has variously organised workshops for interactive artistes Florentine Rey & Samuel Godo of QIO, France and GNU/Linux/FLOSS Multimedia pioneer Jaromil, Italy. He has video documented the "First Asian Creativity Workshop" (An international 'toys for the less-abled' event) along with conducting workshops on open air theatre and the creative use of video. Among others, 'Voicebox' has published his paper titled "Digiteyes: Inevitability in the Age of Instant Photography" capturing the critical thoeretical framework for digital photography.
The National Institute of Design (NID) is perhaps India's foremost multidisciplinary institution in the field of design education, applied research, training, design consultancy services and outreach programmes. It is internationally recognized as a pioneer in industrial design education after Bauhaus and Ulm in Germany, and has been awarded several significant national and international awards for its relentless pursuit of excellence since establishment as an autonomous institution in 1961. Several new initiatives have been launched at the turn of millennia to meet challenges of the emerging e-economy, with design positioned as an integrating strategic tool for competitive advantage, problem solving and creating breakthrough opportunities. The institute offers world-class professional education in various design domains through Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate Diploma Programmes, and graduates are internationally sought after in key sectors of commerce, industry and social development as creative catalysts and thought leaders.
e-creative New Media Design @ NID: The programme aims to nurture new media designers, thinkers and practitioners, conversant with emerging modes of human communication and communication technologies and the dynamics therein, articulated within a larger socio-cultural discourse. A PAIR approach (Participatory, Anticipatory, Inclusive, Radical) broadly informs the New Media programme at the NID, where it offers an opportunity to question, explore, transform, innovate and invent the new and emerging communication media. New and old media skills often overlap and combine into new, diverse skill sets. New media professionals need to have a solid footing in not only new technologies, but also in all traditional media representation techniques.
e-creative Animation Film Design @ NID: The NID is the only institute in India that offers a world-class animation film design course with the right environment, opportunity and inspiration for animators to express, experiment and communicate through this unique medium. The vision of the NID's professional education programme in animation is to spread animation across the country, and to establish global quality animation production with a strong Indian identity.
e-creative Film & Video Communication Design @ NID: The primary aim of the film and video communication programme is to train versatile communicators, fluent in conception and production of short films on a range of educational, cultural, social, entertainment and marketing communication needs. Graduates of this programme have gone on to rewarding careers within the broad spectrum of the moving image industry. These include television channels, production houses, advertising agencies, interactive media ventures and government and voluntary bodies having a communication agenda.
Participating New Media Students: Devyani Arya, Shweta Grampurohit, Basangauda Inamdar, Pallavi Kulkarni, Lakshmi Kumar, Ruchira Parihar, Ruta Potnis, Arul Prabhu, Gayatri Sathe, Abhishek Shrivastava, Eva.
Milindo Taid coordinates the New Media programme at the NID. He holds a Masters Degree in Mass Communication from the Mass Communication Research Centre, Delhi, and regularly conducts courses in Film Language, Cinema Studies, Film Theory, Visual Thinking, Elements of Moving Images, Cross Cultural Studies, Media Studies and Studio Programming, among others. Several of the projects (moving images as well as interactive) that he has guided, have had national as well as international recognitions. He represented the NID at the first 'World Creative Forum' in London, UK, 2003 and also guided and led NID's accolade winning projects in the Siemens Micro-Movie (Siemens SX1 mobile phone) worldwide short film contest, interfilm, Berlin in 2004. He has variously organised workshops for interactive artistes Florentine Rey & Samuel Godo of QIO, France and GNU/Linux/FLOSS Multimedia pioneer Jaromil, Italy. He has video documented the "First Asian Creativity Workshop" (An international 'toys for the less-abled' event) along with conducting workshops on open air theatre and the creative use of video. Among others, 'Voicebox' has published his paper titled "Digiteyes: Inevitability in the Age of Instant Photography" capturing the critical thoeretical framework for digital photography.
Sanjoy Roy (India)
Sanjoy Roy established Teamwork Films in 1989, a highly versatile production house with wide ranging interests in the arts, social development and film. He has directed and produced a wide range of films and television programmes, including drama series, newsmagazines, and lifestyle programmes. Received the National Award for Excellence and also the IDPA award for Best Documentary and Best Director. Teamwork also designs and produces Arts and Film festivals across the world including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, UK and USA. He is Festival Director for the Asian Festival of 1st Films in Singapore.
Sanjoy Roy established Teamwork Films in 1989, a highly versatile production house with wide ranging interests in the arts, social development and film. He has directed and produced a wide range of films and television programmes, including drama series, newsmagazines, and lifestyle programmes. Received the National Award for Excellence and also the IDPA award for Best Documentary and Best Director. Teamwork also designs and produces Arts and Film festivals across the world including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, UK and USA. He is Festival Director for the Asian Festival of 1st Films in Singapore.
Ranjit Makkuni (India)
Ranjit Makkuni is sometimes described as a multimedia visionary and designer. He is a musician as well as President of The Sacred World Foundation (& Research Laboratory), a design think tank that looks to build bridges between traditional and techno cultures against the backdrop of globalization, with an interdisciplinary team of designers, scholars, artists, programmers and scientists. Over 17 years earlier spent with the iconic Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he became part of the visionary group that developed the Smalltalk-80 Object Oriented programming language and the world's first graphic user interface. He also pioneered explorations in computer-aided design and developed the rich research space of the Active Learning Project at PARC. He has developed many provocative demonstrations of culture and technology in various museums across the world, including 'The Electronic Sketchbook of Tibetan Thangka Painting', 'The Gita-Govinda Multimedia Experience', 'The Crossing Project' (which won 11 international awards), 'The Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum', and so on. He is currently developing 'The Magic Strings of Saraswati' with lute-maestros of India, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Korea. Ranjit is a B.Arch. from IIT, Kharagpur, and a Master in Design Theory and Computer aided Design from University of California LA. He is generally credited with establishment of the fields of Culture Conscious Product Design and Culturally Reflective Computing, and has been a scientific consultant to HP Labs Palo Alto, HP Labs India and a Visiting Professor at Milan Politechnico. He is adjunct professor at IIT Kanpur, and was a recipient of the Mahavir Mahatma Award for the propagation of peace. In parallel, he is an active sitar player and performer, presently composing new music for the "Passions of the Goddess" project.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Ranjit Makkuni will present introductions and overviews of several of his projects, very briefly in the Change-agents conclave, and possibly also more extensively in a public auditorium segment of the event.
