1. An Exploration Of Multiple Media Narratives
In Digital Video Art Installations In The
Indian Cultural Context
P Gaman (Doctoral Research Scholar)
&
Dr. Uma Vangal (Professor)

2. Backdrop & Objectives
 Digital convergence & multiple narratives
 Representation of body space and time
 Rereading & recreating spatiality and
temporality of epic texts in current Indian
cultural context
 Spectatorship and audience engagement
 Digital immersive & interactive technologies
 Digital video art as a convergent media art with
film, video, performance, panelology, narratalog
y and immersive technologies

3. Schematic Of Project – ‘Darthiputri’- A Rereading
Of The Women Characters In The Ramayana

4. Methodology
 Cultural studies – contextualising texts through artistic mediated
multiple narrative approaches
 Uses and gratification – cultural immersion using the performative
arts, panelology, digital videography and immersive technologies
to reach out to young Indian audiences
 Ethnography/text/context/taste – epic text and its relevance and
acceptance leading to discourse
 Reception analysis – immersive interactive digital experience
 Feminist studies – to reread the women characters and generate
informed discourse on the feminine perspectives
 Proxemis and kinesics – as the study of spatiality and temporality
in multiple narratives

5. Expected Outcomes
 Audience reception of cultural texts
enhanced through multiple media formats
and multiple narratives
 Rereading and recreating cultural texts to
reach out to a digital generation
 A new visual idiom to emerge