3×4 was exhibited at Web We Want Festival from 28 to 31 May 2015 at the Southbank Centre, London and Visual Arts Gallery at India Habitat Centre, Delhi. Its inclusion was a direct impact of the success of the installation at Alchemy Festival 2015 in collaboration with the Southbank Centre and India Habitat Centre, and UnBox Festival 2014 with Khoj International Artist's Association located in Khirkee Extension an unauthorised district in Delhi. Locating 3×4 at India Habitat Centre extended the reach of the installation beyond Khirkee Extension drawing into the dialogue large public audiences from other Delhi districts about the extraordinary potential of and challenges of the world wide web.
In the context of informal settlements in megacities of the global south, the 3x4 installation provided many public participants with their first encounter of a networked platform. Through this unique engagement public audiences acquire new knowledge through their lived experiences that present a possible vision of a future city metaspace. These first time encounters and experiences can be used by the participants to influence future projects, define methods for using this new knowledge to inform themselves, who in turn tell their family, friends and colleagues of this new experience, motivating others to engage in similar experiences in future projects. The intention of this legacy is to inform a critical public community that impact on future network protocols appropriate to the needs and requirements of a future cities metaspace. At the same time it seeks to identify its relevance in the global north. The dialogue between Delhi and London is a critical pathway in connecting communities and contributing to dialogue on informality in the global south and its symbiotic relation to future cities in the global north.
2015
Artwork
3×4 at Web We Want Festival May 2015
http://www.3x4m.org
28 to 31 May 2015
10.00am-4.00pm BST / 2.30pm-8.30pm IST
Southbank Centre, London
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Southbank Centre - Web We Want Festival - a festival investigating the past 25 years of the Web and its possible future.
http://webwewant.southbankcentre.co.uk
Audiences in Delhi and London experience, perform and play in a shared digital space.
Two identical installations measuring 3 x 4 metres are draped in chroma-key fabric that creates a live mixed-reality video connection. This allows the audiences at Southbank Centre and at an arts venue in Delhi, to coexist and interact with one another in the same room. The installation connects the two cities, live, six hours per day.
3×4 at Web We Want Festival May 2015