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Scholar, media maker, performer, mentor and conceptualist. Inaugural Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Multimodal cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist with regional expertise in Turkey and the Northwest Amazon in Colombia. His research interests include theories of listening, media archives, contemporary healing arts, mimesis, and modalities of inscription. His work dialogues with contemporary debates about decoloniality, visual and sound/music cultures, and indigenous analytics of the person, space, magic, and technology. His multimodal work has been published in academic journals; exhibited at film festivals, art galleries, and academic conferences internationally; and distributed among local communities in indigenous languages.
He served as board member of the Society for Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), and he is an active member of the Center for Research and Collaboration in the Indigenous Americas (CRACIA), the Substantial Motion Research Network (SMRN), and an alumnus of the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA at Penn). Apart from his academic career, he is a performer of Turkish Sufi Music, facilitator of a music therapy protocol, and pursues Arabic calligraphy and Ney reed-flute training under Turkish instructors.
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Bhavana Pradyumna is an accomplished Carnatic Musician and a Bharata Natyam Dancer. She is the founder President of Carnatic Conservatory of Paris, France (CCParis), an internationally recognised organisation promoting Indian Music and Dance. Having a Masters degree in Carnatic Music from the University of Madras, she has worked as an artist affiliate and Director for Indian music Ensemble at the Emory University Atlanta, USA from 2011 to 2014. She has introduced for the very first time Indian Carnatic music Veena and odissi dance at Jean weiner Conservatoire, Bobigny. The 9 year course provides Diploma from the Ministry of Culture, Government of France.
She works closely with the Indian Embassy in France and UNESCO through the permanent Delegation of India organising conferences and programs.
She is the author of revolutionary learning book for children called Children's Carnatic released globally on Amazon, Google in 3 International languages English, Spanish, French and Indian languages Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. Her project Bhagavad-Gita doodles is recognized by Embassies of India in France, Finland and Estonia releasing the videos weekly in their social media channels.
She has rendered many concerts in the last 18 years in India, USA, Europe and Africa being an All India Radio artist, Bhavana also provides Vocal support to Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi and Mohiniyattam Arangetrams and programs.
Bhavana has worked to design courses and Credit certification programs with institutions like SVYASA and Sivananda to promote Indian music. www.bhavanapradyumna.net
Few of her other publications are Approach to Music: The Indian way volume 1 and 2 in French and English, Raga & Yoga
She is awarded the Youth icon by the SIWAA and global achievers award 2020, Bharath Gaurav puraskar 2021
Scholar, media maker, performer, mentor and conceptualist. Inaugural Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Multimodal cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist with regional expertise in Turkey and the Northwest Amazon in Colombia. His research interests include theories of listening, media archives, contemporary healing arts, mimesis, and modalities of inscription. His work dialogues with contemporary debates about decoloniality, visual and sound/music cultures, and indigenous analytics of the person, space, magic, and technology. His multimodal work has been published in academic journals; exhibited at film festivals, art galleries, and academic conferences internationally; and distributed among local communities in indigenous languages.
He served as board member of the Society for Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), and he is an active member of the Center for Research and Collaboration in the Indigenous Americas (CRACIA), the Substantial Motion Research Network (SMRN), and an alumnus of the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA at Penn). Apart from his academic career, he is a performer of Turkish Sufi Music, facilitator of a music therapy protocol, and pursues Arabic calligraphy and Ney reed-flute training under Turkish instructors.