New Delhi's Raqs Media Collective

New York City, Nov. 7, 2004

Wednesday November 10th, 7:00pm

Multipurpose Room in the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

Pace University, 3 Spruce Street, between Park Row and Gold Street
(entrance closer to Gold).

Please join us for a panel discussion with India’s Raqs Media Collective,
moderated by Singapore art theorist Gunalan Nadarajan.

The Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata
Sengupta) is a group of media practitioners that works in new media &
digital art practice, documentary filmmaking, photography, media theory &
research, writing, criticism and curation. The collective has been working
together since 1991. Their work explores the power of the unregulated
communications of city life: the experience of movie theater audiences in
Delhi, the illegal posters on the sides of constructions sites, the
traffic on websites and chatrooms, or the illegal bootlegging of the
latest Hollywood DVD's. Based in New Delhi, India, Raqs is one of the
initiators of Sarai: The New Media Initiative, (www.sarai.net) a program
of interdisciplinary research and practice on media, city space and urban
culture at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.The artists will discuss their past work, including their multi-media
installations exhibited at Documenta 11, the Walker Art Center, and their
current installation at Bose Pacia gallery in Chelsea. Gunalan Nadarajan,
an art theorist, curator and writer from Singapore who has written and
lectured extensively on contemporary art, architecture and cyberculture,
will moderate the discussion. Mr. Nadarajan is the author of Ambulations,
based on the notion of walking, and has recently contributed a chapter on
'Ornamental Biotechnology' for Biotechnology, Art and Culture (MIT Press,
2003).

The Raqs Media Collective Artists Dialogue is presented in conjunction
with the exhibition Imposter in the Waiting Room on view from November 9 –
December 30, 2004 at the (Bose Pacia gallery) in
Chelsea.  The talk is also part of Downtown Digital Futures, LMCC's
multi-year platform for artists, cultural planners, urban developers, and
technologists to creatively explore the role of art and technology in the
transformation of Lower Manhattan and other urban centers. Downtown
Digital Futures includes public art installations, artists' talks, large
scale commissions, and a research and policy think tank. For more
information, please visit LMCC.