Name: KSHETRIMAYUM DIDESHWOR SINGH

Guide: PROF. RAJA MOHANTY

Course: VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Credits: IIT ALUMNI

ENHANCING VISUAL CULTURE IN OPEN SPACE : PUBLIC SCULPTURE FOR IIT BOMBAY

The project aims at understanding visual culture and my own understanding to History of art and to understand how artists contribute to visual culture of a public space. The idea is to rethink about art and its role in our time and the possibility of enhancing visual culture in the form of public art. The intention is a curatorial vision for Public Art at IIT Bombay and finally come out with public sculpture for the free space of IIT Bombay.

Public art is a part of our public history, part of our evolving culture and our collective memory. It reflects and reveals our society and adds meaning to our cities or a place. As artists respond to our times, they reflect their inner vision to the outside world, and they create a chronicle of our public experience. In our IIT campus we need such thinks, Art in our communities that is accessible allows people to experience it every day. Public Art becomes a reflection of its place and time. It is seen as one of the most important markers in all human settlements. Art inspires and activates everyone’s imagination.

ZERO
The concept of zero sculpture start from technology and comes to the nature. Among all the numbers in numeral system zero is the most valuable number. Here I am Highlighting the value of ZERO. From simple counting to advanced mathematics, zero has played a pivotal role enabling the world to progress. Everything in our environment, zero is still a powerful number. Companies a great efforts to lift measures like revenue, profit, and number of customers further away from zero. On the other side zero is a target when looking for opportunities to reduce costs, inefficiency, and competition. So zero lies between plus and minus. When I look around I can see two things like male- female, good-bad, big-small, rich-poor, first-last, beautiful-ugly etc but one common thing between this two think. If we understand the value of zero then only we can see.