Ranjit Makkuni is sometimes described as a multimedia visionary and designer. He is a musician as well as President of The Sacred World Foundation (& Research Laboratory), a design think tank that looks to build bridges between traditional and techno cultures against the backdrop of globalization, with an interdisciplinary team of designers, scholars, artists, programmers and scientists. Over 17 years earlier spent with the iconic Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he became part of the visionary group that developed the Smalltalk-80 Object Oriented programming language and the world's first graphic user interface. He also pioneered explorations in computer-aided design and developed the rich research space of the Active Learning Project at PARC. He has developed many provocative demonstrations of culture and technology in various museums across the world, including 'The Electronic Sketchbook of Tibetan Thangka Painting', 'The Gita-Govinda Multimedia Experience', 'The Crossing Project' (which won 11 international awards), 'The Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum', and so on. He is currently developing 'The Magic Strings of Saraswati' with lute-maestros of India, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Korea. Ranjit is a B.Arch. from IIT, Kharagpur, and a Master in Design Theory and Computer aided Design from University of California LA. He is generally credited with establishment of the fields of Culture Conscious Product Design and Culturally Reflective Computing, and has been a scientific consultant to HP Labs Palo Alto, HP Labs India and a Visiting Professor at Milan Politechnico. He is adjunct professor at IIT Kanpur, and was a recipient of the Mahavir Mahatma Award for the propagation of peace. In parallel, he is an active sitar player and performer, presently composing new music for the "Passions of the Goddess" project.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Ranjit Makkuni will present introductions and overviews of several of his projects, very briefly in the Change-agents conclave, and possibly also more extensively in a public auditorium segment of the event.
Chandita Mukherjee (India)
Chandita Mukherjee's favourite question is: how did things come to be the way they are? This takes her to the special place where science, technology and society meet. Drawing upon this base, she makes media that furthers public understanding of science and civilization. Chandita has made media about such issues ever since she trained as a filmmaker at the Film and TV Institute of India three decades ago. On a daily basis, she co-ordinates activities at the Comet Media Foundation at Mumbai where they develop and produce educational materials, create festivals of education and run workshops and courses in various aspects of media-making and media analysis. She has achieved distinctions (including the Jules Verne prize of the European Union) for her work depicting the history of science and technology in South Asia, looking at traditional knowledge and knowledge systems from a contemporary scientific perspective. Her current foreground project is COSMOS, an attempt to start a school of New Media with a special orientation for learners from less privileged groups. Chandita hopes to get this project floated by 2007 and looks forward to possible exchanges and collaborations with others trying to explore the immense possibilities of digital technologies, to make creativity a way of life and the world a less toxic, more equitable and peaceful place.
Chandita Mukherjee's favourite question is: how did things come to be the way they are? This takes her to the special place where science, technology and society meet. Drawing upon this base, she makes media that furthers public understanding of science and civilization. Chandita has made media about such issues ever since she trained as a filmmaker at the Film and TV Institute of India three decades ago. On a daily basis, she co-ordinates activities at the Comet Media Foundation at Mumbai where they develop and produce educational materials, create festivals of education and run workshops and courses in various aspects of media-making and media analysis. She has achieved distinctions (including the Jules Verne prize of the European Union) for her work depicting the history of science and technology in South Asia, looking at traditional knowledge and knowledge systems from a contemporary scientific perspective. Her current foreground project is COSMOS, an attempt to start a school of New Media with a special orientation for learners from less privileged groups. Chandita hopes to get this project floated by 2007 and looks forward to possible exchanges and collaborations with others trying to explore the immense possibilities of digital technologies, to make creativity a way of life and the world a less toxic, more equitable and peaceful place.
Osama Manzar (India)
Osama Manzar is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, editor, columnist, and new media specialist who is spearheading the mission to overcome the information barrier between India's rural and social sector, and the so-called developed society, through Digital Empowerment Foundation, a not-for-profit organization he founded to accomplish this mission. He has authored two books: "e-Content: Voices from the Ground," released in the World Summit on the Information Society, December 2003 in Geneva, and "The Internet Economy of India" released 2001 in New Delhi. Together with PlaNet Finance India, Osama started a monthly magazine titled "Small Change", targeting the micro-business sector, and spearheaded the magazine as editor for 6 months before handing over to PFI for furthering the initiative on their own. He is associated with the World Summit Award as e-Content Expert for India, Grand Jury Member and also in the Board of Directors. He is concurrently also Vice Chairman, cofounder and steering committee member of the Global Alliance for Bridging Digital Divide (GABDD), based in Hong Kong, and in 2005 launched and chaired India's first ever award for the best e-content practices in India, called The Manthan Award. He was amongst the 25 internationally renowned experts chosen by Philips Design to be interviewed in its Human Future project for ideas "to develop human products driven by technology and lifestyle of the future". He is widely quoted on new media, digital divide issues, and so on, and is a founder of an ICT solutions company called 4Cplus, based in New Delhi, advisor to ICT for Development for Development Gateway Foundation, a World Bank funded project, and a member of the Association of British Scholars. He is a physics graduate and post graduate in Journalism, and was awarded a joint Chevening/Young Indian IT Professional Programme 2002 Scholarship by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to study Advanced IT Management Programme at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester from 2001-2002. Osama is currently working also on his next two books: "ICT for Development in India: Where do we go from here?" and "The True Leaders: Social entrepreneurship in India".
In CeC & CaC 2006, Osama Manzar will present an overview of his various works, with special focus upon The Manthan Awards for Best Indian e-Content, presented under his chairmanship for the first time in July 2005.
Osama Manzar is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, editor, columnist, and new media specialist who is spearheading the mission to overcome the information barrier between India's rural and social sector, and the so-called developed society, through Digital Empowerment Foundation, a not-for-profit organization he founded to accomplish this mission. He has authored two books: "e-Content: Voices from the Ground," released in the World Summit on the Information Society, December 2003 in Geneva, and "The Internet Economy of India" released 2001 in New Delhi. Together with PlaNet Finance India, Osama started a monthly magazine titled "Small Change", targeting the micro-business sector, and spearheaded the magazine as editor for 6 months before handing over to PFI for furthering the initiative on their own. He is associated with the World Summit Award as e-Content Expert for India, Grand Jury Member and also in the Board of Directors. He is concurrently also Vice Chairman, cofounder and steering committee member of the Global Alliance for Bridging Digital Divide (GABDD), based in Hong Kong, and in 2005 launched and chaired India's first ever award for the best e-content practices in India, called The Manthan Award. He was amongst the 25 internationally renowned experts chosen by Philips Design to be interviewed in its Human Future project for ideas "to develop human products driven by technology and lifestyle of the future". He is widely quoted on new media, digital divide issues, and so on, and is a founder of an ICT solutions company called 4Cplus, based in New Delhi, advisor to ICT for Development for Development Gateway Foundation, a World Bank funded project, and a member of the Association of British Scholars. He is a physics graduate and post graduate in Journalism, and was awarded a joint Chevening/Young Indian IT Professional Programme 2002 Scholarship by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to study Advanced IT Management Programme at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester from 2001-2002. Osama is currently working also on his next two books: "ICT for Development in India: Where do we go from here?" and "The True Leaders: Social entrepreneurship in India".
In CeC & CaC 2006, Osama Manzar will present an overview of his various works, with special focus upon The Manthan Awards for Best Indian e-Content, presented under his chairmanship for the first time in July 2005.
