New
media seminars by ArtIllume tell students how robotics and tech meet art and
design to create hyper-interactive spaces
New Delhi,
September-2019:
We’ve all made paper
cutouts – from simple paper-boats to the more sophisticated Origami shapes.
Now, the new media platform Art Illume is showing students how their childhood
could return in a new bottle – to create giant illuminated origami tigers combining
the best of ancient Chinese lantern-making and the best of digital design.
At the first seminar at
IIIT Delhi, ArtIllume brought the ideas and experiences of the best in design
and new media art to students, to de-construct these spaces where art merges
with science and tell them how they could be looking at not just their future
design or tech careers being bent anew; but at a completely new way of being.
Throwing some more light on
the concept, Hitesh Kumar, Founder, Artillume said, “ there is an explosion of
artistic experimentation which is enabled through the technology, and people
have responded positively to it. The contemporary art scene elsewhere in the
world has leveraged on the technology to create incredible art and projection
installations which are extremly immersive and interactive. There is a huge
potential in India, but the ecosystem for such new media art is nonexistant.
Artillume plans on making the new media design technology accessible to a large
number of artists and students to experiment and showcase their new media
artworks.”
In this world, virtual
reality, augmented reality, digital computing, robotics and animation combine
with art, design and 3 D animation to put back an emotional and evocative
landscape we are all searching for. Students see how this is achieved, in small
capsule sized doses, that is beginning to whet their appetites for more.
They look at the world of
interactive installations and ask – why is creativity being taught separately
from science and technology? Why is tech kept away from art, except in the
business of movie-making? And what a wonderful world to step into where both combine
to bring back big dreams and infinite possibilities.
ArtIllume talks students
through the possibility of an incubation period where their experiments with
art and tech, in the new media space can grow. Where they will benefit from
some of the stalwarts in the new media and communication world that have broken
free from these separate silos of existence. From the founder of Art Illume –
Mr. Hitesh Kumar, to prominent influencers and industry leaders
from various backgrounds like, art/museum curators, designers, orators,
technology experts, journalists, etc.
As a one of a kind new
media platform, ArtIllume conducts these seminars across India as part of their
work as incubators, educators and keepers of this new world of art and
technology. They have been making immersive art in India and around the world
for some time. Now they want to involve the new generation in this very
infectious process. Why Einstein and Picasso, they say? In this world, C V Raman
also meets Amrita Shergill. India is the perfect holding ground for doing away
with boundaries, art for science’s sake and tech in the service of art.
For more about ArtIllume,
click here www.artillume.org
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