Fluxtopia

Alok Nandi coined the term fluxtopia in 1998, as part of his research in media art,
outlining the importance of naming as part of the art & design process,
providing the label both as a metaphor and as a synthesis.
Other terms coined include a.o. fluxographies, mahanet, uzoopia, architempo, transfiction, extrafiction.

Key words: flux, topos, utopia, space, place, locus, flow, continuum, …

 

Works

fluxmedia gives some of the media art installations and interventions.

___| In situ Screens at “LLN : 1968-73”, idea of a city (2007, La Cambre Archi Brussels & Louvain la Neuve)
___| Jules Verne: savoir rêver, savoirs rêvés (2005-2006, Mundaneum, Mons; 2006-2007, Brussels & Liège)
___| utHOPEia2005 (2005, Vienna)
___| SEP (2005, Centre Pompidou in Beaubourg Paris, Doors of Perception #8 in Delhi, with Manzini-Jégou)
___| universutopia (2004-2005)
___| salineroyale.com (2002-2010)
___| Scénarios des Possibles (2004-2005, Pass, Frameries Belgium)
___| Ego.Geo.Graphies (2004-2005) | alterne
___| fluxtopia.com (2001-2002)
___| cuisine.design (2003-2004)
___| ex-studio ms:q. (1998-2002)
___| transfiction (1999-2003) | panoptiques (2003, ICHIM Paris) | hyperadventures (2002) | utHOPEia (2001) | art.live
___| utHOPEia (2001, Salzburg)
___| alterface real-time immersion (2002 & 2000, Imagina Monaco)
___| urbicande-la neuve (1999)
___| sambre.glénat flash-clip (2003, with Yslaire)
___| flammarion.com & co (2000-2002)
___| casterman.com (1998-2002) + web mise-en-scène of sites on graphic novel universes [bandes dessinées] by Pratt (Corto Maltese), Moebius, Tardi, Geluck, Manara, …
___| urbicande.be (1995-2003, with Schuiten-Peeters), web mise-en-scène by A. Nandi, awarded by the 1997 Internet award of Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia, Paris
___| tokyo vignettes – kigeki no hoshi – Japan Foundation Fellow (1996)
___| State of Dogs (1994-1998, co-production of the feature documentary film by Brosens-Turmunkh)

 

fluxindia is related specifically to India.

___| m.a.a.d. : mix media and interactive installation (2006, lille)

___| india zindabad! : Ritwik Ghatak edito.intro + BNGL:1943 video installation (2005, brussels cinema nova)

___| jardins indiens @ salineroyale (2005, arc et senans)
___| calcutta:cinema (2003, nanterre) | mahanet@centrepompidou.beaubourg (2003, paris)
___| mahanet.com (1998- in_progress)
___| Les Voies de Tagore – songs + poems + texture + light (1993, Brussels, Chapelle des Brigittines)
___| Bengale, la maison et le monde (1992, Aix en Provence, Cité du Livre)
___| sr@70 – Satyajit Ray 70 ans (1991-93, Cannes Film Festival, Festival d’Automne Paris, London Film Festival, Nantes Festival des 3 Continents, Aix en Provence Cité du Livre, Brussels Maison de la Bellone & film museum Cinémathèque)
___| Satyajit Ray at 70 / 70 ans – a photobiography conceived/edited by Alok b. Nandi, photos by Nemai Ghosh, preface by Henri Cartier-Bresson [two versions: English and French], contributions by Kurosawa, Menuhin et al.

 

A partial list of publications ref. arts & sciences activities is on www.aloknandi.com