Ashok Mehta (India)
Ashok Mehta established The Agency Source (TAS) in 1993 to provide competitive information services to the Advertising & marketing industry under the TV Ad Indx, Press Indx, News Indx, Radio Indx and Bank brands. Headquartered in New Delhi, it is India's largest advertising creative and news monitoring firm, particularly specialized in new TV commercials (TV AD Indx) and new Press Ads (Press Indx). TAS manages a completely digitized monitoring and archiving operation addressing every possible advertisement released in India and from the pan-Asian area, and currently hosts over 75,000 TV commercials and 90,000 press ads, with new ads added from monitoring over 60 Indian & pan-Asian TV channels with dedicated satellite dishes and receivers, and also over 100 press publications, including mainline, financial & regional dailies and a range of general interest and special interest magazines.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Asok will deliver an exciting presentation in an auditorium-segment, and also provide an exciting selection of TVCs for screening in a lecture-room segment
Ashok Mehta established The Agency Source (TAS) in 1993 to provide competitive information services to the Advertising & marketing industry under the TV Ad Indx, Press Indx, News Indx, Radio Indx and Bank brands. Headquartered in New Delhi, it is India's largest advertising creative and news monitoring firm, particularly specialized in new TV commercials (TV AD Indx) and new Press Ads (Press Indx). TAS manages a completely digitized monitoring and archiving operation addressing every possible advertisement released in India and from the pan-Asian area, and currently hosts over 75,000 TV commercials and 90,000 press ads, with new ads added from monitoring over 60 Indian & pan-Asian TV channels with dedicated satellite dishes and receivers, and also over 100 press publications, including mainline, financial & regional dailies and a range of general interest and special interest magazines.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Asok will deliver an exciting presentation in an auditorium-segment, and also provide an exciting selection of TVCs for screening in a lecture-room segment
Hridayesh Deshpande (India)
Hridayesh P. Deshpande is a cutting-edge young educator-entrepreneur based in Pune, India. He is currently the fulltime Director of Creative-i College, which he set up in June 2004 to offer Bachelor's Degrees in Fine Arts, Applied Arts, Digital Arts, Mass Communication, Interior Design, Fashion Design and Visual and Performing Arts, and is concurrently also an advisor to the Khandesh College Education Society and founder director of the School of Professional Engineering. A Computer Engineer by qualification, he has been involved with successfully introducing many new and innovative ideas in the field of Higher & Technical Education, as well as School Education, through the course of over 10 years in education, during which he was earlier a Director with the Hi-Tech Educational Group, responsible for establishment, overall strategy, implementation and daily issues of running various educational institutions, such as the City International School, College of Hi-Tech Engineering, NICE Computer Education, International Institute of Fire Engineering, Safety & Security Management, Printing Engineering & Graphics School, Institute of Management & Technology, College of ParaMedical Sciences.
Hridayesh P. Deshpande is a cutting-edge young educator-entrepreneur based in Pune, India. He is currently the fulltime Director of Creative-i College, which he set up in June 2004 to offer Bachelor's Degrees in Fine Arts, Applied Arts, Digital Arts, Mass Communication, Interior Design, Fashion Design and Visual and Performing Arts, and is concurrently also an advisor to the Khandesh College Education Society and founder director of the School of Professional Engineering. A Computer Engineer by qualification, he has been involved with successfully introducing many new and innovative ideas in the field of Higher & Technical Education, as well as School Education, through the course of over 10 years in education, during which he was earlier a Director with the Hi-Tech Educational Group, responsible for establishment, overall strategy, implementation and daily issues of running various educational institutions, such as the City International School, College of Hi-Tech Engineering, NICE Computer Education, International Institute of Fire Engineering, Safety & Security Management, Printing Engineering & Graphics School, Institute of Management & Technology, College of ParaMedical Sciences.
Mohit Satyanand (India)
Mohit Satyanand is Chairman of Teamwork Films, which promotes the Indian performing arts and cinema across the world. He is also an educational entrepreneur, mountain dweller, trekker and photographer. In 1987, he founded Nukkad, a program to work with street children in and around New Delhi railway station. Now called Salaam Baalak Trust, the program caters to the needs of some 5,000 underprivileged children every year. In 1995, he co-founded Friends of Music, a platform to promote innovative music in Delhi. Between 1989 and 1996, he was a prolific TV producer and documentary film-maker. Today he works primarily as a strategic management adviser, and in promoting the causes of economic and civil liberty.
In CeC & CaC 2006, it is presently proposed that Mohit will Chair the Change-agents Conclave, and possibly also some segment(s) of the public programming
Mohit Satyanand is Chairman of Teamwork Films, which promotes the Indian performing arts and cinema across the world. He is also an educational entrepreneur, mountain dweller, trekker and photographer. In 1987, he founded Nukkad, a program to work with street children in and around New Delhi railway station. Now called Salaam Baalak Trust, the program caters to the needs of some 5,000 underprivileged children every year. In 1995, he co-founded Friends of Music, a platform to promote innovative music in Delhi. Between 1989 and 1996, he was a prolific TV producer and documentary film-maker. Today he works primarily as a strategic management adviser, and in promoting the causes of economic and civil liberty.
In CeC & CaC 2006, it is presently proposed that Mohit will Chair the Change-agents Conclave, and possibly also some segment(s) of the public programming
Madhureeta Anand (India)
Madhureeta Anand is founder and Festival Director of the 0110 Digital Film Festival, and also a well-known and award-winning filmmaker in her own right. She launched into her professional career in 1992, after passing out of film school, and worked with various television companies, directing films and features for television networks in India and Britain, before setting up independently under her own banner, Ekaa Films in 1995. She has since directed many documentary films and series for various broadcasters and other entities, mostly exploring the areas of culture, religion and anthropology. Many of these have been telecast on premier international channels such as BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and National Geographic, and some have won various awards, including the Royal Television Society Craft Award for her Kumbh Mela Series.
Meanwhile, the 0110 Digital Film Festival ran its 3rd annual iteration in both Delhi and Mumbai through September 2005, with support from the British Council in India. This time, the festival sourced films from around the globe, after the success of, and overwhelming audience-response to, the earlier two iterations encouraged the organizers to increase the ambit beyond its earlier focus upon mainly films from India, South Asia and Britain.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Madhureeta, who is presently working on her first full-length feature film, titled 'Maya', will speak of her work with the 0110 Digital Film Festival, and present a recent 18min. film made by her. She is also providing the 0110 Digital Films Festival reel of winners and selected finalist for screening separately in a lecture-room segment of the event.
Madhureeta Anand is founder and Festival Director of the 0110 Digital Film Festival, and also a well-known and award-winning filmmaker in her own right. She launched into her professional career in 1992, after passing out of film school, and worked with various television companies, directing films and features for television networks in India and Britain, before setting up independently under her own banner, Ekaa Films in 1995. She has since directed many documentary films and series for various broadcasters and other entities, mostly exploring the areas of culture, religion and anthropology. Many of these have been telecast on premier international channels such as BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and National Geographic, and some have won various awards, including the Royal Television Society Craft Award for her Kumbh Mela Series.
