Serendipity Arts Festival | Counting Panaji’s historic buildings

Serendipity Arts Festival | Counting Panaji’s historic buildings

This year’s Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) was significant in showing people who came from outside the State — ‘the outsiders’ — what Panaji is, in its best parts. The multi-disciplinary festival, at 14 locations, across a 5-kilometre area, brought together 1,800 visual and performing artists and artisans from across India and some from abroad, to […]

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Serendipity Arts Festival 2024 | Warming up to AI in Panjim

Serendipity Arts Festival 2024 | Warming up to AI in Panjim

AI generated art in Deranged Life Walking into the AI Minilab at the just-concluded Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa, I was armed with prompts I was dying to ask ChatGPT. The first one: for the chatbot to create a piece of art from its imagination. Very reassuringly, the AI replied that it has no imagination […]

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Artist Benitha Perciyal’s series of wooden books is on display at Serendipity Arts Festival

Artist Benitha Perciyal’s series of wooden books is on display at Serendipity Arts Festival

From Xenophora on display at the Serendipity Arts Festival | Photo Credit: Special arrangement K Benitha Perciyal is in the process of creating a living, breathing library. Only, these are books that one cannot read. The Chennai-based artist is carving books out of discarded Burma teak. She has a collection of over 700 of them, […]

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