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Alok Nandi, in parallel to his activities in new media, information architecture and interaction design, continues his voyage into literature. He will be convening a panel in Paris Book Fair 2007, Tuesday, March 27th :

- 19h30 à 21h« Formes de l’oeuvre, formes à l’oeuvre »
De l’importance du genre : roman graphique ou policier, poésie, chronique, voire dictionnaire…Avec Sarnath Banerjee, K. Satchidanandan, Allan Sealy, Kalpana Swaminathan et Udayan Vajpeyi.
Table ronde animée par Alok Nandi

More [in French] on mahanet.com for activities related to literature.

This open-source related term, also known to be related to Web2.0, is a concept Alok Nandi will be expanding on, in his lecture at Middlesex Univ., March 15th, in London. He will talk about narrative architecture and the design of hybrid spaces.

Alok b. Nandi will share his parcours in the areas of analogical and digital texts, at the interzone of art & sciences, design & technology.

From hyperfiction in the mid-90’s, he went into a voyage exploring questions related to the interface, as well as going below the surface or expanding the narrative envelope. Connecting the text(s) or digging the texts are a.o. the approaches he will share, the fluxographies, building from graphic novels transposed on screen spaces to exhibition design concepts and mise-en-scène through :

Hybrid design praxis allows to focus on architecturing tempo and articulating verb and space.

Narration, Cuisine, Design: when cuisine and storytelling are inspiration zones for design.
Alok Nandi just came back from the Doors of Perception conference in Delhi where he was presenting his project “Taltala Tales”, looking at cuisine and storytelling as zones for inspiration. This launch took place under the theme “Rasa”, a concept he explored in 2006 at Transmediale 06 Berlin, in media art and cinema, as well as in France, at the Fresnoy in October, during lille3000 India festival.

More on the conference at http://doorsofperception.com/juice/
More on Taltala Tales