Archive, Repertoire or Warehouse? Producers of Indian Popular Images as Stakeholders in a Virtual Database

This paper is a short meditation on the nature and scope of an archive of Indian popular images, particularly the images that have been the subject of much of my own research so far: the mass-produced prints known as "calendar art" or "bazaar art". Written in the context of a workshop aiming to conceptualize a scholarly archive of South Asian popular art, it explores what kinds of events might be recorded or traced by such an archive, and what kinds of events it might produce

View to the U: An eye on UTM research

This is an audio recording from the podcast series "View to the U: An eye on UTM research".Kajri Jain is an Associate Professor of Indian Visual Culture and Contemporary Art in the Department of Visual Studies at U of T Mississauga and in the Department of Art at UofT St. George, with a cross-appointment at the Institute for Cinema Studies and in the Centre for South Asian Studies. She is also interested in how the values associated with images arise not only from what you see in the visual representation, but also from the production, circulation and deployments of images as material objects. She initially trained as a graphic designer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, but has been on faculty at UofT since 2007.On this episode of the podcast we are talking art, art history, and the importance of Art and imagination in research, but also in today’s world with Professor Kajri Jain from UTM’s Department of Visual Studies. On this episode of the podcast we are talking art, art history, and the importance of Art and imagination in research, but also in today’s world with Professor Kajri Jain from UTM’s Department of Visual Studies