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I am happy to share the opening of Padimai Art and Tech Studio, Singapore and its first exhibition, by my dear friend Olafur Eliasson. The inaugural show features Your View Matters (2022/2025), a VR artwork, the exhibition will be open to the public until 31 March 2026.

The need for a physical space—one that exists in public, where art can be encountered through presence—had been a pressing need for me. While digital spaces allow for movement and access, it is the physical space that enables mediation, engagement, and shared experiences. This is where conversations unfold, where materials, bodies, and ideas meet.

And therefore the founding of Padimai Art and Tech Studio. ‘Padimai’ is a Tamil word that, in a philosophical sense, speaks of becoming—of manifesting an idea. The name reflects the intention for the gallery: a space where fluid ideas become physical experiences, where art becomes tangible, visible, and open to audiences.

The saint, the song, and the social revolution by Abhirami Girija Sriram (@quote_hanger) published in the current issue of @frontline_india, gives a nuanced description of Anbenum Peruveli. Pleased to share the article with everyone!

frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-cultu…

Robert Alice’s (@robertalice_21) ON NFTS is an effort in compiling the early evolution of digital art as NFTs, it is a comprehensive and complete document tracing and locating the significance of NFTs within the history of art.

The @TASCHEN publication is a milestone in locating an index of notable NFTs that have spoken to the marking of digital art in time.

I am happy to be one of the many contributors to this discourse.

taschen.com/en/collection/…

Roja Muthiah Research Library (#rmrlchennai) and @onemai_fdn are inaugurating the RMRL TAMIL FONT STUDIO on 28th Feb 2024 for Tamil type design, calligraphy, and typography. Tamil Font Studio will focus on developing fonts/ typefaces scientifically and setting gold standards in Tamil font making. We will be producing a range of fonts both from the archives and freshly created ones.

We are organising an International Seminar on the 29th Feb 2024. Experts in the field of typography from Malaysia, Sri Lanka and India will present their technical know-how.

I am particularly excited about the possibilities working with a digitally native object like fonts offer from a blockchain perspective, including reimagining the management, documentation and archiving of the font making process and the distribution and accessibility of the fonts themselves.

This international seminar will address current needs, issues in Tamil fonts faced by type designers and educators. This includes presentations by invited keynote speakers, eminent academicians, industry professionals, and research scholars.