Techspressionist Salon 88 - Education // November 7, 2024

Techspressionist Salon 88 – Education // November 7, 2024

Moderated by Malavika Mandal Andrew

About the Moderator

Malavika Mandal Andrew is an artist whose practice includes mixed media, digital collage and digital art, tapestry and other fibre art. She received her BFA and MFA from Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India.

During her time at Kala Bhavana she was awarded the National Scholarship by the Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development and did her training under Riten Mozumdar. In 2012 the artist was awarded “The Pollock Krasner Foundation” grant and in 2023 she received Senior Fellowship from CCRT Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

In 2021, Malavika became the first Indian artist to be listed in the Techspressionist Artist Index.

In August 2021, she founded Collaborative Art Space, an international art organization that conducts collaborative art projects.

She has participated in numerous solo & group, national & international shows. Some of them are “Hello Brooklyn!” // Techspressionism 2024 at Kingsborough Art Museum, “MoCA Lights Night Visions” at Patchogue USA by Patchogue Arts Council, IDMAA at Laird-Norton Gallery at Winona State University, “TECHSPRESSIONISM – Digital & Beyond” at Southampton Arts Center, “Busan International Art Fair at Korea, India Art Fair at New Delhi.

About this Salon

Collaborative Art Space presents the work generated from Dreams, the fourth edition of an Indian inter-school Techspressionist/digital collaborative art project.

Two artists between ages 14 – 18, from different schools/junior colleges/colleges worked together to create artworks on the theme of “dreams”.

These young artists will join us on Zoom from India to share and discuss their work:

Anaya Shah – Gopi birla memorial school -Mumbai, India
Anya Chaturvedi – Delhi Public School – Nagpur, India
Adrita Purkait – Future Campus School -Kolkata, India
Aisha Maloo – Modern High School International – Kolkata, India
Dhruv Garg – Sarala Birla Academy – Bangalore, India
Kedar Shah – Zydus School for Excellence Godhavi – Ahmedabad, India
Riaan Bahri – Modern High School International – Kolkata, India
Vivaan Khosla – Calcutta International School – Kolkata

WHAT IS A TECHSPRESSIONIST SALON?

Techspressionist Salons are a time and place in cyberspace where artists gather once a month to hang out, share their work and discuss matters relating to art, philosophy, and technology.

These meetups were conceived as a modern counterpart to the Surrealist salons of the 1920’s, in which artists could meet informally to socialize and discuss ideas. Techspressionism is a 100% volunteer-based international artist community.

The First Techspressionist Salon was held on September 1, 2020, and included artists Colin Goldberg, Patrick Lichty, Steve Miller and Oz Van Rosen, as well as art historian Helen Harrison, Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, the former home and studio of painters Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. During this first Salon session, the working definition of Techspressionism was decided upon by the participants as: “An artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience.”

Artist Davonte Bradley (aka DAVO) proposed the idea of recording the Salons and publishing them on the Techspressionism YouTube Channel, which was implemented starting with Salon #8.

Salons are moderated by a rotating panel of artist volunteers. After the recording ends, artists are welcome to hang out for the afterparty (aka advisory board meeting), in which the topic for the next Salon is decided upon, and other community-related ideas are discussed.