Meanwhile, the 0110 Digital Film Festival ran its 3rd annual iteration in both Delhi and Mumbai through September 2005, with support from the British Council in India. This time, the festival sourced films from around the globe, after the success of, and overwhelming audience-response to, the earlier two iterations encouraged the organizers to increase the ambit beyond its earlier focus upon mainly films from India, South Asia and Britain.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Madhureeta, who is presently working on her first full-length feature film, titled 'Maya', will speak of her work with the 0110 Digital Film Festival, and present a recent 18min. film made by her. She is also providing the 0110 Digital Films Festival reel of winners and selected finalist for screening separately in a lecture-room segment of the event.
Pankuj Parashar (India)
Pankuj Parashar is a top Indian cinema director who is widely recognized to have pioneered the use of computer-animation, digital-sets, special effects and e-music in Indian cinema, television and advertising. Beginning his career with winning a top professional award for one of his student-films, while studying at the prestigious Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), from which he passed out as a gold medalist, he has since directed and/or produced 13 feature films, over 400 television commercials, many documentary films and several television serials, including the famous cult-classic Karamchand. His works have been featured in the Oberhausen Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and the Cairo Film Festival, amongst others, and have won him the prestigious Filmfare Award, the CAG Award, RAPA Award, and the Ad Club Award. also amongst others. He is credited with having contributed in no small measure to the Congress party's winning of the 2004 Indian general election, with the election films he directed for the party, and he also creates digital paintings and e-music in his spare time, that have been featured in various different forums internationally.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Pankuj's primary presentation will address much of his work over the years, but with a special focus upon his spiritually tinged latest feature film, which is scheduled to premiere April 2006. It is called "Benares: A Mystic Love Story" and stars some of best-known and most respected names in Hindi Cinema.
Pankuj Parashar is a top Indian cinema director who is widely recognized to have pioneered the use of computer-animation, digital-sets, special effects and e-music in Indian cinema, television and advertising. Beginning his career with winning a top professional award for one of his student-films, while studying at the prestigious Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), from which he passed out as a gold medalist, he has since directed and/or produced 13 feature films, over 400 television commercials, many documentary films and several television serials, including the famous cult-classic Karamchand. His works have been featured in the Oberhausen Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and the Cairo Film Festival, amongst others, and have won him the prestigious Filmfare Award, the CAG Award, RAPA Award, and the Ad Club Award. also amongst others. He is credited with having contributed in no small measure to the Congress party's winning of the 2004 Indian general election, with the election films he directed for the party, and he also creates digital paintings and e-music in his spare time, that have been featured in various different forums internationally.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Pankuj's primary presentation will address much of his work over the years, but with a special focus upon his spiritually tinged latest feature film, which is scheduled to premiere April 2006. It is called "Benares: A Mystic Love Story" and stars some of best-known and most respected names in Hindi Cinema.
Nitin Donde (India)
Nitin Donde established his Angles Audio Visual Studio in 1986, to work in all visual art forms, but specializing in video film and animations across numerous genres. Armed with a BSc. In Physics and an MBA, he also conducts animation and film workshops, particularly for children, and his own works together with those of his students have been screened at the Hiroshima International Film Festival (2005); featured as part of ASIFA; Association Internationale Du Film D'Animation - Animation Workshop Group collection; the Annecy International Film Festival (2003); The World Of Animation (a festival at the India International Center-2003); UNESCO Festival of Documentary Films (New Delhi, 2002); Dooradrshan National Broadcast Channel; ZAGREB 2000 World Festival of Animated Films; Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (2000); Goat Island Film Festival; Max Muller Bhawan; Friends Club of Channel Yes;, and so on. The Friendly Alien, a film created by him in a workshop-format with school-children, is acknowledged by many to be India's first film made by children, and is used by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, as a representative film about Indian children, for which a copy was sent to every Indian embassy in the world. The film has been publicly screened by the Lalit Kala Academy Festival of Art Films, Shanghai TV and Kenya TV. Nitin has also produced more than 20 documentary films on social issues and appropriate technologies for rural development with leading NGOs. He is presently producing and directing "A pot of Gold", using the Warli tribal art form of Maharashtra, as part of an Indo-Scottish animation film project that applies traditional tribal Indian art forms to narrate Indian folklore under the series title " Tales of the Tribes".
In CeC & CaC 2006, Nitin Donde will present a small selection of short films produced in his recent student-workshops: 1. The Flying Trees (2min. ~ Amity International School); 2. The Robber Aliens (2min. ~ Uttam School for Girls); 3. Vizzle Berry Town (1min. ~ Uttam School for Girls); 4. Sri Ganesha and the Moon (2min. ~ AAVS Studio Workshop); 5. Think Before You Act (2min. ~ Uday / 14 years old); 6. Friendship (2min. ~ Amity International School); 7. Don't Bullshit Me (2min. ~ Wigen and Leigh College of Mass Communication); 8. Imagine (1min. ~ Madhav Mehra / 13 years old); 9. How Long Will Peace Last (2,30min. ~ Madhav Mandava / 16 years old); 10. Mystery of Love (1min. ~ Shahana Lal / 11 years old)
Nitin Donde established his Angles Audio Visual Studio in 1986, to work in all visual art forms, but specializing in video film and animations across numerous genres. Armed with a BSc. In Physics and an MBA, he also conducts animation and film workshops, particularly for children, and his own works together with those of his students have been screened at the Hiroshima International Film Festival (2005); featured as part of ASIFA; Association Internationale Du Film D'Animation - Animation Workshop Group collection; the Annecy International Film Festival (2003); The World Of Animation (a festival at the India International Center-2003); UNESCO Festival of Documentary Films (New Delhi, 2002); Dooradrshan National Broadcast Channel; ZAGREB 2000 World Festival of Animated Films; Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (2000); Goat Island Film Festival; Max Muller Bhawan; Friends Club of Channel Yes;, and so on. The Friendly Alien, a film created by him in a workshop-format with school-children, is acknowledged by many to be India's first film made by children, and is used by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, as a representative film about Indian children, for which a copy was sent to every Indian embassy in the world. The film has been publicly screened by the Lalit Kala Academy Festival of Art Films, Shanghai TV and Kenya TV. Nitin has also produced more than 20 documentary films on social issues and appropriate technologies for rural development with leading NGOs. He is presently producing and directing "A pot of Gold", using the Warli tribal art form of Maharashtra, as part of an Indo-Scottish animation film project that applies traditional tribal Indian art forms to narrate Indian folklore under the series title " Tales of the Tribes".
