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Biography: Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and
Shuddhabrata Sengupta

www.raqsmediacollective.net


Selected Projects

Forthcoming projects include The
Impostor in the Waiting Room,
Bose/Pacia Modern, New York, USA,
Autumn 2004

2003 5 Pieces of Evidence, The
Structure of Survival, Venice Biennale,
Venice, Italy

A/S/L, Generali Foundation Gallery,
Vienna, Austria

Temporary Autonomous Sarai (in
collaboration with Atelier Bow Wow,
Tokyo), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

Utopia Station, Venice Biennale, Venice,
Italy

2002 Co-Ordinates of Everyday life -
28.28N/77.15E::2001/2002
, Documenta
11, Kassel, Germany; Roomade Office
for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium

Location", Itau Cultural Centre, Sao
Paulo, Brazil

OPUS, a web-based system designed
for the sharing of creativity and print
projects for Utopia Station, Soda, Data
Browser
and the Sarai Readers

Raqs has exhibited at the 50th Venice
Biennale, Documenta 11 (Kassel),
Palais de Beaux Arts (Brussels),
Emoção Artificial (São Paulo), Generali
Foundation Gallery (Vienna), Ars Electronica
(Linz), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and
the Roomade Office for Contemporary Art
(Brussels)


Essays by RAQS Media Collective

http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/text:
html

'Call Centre Calling: Technology,
Network and Location', in Sarai Reader
03: Shaping Technologies
, 2003

http://www.sarai.net/journal/03
pdf/177_183_raqsmediac.pdf

'A Concise Lexicon of/for the Digital
Commons', in Documenta 11, Platform
5: Exhibition Catalogue
, Ostfildern: Hatje
Cantz, 2002; World Information.Org: The
Network Society of Control Conference
Reader
, Amsterdam, December 2002;
Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies,
2003

'The First Information Report', in Karin
Gludovatz and Clemens Krummel (eds),
Texte Zur Kunst, September 2003

'New Maps & Old Territories: A Dialogue
between Yagnavalkya & Gargi in
Cyberia', in Sarai Reader 01: The Public
Domain
, 2001

http://www.sarai.net/journal/pdf/152-158%
20(body).pdf

Shuddhabrata Sengupta, 'The Future of
Art', Anthology-of-Art.net website,
curated by Jochen Gerz

http://www.anthology-of-
art.net/generatio/03/sengu.html

'The Signature of the Apocalypse: The
Politics of Surveillance in Contemporary
India', text by Shuddhabrata Sengupta,
images by Monica Narula, Mute
magazine 26 (Summer/Autumn 2003),
www.metamute.com

'The Street is the Carrier and the Sign',
in Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of
Everyday Life
2002

http://www.sarai.net/journal/02PDF/
05streetsign/street.pdf

'Value and its Other in Electronic
Culture: Slave Ships and Pirate
Galleons', DIVE CD-Rom and text
collection compiled for Armin Medosch
(ed.), Kingdom of Piracy: An Introduction
to Free Software and Free Networks
,
Liverpool: FACT, 2003

Essays in Marina Vishmidt and Melanie
Gilligan (eds), X Notes on Practice,
Immaterial Labour: Work, Research &
Art
, London/New York: Black Dog
Publishing, forthcoming. ISBN
1901033848


Selected Interviews

http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/
conversations.html

How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a
Global Age
, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, USA, February 2003

http://latitudes.walkerart.org/texts/texts.
wac?id=295&textid=295&pageno=1

Interview of Raqs by Laurent Rollin (for
the Tour du Monde du Web, Centre
Pompidou)
http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/
conversations3.html

Translocations: An Online Conversation
between Steve Dietz, Gunalan
Nadarajan, Yukiko Shikata and Raqs
Media Collective


Selected Essays and Review Articles

for extracts, see
http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/comm
ents.html
Nancy Adajania, 'Net Culture: Between
the Fast Lane and the Slow', Art India
http://www.artindia.co.in/leadessay.php
extract)
Ranjit Hoskote, 'Global Art: Of
Catastrophes. Redemptive Gestures',
The Hindu, 24 November 2002
http://www.hind
uonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2002/ll/24/stori
es/2002112400420100.htm
Geert Lovink, 'New Media Culture in
India: A Visit to Sarai, The New Media
Initiative', Fine Art Forum, 16.12
(December 2002)
http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/
Backissues/Vol_16/faf_vl6_nl2/reviews/
lovink.html
Anna Munster, 'Travelling at the Speed of
Life: World Time and Global Politics in
New Media', posted on Fibreculture, 16
December 2002
http://www.fibrecu lture.org
Source:Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, International 04 Festival catalogue
Date of source:2004

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