media, information, the contemporary

Author: Charu Maithani


  • Imago Aevitas: Forms of Web based Art Projects

    This is the fourth and final research note from Charu Maithani, one of the short-term social media research fellows at The Sarai Programme. This post looks at the various forms of distribution of web based projects starting from 2000, mapping the changing methods of reaching out and interacting with the users.

  • Works of Three Net Artists in India: 1999 Onwards

    This is the third research note from Charu Maithani, one of the short-term social media research fellows at The Sarai Programme. In 1999, Baiju Parthan paid serious attention to the changes that were slowly taking place with the novelty of the internet. The next advancement since industrial revolution, the world wide web was becoming a…

  • Imago Aevitas: Beginnings of Art Projects on the Internet in India and the World

    This is the second research note from Charu Maithani, one of the short-term social media research fellows at The Sarai Programme. Net.art is associated with certain aesthetics and ethics of artists, designers and technologists in the mid-1990s. The term net.art has an interesting anecdote on how it got the name. In December 1995 Vuk Cosic,…

  • Imago Aevitas – Brief Introduction to the Genesis of the Project

    In this post, Charu Maithani, one of the researchers who received the Social Media Research grant for 2015, introduces her proposed work. My research project combines two ideas that have captivated me for a long time – the image – its various forms and properties in a medium, and the viewers’ interaction with the image…