In CeC & CaC 2006, Nitin Donde will present a small selection of short films produced in his recent student-workshops: 1. The Flying Trees (2min. ~ Amity International School); 2. The Robber Aliens (2min. ~ Uttam School for Girls); 3. Vizzle Berry Town (1min. ~ Uttam School for Girls); 4. Sri Ganesha and the Moon (2min. ~ AAVS Studio Workshop); 5. Think Before You Act (2min. ~ Uday / 14 years old); 6. Friendship (2min. ~ Amity International School); 7. Don't Bullshit Me (2min. ~ Wigen and Leigh College of Mass Communication); 8. Imagine (1min. ~ Madhav Mehra / 13 years old); 9. How Long Will Peace Last (2,30min. ~ Madhav Mandava / 16 years old); 10. Mystery of Love (1min. ~ Shahana Lal / 11 years old)
Vishal K Dar (India)
Vishal K Dar's work expands over the fields of architecture+design, new-media and film/animation. A graduate from University of California, Los Angeles, he has been actively involved in installation art, digital architecture, visual styling, critical writing and curating of new media art. His woks have been presented at KAFI 2002 (Kalamazoo Animation Festival International), IIIX Architecture Biennale in Santiago, Chile 2002, Siggraph2003, KinoFilm fest 2003 (Manchester, UK), VIPER Basel festival of film, video and new media. 55th Berlin Film Festival 2005, and his documentary film Biscope is available at the Getty Research Library, Los Angeles. He has been featured in publication such as Intercommunication2003, ICC as a part of 'Emerging artists from Los Angeles', CGI: State of the Art (21st century Artists) 2004, LE_Magazine 2004, CineMAYA 2004, 3DWebArt symposium publication 2001.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Vishal will present a special overview of his works, experiences, thoughts and future direction as an independent creative practitioner.
Vishal K Dar's work expands over the fields of architecture+design, new-media and film/animation. A graduate from University of California, Los Angeles, he has been actively involved in installation art, digital architecture, visual styling, critical writing and curating of new media art. His woks have been presented at KAFI 2002 (Kalamazoo Animation Festival International), IIIX Architecture Biennale in Santiago, Chile 2002, Siggraph2003, KinoFilm fest 2003 (Manchester, UK), VIPER Basel festival of film, video and new media. 55th Berlin Film Festival 2005, and his documentary film Biscope is available at the Getty Research Library, Los Angeles. He has been featured in publication such as Intercommunication2003, ICC as a part of 'Emerging artists from Los Angeles', CGI: State of the Art (21st century Artists) 2004, LE_Magazine 2004, CineMAYA 2004, 3DWebArt symposium publication 2001.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Vishal will present a special overview of his works, experiences, thoughts and future direction as an independent creative practitioner.
Chayan Adhikari & Bacchus Barua & Kriti Pant (experimental collaboration around e-Music) (India)
Chayan Adhikari completed his schooling from Springdales School in Delhi, and is currently a first year student of Statistics at Ramjas College, where he is also Secretary of the Music Society. His passions are music and dramatics, in pursuit of which he has participated in productions of the National School of Drama and also received several awards at both the school and college level over the past few years as one of the most exciting emerging vocalists of Delhi. He has been a regular member since 2003 of Delhi's top singing ensemble and choir, "Artistes Unlimited", doing extensive work with jazz, gospel, funk, soul, R&B, progressive light rock, Western and Indian classical and Sufi music, besides fusion based self-compositions. He is also a part of "Advaita", a psychedelic fusion band with which he does Western lead Vocals and also plays acoustic guitar. Advaita's musical soundscape is created by the interplay of western instruments like guitars, drums and keyboards with the traditional Indian flavor of sarangi, tabla, Hindustani classical vocals, and also some experimentations with electronically produced sounds. After completing his education, Chayan dreams of becoming a Sound designer and also dreams of having a school of music in India, comparable to the likes of Berkelee
Chayan Adhikari completed his schooling from Springdales School in Delhi, and is currently a first year student of Statistics at Ramjas College, where he is also Secretary of the Music Society. His passions are music and dramatics, in pursuit of which he has participated in productions of the National School of Drama and also received several awards at both the school and college level over the past few years as one of the most exciting emerging vocalists of Delhi. He has been a regular member since 2003 of Delhi's top singing ensemble and choir, "Artistes Unlimited", doing extensive work with jazz, gospel, funk, soul, R&B, progressive light rock, Western and Indian classical and Sufi music, besides fusion based self-compositions. He is also a part of "Advaita", a psychedelic fusion band with which he does Western lead Vocals and also plays acoustic guitar. Advaita's musical soundscape is created by the interplay of western instruments like guitars, drums and keyboards with the traditional Indian flavor of sarangi, tabla, Hindustani classical vocals, and also some experimentations with electronically produced sounds. After completing his education, Chayan dreams of becoming a Sound designer and also dreams of having a school of music in India, comparable to the likes of Berkelee
Bacchus Barua passed out of Springdales School along with Chayan, as Headboy in his last year, and is currently also a first year student at Ramjas College in Delhi University, but in Economics. His passions are international relations and music, in pursuit of which he has twice been an official delegate at Indo-Pak youth conferences and also received various awards as a speaker as well as a musician. He plays guitars, keyboards, a bit of several other instruments and also sometimes sings, in addition to composing fluently in staff notation on an ongoing basis in hardware and software sequencers and multi-track environments. He has since the year 2000 served as a touchstone reference on technologically empowered creativity amongst at least the privileged class of his generation in India, for The IDEA series of CD-gazettes [Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts], a project now mentored and stored by The Academy of Electronic Arts, conceptualizer and co-organizer of CeC & CaC. And he is steadily now gaining recognition as a versatile independent composer and popular backing guitarist for friends singing western music. After completing his education, he might know what he wants to do next~:o)
Kriti Pant is a student of English Literature at St. Stephens College. Further info due.....
For CeC & CaC 2006, Chayan Adhikari and Bacchus will perform a special experimental collaboration of original music in a public evening segment of the event.
Kriti Pant is a student of English Literature at St. Stephens College. Further info due.....
For CeC & CaC 2006, Chayan Adhikari and Bacchus will perform a special experimental collaboration of original music in a public evening segment of the event.
Marc Lee, Estee Oarsed & Beat Brogle (Switzerland)
Marc Lee has been creating network-oriented interactive projects since 1999. Experimenting with information and communication technologies, his projects locate and critically discuss economic, political, cultural and creative "issue clusters" that are essential for communications processes in digital networks.
He has recently exhibited works in major new media events and entities such as: ZKM Karlsruhe, New Museum NY "Open_Source_Art_Hacking", Jiff Mind Korea, Transmediale02 & 04, Ars Electronica, Kontrollfelder, Viper01 & 03 & 04 & 05, Read_Me Festival 1.2, ICC Tokyo.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Marc Lee will present trailers of "Loogie.net" as well as a special off-line introduction to "56kTV-bastard channel" (a Pro Helvetia and Xcult project), together with Estee Oarsed and Beat Brogle. He will also introduce his "Open News Network" project, which goes on exhibit in Germany January 20.
Marc Lee has been creating network-oriented interactive projects since 1999. Experimenting with information and communication technologies, his projects locate and critically discuss economic, political, cultural and creative "issue clusters" that are essential for communications processes in digital networks.
