CfA: Mediating Modernity in the 21st Century,
24-25 January 2013, Bangalore, India

“Mediating Modernity in the 21st Century:
Rethinking and Remembering”

… is a festival organised by Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology (Bangalore, India) and School of Arts and Communication (Malmö University, Sweden):

This festival brings together artists, academics, activists and practitioners to consider how modernity is mediated in the 21st century via a trans-disciplinary framework. For much of the 20th century, modernity was associated with industrialization and capitalism, with the triumph of rationality and individualism until the 1980s, when modernity was (prematurely) declared dead by post modernist philosophers. In the 21st century however, there is an increasing understanding that what we experience today is not post-modernity but hyper-modernity on a global scale. …

Read the full call here!

Deadline for abstracts (paper/talk/film/performance) is 20 November 2012. Further details in the full call.