is an ongoing public-access media archival project, centered around video as a medium of documentation, collection, argumentation and exchange. Its objective is to consolidate, densely annotate, and make available online several scattered collections of video material, to begin with in Mumbai and Bangalore. Pad.ma is a collaboration between oil21.org, CAMP, Majlis, Point of View, the Alternative Law Forum, and other future contributors.
Image: CAMP studio (handmade book scanner, optical scanner, four computers, NVR recorder, joystick, microphones, salad box, water, biscuits, coffee on the folding table. Bookshelves made of paper rolls, books, routers, awards, air conditioning and fan above. Inventory of electronics + museum of Jurassic technology below the tables, flooring replaced from wear. Some persons on a break, a person taking the picture.) (Reverse angle image is here)
Nam June Paik Art Center Prize
An exhibition of the "contextually rich, environment-shifting media works of CAMP".
The video art programme of the 2021 Asian Art Biennial
Presented by Pad.ma
Pad.ma has a sister project.
Indiancine.ma is an annotated online archive of Indian film.
Inlaks Fine Art Awardees 2025
6 week residency with CAMP
You are invited to the Open Day of Inlaks 2025 Fine Art Awardees 6-week residency with CAMP.
From cinematic to real to game violence, to the virtualities of Dalal Street, via intertidal zones in the dark, to a frozen sculpture of a building's data. NIGHT CRASH COLD BLOOD shows the artists’ new projects developed while in residency in Mumbai.
In depth discussion of the works, 4 pm to 6 pm.
Open Day, 6 pm to 10 pm.
Bombay Tilts Down
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The 30th Anniversary of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Ashok S was on the selection committee for the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) Arts Platforms Grant, 2025. Awarded projects included puppetry, DJ spaces, and AI and law.
A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.
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CAMP Study Day, brings together leading scholars of media, law, cinema, and visual art on the occasion CAMP's exhibition Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP. With Erika Balsom, Lawrence Liang, Debashree Mukherjee, Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Laura U. Marks.
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Light Industry
7:00 pm
The first and last sections from a 6-hour-long video essay, presented live by CAMP.
Priyank Gothwal presents a series of 8 works as a physical exhibition and accompanying lecture-performance, on the experiences and abstractions of time.
A conversation about toxicity, waste and equality at the closing of Mohit Shelare's exhibition at Chemould, with Yogesh, Zeenat, Priyank and Ashok.
"film objects"
A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.
