The milestone 10th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2016) was played out between the conferencing facilities of the Indian Council for Social Science Research - North East Regional Centre (ICSSR-Nerc), and the Multi-Use Convention Centre, both within the beautifully forested campus of North-Eastern Hill University (Nehu), at the edge of Shillong, capital city of the magical North East Indian state of Meghalaya, through February 26-27-28, 2016 (a Friday-Saturday-Sunday in springtime).

To know more about this series of incidents, please browse through the pages of earlier iterations, via the links to the left of this text.

MAIN :: IMAGES :: REPORT

:::: Images :::: ~.~ The 2 robots that Abhinav Mishra and Vinay Hasija created, go for an amble Avner Pariat, Bacchus Barua, and, Damang Syngkon, plugging into Pure Data The sensor-array from their robot that Akash Sharma, Thomas Jacob, and, Shivangi Gupta redeployed as a musical instrument Akash Sharma sending some Max/Msp fliers right over some of our heads Bacchus Barua brought up the little question of who on earth was he, and what on earth was he doing in CeC 2016 to begin with Ban Casper Mawlong managed to squeeze his presentation in between pulling some key strings together for everybody Benjamin Davy gently performed among the audience before the 'formal' performances got going Day-3, while Lionel Dentan pretended not to know him In fact, Benjamin gently performed before anything at all else got going Day-3 Brian Wallang shares a bit of the magic he's been doing with the kids of his KC Secondary School Bettina Wenzel performing her incredible pocket concert Chintan Kalra let everbody in on some of the rudiments of what it takes to become a bit of a rock legend in India And then, he did a bit of a demo with his performance too, driving all of the live audio, as well as two live video streams, solo At some times along the way, he actually even seemed to concentrate on what he was doing Eugenia Gortcahkova never needed to do anythng more than just share some of her work, and her creative philosophy, and, just be her own mrvllou self Evenings saw evening things happen One evening even became a bit electric Ghostape's rig A view of the conference room Hemant Sreekumar in performance Julia Robert-Pares and Rudi Cole performing their improvised shadow-dance Julia Robert-Pares and Rudi Cole demonstrate a move from one of their choreographed works Julia Robert-Pares and Rudi Cole get that look in their eyes Jobin Vijayan speaking of the Arduino shields and extensions he's been developing The robot-recorder musical instrument made by Jobin Vijayan Karan Gurung presenting an overview of some of his local socio-politial observations, and creative interventions Krisgatha Achmad setting himself  up to rock Day-3 Brian Wallang leads the choir of his KC Secondary School through the first of their two very funky performances in CeC 2016 The faces say it all. Rosalind Malik paints live to lionel dentan's Audio performance, with Shazeb  Shaikh shooting and processing live video of her at it Lionel dentan playing his rats nest Lionel Dentan's rats nest Mathias Durand and bettina wenzel off-hours Mathias Durand in performance Mathias Durand sharing secrets Simon Underwood and Poulomi Desai also sharing secrets Brian Wallang's choir kids gobbling up every secret they can, during setup day-3 Poulomi Desai in performance Dy-3 Paul Schneiter speaks of his work as one of the most exciting studio-recording engineers working in India today That flip thing Poulomu and Simon made to fill the place of a missing savaged sitar Ragin Raj ATK, Abhinav Mishra, and, Vinay Hasija, caught in between banging heads all together on robotic locomotion Sabine Himmelsbach letting everybody in on the bright side of the House of Electronic Arts Basel Sabine Himmelsbach letting everybody in on the dark side of the House of Electronic Arts Basel CeC curator Shankar Barua caught abscoding during program hours once again. This time with Suresh Nair Shazeb Shaikh speaking of his Blackout Festival, that did Basel 2015 shazeb shaikh helping to hang up a flex pint of images by shnkar barua,.. just because we had had it around. In fact there was another print of image by shazeb himself too. Sheel Raj begins a process of taking everybody through her Moving Breath paradigm, before getting everybody to actually even dance, after which, she ran Julia Robert-pares, Rudi Cole and, Surjit Nongmeikapam, through choreographed and also extemporized dance Sureh Nair got himself a shot togther with Sheela Raj too There's always shoezies or footsies when there's ladies about, innit? Simon Underwood speaks of some of the hardware he slings together for som of his pefrormne work with Poulomi Desai Suresh Nair's live painting, accompanying live audio from Akash sharma, Thomas Jacob, and, Bettina Wenzel, was eventually finessed and  finished by Shivangi Gupta Surjit Nogmeikapam flips balloons during setup Day-3 Surjit Nogmeikapam Flips through his presentation a day or two earlier The exhibition of Suresh Nair's drawings Day-3 Viny Hasija, in the course of his presentation with Abhinav Mishra, caught neither stroking nor tugging his beard, for a  change ~.~

Organizers
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The Academy of Electronic Arts (also known as The Academy of Experimental Arts) is a Public Benefit Trust that serves as a learning, sharing, mentoring, networking, benchmarking, empowering and broadly inclusive, but non-educational, institution.
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Incident Director, and Managing Trustee of The AeA: Shankar Barua
Curator for Short-Creative-Videoworks: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

local assistance:
Damang Syngkon, Avner Pariat, Joydeep Das, Julius Basaiawmoit, Shazeb Shaikh, Bacchus Barua, Chintan Kalra
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