Linz’s University of Art serves annually as a venue for exhibitions by art colleges from all over the world that are engaged in the teaching of media art and media culture. The guest institution in 2005 is the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. The exhibition is entitled “Tana-Bana,” which can be translated literally as “warp and weft” and is meant to evoke the ideal of the “integration of communities or societies.”This exhibition shows how the primary indicators of the success of a society are the freedoms that that community enjoys, those freedoms that further the society’s capacity to help itself and to design its own environment. This exhibition features works by students, graduates and artists-in-residence. Additional offerings include an accompanying program of seminars and discussions and a telematic performance on Linz’s Main Square.

Concept and lead designer: Ashok Sukumaran
Design Team: Arvind Lodaya, John Mathew, Rajesh Narasimha
Graphic Design: Kumkum Nadig, Sarita Sundar
Exhibition Management: Meena Vari, Tara Rajagopal

Projects

Theme 1: Constructive Dissatisfaction: Dissemination
of Learning and Knowledge
Synchronisations II – Umang Bhattacharya, Nishita Kavadia, Diva Viswanathan, Prianka Dilip
Rustle TV – Arathi Parthasarthy, Ishan Ghosh, Nupur Mathur, Siddharth Muthyala, Pratima Kalmadi, Navin Kumar, Arshiya Naina, Pallavi Agarwala, Nomita Khatri, Khusrav Writer
Fifteen Days – Umang Bhattacharya, Divya Viswanathan, Smriti Chanchani, Shashwati B., Thomas Abraham, Rajesh Narasimha, Shruti Shashidhar, Archana Bellani, Shreya Cariappa
Ruminations – Michael Joseph, Amphat Varghese

Theme 2: Creative Discontent: Mapping Perceptions and
Problems; Past and Present
The Lowlands Project – Vaibhav Bhawsar
Blank Noise II – Jasmeen Patheja
Hinges On – Tactical Media Lab (Thomas Abraham, Umang Razdan Bhattacharya, Priyanka Dilip, Ishan Ghosh, Ramyah Gowrishankar, Pratima Kalmadi, Nishita Kavada, Siddarth Muthyala, Hidish Singh, K.T. Thomas, Divya Viswanatham)
Mapping Devanahalli – Second year students of Srishti
Straight 8 – Ayisha Abraham


Theme 3: The Spirit of Freedom: Journeys
Well Basically, This is About Thomas Jakob – Anup Mathew Thomas
Journeys with Kabir:Works-in-Progress – Shabnam Virmani, Tara Kini, Rumah Rasaque
Journeys with Kabir: The Studio Lab
Where is Ulat Bansi? – Amaranta Nehru
The Train - Arvind Lodaya, Tara Kini, Shabnam Virmani, Ashok Sukumaran
Radio Kabir – Patience Rustomji
Campaign: Look Inward – Narayan Gopalan
Body in Balance – Smriti Chanchani

Opening: Thu 1.9., 15:30, Kunstuniversität Linz

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