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PRESS
EVENT / KOLKATA
Jadavpur
University Kolkata - JU, Main Campus 10.01.2004 |
 video
still - Barbara Doser © parallel media
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the frame of the press event Hofstetter Kurt (concept and media artist,
Director of the Sunpendulum project) handed over one of the Facing Time-Eye artworks to Prof. Rajatkumar Bandyopadhyay, Registrar of the Jadavpur University Kolkata |
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the occasion of the installation of the Time-Eye of Kolkata at the Jadavpur
University Kolkata the Registrar's Office of the University organized a
press event. To provide comprehensive information on the Sunpendulum project,
the Sunpendulum video (by Barbara Doser/Hofstetter Kurt) accompanied by
a scientific overview of the current research status of the Sunpendulum
software (by Dr. Katja Bühler) were presented.
The press event was held in English and took approximately 1, 5 hours. Following the press conference the University gave a reception additionally supported by the Hotel Imperial Vienna |
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Opening statement by JU Registrar Rajatkumar Bandyopadhyay; he personally moderated the press event. |
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Mr. Debashish Biswas, Vice President of Manjushree INFOTECH attended the press conference as the official representative of Austria from the Austrian Consulate in Kolkata |
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The introductory statement by Prof. Hiranmay Saha, Head of JU Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department and Sunpendulum Coordinator at the JU |
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Hofstetter Kurt presenting his international media art project Sunpendulum - thanking everyone involved in the realisation of the Sunpendulum Time-Eye of Kolkata |
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Dr. Katja Bühler, representative of the Vienna University of Technology (VUT), highlighting the role of VUT's Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, which has developed the Sunpendulum software |
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Prof. Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay, Head of the JU Department of Film Studies reflecting on the Sunpendulum realisation, which touches on multidisciplinary Installation Art, Media Arts, Architecture, Science and Technology working together. |
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Prof. Subrata Pal, JU Dean of Faculty of Science, focussing on the collaborative aspects with universities around the earth initiated by the international Sunpendulum project |
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Prof. Biswajit Chatterjee, JU Dean of Faculty of the Arts, pointing out the crossing of the boundaries between Arts and Science in the interdisciplinary Sunpendulum project in its world wide dimension |
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Before the press event media representatives taking some pictures of the Sunpendulum Time-Eye of Kolkata and Hofstetter Kurt conducting some detailed interviews |
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media
present:
2 national
TV stations
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Time-Eye of Kolkata is a media art installation by Hofstetter Kurt realized
in close cooperation with the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms
/ Vienna University of Technology and the Jadavpur University Kolkata,
JU.
supported
by
For detailed press information please contact: o
b j e c t h o f s t e t t e r
Hofstetter Kurt Langegasse
42/8c
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