Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Parthiv Shah: Art as Witness
Kaufman Room 160 at 12 noon
Reception to follow in the Rainbow Lounge
Center for Media and Alternative Communication's (CMAC) role has been to create an interface
between artists from different genres, to facilitate and to provide a platform for production, cultural
exchange of art and ideas, and dialogue in the visual and performing arts. A key objective of the
organization is conceptualizing and implementing specially designed productions mounted on
excellent technological skills. Over nearly a decade the organization has developed projects and
campaigns through different art practices such as new media design, performance, video, public and
community based art and dialogue, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production.
Parthiv Shah will be presenting works in the field of culture, design and media created at the CMAC.
Parthiv Shah is a Fulbright Scholar visiting UCLA from his home in New Delhi, India, where he
serves as the founder-director of the Centre for Media and Alternative Communication. Prof.
Shah is a photographer, filmmaker, and graphic designer. He has made several documentary films,
curated exhibitions, and has several photo-books to his credit, including books on street children
and transgenders in India. He has taught about photography and design in India and beyond,
including at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Growing up in a family of artists and through his own professional training, he brings an interesting intersection of art,
photography and design to his work.
Lately Prof. Shah has been particularly interested and engaged in working on the issue of
image perception and representation. His visual journeys have lead him into working with
communities which are finding a mainstream voice. Parthiv loves traveling, cooking food,
listening to music and flying kites.
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