He has recently exhibited works in major new media events and entities such as: ZKM Karlsruhe, New Museum NY "Open_Source_Art_Hacking", Jiff Mind Korea, Transmediale02 & 04, Ars Electronica, Kontrollfelder, Viper01 & 03 & 04 & 05, Read_Me Festival 1.2, ICC Tokyo.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Marc Lee will present trailers of "Loogie.net" as well as a special off-line introduction to "56kTV-bastard channel" (a Pro Helvetia and Xcult project), together with Estee Oarsed and Beat Brogle. He will also introduce his "Open News Network" project, which goes on exhibit in Germany January 20.
Estee Oarsed (sometimes S.T. Oarsed) lives with his family in Bangalore, India, as "a kind of Errand boy" on the run, but it is impossible to say if he runs away from his errands or if he runs to deliver in time. Certainly his shortcuts rather look like detours, and on arrival, delivered goods may differ slightly from the description on the delivery note. Maybe he shakes things up too much. Maybe that is in fact his art,.. if there is any. For a recent contribution to the Xcult-Project (56kTV-bastard channel), the assignment was to deliver Indian TV-images of his choosing (if possible). Switching on Doordarshan in June 2005, Estee was surprised by the omnipresence of the same face and voice, not only in the Friday night movies, but also during the commercial breaks,.. right in the highest moments of suspense in those movies. His errand (errantry) therefore delivered images of Amithab Bachchan, as seen by Estee Oarsed.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Estee may deliver anything,.. in any condition, together with Marc Lee and Beat Brogle.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Estee may deliver anything,.. in any condition, together with Marc Lee and Beat Brogle.
Beat Brogle is a Swiss artist living in Berlin, Germany. His work investigates issues of morphological transformation and associations at the edge of perception. This investigation spans media as diverse as drawing, sculpture, films/video and interactive installations, and has been shown across Europe, and recently also in Australia, Korea and China.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Beat will present a special overview of his works, experiences, thoughts and future direction as an independent creative practitioner, and with Marc Lee and Estee Oarsed on "56kTV-bastard channel" a TV miniplot encyclopedia. He may additionally install an interface to one of his online works, «One Word Movie», a web-platform that organizes the flood of images on the Internet into animated films, based upon user-supplied terms. This project plays with the tension between on-line and cinematic approaches to images, revealing a glimpse into the "collective psychology" of online cultures by showing patterns of word-image associations, as created by millions of people around the world.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Beat will present a special overview of his works, experiences, thoughts and future direction as an independent creative practitioner, and with Marc Lee and Estee Oarsed on "56kTV-bastard channel" a TV miniplot encyclopedia. He may additionally install an interface to one of his online works, «One Word Movie», a web-platform that organizes the flood of images on the Internet into animated films, based upon user-supplied terms. This project plays with the tension between on-line and cinematic approaches to images, revealing a glimpse into the "collective psychology" of online cultures by showing patterns of word-image associations, as created by millions of people around the world.
Ashhar Farooqui & Amaar Abbas (India)
Raoul Amaar Abbas is a multidimensional young artist based in New Delhi, working mainly in film, photography and performance art. His work in varying and completely connected mediums affords him interactions with all sorts of artists using electronic software and hardware to create films, music, archiving, and a general design consciousness that mixes and matches visual and acoustic with a hyper-electronic help scheme. With a BA from Delhi University (Eng Lit), Amaar has worked in the capacities of assistant director, associate producer, producer, anchor-person and actor with various theatre and television productions, and also on films ranging from social awareness or product endorsing campaigns through to short and feature length digital films. As a photographer, he assisted the well-known Delhi photographer Ravi Pasricha through 2000-2001, and now independently does documentary, stock, portfolio and fashion assignments for various publications, in addition to his many ongoing involvements, interventions and initiatives across multiple mediums.
Ashhar Farooqui first sang for his school at age fourteen, and then moved on from group vocalist to duets and finally singing solo with the school band before forming a brand new band with Abhishek Gupta (guitars). They christened it 'Envision', and swore to write original music and never look back. Hindu College in Delhi University happened while Envision won competitions, played at college festivals, headlined gigs, and released a slew of singles. Ashhar also started formally learning Hindustani Classical Music at the Bhartiya Kala Kendra under Shri. Manjit Singh, and in 2003 Envision released their first-and so far only-album, 'Patterns and Moodswings' ~ an eclectic blend of electro-acoustic music recorded and mastered in his own desktop-PC home studio, which rapidly became a cult CD in the underground music scene. Soon, Envision became perhaps the first Indian band to regularly perform live with a computer on stage,.. but performances slowly also became fewer as individual members moved on from college to further studies or other careers. Ashhar too began independently producing music for films and commercials, while also collaborating with other musicians to write and record new music, most notably as 'Earth Rhythms', a band delving into Sufi poetry, didgeridoos, voice, oriental percussion and wild improvisation. He has traveled with this band twice to Hong Kong to perform for India related events, also lately to Israel with a classical violinist to band up with Israeli musicians under the name 'Ascension' for a special performance at the Indian Embassy.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Ashhar & Amaar will perform an audiovisual collaboration that carries forward the independent works of both artists in exploratory and experimental concert, intertwining an electronic performance by Ashhar with a projected visual montage by Amaar, and possibly including a traditional qawaal. The theme is to be 'Rooh; the Essence', an ephemeral yet eternal reality lived out by reaching towards one's own inner being; that is always in a state of antiflux. Using the mediums of tradition, music, imagery and electronica the artists will endeavor to serve as travel guides towards the interior and infinite source that is always at our disposal. Using the auditory and visual senses as a vantage point towards the perception of haal (ecstasy), a glimpse is sought by the imposition of electro qawaal; a merging of traditional folk qawaal as sung in reverence at dargahs, the pilgrimage sites of deceased saints (pirs), with an electronic urban-affected soundscape. The images will in turn attempt a parallel cyclorama of the traditional life of the fakir, shimmering through a transient detailed look at a land that is vivid as a source to the divine.
Raoul Amaar Abbas is a multidimensional young artist based in New Delhi, working mainly in film, photography and performance art. His work in varying and completely connected mediums affords him interactions with all sorts of artists using electronic software and hardware to create films, music, archiving, and a general design consciousness that mixes and matches visual and acoustic with a hyper-electronic help scheme. With a BA from Delhi University (Eng Lit), Amaar has worked in the capacities of assistant director, associate producer, producer, anchor-person and actor with various theatre and television productions, and also on films ranging from social awareness or product endorsing campaigns through to short and feature length digital films. As a photographer, he assisted the well-known Delhi photographer Ravi Pasricha through 2000-2001, and now independently does documentary, stock, portfolio and fashion assignments for various publications, in addition to his many ongoing involvements, interventions and initiatives across multiple mediums.
