Aparajita Bhasin

Aparajita trained as an art historian at the University of York, UK and currently works as a senior researcher with Quicksand, a multidisciplinary design and innovation consultancy. Quicksand is currently working on two projects dealing with the heritage of Goa – The Goa Heritage Project which is using cutting edge, highly immersive digital mediums such as Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality to tell the story of Goan heritage through mobile applications, games and other interactive projects; and creating a mobile application that will explore Goan history for the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa. This fellowship falls well within the scope of what Aparajita and her team are already working on.

For this fellowship, Aparajita will partner with Quicksand to digitally document and create content for select artefacts at the three museums. The challenge for her will be to create an educational, yet engaging experience for viewers of all age groups. She will divide her fellowship period into 5 phases that will include digital archiving, co-creation of the museum exhibits, augmented reality workshops, video documentation and an exhibition of the content created in the workshops. The exhibition will reflect the various aspects and phases of the project and share it with a larger audience. This exhibition will communicate the real impact that the artefacts from the museums have had on the creative imagination of young minds, while at the same time reinstating the value in historical objects and the need to understand and fully experience their contexts. The juxtaposition of objects from the museums’ collection along with a display of the 3D models and the creative use of these through story-telling, will display the symbiotic nature in which a traditional museum space and new media techniques complement each other for the creation of unique experiences.

The Fellow’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be process images, audio recordings, images of the exhibition, the apps and publication if any.

This fellowship is made possible with support from Tata Trusts.