{"id":788,"date":"2006-03-30T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T00:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=788"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:40:12","slug":"shuddhabrata-sengupta-and-the-raqs-media-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2006\/03\/30\/shuddhabrata-sengupta-and-the-raqs-media-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuddhabrata Sengupta and the Raqs Media Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span><strong>Thursday, March 30, 2006, 6pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1612\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/sengupta450.jpg\" alt=\"sengupta450\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span><em>Shuddhabrata Sengupta in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span><span>Shuddhabrata Sengupta is a media-maker, writer, and one of the co-founders of the Raqs Media Collective, a group of artists working in new and old media, installations, video, sound, photography and text based in Delhi, India.<span> <\/span>Founded in 1991, their hybridized practice is both rooted in the geography of Delhi and the nomadism of the web. They are also the co-founders of the Sarai New Media Lab which serves as their studio, hosts workshops, and maintains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarai.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.sarai.net<\/a>, an extensive web site containing essays, discussion groups, and interactive projects investigating the role of media in our increasingly cosmopolitan world.<span> <\/span>Raqs has exhibited around the globe, including the 50th Venice Biennale and Documenta 11.<span> <\/span>Sengupta will give a multi-media presentation on his work with Raqs and Sarai, including <em>Media City, Publics and Practices in the History of the Present, <\/em><\/span><span>and <em>Garage<\/em><\/span><span>, among others.<\/span> 1991-2005, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, India, ca. 60 min, various formats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span> [FRAY]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tonight\u2019s show is an instance of [FRAY], a distributed series of screenings, discussions, student initiated projects and a conference. [FRAY] traces intersecting hyperthreads of time, screen and code-based experimental New Media art hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\u2019s Department of Film, Video, and New Media.<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 30, 2006, 6pm Shuddhabrata Sengupta in person! Shuddhabrata Sengupta is a media-maker, writer, and one of the co-founders of the Raqs Media Collective, a group of artists working in new and old media, installations, video, sound, photography and text based in Delhi, India. Founded in 1991, their hybridized practice is both rooted in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2006\/03\/30\/shuddhabrata-sengupta-and-the-raqs-media-collective\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Shuddhabrata Sengupta and the Raqs Media Collective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[83,423,441,468],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-11","tag-asia","tag-monographic-shows","tag-new-media","tag-performance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8802,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/8802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}