Art is Knowledge, Knowledge is Wealth
Is art recognized as a part of human knowledge base? The last hundred years have witnessed an explosion in art production and education. We are now at a stage where there exists a substantial knowledge base within archives, museums, etc. How effectively have we managed this knowledge base to utilize it as a source of capital for our social/spiritual life? How can this knowledge base contribute to retaining the cultural/artistic value of the art object? Neville Tuli, Founder-Chairman of Osian’s, will speak about the problems with the modes of support for the arts in today’s socio-political systems.

Date 18 July 2006, Tuesday
Time 11:30am – 12:00pm
Venue Siri Fort Auditorium 4


Cinema as Culture and Education
Why is it that the study of art is considered less fundamental than scientific and historical study? And even within the arts, does cinema’s relative ‘youth’ and our perception of it as a popular medium cloud its value as a source of knowledge? Can we envisage a more consolidated role for film in education?

Date 18 July 2006, Tuesday
Time 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Venue Siri Fort Auditorium 4


Teaching the 'Seventh Art'
If cinema is widely recognised as the Seventh Art, why is it so often looked at in isolation? As a collaborative art form, cinema combines theatre, painting, photography, architecture, music, movement and literature. Is this inter-disciplinary engagement to be taken for granted? How can film schools and media institutes encourage their students towards a practice that understands the various components in cinema as derivative from the other arts, and yet considers it as an individual, distinctive form?

Date 19 July 2006, Wednesday
Time 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Venue Siri Fort Auditorium 4