CYBERIA | New Media Playground
Pune, India - 2019.12

Date : 13th – 15th December 2019

ARTISTS

Abhinav Mishra | Hyderabad, India
Amay Kataria | Delhi, India/ New York, USA
Algorave India 
Anil Gupte 
Bambaiyya VR | Mumbai, India
Cai | Pune, India
Gene Kogan | New York, USA
Goji | Bangalore, India
Harshit Agarwal | Bangalore, India
Hillfish 
Isha Pundir | Delhi, India
India First Robotics 
Jaydeep Khare 
Juneui Ren Song | Seoul, South Korea
Jyoti Narayan 
Khoparzi 
Meenakshi Dravid | Pune, India
Miradoor Collective | London, UK
Oll Korrect | Pune, India
Priya Shakti | New York, USA
Provides NG | London, UK/ Hong Kong, China
Ria Rajan | Pune, India
Rishiraj Kulkarni 
Sandrine Deummier | Toulouse, France
Shivani Dholepatil | Pune, India
Substance_d
Sylvan Dieckmann 
Tig3rbab
Vinay Shekhar | Bangalore, India
Viviane El Kmati | Los Angeles, USA
Yara Feghali | Los Angeles, USA

Come play with new technologies in an immersive show full of unforgettable experiences!

 In Cyberia, the computer serves as a metaphor as much as a tool; to hack through one system to another and yet another is to discover the secret rooms and passageways where no one has ever traveled before. The web of interconnected computer networks provides the ultimate electronic neural extension for the growing mind. To reckon with this technological frontier of human consciousness means to reevaluate the very nature of information, creativity, property and human relations.

 The cyberian paradigm finds its way to our unsuspecting minds through new kinds of arts and entertainment that rely less on structure and linear progression than on textural experience and moment-to-moment awareness.    

-Douglas Rushkoff, Cyberia (1994)

 Whether in science, entertainment industry, technology or arts, it will soon become impossible to imagine life without digital and it is effectively changing many areas of our everyday lives. The real and the virtual world are increasingly entering into a dialogue and starting to merge with each other.  Do we see this digital technology as an antagonist or an alter ego? Do we see our future in a dystopian or utopian setting? Cyberia is the perfect projection surface upon which to consider the images of human beings and worldview that are widespread in this Digital and New Media Age today.

“New media art is, broadly, art that is made using electronic media technology and that displays any or all of the three behaviours of interactivity, connectivity, and computability in any combination.”

— Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook, Rethinking Curating. Art after New Media (2010)

 Curated by Anokhi Shah & TIFA Working Studios