Prayas Abhinav lives in Bangalore (India) and is an artist in residence at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. He works with game cultures, installations and urban geography. Prayas was selected by the transmediale (partner of Coded Cultures).
outResourcing
Artist in Residence, Project
transmediale has been invited to curate a residency in the context of the theme "City as Interface" as part of the Coded Cultures festival in September 2011 in Vienna. For this residency we suggest the artist Prayas Abhinav, a Bangalore based researcher who has been working in areas like urbanism / temporary architecture / critical social practice, physical computing, gaming and sound. The choice of the artist for the residency is connected to a transmediale collaboration project carried out with CEMA - Center for Experimental Media Arts at Prayas Abhinav's home institution, Srishti-School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore. This collaboration project explores the pervasive phenomenon of labor outsourcing from a critical constructive point of view and takes place within the Germany and India years 2011-2012.
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Within the residency at Coded Cultures, Prayas will develop projects linking the threads of the outResourcing project and his personal research into gaming cultures, physical computing, community and commons-based exchange. He will also be working to start conversational links between the maker and develop groups in Berlin and Bangalore.
About outResourcing, 2011-2012, transmediale and Sristhi School of Art, Design and Technology Outsourcing is often either simply embraced as an economical necessity of the global economy or criticized as such on the basis of the uneven distribution of wealth, power and/or labor that it entails. This project will take the phenomenon of outsourcing and approach it as a site for the production of new hybrid subjectivities and economies. Foremost it aims at actively engaging this pervasive, yet constantly changing feature of network culture and society from an art and design angle, as something which can be twisted and shifted into both a tool for reflection and action on a local/global scale. This involves turning the outsourced tasks into a resource generated (and produced) throughout the specific local infrastructures, urban developments and interfaces and asking how to reverse the process of outsourcing, finding ways of positively exploiting the situation into a two-way exchange.
The Festival will present current positions in the disciplines of New Media Art and two Artists-in-Residence. On 23.9.2011, discussions on international positions in Media Arts and New Media Cultures will be organized in Raum D (hall D) of the MQ in cooperation with the Media Lab Prado, the Amber Festival and the Enter Festival.
MuseumsQuartier is one of the world's largest complexes for modern art and culture. The 400-meter-long Baroque front wing of the MQ has been converted to a passage. There, Coded Cultures presents among exhibitions from Artists-In-Residence the so called "european media arts cluster". On 23th of September openings and presentations will take place, in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts, eSeL.at, among others.
Today 30.9.2011: 19h
Urania Wien
GAMES CULTURE CIRCLE
Urania Wien
GAMES CULTURE CIRCLE
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