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.
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
Caillou Film Festival
A conversation prompted by CAMP's Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale.
SYDNEY OPERA
Filmed on location in February 2026 from a CCTV camera atop the White Bay Power Station
Gadigal / Waranne Country
Shaina and Ashok present at Body Public: Through a Performance Archive, a research symposium at the Kochi Biennale, 2026.
Shaina: 100 year project, performative media, emancipated spect-actors, publics at the heart of practice.
Ashok: Types of writing as forms of attention to artwork, as distinct from gaze, listening, experience in general, or data analysis.
Shaina joined artists Sheela Gowda, Rekha Rodwittya, Indrapramit Roy, Gigi Scaria and moderator Gayatri Sinha for a conversation inaugurating Intersections- an exhibition commemorating 50 years of the Inlaks Foundation at Arthshila, Delhi.
Marking 50 years of the Inlaks Foundation.
Shaina A went to study Film and Media arts under the Inlaks scholarship in 1999.
Show and tell with Sanjay Bhangar.
Saturday, 24th January, 7 pm to 9 pm, at CAMP.
Saturday, 6 to 8 pm.
A conversation with scholar Irina Aristarkhova and theorist/ curator Gunalan Nadarajan about their recent projects.
Country of the Sea as part of revolutionary remembrance / क्रांती स्मरण