Harshit Agarwal’s artificial-intelligence show ‘EXO-stential: AI Musings on the Posthuman’ is India’s first solo AI art show. Harshit’s art begins by destabilizing the binaristic perception of humans vs technology and instead urges us to think of the human-machine as a continuum.
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Beneath the veneer of a triumphant and joyful comeback, undertones of physical trauma could be discerned. Here was clearly a vivacious spirit, trapped in a failing body. Then barely a year after that moving exhibition, she had succumbed to her illness.
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Unlike Baldwin’s white man Waswo’s protagonist is not a conqueror. He is a refugee. Modelled on Waswo, he realises his privileges and differences, also cherishes the hospitality he enjoys and laments the difficulties he had faced to establish a career, political expression and free expression of desires.
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This exhibition could easily have been called A Border Tale. Because it deals with the divisions created and engendered by man to separate people by faith, by ideology and by colour, it takes on a special significance in today’s global environment of bias, mistrust and discrimination.
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While the contemporary art scenario is busy debating over ideas and images, Khanjan Dalal and Radhika Hamlai bring to us the process of discovering the image in the experience of making it. Both the artists showed their work at Gallery 079, Ahmedabad in November 2019.
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Cutting across faith and caste people have been flocking the Nizamuddin Basti in Delhi. All come for relief from physical ailments and some for just blessings from the Sufi saint. It was the midst of this area that the Delhi based artist Seema Kohli chose to exhibit her latest show, A Circle Of Our Own.
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Ghiya presents his creations with a vague matrix-like flair, announcing a Download Error that will be familiar to anyone who had tried to access a heavy picture file from internet. And for a moment it seems as if there has been a serious problem in printing out the images displayed.
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Anju Dodiya is a thoughtful woman. Her art is complex, involved, thought provoking and, yes, thoughtful. One look and you, her audience, know that it has a lot more meaning and significance than it seems on casual viewing. There is history, there is intellect, there is travel and reading and, again, a great deal of thought that has gone into creating it.
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Wherever you are, the first few months of 2021 has seen a continuation of the widespread devastation marked in 2020 by the global escalation of COVID-19 and the subsequent shift of international discourse, geopolitics, and the liveability index. This issue, Quarantine, responds to our new-found conditions and outlines a multiplicity of viewpoints on the topic highlighting the inherent tension, anxiety, and withdrawal marked by this period.
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My city Kolkata, that I love and hate in equal measure, has featured in many of my films. How could it not have? As I have said many times before, there is no escaping it. I am the city and the city is me. I know all its sounds and silences, its nights and days, its still afternoons, its raging Nor’westers, its wild musical evenings, its calm morning ragas, its poignant Rabindra Sangeet.
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