Ashhar Farooqui first sang for his school at age fourteen, and then moved on from group vocalist to duets and finally singing solo with the school band before forming a brand new band with Abhishek Gupta (guitars). They christened it 'Envision', and swore to write original music and never look back. Hindu College in Delhi University happened while Envision won competitions, played at college festivals, headlined gigs, and released a slew of singles. Ashhar also started formally learning Hindustani Classical Music at the Bhartiya Kala Kendra under Shri. Manjit Singh, and in 2003 Envision released their first-and so far only-album, 'Patterns and Moodswings' ~ an eclectic blend of electro-acoustic music recorded and mastered in his own desktop-PC home studio, which rapidly became a cult CD in the underground music scene. Soon, Envision became perhaps the first Indian band to regularly perform live with a computer on stage,.. but performances slowly also became fewer as individual members moved on from college to further studies or other careers. Ashhar too began independently producing music for films and commercials, while also collaborating with other musicians to write and record new music, most notably as 'Earth Rhythms', a band delving into Sufi poetry, didgeridoos, voice, oriental percussion and wild improvisation. He has traveled with this band twice to Hong Kong to perform for India related events, also lately to Israel with a classical violinist to band up with Israeli musicians under the name 'Ascension' for a special performance at the Indian Embassy.
In CeC & CaC 2006, Ashhar & Amaar will perform an audiovisual collaboration that carries forward the independent works of both artists in exploratory and experimental concert, intertwining an electronic performance by Ashhar with a projected visual montage by Amaar, and possibly including a traditional qawaal. The theme is to be 'Rooh; the Essence', an ephemeral yet eternal reality lived out by reaching towards one's own inner being; that is always in a state of antiflux. Using the mediums of tradition, music, imagery and electronica the artists will endeavor to serve as travel guides towards the interior and infinite source that is always at our disposal. Using the auditory and visual senses as a vantage point towards the perception of haal (ecstasy), a glimpse is sought by the imposition of electro qawaal; a merging of traditional folk qawaal as sung in reverence at dargahs, the pilgrimage sites of deceased saints (pirs), with an electronic urban-affected soundscape. The images will in turn attempt a parallel cyclorama of the traditional life of the fakir, shimmering through a transient detailed look at a land that is vivid as a source to the divine.
Shankar Barua (India)
Shankar Barua is the conceptualizer and event-director for CeC & CaC 2006, but he is perhaps best known internationally for his mid-1990s rewrite of the Kamasutra, which sells all over the world in several translations and editions (only one of which is legit) that have influenced almost every version since. He has been networking e-Creative Practices and Practitioners around the world for several years, but mainly since 2000 with his project called The IDEA [Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts], which has so far yielded 7 CD-Gazettes featuring dozens of artists and thousands of works. It was also featured in Geoffrey Caban's recent book "World Graphic Design". Shankar's own works as an e-Creative Practitioner range mainly through music, imaging and some video, all "on a side-burner", and have been featured in various exhibitions, events and entities in various countries. Over the years of his variegated career, beginning much before computers came into his life, he has written texts for two books other than the Kamasutra, authored innumerable newspaper and magazine articles and columns, pursued photography through advertising, adventure-travel and 'art', exhibited and sold photographs, paintings and pen-&-ink works, illustrated newspaper articles, book-covers and an entire children's book, worked fulltime in executive and editorial positions, and also launched and for some time run a corporate & institutional networking company together with his wife, Poonam. He is Managing Trustee of The Academy of Electronic Arts, Special Advisor to Public Affairs Management, The Electronic Music Foundation and EMF-Institute, Co-Curator and also Archives & Documentation Associate of the Thailand Media Art Festival, and Honorary Committee Member of the Digital Art Guild and Museum of the Living Artist International Digital Exhibition 2006, and has been a speaker and course-advisor to a couple of top institutions. The few relatively 'major' public arts-events that he has conceptualized, organized and (always) participated in through life thus far "have each been founded upon impulsive personal responses to various circumstances of the time".
In CeC & CaC 2006, Shankar Barua will present overviews of The IDEA & The AeA. Some of his music and still imaging will also be found in a couple of the unaccompanied presentations listed below.
***Post-event insertion: Curatorial privilege was exercised to screen Tibor Kovas-egri's work "Evocation" as the last screen presentation of the auditorium segments of CeC & CaC. This was otherwise scheduled, and screened, as an "Unaccompanied Presentation", but privilege was allowed as Shankar himself was able to present it as the music-composer of the piece. Choreography by György Jellinek Gaál, with performance by the EuroDance Studio. Of the piece itself, Tibor says,"I wanted to represent the life of my friend (György), in 3 minutes, and also connect different art techniques and different artists' works in collaboration."
Shankar Barua is the conceptualizer and event-director for CeC & CaC 2006, but he is perhaps best known internationally for his mid-1990s rewrite of the Kamasutra, which sells all over the world in several translations and editions (only one of which is legit) that have influenced almost every version since. He has been networking e-Creative Practices and Practitioners around the world for several years, but mainly since 2000 with his project called The IDEA [Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts], which has so far yielded 7 CD-Gazettes featuring dozens of artists and thousands of works. It was also featured in Geoffrey Caban's recent book "World Graphic Design". Shankar's own works as an e-Creative Practitioner range mainly through music, imaging and some video, all "on a side-burner", and have been featured in various exhibitions, events and entities in various countries. Over the years of his variegated career, beginning much before computers came into his life, he has written texts for two books other than the Kamasutra, authored innumerable newspaper and magazine articles and columns, pursued photography through advertising, adventure-travel and 'art', exhibited and sold photographs, paintings and pen-&-ink works, illustrated newspaper articles, book-covers and an entire children's book, worked fulltime in executive and editorial positions, and also launched and for some time run a corporate & institutional networking company together with his wife, Poonam. He is Managing Trustee of The Academy of Electronic Arts, Special Advisor to Public Affairs Management, The Electronic Music Foundation and EMF-Institute, Co-Curator and also Archives & Documentation Associate of the Thailand Media Art Festival, and Honorary Committee Member of the Digital Art Guild and Museum of the Living Artist International Digital Exhibition 2006, and has been a speaker and course-advisor to a couple of top institutions. The few relatively 'major' public arts-events that he has conceptualized, organized and (always) participated in through life thus far "have each been founded upon impulsive personal responses to various circumstances of the time".
In CeC & CaC 2006, Shankar Barua will present overviews of The IDEA & The AeA. Some of his music and still imaging will also be found in a couple of the unaccompanied presentations listed below.
***Post-event insertion: Curatorial privilege was exercised to screen Tibor Kovas-egri's work "Evocation" as the last screen presentation of the auditorium segments of CeC & CaC. This was otherwise scheduled, and screened, as an "Unaccompanied Presentation", but privilege was allowed as Shankar himself was able to present it as the music-composer of the piece. Choreography by György Jellinek Gaál, with performance by the EuroDance Studio. Of the piece itself, Tibor says,"I wanted to represent the life of my friend (György), in 3 minutes, and also connect different art techniques and different artists' works in collaboration."
