Modulating Realities: Networks of Sonic Thinking 14th and 15th December, 2023 Sarai-CSDS, Delhi A detailed report of the symposium is available here. The programme booklet with abstracts is available here. Concept Modulating Realities: Networks of Sonic Thinking came together as the closing chapter of the existing project Capture All: A Sonic Investigation –…
Sonic hallucinations and media archaeologies Public evening with Ashok Sukumaran (CAMP), Ravi Sundaram and Shikha Jhingan The session will discursively move through certain nodes and ideas of working with sonic materials, hybrid media, data sets and information flows that produce unexpected mediatic encounters and contingent moments. What are the archaeologies that can sense this kind…
This symposium foregrounds and critically examines the multiplicity of sites and forms of sonic practice and thought that emerge from contemporary conditions in India, South Asia and Australia. The two-day programme ‘Modulating Realities’ takes off from the existing project Capture All: A Sonic Investigation– a collaboration between Liquid Architecture, Melbourne, and Sarai, Centre for the…
In the last two decades, digital media infrastructures have spread worldwide, including the global South. Despite inequalities of access, low-cost mobile devices and cheaper broadband have connected large subaltern populations to media infrastructures. The effects are increasingly planetary, initiating a series of debates in media scholarship and cultural theory. Mediatisation has emerged as a material…
Acts of Media seeks to consolidate a field of multidisciplinary work around media technologies that intersects with legal scholarship. This volume brings together contributions from leading academics, lawyers, researchers and policy experts about contemporary India and Sri Lanka. This volume brings together contributions from leading academics, lawyers, researchers and policy experts about contemporary India and Sri Lanka…
Afterlives of Modernism In this episode Ravi Sundaram and Ashish Rajadhyaksha speak to the art critic and curator Geeta Kapur. The long twentieth century produced powerful movements that shaped politics, aesthetics and the idea of the contemporary. In the late 1990s, we have seen a renewal of postcolonial critiques in the contemporary art spaces, especially…
The Cybermohalla Book Box contains a series of reflections by practitioners on their process of joining and being in the Cybermohalla labs, which were shared with over 200 people in a public gathering on the occasion of the launch of the Book Box (Baraat Ghar, Near Kali Building, Dakshinpuri, Delhi, 8th October, 2003).