(WHAT IS) THE WHITE MATTER?
For the past year, we have been working feverishly behind the scenes on our new film (What is) the White Matter? The film combines into a 50-minute package everything we hold dear at Breach Candy Group: creative use ...
INTERGENERATIONAL JUKEBOX
BCG has been giving a bit of our expertise to a community arts project in Wood Green, London. The project - titled Intergenerational Jukebox - brought together professional artists, actors, youngsters and retired people to perform and create ...
RESEARCH/TECHNOLOGY: The Internet of Nature?
Our latest project looks at the different ways we can use emerging digital technology to help understand the environmental changes taking place today especially in rural Asia and Africa. That is, if proper ecological management and knowledge ...
BOOK: Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change
We are publishing a book chapter that sketches out the kind of work we are doing in a slightly more academic setting. The book Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change is published by Routledge and its fancy description at ...
DIGITAL ART: Sounds Like Graffiti
For the past six months Matti and Surpreet have been providing some BCG expertise (as the digital artist & the technology poet) to an innovative UK-based community art project in ...
DIGITAL ART: the uncanny valley
Whenever I get time away from the more classical research- or development-oriented work, it is good to keep up with the latest developments in ...
DIGITAL ART: Apocalypse tourism
During the 2009 winter protest in London - Gaza, G8 - I wanted to push the boundaries of digital photography one step ...
EXPERIMENTS: the electronic palette (PROCESSING)
Every time I get back to my amateurish coding and learning the potential of Processing, I am always surprised and fascinated how just a few lines of even bad code provide complex and occasionally pleasing results. And this is even before I have gone properly into more ...
RESEARCH/EXPERIMENTS: AML (aesthetics mark-up language)
So in our never-ending quest for the Idea, we have been recently throwing around some ideas around AI, aesthetics and creativity. To understand this particularly strange one, however, I probably will need to provide a few words of background to the wider project that we are interested in. I ...
RESEARCH: emerging digital cultures in asia and africa
I was a Teaching Fellow in Digital Cultures at SOAS (University of London) from 2007-2010. A part of my tasks was to design a practical-theoretical course that would look ...
PHOTOGRAPHY: The ‘-dividual’ city
I just returned from Bombay where I was doing a photo series (or should we call this pixelography nowadays?) of this madcap city. The aim ...
RESEARCH/TECHNOLOGY: Newsverse
One of the older projects that we worked with in 2007-2008 was the prototype for a citizen journalism platform called Newsverse aimed at emerging economies especially in India and Africa. While the platform/development is not active anymore ...
FILM: Philosophy of Dogs
Completed in the end of 2006, Elephantasma was an experimental documentary that looked at the Indian economic growth from a series of unorthdox ...