[LMCC] Raqs Media Collective on November 10th

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



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).



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 (http://www.bosepacia.com
<http://www.bosepacia.com/> ) 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
http://www.lmcc.net/ddf



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Downtown Digital Futures is made possible with support from Pace
University; the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation; the New York
State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program, a state
agency; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; City Council
Speaker Gifford Miller; the Asian Cultural Council; Polytechnic
University; the Experimental Television Center's Media Arts Technical
Assistance Program; and the Cowles Charitable Trust. The Alliance for
Downtown New York is our marketing partner. Special thanks to Hughes
Hubbard & Reed LLP.