Collectively exploring the interlinkages between scientific cognizance, artistic creations, the human-non-human natural world, the public perception and knowledge about it.
Participating Speakers: Mira Hirtz, Lena Reitschuster, Anindita Bhadra, Sayantan Maitra, Arijit Dutta Choudhury and Nilanjan Bhattacharya
The programme is open to all.
Venue rules applied.
© Anindita Bhadra
ANINDITA BHADRA
Anindita Bhadra is a behavioural biologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata. She is engaged in studying the behaviour, ecology and cognitive abilities of dogs using the free-ranging /stray dogs in India as a model system. She is particularly interested in understanding the evolution of the dog-human relationship. Dr. Bhadra is the recipient of the INSA young scientist award, SERB women excellence award, IAP young scientist award and the Janaki Ammal National Women Bioscientist award Young category 2021.
© Arijit Dutta Choudhury
ARIJIT DUTTA CHOUDHURY
Arijit Dutta Choudhury, a mechanical engineer by education, is a science museum professional and has served in several science museums/centres under the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) across India. He is currently the Director General of the National Council of Science Museums, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He started his career in the automobile industry and since his joining the Council in 1987, has been involved in curation of new galleries, designing and fabrication of hands-on and interactive exhibits and subsequently in the execution of science centre projects on turnkey basis and NCSM’s first planetarium at Nagpur. He is a member of many state science & technology councils, science communication organizations and science museum/centre governing boards. He is also the present acting director of the India Museum Kolkata.
© Sayantan Maitra
SAYANTAN MAITRA
Sayantan Maitra Boka is an architect and scenographer. He heads an interactive design firm, Illusion In Motion and is the Chief Coordinator of the non-governmental organisation, Shelter Promotion Council (India), through which he has curated Public Art Festivals in different parts of North East India to identify and question issues, employing the language of contemporary and new media art. It is a Voluntary Organisation consisting of social activists, architects, engineers, scientists, artists, environmentalists and planners. The council has produced public art festivals in Sikkim called Blooming Sikkim Public Art Festival and Hornbill Public Art Festival in Nagaland, the first of its kind which comprised a melange of new media art and contemporary art addressing issues of socio political and environmental nature in North East of India. Recently it has produced No Man's Land, a public art project at the international border of India and Bangladesh in East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Mira Hirtz/Photo: Karolina Sobel
MIRA HIRTZ
Mira Hirtz is a performance artist, art mediator, and art theorist basing her work on somatic practices. She explores the value of creativity for human beings and non-human beings in many different formats such as workshops, performances, video pieces, and texts. She worked as an art mediator at documenta14, co-curated the program series “How do we care?” at Badischer Kunstverein 2020 and co-curator of the touring exhibition “Critical Zones”, initiated by the ZKM | Karlsruhe, the Goethe-Institut South Asia, and Bruno Latour.
© Lena Reitschuster/Photo: Jana Hofmann
LENA REITSCHUSTER
Lena Reitschuster studied South Asian Studies and Religious Studies at Heidelberg University, Philosophy and Curatorial Practice at HfG Karlsruhe, and Media Studies at The New School in New York. Her research is located at the intersection of philosophy, biology and art. She is interested in the history of ideas and notions around interspecies dependencies, emerging cosmologies and the conceptualizations of broad scale system change in the face of ecological crisis. During the past three years, she was part of the Critical Zone Study Group initiated by Bruno Latour in preparation of the »Critical Zones« exhibition at ZKM. The sessions involved discussing concepts and theories practically, experimentally and philosophically.
© Nilanjan Bhattacharya
NILANJAN BHATTACHARYA
Nilanjan Bhattacharya, is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Many of his documentaries and artworks explore biodiversity, food cultures and related indigenous knowledge in India. He was the initiator and implementer of the Interpretative Interactive Archive on Kolkata and Urban Ecological Mapping in collaboration with a group of local children. He was the creative consultant in the first ever online version of the Indo-European Residency Project in Kolkata. He is one of the three curators of an ongoing transnational exchange and exhibition project, Beyond Migration. Along with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, he curated the Critical Zones Activation programmes in Kolkata. Currently, he is working on a two-chanell video piece, Who Looks At Whom, which will be installed at Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig.
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