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Previous Dialogs
Creating TechArt
NFTS AND COMMUNITY BUILDING – STRATEGIES FOR FOSTERING CONNECTION AND ENGAGEMENT
12th May 2023
In the discussion we delve into the challenges and opportunities presented by blockchain-based technologies and NFTs for creatives from different fields. The session explores the importance of communities in knowledge sharing, while also exploring existing communities that facilitate collaborations between creatives working with NFTs. With Varun Desai (Tezos India Art And Culture, Kolkata), Payal Arya (artist, Delhi), and Ninaad Kothawade (NFT Asia, Pune), along with moderator Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi (curator, Delhi).
UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL AND ACCESS CHALLENGES AROUND NFTS AND CREATIVE PRACTICES
12th May 2023
The session delved into the legal framework of NFTs and explored their potential to enhance accessibility in previously uncharted areas. While new technologies bring opportunities, they also raise questions about ownership, legality, and the need for inclusiveness. This discussion dissected these complexities, providing insights into the opportunities and challenges associated with NFTs.
Intelligence in the Age of AI
15th September 2022
As a number of artificial intelligence systems prove themselves progressively more capable of appearing “intelligent” in ways that might appear beyond the capacities of any individual human being, has there emerged a need in humanity’s vanity to reimagine intelligence? Or does “intelligence” signify deeper characteristics of what makes us “human”, such as the capacity for empathy and the ability towards deliberate abstraction, and will there come a time when machines might embody these features as well?
AI & Performance
12th May 2022
Are you curious about the role of the artist in the digital age? Would you like to peek into their world as they unpack their practices?
Creating TechArt
12 August, 2021
“Is Techart even a word?” we get asked.
When frontiers come together, we are compelled to create a new language.
C3: Info Session
11 August, 2021
Curious about Codes, Creativity, Communities? Need more information about working in Open Source? Want to know what the project involves?
Creating TechArt
05 August, 2021
“Is Techart even a word?” we get asked.
When frontiers come together, we are compelled to create a new language.
Creating TechArt
26 October, 2020
Meet fantastic techartists from Germany, UK and India. Get into their process and craft.
Showcasing TechArt
NFTease
30th April, 2022
Renowned multimedia and NFT artist Raghava K.K., Aparajita Jain and Om Malviya demystify the complexities around NFTs, enabling more people to make informed decisions while navigating the field. The conversation was hosted by Kamya Ramachandran of techart platform BeFantastic and moderated by Radbot creator Vasundhara Das.
Women Leadership & TechArt
9th December 2021
Taking a cue from Dr. Patricia Gestoso from the Kaspersky report saying “you can’t be what you can’t see” this Dialog seeks to discuss the trajectories of women leaders at various intersections of art and technology so as to make these paths visible to a new generation of women who might be drawn towards these fields.
Showcasing TechArt
14th October 2021
The digital frontier holds very different meanings for people, each tempered by individual experiences in a space that has seen unimagined development and proliferation in the past decade. Art events often have the capacity to introduce paradigms within these fledgling worlds that may have been hitherto unexplored by their audiences, but how might curators navigate these spaces to create experiences that can be cognizant of the latest technology and the cultural contexts of their exhibition?
Showcasing TechArt
28 October, 2020
Meet festival directors and understand their perspective on how their festivals advance the field and encourage creators take on techart as part of their practice.
Show & Tell
20 November, 2020
23 CoLab Techart Fellows collaborate on 8 projects using AI & ML. Join us to meet, learn and be inspired by their projects. Get an insider view of the journey of learning and collaboration that the Fellowship has been for each creator.
TechArt + Climate
23rd September
Join us as we invite a set of diverse global climate activists to discuss and exchange ideas around how we can use innovative Tech+Art as a compelling medium to address the climate crisis.
TechArt and Society
Ars Electronica – State of the ART(ist) Talks 2024
8th September 2024
Creating Resilience in Challenging Times
Kamya Ramachandran led a panel discussion for The State of the ART(ist) Talks, bringing together an inspiring group of prize winners and jury members. The conversation delved into the pressing challenges faced by artists today, including political persecution and environmental crises.
