Project Type: Projects
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ADI
ADIs vision is to be a world class network representing professional interests of Indian Design community, creating a meaningful interface between design professionals, people as users, the industry, education institutions and the policy makers. About the Panel ADI hosted a panel discussion at BeFantastic. They focused the panel on how designers have contributed to the…
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SEAN BLAGSVEDT
SKY CHI Hold the heavens in your hands! Make these clusters of virtual moisture, move with graceful hand gestures. Participants are invited to spin clouds of virtual water, holding the whole sky in their hands, synchronized in rhythm to make the heavens move. The visitor is invited to move the sky and contemplate our connection…
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AFRAH SHAFIQ
SULTANA’S REALITY This project responds to UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality Following an Alice in Wonderland style adventure, Sultana’s Reality is stitched together with written accounts of different women, who would rather nap than read. Those who were stoned in the streets for wearing shoes and carrying umbrellas, those who read forbidden texts…
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GAGAN SINGH
GAGAN DRAWS Gagan spends his time at the Dasa Prakash cafe at the Bengaluru Fantastic venue sipping south Indian filter coffee and drawing moments and gestures of people at the festival. His reimagining’s of his forays into the UK’s cultural cafe are juxtaposed with his drawings of the here and now of the festival. THIS…
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TSUNEO SEKIGUCHI
THE RAINBOW CART A rainbow-hut is a space where people can admire the magic of rainbow-light and relax and sit down. The artist uses music, artistic tools and the energy of the colours to research how the body and mind are affected by light and colours.The coloured light comes into the hut and defines a…
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Natya STEM Dance Kampni
Jangam – Dance Stimuli on Unicycles Come watch as the Natya STEM dancers light up the venue with their pioneering performance on electric Unicycles! Their bodies lit up with el-wire and moving to the rhythm of the city street, Madhu Natraj and the gifted STEM dancers bring on a moving and epic moment. This project…
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Lekha Washington
LIGHTSTROM “A flow of light, sometimes against the grain, Lightstrom is a flowing tornado, a glowing dervish that can be moulded by hand, touching light itself. A Strom in German speaks of electricity, a current or a flow like a river. In Czech, it speaks of that which is towering above, a sight to behold.…
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Studio WayneMcGregor + Attakalari
MIX THE BODY Mix the Body is an interactive platform that allows the visitor to bring to life their own contemporary dance piece. It pairs professional dancers from Studio Wayne McGregor in London with dancers from the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bengaluru to create a library of movements corresponding to simple strokes. A…
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Debbie Adele Cooper
MAPUTOPIA What do you love about India / UK? A question that aims to unravel a third space of invention to help form a new future utopia working with algorithms and software entangled with human interactions… produced by New Art Exchange and Quad as part of Here There & Everywhere. This project responds to UN’s…
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Himanshu S
BOMBAY UNDERGROUND ZINES POP-UP The Zines Pop-up is a pop-up of zines that Bombay Underground has been making for the past fifteen years. This project responds to UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities THIS WORK IS SUPPORTED BY: Here There Everywhere, UK ABOUT BOMBAY UNDERGROUND As Bombay Underground, we run reading spaces,…
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Jerome Chazeix
THE PARTY Enter this room and get sucked into a party by a quasi fashion-label and a commentary on our consumption of images Mixing motifs and elements of nature, culture, humanity, design, art, architecture and typography, the artist presents this artifact of the pseudo fashion brand Zeix. Inspired by his own name, it is a…
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Desire Machine
MAYA, THE CYBORG IN A SAREE The project explores two main worlds – The hyper-real techno culture that we inhabit (the contemporary sub culture of the youth steeped in social media, gaming, internet and AI), and the inherited world of customs, cultural beliefs and heritage of the participants. The film speculates on a future India,…
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Quicksand + Invisible Flock
DUET DUET is a year’s worth of anonymous personal exchanges between people in India and the UK, across an app, an interactive web platform, and a series of public art works about finding space for reflection, expression, and connection in our daily lives. DUET Live is an immersive sound installation through which audiences can explore…
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Agastya International Foundation
Agasthya International Foundation hosted an interactive installation that invited children to play and learn experientially using technology. They ran a series of short make-learn-play sessions through the festival. We were able to bring in school children to visit the festival with their partnership. ABOUT AGASTYA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION The Agastya foundation’s goal is to augment government…
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Man & Wah
Man&Wah are brothers living and working in Australia. They produce visual works which highlight the intricate forms and colours of plants through large format photographic prints & audio/visual digital projections. These works celebrate the beauty and diversity of nature from around the world, encouraging reflection and deeper contemplation of our relationship with nature, inviting us…
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Neerinusiru
