Smarter Digital Realities by Sandbox Collective in collaboration with Goethe- Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan – curated by Padmini Ray Murray
3 – 5 Dec 2021
Free Entry. To register email at collective.sandbox@gmail.com.
Smarter Digital Realities invited select participants from four Asian cities - Bangalore, Dhaka, Mumbai and Pune - to reflect on digital change and its impact on urban life.
Digital technology has found its way into every aspect of the city, changing how we live, work and communicate - transforming the way we relate to the world and each other. We are increasingly living through our devices, a reality exacerbated by the pandemic, when our interpersonal spaces have shrunk to fit the space of the digital interface.
The project comprised of a series of on/offline workshops, involving inputs from facilitators/experts, and encouraged participants to reflect on their relationship with the urban and to frame how experiences of the city have increasingly been mediated by the digital - at scale, or for the individual.
Through two phases of the residency, a host of amazing speakers shared their work and processes with the programme's residents. The speakers, from India, Bangladesh, and Germany, included renowned names such as writer and researcher Nadika Nadja, photographer Sarker Protick, artists Jonny-Bix Bongers and Johann D. Thomas, architect and founding member of CRIT Rupali Gupte, filmmaker Vishal Kumaraswamy, and writer and educator Sarover Zaidi.
Cities are provocative sites to imagine the ubiquitous role of technology, and themes such as the gig economy, the smart city, start-up culture, surveillance: these all form part of the material that participants are working with.
The 21 residents have been encouraged to envision the city and its imbrications with the digital in a variety of ways, and have re-imagined their cities through writing, music, maps, dance, storytelling, animation, film and sound.
Smarter Digital Realities is a project conceived and conceptualised by Sandbox Collective in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and curated by Padmini Ray Murray.
'Smarter Digital Realities' will open up to the public with the launch of the online exhibition on Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 6PM in Gather Town.
Free Entry. To register email us collective.sandbox@gmail.com.
The projects created by the residents, for the programme, will be displayed in a specially created virtual environment.
The launch will be followed by talks and music performance between 3 and 5 Dec 2021
EVENT DETAILS
Smarter Digital Realities 2021- Residency Showcase Online Launch
Imagine a playful, interactive space, where you can walk, run or jump around to find hidden turns and corners. Jump over buildings, touch the sky, sit by a lake, try going in a straight line and finding the infinite white land. An immersive representation of a city, where iconic buildings of 4 cities (Bangalore, Dhaka, Pune and Mumbai) become your gateway into different parts of an online exhibition. Where you can teleport yourself through an artist directory to look at different works which are part of Smarter Digital Realities 2021 - A Residency Showcase Online Launch Event.
3 December
6PM
Gather Town Online Platform
For enquiries: collective.sandbox@gmail.com
Gather Town Orchestra
An inter-city musical collaboration between David De Menezes and Ria Rajan, that came out of the residency which was primarily held on the Gather Town online platform. Through accidental overlaps of sounds and ambient noise, they started to explore the sonic depths and possibilities of making music together on this virtual platform.
The Gather Town Orchestra became their weekly jam session, always changing, never the same.
3 & 5 December 7 PM
Gather Town
For enquiries: collective.sandbox@gmail.com
Investigative interventions - subversive campaigning strategies and tactical media
Jean Peters, founder of the media tactical collective Peng!
in conversation with
Padmini Ray Murray, Curator, Smarter Digital Realities 2021
4 december
6PM
ZOOM
For enquiries: collective.sandbox@gmail.com
Sometimes, the situation seems desperate. Climate change, the global pandemic, mass surveillance, to name a few examples where it seems like every social movement strategy has failed and the battles are lost. Jean Peters works at the fringe of arts, journalism and activism, always searching for possibilities to fight up situations of hegemonic suffocating. With methods of thorough investigation, smart entertainment and clear ethical vision, needles of resistance can let in some air, and can allow us to breathe a sigh of relief even in the darkest of political moments. Peters, based in Berlin, Germany, will give us a few examples and discuss them according to the audience questions.
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