Shaleen Wadhwana: Art + Technology

This lecture will reflect on two distinct moments in the speaker’s curatorial practice where technology was and is a tool in breaking barriers across territories for public engagement with arts, heritage and culture. One, when a 3D map of an exhibition curated in Delhi, of Indian and Pakistani origin artists, was used as a teaching tool to expand the notion of ‘ownership’ of history. Second, a global collaboration of technologists and designers to create Augmented Reality filters for a guerilla tour about looted artefacts in a well known museum. Both experiences were moments where information disseminated through technology, and, using technology allowed for space of advocacy of complicated intangible histories through tangible objects. The lecture is a crystallisation of these learnings which the advantage of retrospect and reflection and a possible way-forward playbook on how these learnings can actionalise advocacy and change through the public, if circumstances and intent align.