Composed with the data backed by research – courtesy: Indian Institute of Science and Stockholm Environment Institute, USA – the artist Christina Della Giustina along with Vasundhara Das, a Hindustani trained experimental singer and Sai Chandrashekar on Ghatam, a classical Indian percussion instrument, introduce the performance Neerinusiru. This headlining performance at Bengaluru Fantastic brings together…
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Eames Demetrios
Eames Demetrios wears many different hats, but he is best known in the design world for his work as director of the Eames Office spearheading the successful re-discovery of the Charles and Ray Eames design heritage by new generations. The mission of the Eames Office is communicating, preserving and extending the work of Charles and…
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Kavita Singh Kale
GERMINATE The Artist feels that influences of the seductive digital world have obscured the sensorial qualities of Nature. In a world that has witnessed the deterioration of the relationship between nature and humanity, the new generation has no patience to watch a sapling grow to become a tree. ‘Germinate’ is an interactive art installation inviting…
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Felizitas Stilleke
CALLS FOR CURATION During CALL FOR CURATION, Felizitas takes us on her personal and intimate journey of encounters with inspiring people, and a lot of (shared) confusion about the possibilities or borders of intuitive curating, via her perception. For the artist, curating signifies a social practice ruled by interaction and intuition. During her time in…
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Ruchi Bakshi Sharma
CABINET MAN AQUARIUM HEAD The artist’s work-table desk-drawer absorbs a wide array of her moods and energies, an entire spectrum of bursts of inspiration and rants of frustration. It has absorbed memories she herself might have forgotten. Ruchi Bakshi Sharma investigates these through a series of autobiographical video stories that revolve around that switch between…
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Thomas Heidtmann
PLACE IN ORBIT Place in Orbit is an installation of objects that is inspired and influenced by shapes, colours, materials, and data of space satellites from the ISRO mission PSLV-37, the historic mission which set the world record for simultaneously launching 104 satellites. The objects, connected with each other via sound, light, sensors, and interaction…
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Harshit Agarwal
TANDEM Tandem is a software system where a person’s drawing input is ‘imagined’ upon by a computer to suggest an outcome, thereby interweaving the two in a creative dialogue. The project explores how something as fundamentally human as artistic expression can be carried out along with an intelligent machine. Can machines be intimately involved in…
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Spectra
ALTERING PATTERNS Spectra’s work centers around participatory and installation work, exploring the themes of light, visuals, colour, optics and sound. ‘Altering Patterns’, is an analog-digital live performance in collaboration with the visitor, exploring patterns of image, text, sound and the nuances of creation. In this installation, Spectra uses the city as their canvas and invites…
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Santosh Kale
Santosh Kale is a Communication Designer who uses Film and Interaction Design to create non- linear narratives for immersive applications. His work includes projects for the video gaming, feature film, broadcast design, advertising, print and publications industries. He is also interested in exploring the possibilities of virtual and augmented spaces through immersive experiences.
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Gene Kogan
CUBIST MIRROR Cubist Mirror is a mirror which reflects the world back in the Cubist painting style, along with a number of other iconic paintings. The mirror continuously applies a real-time variant of the style transfer technique to the camera feed, which is a technique using a neural network to generate images in a particular…
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Art of Change
Art of Change 21 is the first international platform in favour of the environment and sustainable development which bases itself on creativity, interdisciplinarity and co-creation. As such, the association brings together:• 21 “accelerators of change,” artists, social entrepreneurs and engaged youth from 12 different countries (Kenya, New Zealand, Bahreïn, USA, Egypt, Australia, United Kingdom, France…)• an experts committee made up of renowned French players in the field of social transformation and environmental innovation.• a Bureau composed…
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VAG Forum
Sambhrama Bengaluru Using FlippAR’s platform, the cultural landscape of Bangalore comes alive through this project. What AR or Augmented Reality does for Bengaluru is give it another plane of reality that is accessible through a smart phone. Using an app that scans suggested icons, a map of the city’s culturally noteworthy spaces appears, as a…
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Akshara Verma & Raja Arjun
We work under the name – Office of Cognitive Design. We do not limit ourselves when it come to design – be it architecture, interiors, product design, furniture design, installations, light fixtures. We give in all we have, and make sure you get the very best. Everything that OCD designs is made for you, keeping…
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ISRO
SOUND EXPERIMENTS The Indian Sonic Research Organization (ISRO), Bangalore’s favourite cult band is known for creative music and experiments in sound. Their legendary performances have been known to have laser beams, misbehaving robots, fireworks and other exploding items! These projects respond to UN’s Sustainable Goal 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure ABOUT ISRO The Indian Sonic…
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Rogue Atari
Rogue Atari is the solo project of Kuru Circus frontman and artist – Hari Jayaprakash. He has performed at festivals and venues across the country. Primarily known for his live performances which include live art and experimental 3D projections. His genre has been termed as Kurutronica / Kurock / Delirium. Also known for his strong…
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