Art.Science.Tech Encounters in the era of climate crisis
23rd January 2023
What happens when deep science meets the arts? Why is transdisciplinary thinking needed for our future present lives?
Join us for an engaging discussion at our first BeFantastic Dialog for 2023.
Bodies, Body Politics & Machines
10th November 2022
The body has always been politicized, but it was not until more recently that we began to pay attention to how bodies could be used as political tools. Bodies, Body Politics, Machines explores this shift in thinking about the body and its relationship with technology. It looks at how these new relationships between humans and machines are changing our ideas about ourselves as human beings—and what this means for society at large.
Behind AI Systems
13th October 2022
Artificial Intelligence, algorithmic systems and machine decision making are being embedded in many areas of society – policing, justice, finance, banking, shopping and navigation just to name a few. These systems are affecting people’s lives in ways we can’t often understand, and they are designed in ways that infinitely replicate or even augment human bias.
In this conversation, we are exploring how and by whom these systems are constructed and designed, who benefits and who is disadvantaged, how they impact society and what the ethical implications are.
TechArt + Climate
23rd September 2022
“Code Red for Humanity” read the headlines about the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Those who want to maintain the status quo call this the work of alarmists. Science is proving the alarmists are indeed right.
Neural Networking
30th April 2022
Pooja Sood of Khoj International Artists Association, Adrian Notz of ETH AI Centre and Jonathan Kennedy of British Council discuss the new and emerging techart practices, followed by a luncheon conversation between invitees on the topic of humanising technologies like AI through art and its ability to creat ively engage audiences on pressing global issues. The session concluded with the drop of RadBots, a preview of video bots available as NFTs with an aim to explore possibilities of owning interactive AI-based techart and its encounters with the art market.
Open Source & Access
21st April 2022
C3’s first open Dialog session reflected on the politics of access within the context of Open Source based on their personal experiences. Defining “access” for a philosophy that appears to necessitate opportunities for technological literacy can be fraught in a world plagued by various inequalities. Through this Dialog we hope to better understand what terms such as “Open Source” and “access” could mean in India, and other countries in the Global South.
Sahil Thappa on Open Source
2022
Open Source for creative practice? Open source beyond the world of Software? How open is Open? Is Open free? Sahil Thappa — A Maker, Tinkerer and an alumnus of the Product Design programme at National Institute of Design — was our guest speaker for the second session of C3(Codes, Creativity, Communities). Having worked with organisations and firms like Mozilla, Riverside School, Design Against Crime, University of Dundee, he is back at his alma mater and teaches making, open-source and systems thinking. During the session, he raised important questions about open source — its nature, utility and significance in today’s world.
TechArt + Climate
3rd June 2022
BeFantastic is proud to present Swiss video artist, curator and art theorist Ursula Biemann & her artworks to our community. Acknowledging the need to understand the distant implications of immediate actions within the climate narrative, we screened three of her video essays as part of an ongoing series of “Climate Conversations” intended to expand our understanding of the ongoing Climate Emergency.
TechArt & Society
17 November, 2020
Is techart a medium that lends itself to social good? What is the edge effect in the arts when experimental mediums and technology merge. Meet the people at the forefront of this who support impossible visions and manifest them.
Data Privacy & TechArt
23 October, 2020
What is data privacy when it comes to techart making? How do we steer away from dystopic vision of tech futures? How can creators take a lead in this critical area of our online worlds?
KEYNOTE SPEECH
2nd August 2021
As part of BeFantastic Together Primer Series ’21, delivered by Andrew McWilliams (Founder of Thought works Art, USA) & Margaret Klein Salamon (Executive Director of the Climate Emergency Fund, USA)
Together: Info Session
24 June 2021
BeFantastic Together, an online fellowship program. Wondering what this is all about? How does it all come together? Why collaborate? You will find all your answers in our Dialog#1 + Info session.