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Caroline
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Bangalore 19 December 2008: At the opening of the Doors of Perception Conference in Bangalore in 2003 a remarkable trailer was welcoming the guests: light music was accompanying an image of a
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Abhishek Hazra
Art, Design & Social Science
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Abhishek Hazra is a visual artist based in Bangalore. His work explores the intersections between technology and culture through the narrative device of a 'visual fable'.
Abhishek
Witnessing raises questions of truth and trust, Hazra immediately suggests when the interview starts. The moment one says, ‘I witnessed it’, you are kind of inscribing your body in the process.
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If an embodied presence does not allow taking full responsibility of the act of presence then it destabilizes and upsets the entire value of presence. Where as if a certain presence, even if it is
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In contemporary context the question of trust is crucial, since distance and disembodiment are an integral and accepted factor of communication. In distance and disembodied communication one has to
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Where before place was the beholder of trust, now it is time, Hazra agrees. Temporization has become very critical, which again brings up the question of trust. Credibility, and in a way reality, is
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Today human being’s experience evolves in a complex combination of biological and social systems, in which the algorithmic system interferes all the time as well. It is very difficult to isolate
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In the experience of human beings the different realities merge. Data images of one’s body influence also how the body feels. Hazra discusses the example of a database of sleep patterns. This
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Working in a local and global context Hazra argues the value of deconstructing one’s local identity. To define ‘indian-ness’ for example is like a trap. One gets locked up in the prison house
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Engagement is an intensity of dialogue, sustained interaction, granularity, not flipping through, no keyword analysis, being interested in the comma, the semicolon and the dot and where the page
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When looking at systems, engagement brings the act of witnessing to another level, Hazra continues. The act of engagement is a process to be aware and to externalize your self, to create a third
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When designing in a local/global context time becomes very crucial. When having to design a very specific thing like an online paying bill system, this is something, which is possible to be done at a
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Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness
Hereunder the transcript in text.
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