[ISEA2004] Keynote: Shuddhabrata Sengupta – The Remains of Tomorrows Past: Speculations on the Antiquity of New Media Practice in South Asia

Abstract

The South Asia that I invoke is not a bounded space but a networked entity that straddles various cartographic imaginations in different ways. The ‘New Media’ that I talk about is unglamorously analog, occasionally hand powered, sometimes framed by bamboo supports and usually sheathed in organic resins, and the Antiquity I refer to (with an important exception) does not go back much beyond the nineteenth century.

  • Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Sarai Media Lab, India.  The Sarai Media Lab is a research and practice space in Delhi, at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Sarai undertakes research, creative and social projects in the areas of urban culture and media.  sarai.net

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