Just released … and more on http://www.doorsofperception.com/juice/
Doors 9 Press Release
Dateline New Delhi: 05 February 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DOORS OF PERCEPTION 9 ON “JUICE”: FOOD, FUEL, DESIGN.
http://www.doorsofperception.com/juice/
NEW DELHI, INDIA, 2, 3 MARCH 2007
A unique gathering of global design experts meets in New Delhi, India, on 3 March to discuss solutions to the growing crisis concerning food and […]
2006 was Indian in Lille, France …
Alok Nandi was artistic adviser, as well as speaker, conference convenor and had a media art installation in “Bombay Maximum City”.
As of Dec. 14th, the in situ and interactive installation “MAAD” by Alok b. Nandi can be seen everyday till January 14th in the exhibition “Bombay Maximum City”, in the lille3000 India Festival. This first version of the installation - looking at “mariages arrangés, amoureux, dérangés” as a social construct in urban setting - is […]
India Festival is coming: elephants are already there …
The elephants will take place and form the Rambla: rendez-vous on October 14th, for the opening of the India Festival.
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Alok Nandi will have activities in the areas of literature, cinema, media art, film (conference & debate), installation: an Indian summer in Lille …
Alok b. Nandi will be re-exploring “indianity” in different activities in Lille, North of France, this Fall 2006.
While information architecture and interaction design allow to explore the “how”, Alok Nandi is busy, in parallel, with projects related to India and Congo - the “what”. This raises interesting themes such as perception, exoticism, cliché, …
Applying information architecture methods in designing festival programmes: this last year, Alok Nandi has been artistic advisor to three festivals focused on India.
This allows to continue the exploration of cross-media and hybrid design principles and approaches.
News to be released soon about a major event in October 2006 and some other works […]
The retrospective album of La Cambre ENSAV, a leading design institution in Brussels, has just been published, commemorating the 50 years of teaching industrial design in the school.
It contains the proceedings of the panels organised in December 2004: Alok Nandi was invited in the one exploring “new design territories”, set up by François Jégou. […]
I am getting back to projects related to cinema, and specifically Indian cinema: maha cinema, or great cinema ! The one beyond and behind Bollywood (very à la mode in Paris nowadays) - the wood hiding the magic trees of many filmmakers.
May 2nd, 1921, was the birth day of Satyajit Ray: in 1991, I […]