Center of Excellence

• Envisioned as a futuristic, trans-disciplinary research hub in School of Liberal Arts
• Its goal is to explore the intersections emerging from Art and Digital technologies

Concept & Scope

Arts

• Visual Arts ( Painting, Sculpture, Craft, Photography, Cinema, Installations and others)
• Performing Arts ( Theatre, Dance, Music, Martial Arts and others)
• Performance Arts
  • Art with Body, space, sound and light
    • Example – Action Painting

Digital Immersion

• Merger of the physical world with the digital world of data.
• Digitalisation of Arts
• IOT for continuous Real-time data of live arts
• Use of technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and extended reality (XR), all of which create an altered or enhanced environment.
• Digital Gaming

Intersections

• Digital Collective
  • Creating Digital Twin of Arts
  • Ownership of Digital Twins as Heritage
• New form of presentation of Arts
  • Exploiting AR,VR, MR
  • Digital Gaming
• Newer Art Forms
  • Integration of Physical and Digital World

• Analytics of Art
  • Newer Critical Insights
  • Digital Tools for Comparative Art
• Digital Pedagogy for Art Instruction
• Content development for newer art forms
  • Exploring Comics, Graphics, Animation
• Social history and sociological analysis of the newer art forms
• Blend of sub-cultural art forms through digital interventions

Digital Art

• Born Digital Art
  • Interactive Art
  • Installation Art using Digital Technology
• Aesthetics of Digital Art
• Digital Aesthetics

AI & Art

Multi-disciplinary endeavour that is located at the intersection of the fields of AI, Arts, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy and Ethics

• To better understand human creativity and to formulate an algorithmic perspective on creative behavior in humans.
• Perception of Art: Cognitive Studies
• To construct AI system to enhance human creativity
• AI system for generating human-level creativity.

Operational Modalities

Members of CoE

• Faculty of School
  • Dedicated Faculty for CoE
• Affiliate Faculty Members – from other Schools & Department
• Associates
  • Artists, Scientists, Developers, Composers (outside IITJ)
• iHub-Drishti - Innovation Partner

Academic Activities

• Elective Courses (iiTJ and Across IITs)
• Certificate Programmes
  • Meeting Skill Demands for AVGC Sector – Art & Digital Techniques
• Instructional Design for Digital Pedagogy of Arts
• MSc Programme

Research & Development

• Targeted PhD Programme
• Research Agenda
  • Aligned with Scope
    • Art, Technology, Liberal Arts
• Collaborative Creative Arts

Innovation

• Presentation Platform Design & Platform Use
  • Popularization and Monetization
• Hi-fidelity Digital Representation of Art
• NFT of Arts; Securing Ownership
• Technology Innovation for E-commerce
• Metaverse of Arts
• Gaming with Indian Ethos

Members

Advisors and Mentors

Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty
Prof Ashutosh Sharma

IITJ Faculty