Niranjan Rajah is a pioneer of new media art in Southeast Asia. He was co-curater of the Malaysian National Art Gallery's 'First Electronic Art Show' and co-founder of 'E-Art ASEAN Online', the first online portal for regional electronic art. His 'F...More
Niranjan Rajah is a pioneer of new media art in Southeast Asia. He was co-curater of the Malaysian National Art Gallery's 'First Electronic Art Show' and co-founder of 'E-Art ASEAN Online', the first online portal for regional electronic art. His 'Failure of Marcel Duchamp/ Japanese Fetish Even!' which was presented at ISEA in 1996 is recognized as the first Internet artwork in the region. Niranjan's contribution to Southeast Asian new media art was recognized in a two-man retrospective titled 'Relocations' at ISEA Singapore in 2008. Niranjan's current photo-conceptual/ performative Koboi Project has been exhibited at the National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; The Singapore Biennale;The Burning Man Festival, Nevada; Courtyard Hiroo, Tokyo; the inaugural Kuala Lumpur Biennale and the alternative Bangkok Biennale. Niranjan has been visiting faculty at the Cyberarts/ Cyberculture Research Initiative (CCRI), National University of Singapore; Design Media Arts, UCLA, Ignite Programme, TCS, TATA Group of Companies and the International Art Gallery, Ismaili Jubliee Arts Festival, Lisbon. Niranjan was a member of the Media Arts Advisory Committee for the Canada Council for the Artsand a member of the Board of Directors of the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary ARt (Center A). He was also a mamber of the advissory board of teh BANFF New Media Institute (BNMI) and of the Board of Directors of the Inter Society for Electronic Art (ISEA).
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