:: Screenings ::
- Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (net & video artist-curator) (Germany)
- Werner Hornung (Digital-still-imaging, ALSO OUR MASTER IMAGES) (Germany/France)
- Tom Chambers (digital-still-imaging, also student-project 'RED') (USA/China)
- Bruno Bozzetto (FlashFilms) (Italy)
- Shamima Abbas (poetry, prose, drawing, flashworks) (India)
- Nate Pagel (art-video) (USA)
- Chiara Passa (art-video, installations & multiple media) (Italy)
- John Antoine Labadie (digital-still-imaging + Curating a consolidated presentation from artists in Taiwan, China, USA) (USA/Taiwan)
- Xu Da Wei (videographer & film-maker from the Beijing Film Academy) (China)
- John Holloway (3D imaging) (USA)
- James Edwards (imaging) (USA)
- Margie Beth Labadie (Still imaging & transmedia work ~ university art professor and independent artist) (USA/Taiwan)
- Transmediale Art-Video Selection 2005) (Germany/Global)
- Karin Kuhlmann (digital-still-imaging) (Germany)
- Tibor Kovacs-egri.(digital-still-imaging, Art-Video, International Digital Art-video) (Hungary)
- Cynthia Beth Rubin & Bob Gluck (art-video, 4-5min.) (USA)
- Epica Awards, Reel of winners and selected finalists 2004/2005 (courtesy Mr. Andrew Rawlins, President) (France/EU)
- Ellen Zweig (video, audio, installation and performance art) (USA)
- Michael Brynntrup (art-video) (Germany)
- Horkay Istvan (imaging and art-video) (Hungary)
- Seagate Technical Awards for Excellence in Digital Technology for Films & Television - 2005 Reel (courtesy Mr. Ramesh Meer, Chairman-Broadcast India) (India)
- 0110 Digital Films Festival, reel of winners and selected finalists 2005, running time 1hr. (courtesy Ms. Madhureeta Anand, Founder & Festival Director) (India)
- Pinina Podestà (digital-still-iamging+various) (Italy)
- Achmad Krisgatha (aka Krist) (audio-visual & nteractive art) (Indonesia)
- Daniel Gontz (aka Casa Gontz) (VJ & Visual Artist) (Romania)
- Teo Spiller & Tadej Komavec (the X-Lam Project) (Slovenia)
- Eric Fillion (aka VJ Nokami) (Visual Media & Communications)
- Jason Van Anden (Cybernetic Artist) (USA)
- Genco Gulan (conceptual artist) (Turkey)
- Marcello Mercado (video-audio) (Italy-Argentina-Germany)
- Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (courtesy Carol Parkinson) (USA)
- Gruppo Sinestetico (multiple media -courtesy Sassu Antonio) (Italy)
- Ajaykumar (Multiple-Media Artist) (UK)
- Sarita Dev & Maurits Kelder (DevArt: Multiple Media and Interactive Art) (Netherlands)
- Uly Paya (multiple media) (Austria)
:: Participant Support ::
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Embassy of Austria
Pro-Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Turkey
some Participants Themselves
Italian Embassy Cultural Institute
Intima Virtual Base
NOMAD Project Channel
... and others
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Embassy of Austria
Pro-Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Turkey
some Participants Themselves
Italian Embassy Cultural Institute
Intima Virtual Base
NOMAD Project Channel
... and others
:: Other Support ::
Organizers
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The Academy of Electronic Arts was at the time a Public Benefit Trust that serves as a learning, sharing, mentoring, networking, benchmarking, empowering and broadly inclusive, but non-educational, institution.
Event-Director: Shankar Barua
India International Centre (since 1962) is a forum for the exposition of the cultural patterns prevailing in different parts of the world, by men and women competent to speak on the subjects. The emphasis is neither on the study of particular cultures, nor on the promotion of particular ideologies. The Centre is entirely non-official in character, non-aligned in its motivation and approach, and uncommitted to any particular form of governmental, political, economic or religious affiliation.
Incident Co-Director: Lalsawmliani "Teteii" Tochhawng
Infrastructure & Technical: Suresh Pal & the IIC Crew
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Ground Coordination
Niru Singh (Media & Communications Professional / Delhi)
Anuradha Pathak (Artist & Arts Researcher / Delhi)
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Volunteer Co-Hosts & Co-Presenters
Bacchus Barua (Student / Delhi University)
Devyani Arya (Student / NID)
Shweta Grampurohit (Student / NID)
Basangauda Inamdar (Student / NID)
Pallavi Kulkarni (Student / NID)
Lakshmi Kumar (Student / NID)
Ruchira Parihar (Student / NID)
Ruta Potnis (Student / NID)
Arul Prabhu (Student / NID)
Gayatri Sathe (Student / NID)
Abhishek Shrivastava (Student / NID)
Eva (Student / NID)
Hitesh Gusani (MD, Cybertec Studios / Mumbai)
~Back-up & Security (The AeA)
Deepak Thapa
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The Academy of Electronic Arts was at the time a Public Benefit Trust that serves as a learning, sharing, mentoring, networking, benchmarking, empowering and broadly inclusive, but non-educational, institution.
Event-Director: Shankar Barua
India International Centre (since 1962) is a forum for the exposition of the cultural patterns prevailing in different parts of the world, by men and women competent to speak on the subjects. The emphasis is neither on the study of particular cultures, nor on the promotion of particular ideologies. The Centre is entirely non-official in character, non-aligned in its motivation and approach, and uncommitted to any particular form of governmental, political, economic or religious affiliation.
Incident Co-Director: Lalsawmliani "Teteii" Tochhawng
Infrastructure & Technical: Suresh Pal & the IIC Crew
---------------------------
Ground Coordination
Niru Singh (Media & Communications Professional / Delhi)
Anuradha Pathak (Artist & Arts Researcher / Delhi)
~
Volunteer Co-Hosts & Co-Presenters
Bacchus Barua (Student / Delhi University)
Devyani Arya (Student / NID)
Shweta Grampurohit (Student / NID)
Basangauda Inamdar (Student / NID)
Pallavi Kulkarni (Student / NID)
Lakshmi Kumar (Student / NID)
Ruchira Parihar (Student / NID)
Ruta Potnis (Student / NID)
Arul Prabhu (Student / NID)
Gayatri Sathe (Student / NID)
Abhishek Shrivastava (Student / NID)
Eva (Student / NID)
Hitesh Gusani (MD, Cybertec Studios / Mumbai)
~Back-up & Security (The AeA)
Deepak Thapa
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Supporting Partner
CeC & CaC 2008
~Public Affairs Management is an independent firm engaged in corporate and institutional diplomacy, global corporate advisory services, and building thought-leadership across a diverse range of stakeholders and individual client mandates, since 1997-- based in New Delhi.
Our business experience and accomplishments range from engaging corporate top-management and community leaders in best business practices and collective-leadership, leveraging strategic associations & partnerships for enriching global exchange of ideas and benchmarking, and knowledge generation to support innovative research --for delivering best rewards to business and society.
CeC & CaC 2008
~Public Affairs Management is an independent firm engaged in corporate and institutional diplomacy, global corporate advisory services, and building thought-leadership across a diverse range of stakeholders and individual client mandates, since 1997-- based in New Delhi.
Our business experience and accomplishments range from engaging corporate top-management and community leaders in best business practices and collective-leadership, leveraging strategic associations & partnerships for enriching global exchange of ideas and benchmarking, and knowledge generation to support innovative research --for delivering best rewards to business and society.