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Though I have been inspired and changed personally by this process of using artistic medium as a vessel for internal discovery, I sometimes wonder if this freedom, while promoting individual growth, misses the opportunity to encourage something else. I wonder if there is a need for a discussion of the place of my work in a broader social meaning and context. Is theoretical study the only refuge for these considerations? I have become increasingly convinced that much more is at stake in a video or a painting than my own personal expression. And while my drug documentary was admittedly...
LEARNING THROUGH THE MEDIUM...
...experiences have shown that this intuitive and seductive method can also be very successful. In my first painting class, my teacher employed this method, asking me to loosen my grip on the brush so that the medium could help to clarify my ideas. As the son of first generation Indian immigrants unsure of their place in American culture, art-making in this liberated manner provided me with powerful tools for self-discovery. I made experimental videos on interracial adoption, compared the Mogul miniature tradition with Rothko and was compelled to carry my insights abroad to spend a summer in India...
...Management and Audit Services (RMAS)—the agency entrusted with monitoring contractors for compliance to contracts—randomly selected three contractors in the service sectors for the second annual audit for compliance with the parity. According to RMAS guidelines, three contractors—one small, one medium and one large—are chosen from among the several service sectors across the University...
...chandelier blinking poetry in Morse code speaks about language, translation and the poignancy of obsolete technology. Likewise, the recording of slide-rule engravings presents us with the ghostly sound of forty year old writing—paradoxically highlighting language’s status as both a visual and sonic medium and questioning its extension through time. And the radio console is half celebratory monument and half nostalgic relic—both a commemoration of the leading role MIT radio played in exploring revolutionary music in the 1960s and 1970s and a reminder that thirty or forty years ago the internet...