Swagato Chakravorty

Swagato Chakravorty is a PhD student in the History of Art and Film and Media Studies (combined) at Yale University. He works at the interstices of screen practices, screen architectures, and embodied spectatorial experience. Related interests include aesthetics and the philosophy of art, histories of film theory, visuality in the long 19th century, and contemporary media theory. For 2015–2016, he will be a Mellon Fellow in the Department of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 2June 12, 2017<June 12, 2017

Experimental Media & the City: Part II

Swagato Chakravorty

In this introduction to the second series of posts from the roundtable on experimental media in the city, Swagato Chakravorty contends that the intermediations between city and self have created a crisis of representation.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 2June 1, 2017<June 1, 2017

Experimental Media and The City: A Roundtable Introduction

Swagato Chakravorty

In this reflection on and preview of the Roundtable on Experimental Media and the City, Swagato Chakravorty encourages the contributors think through what might be at stake in experimental media's relationship to the city and the built environment.

no. 2, Polished Panels, Revise and Extend, vol. 1March 7, 2016<January 17, 2017

Spaces of Spectatorship: Architectures of the Projected Image

Swagato Chakravorty

Moving-image installations and media architecture have recently given renewed currency to established notions of dispositif, apparatus, and spectatorship. These concepts have allowed for new inquiries into the relationships among screens, viewers, and space in the urban context. In this Polished Panel, the participants use close analyses of peripheral practices of projection to illuminate the centrality of architecture to spectatorial experience.