Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
Using material from the Allen Forbes Collection, this exhibit traces the scientific process of observing, measuring, and describing that turned whales from monsters into mammals.
Monsters of the Deep: Between Imagination and Science | MIT Museum
We have included in the last section of the exhibition reproductions of a large drawing and a series of pages from a booklet produced by the architecture and media collective Ant Farm in the mid-1970's. What they depict is a radical and almost utopian project, the development of a floating research station for communication with dolphins. It's... See more
Article
The timeline seems among the most inescapable metaphors we have. And yet, in its modern form, with a single axis and a regular, measured distribution of dates, it is a relatively recent invention. Understood in this strict sense, the timeline is not even 250 years old. How this could be possible, what alternatives existed before, and what
... See moreMaria Popova • Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline
The themes of vegetality, entanglement, and symbiosis —emblems of postanthropocentric aesthetics and politics—run throughout the exhibition. Works by artists such as Arthur Boyd, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, and Regina de Miguel emphasize the agency of animal, microbial, and plant life and the interconnectedness of all beings. They explore how... See more
Terraphilia
We live with these realities because they make the rest of our lives feel manageable. But time did not have to be arranged that way. We have imagined time, at least in Western countries, as subservient to commerce, and attempted to export or forcibly impose that understanding worldwide.
Culture Study • The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
design fiction leaking into real life