Cross Currents | Play as Practice #1 | Gamestorming Narratives | A conversation with Dhruv Jani, Gayatri Kodikal, Vishal K Dar and Avinash Kumar | January 27, 2021 | 06:00 PM

India Foundation for the Arts
invites you to
Gamestorming Narratives
A conversation with Dhruv Jani, Gayatri Kodikal, Vishal K Dar (discussant) and Avinash Kumar (moderator)

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | 06:00 PM | Zoom

organised as part of
Cross Currents: A Series of Curated Conversations

(The Theme for January 2021 – March 2021: Play as Practice)

Click here to register for the session on zoom. 

We are delighted to invite you to the very first session organised as part of Cross Currents, which is A Series of Curated Conversations on specific themes with a diverse group of artists, scholars, experts, and policymakers. The theme for January 2021 to March 2021 is Play as Practice.

The first session titled Gamestorming Narratives with Dhruv Jani, Gayatri Kodikal, Vishal K Dar (discussant), and Avinash Kumar (moderator) will engage with gaming as a form of artistic expression. It will focus on how stories can be told through games – a stimulating, diverse, and unusual medium. The conversation will also take a closer look at the many possibilities that multi-player games throw open to imagine fantasy worlds and investigate the past as well as speculate the future, in the context of the IFA supported projects by Dhruv and Gayatri.  

Dhruv Jani is a game designer. He received a grant from IFA, under the Arts Practice programme to create an interactive fiction piece pushing the boundaries of both literary fiction and interactive games in 2016. Read more about the project here.

This project was made possible with support from Technicolor India Private Limited.

Gayatri Kodikal is a moving image artist. She received a grant from IFA, under the Arts Practice programme to develop a game-art environment, based on the speculations around the remains of Queen Ketevan of Georgia in Goa in 2015. Using archival materials, the game questions the legitimacy of proof in the reading of history. Read more about the project here.

This project was made possible with support from Tata Steel Limited.

Vishal K Dar is an artist, based in Gurgaon. His site-specific projects create iridescent overlays upon diverse kinds of public spaces.  The spaces are often abandoned and disused sites, and sometimes well-known landmarks. Dar uses analogue elements taken from the architecture and merges them with evanescent material, such as light and water, after which he programmes the overlay with diverse digital insertions and hacks.

Avinash Kumar is a design strategist, researcher and artist, and co-founder of Quicksand Design and UnBox Festival. He is also the creative director of Antariksha Sanchar - a transmedia heritage project which includes an adventure video game and dance opera.

Click here to register for the session on zoom.  The session will also be streamed live on our facebook page - no prior registration required to join the live streaming.     

Read more about Cross Currents: A Series of Curated Conversations here and the theme for January 2021 – March 2021 titled Play as Practice here.