Body, Network, Archive and Mediated Life: Approaching Contemporary Art Practices

2.30 to 4.30 pm | 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th December, 2025 | ONLINE & PRESENCIAL by Debkamal Ganguly

Overview
This series of sessions examines how the body, the network, and the archive operate as interlinked terrains in contemporary mediated experience. The sessions explore the body as a site of transmission, inscription, and transformation, shaped by gestures, environments, interfaces, and sensory extensions. The archive is approached as a living, dynamic field rather than a static repository: artifact, memory, trace, absence and residue continually circulate through evolving media forms. At the same time, the network emerges as a decisive condition of the present. Human perception is increasingly entangled with algorithmic systems, immersive environments, augmented layers, and flows of data that shape attention, relationality, imagination and codified experiential terrains. Across these axes, the sessions trace how embodied experience interacts with mediated environments: how the body navigates layered realities, how archives migrate into technological systems, and how networks contour perception and agency. Together, they reveal a shifting landscape where lived experience, technological mediation, and cultural memory continuously inform one another, generating new possibilities for understanding artistic, sensorial, and cognitive practices in the contemporary world.

FACULTY PROFILE:
An alumnus from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata, DebKamal Ganguly is an independent filmmaker, researcher and teacher of cinematic arts. He has taught for 08 years (2012-2020) and designed curriculum in Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune,  in the departments of Film Editing, Film Direction and Screen Studies; and as a guest faculty in National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, Flame University, Pune, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar. Ganguly’s works have been published under special curator-ship from Lowave, Paris; his video art featured in the exhibition ‘Indian Highway’ and showcased in galleries of various cities of Europe and Asia. His films done in the capacity of editor, script-writer and sound designer have been shown in competitive sections of various international festivals and received recognition, including ‘Tiger Award for Shorts’ in Rotterdam (IFFR 2007). Ganguly has presented papers in various international and national seminars and conferences on various themes related to cinema, Deleuze studies, visual art, interfaces of art practices, translation studies, collective memory, Bengal studies, Media studies, pedagogy of cinema, film editing as a discipline, immersive sound etc including CARA-CILECT conference in Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg (2018), CILECT conference in VGIK, Moscow (2019), Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (2019). He is a participant of an international project for artistic research involving BRICS countries, being the coordinator for India (2018).

BASELINE CONTRIBUTION TO CONFIRM PARTICIPATION:
₹ 1200 – For Indian Participants
€ 15 – For International Participants
(We invite you to contribute over and above the baseline – voluntarily, if you wish)

CERTIFICATES:
Digital certificates of participation will be issued.

QUERIES:
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