Imagined Media Futures

EyeMyth Media Arts Festival

The Imagined Media Futures podcast series features leading Australian and Indian creative entrepreneurs exploring innovative and sustainable collaborations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The series explores the connections and ideas developed at the 2019 edition of the EyeMyth Media Arts festival in Mumbai. Tune in, as Tejas Nair, cultural entrepreneur & co-curator of EyeMyth takes a deep dive with our guests into media futures including how they have adapted their businesses, built cross-cultural collaborative solutions, and put in place strategies for effective audience engagement.

Episodes

  1. 09/27/2021

    Bilateral Architectures for Artistic Production with Dr Pippa Dickson & Avinash Kumar

    New and experimental technologies seek to resolve the challenges in global collaborations in the arts sector. Pippa and Avinash explore avenues to facilitate new cultural relations between Australia and India focusing on promoting peer-to-peer collaborations with technology as a tool. Dr Pippa Dickson is the Director of Asialink Arts and is committed to facilitating true partnership and cooperation between Australia and Asia within the arts and creative industry. She is Director of the National Association for Visual Artists and Co-Chair of the National Craft Initiative. Pippa has also founded Design Island for Arts Tasmania and is the founding CEO of the Glenorchy Art & Sculpture Park. https://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/arts Avinash is a design strategist, researcher and artist-performer. He is also the co-founder of three of India’s creative endeavours; Quicksand (an innovation consulting firm), BLOT! (an audio-visual collective) and UnBox Festival (an interdisciplinary arts platform). He is the curator of EyeMyth Media Arts Festival and creator of Antariksha Sanchar, a transmedia IP that offers a 3D video game and opera performances to users. Link: https://quicksand.co.in/ The purpose of the series is to provide valuable resources for the arts communities in both countries to use to transition through the pandemic and beyond. Supported by the Australian Consulate-General, Mumbai & Asialink Arts.

    Bilateral Architectures for Artistic Production with Dr Pippa Dickson & Avinash Kumar
  2. 09/27/2021

    Equalising Voices & The Search for Ethics with Mikaela Jade & Shreya Nagarajan

    There is a growing need for artistic practices and organisations to be reimagined as more diverse and inclusive. Mikaela and Shreya discuss opportunities to democratise the arts and amplify the voices of Indigenous communities and marginalised peoples. Mikaela Jade founded award-winning Indigital, Australia’s first Indigenous Edu-tech company. Indigital specialises in technology development and digital skills training for augmented and mixed realities, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the internet of things and geospatial technologies. Her mission is to close the digital divide by providing a meaningful pathway for Indigenous people to develop technological skills and digitise traditional knowledge and culture. https://indigital.net.au/ Shreya Nagarajan Singh founded SNS Arts Development Consultancy, an internationally qualified arts development consultancy that aims to make the arts more accessible to audiences and to provide avenues for appropriate recognition and financial support to practitioners. SNS is run for artists and by artists and provides a wide range of services including fundraising, strategic planning, revenue generation and event curation. https://www.shreyanagarajansingh.com/ The purpose of the series is to provide valuable resources for the arts communities in both countries to use to transition through the pandemic and beyond. Supported by the Australian Consulate-General, Mumbai & Asialink Arts.

    Equalising Voices & The Search for Ethics with Mikaela Jade & Shreya Nagarajan
  3. 09/27/2021

    Collaborative Online Artistic Production with David Carberry & Tejas Nair

    The practice of technologically augmented art brings new opportunities as well as challenges for creative producers and their audiences. Tejas and David talk about artistic practices in the new normal & discuss the future of cross-border digital collaborations. David Carberry’s practice encompasses the creation, production, and presentation of contemporary performing arts. From circus to dance, theatre to live music, his interest lies at the intersection between accessibility and ingenuity. He was instrumental in establishing CIRCA, an acclaimed international performing arts organization, and co-founded Company 2. He is also a Creative Producer at Shock Therapy Productions and The Sideshow HUB. https://www.davidcarberry.org/ Tejas Nair is a new media practitioner, curator, and cultural entrepreneur who has built successful media brands, community-led projects, and festivals within the world of immersive technology and music. Under the stage name Spryk, he has built installations, audio-visual performances, and digital experiences. Tejas has also built a record label (Skip-A-Beat) and studio practice (Press Play Studio). http://www.spryk.in/ https://www.pressplay.studio/ The purpose of the series is to provide valuable resources for the arts communities in both countries to use to transition through the pandemic and beyond. Supported by the Australian Consulate-General, Mumbai & Asialink Arts.

    Collaborative Online Artistic Production with David Carberry & Tejas Nair

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The Imagined Media Futures podcast series features leading Australian and Indian creative entrepreneurs exploring innovative and sustainable collaborations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The series explores the connections and ideas developed at the 2019 edition of the EyeMyth Media Arts festival in Mumbai. Tune in, as Tejas Nair, cultural entrepreneur & co-curator of EyeMyth takes a deep dive with our guests into media futures including how they have adapted their businesses, built cross-cultural collaborative solutions, and put in place strategies for effective audience engagement.