Multimedia experiments in representing the city, with themes such as Benaras / Ganga / Shiva / Death The Crossing Project presents a vision of Indian creativity and interaction design combining traditional and modern technology!

"The invention of the GUI couple of decades ago revolutionized the way in which people interacted with computing media. The GUI created the desktop computer paradigm, and in turn, the present form a learning system: the learner interacts with a digital document presented on a workstation through the hardware forms of television monitor, keyboard and mice, and the software form of button pushing, windows and point and click.

With time, this form stabilized, and, increases in speed improved the expressive capabilities of digital documents. Digital documents began as text-centric documents, and later transformed from text to picture documents, and ultimately from pictures to multimedia. The improvements in document forms were mirrored in richer presentations of content, i.e., in the ability of documents to capture and disseminate knowledge.

However as impressive as the present form of the display technology and the speeds of information transfer are, important aspects relating to the physical dimensions of Man have been ignored by the modern document. The workstation disembodied the learner. Presentations become screen centric. The workstation becomes the focus of people's offices and homes. While the presentations on the screens are animated and rich, the learner's body is typically static. Interpretations become reduced to button pushing, ignoring the expressive potential of the human hands. The rich space of the sense of touch is reduced to mouse clicks. In summary, the experience with the document is static."

Also of interest:
Forum on Indian Representations, EVAM.
Publication requests research papers, essays, articles, interviews, notes, reviews, and other publishable material that will "enhance the study or understanding of India both as an actual place and as an accumulation of ideas"

Representing Banaras, Living, Dying and Transformation: The Crossing Project by Madhu Khanna
The Crossing Project presents a pioneering effort of a group of creative individuals to unite the finest and the noblest in Indian tradition with the 'chilling' discoveries of computer technology. The emphasis of the project is to create a unique idiom of Indian modernity where none of the streams of knowledge, technology or tradition, are at variance but are integrated in a harmonious semblance. It is in this consciously innovated fusion that Banaras gets re-presented in a unique way.