oct. 2009 : zero workshop #01 in London
See you in October 2009 in London and in December 2009 in Tokyo for the zero workshops !
Spread the zero. Share the world.
Performance and Workshop, Chelsea College of Art and Design, for the University of the Arts London’s research centre in Transnational Art, Identity and Nation: TrAIN. See you on Oct. 7th, 2009 !
Zero was conceived in South Asia in antiquity. In the Ancient South Asian language of Sanskrit zero is written as shunya. Shunya also means emptiness. Shunyata from shunya is a Buddhist concept which signifies void or nothingness or emptiness: an emptiness that has presence. Shunya is important also in the religion of Brahmanism.
In ancient South Asia researchers were integrating mathematical, scientific ideas with philosophic ones and with artistic exploration. For example it is said that in certain Indian temples you would find at their centre, their inner sanctum, not ornate religious statues or paintings, but an empty space with a book only: and the book was a book of mathematics. The mathematical attempt to understand the universe, the philosophic attempt to grasp it, and the artistic conception of it, went hand in hand.
Of course today the conception of zero is of vital importance for the existence of our current Information Age, the Digital Age, which essentially begins at the point of generation of zero in ancient South Asia.
Through books, performances, installations and other interventions, ajaykumar and alok b. nandi interrogate zero: from its historical and philosophical origins to it critical importance in our contemporary being.
october 2009 in London - december 2009 in Tokyo
Through various exposition-exhibition processes alok b. nandi and ajaykumar investigate ways to un-think and re-think technology: re-visiting the way we think about art and technology and technological practice today and in future. For more information about the various zero projects and to take part in our next workshop: contact us on zero AT fluxtopia.net
december 2008: publication announcement
Announcing the publications of a limited edition hard copy and infinite edition online version of zero
an art work in book form by ajaykumar and alok b. nandi
A Goldsmiths University of London Research Project and fluxtopia media art.
july 2008 at ISEA 2008 Singapore
The interventions at ISEA 2008 in Singapore were part of the artistic process by ajaykumar and alok b. nandi
zero
_ the infinite edition virtual book
is available for download
ajaykumar version
alok b. nandi version
_ a special limited edition hard copy is available for order. Contact us at zero AT fluxtopia.net
download the press release
These projects are conceived and proposed by media authors and artists alok b. nandi and ajaykumar
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Through books, performances, installations and other interventions, ajaykumar and alok b. nandi interrogate zero: from its historical and philosophical origins to it critical importance in our contemporary being. To be involved and be part of the zero network, do get in touch via zero AT fluxtopia.net
credits
In gratitude to
John Akayzar,
Kristina Bill,
Kiun Kim,
Aline Uma Nandi,
Catherine Schoemann,
Toshio Watanabe.