[artinfo] Shuddhabrata Sengupta THIS THURS 2006.03.30!

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THIS THURS 2006.03.30 @ 6 PM:

SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA AND THE RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE
[FRAY] + Conversations at the Edge
The Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street
CHI IL .US
$ 9 USD

On Thursday, March 9 at 6:00 p.m., Conversations at the Edge will  
host SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA AND THE RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE -- a  
presentation and screening by internationally-recognized New Media  
artist and organizer Shuddhabrata Sengupta.

Shuddhabrata Sengupta in person!
Shuddhabrata Sengupta and the Raqs Media Collective
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, 1991-2005, India, 60 min.

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 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 www.sarai.net, an  
extensive web site containing essays, discussion groups, and  
interactive projects investigating the role of media in our  
increasingly cosmopolitan world. Raqs has exhibited around the globe,  
including the 50th Venice Biennale and Documenta 11. Sengupta will  
give a multi-media presentation on his work with Raqs and Sarai,  
including MEDIA CITY, PUBLICS AND PRACTICES IN THE HISTORY OF THE  
PRESENT, and GARAGE, among others. (www.raqsmediacollective.net)

[FRAY]

Tonight's show is an instance of [FRAY], a distributed series of  
screenings, discussions, student initiated projects and a conference.  
[FARY] traces intersecting hyperthreads of time, screen and code- 
based experimental New Media art hosted by the School of the Art  
Institute of Chicago's Department of Film, Video, and New Media.

* Upcoming [FRAY] Discussion in the Department of Film, Video, and  
New Media:
WEDS 2006.04.05 @ 4:30 PM New Media in Mexico City, a panel  
discussion with Mexico City based curators and organizers Eusebio  
Bañuelos, Arcángel Constantini and Mario de Vega

* Upcoming [FRAY] screening at Conversations at the Edge:
Thursday 2006.05.04 @ 6:00 PM CALCULATIONS: Pioneers of Computer  
Animation

* Upcoming [FRAY] Conference in the Department of Film, Video, and  
New Media:
Saturday, 2006.05.13 @ 2:00 - 6:00 PM Discussions with Annette  
Barbier (UNREAL-ESTATES and Interactive Arts and Media Department  
Columbia College), Ryan Griffis (The Temporary Travel Office,  
YOUgenics and The School of Art & Design University of Illinois at  
Champaign Urbana), Mark Hansen (Professor in English Language &  
Literature, Cinema & Media Studies; University of Chicago), Lynn  
Marie Kirby (California College of the Arts), PILOT TV, Rob Ray  
(DEADTECH and dorkbot Chicago), Lincoln Schatz (OPEN-NODE and The  
Upgrade! Chicago) and Daniel Tucker (AREA Chicago).

* Links:
Shuddhabrata Sengupta and the Raqs Media Collective:
http://www.raqsmediacollective.net
http://www.sarai.net
[FRAY]: http://fvnm.info/fray
Conversations at the Edge: http://fvnm.info/cate.html