Alok Nandi coined the term fluxtopia in 1998, as part of his research in media art,
outlining the importance of naming as part of the art & design process,
providing the label both as a metaphor and as a synthesis.
Other terms coined include a.o. fluxographies, mahanet, uzoopia, architempo, transfiction, extrafiction.

Key words: flux, topos, utopia, space, place, locus, flow, continuum, ...

Alok b. Nandi is active in cross-media design, concept, scenario, information architecture, articulating space and technology, mixing internet with different communication channels: in publishing, exhibitions and festivals.
Adviser to projects (R&D, EU), companies and institutions, with a focus on innovation and change. Professor/lecturer and speaker. Background combines engineering, management and cinema studies.


Work-in-progress
Architempo
mahanet.com

Contact
via the website

Works
fluxmedia gives some of the media art installations and interventions and fluxindia is related specifically to India.
A partial list of publications ref. arts & sciences activities is on Architempo



___| Jules Verne: savoir rêver, savoirs rêvés (2005-2006, Mundaneum, Mons; 2006-2007, Brussels & Liège)
___| utHOPEia2005 (2005, Vienna)
___| SEP (2005, Centre Pompidou in Beaubourg Paris, Doors of Perception #8 in Delhi, with Manzini-Jégou)
___| universutopia (2004-2005)
___| salineroyale.com (2002- in_progress)
___| Scénarios des Possibles (2004-2005, Pass, Frameries Belgium)
___| Ego.Geo.Graphies (2004-2005) | alterne
___| fluxtopia.com (2001-2002)
___| cuisine.design (2003-2004)
___| ex-studio ms:q. (1998-2002)
___| transfiction (1999-2003) | panoptiques (2003, ICHIM Paris) | hyperadventures (2002) | utHOPEia (2001) | art.live
___| utHOPEia (2001, Salzburg)
___| alterface real-time immersion (2002 & 2000, Imagina Monaco)
___| urbicande-la neuve (1999)
___| sambre.glénat flash-clip (2003, with Yslaire)
___| flammarion.com & co (2000-2002)
___| casterman.com (1998-2002) + web mise-en-scène of sites on graphic novel universes [bandes dessinées] by Pratt (Corto Maltese), Moebius, Tardi, Geluck, Manara, ...
___| urbicande.be (1995-2003, with Schuiten-Peeters), web mise-en-scène by A. Nandi, awarded by the 1997 Internet award of Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia, Paris
___| tokyo vignettes - kigeki no hoshi - Japan Foundation Fellow (1996)
___| State of Dogs (1994-1998, co-production of the feature documentary film by Brosens-Turmunkh)




___| m.a.a.d. : mix media and interactive installation (2006, lille)
___| india zindabad! : Ritwik Ghatak edito.intro + BNGL:1943 video installation (2005, brussels cinema nova)
___| jardins indiens @ salineroyale (2005, arc et senans)
___| calcutta:cinema (2003, nanterre) | mahanet@centrepompidou.beaubourg (2003, paris)
___| mahanet.com (1998- in_progress)
___| Les Voies de Tagore - songs + poems + texture + light (1993, Brussels, Chapelle des Brigittines)
___| Bengale, la maison et le monde (1992, Aix en Provence, Cité du Livre)
___| sr@70 - Satyajit Ray 70 ans (1991-93, Cannes Film Festival, Festival d'Automne Paris, London Film Festival, Nantes Festival des 3 Continents, Aix en Provence Cité du Livre, Brussels Maison de la Bellone & film museum Cinémathèque)
___| Satyajit Ray at 70 / 70 ans - a photobiography conceived/edited by Alok b. Nandi, photos by Nemai Ghosh, preface by Henri Cartier-Bresson [two versions: English and French], contributions by Kurosawa, Menuhin et al.


___| mix media art design archives 2001-2004

Alok b. Nandi, writer/director, designer
Internet (urbicande.be, casterman.com) and interactive installations (Univers interactifs, Saline royale 2001; utHOPEia, Salzburg 2001; Panoptiques, ICHIM03 Ecole du Louvre Paris; Scénarios des Possibles, Pass Mons 2004-05; Sustainable Everyday Project, with Manzini-Jégou in D-Design, Centre Pompidou Paris 2005) lead Alok Nandi into design [internet and exhibition design, environment concept, scenographies, web 2.0] and information architecture for museums, sciences centers, exhibitions spaces, publishers and emerging projects (Ego.Geo.Graphies, 2004-05 alterne; BNGL:1943, Cinema Nova Brussels 2005; Jules Verne: savoir rêver, savoirs rêvés, 2005-06, Mons Mundaneum; BOZAR India Festival; Africamuseum 2006, lille 3000).

Alok Nandi's writings appeared in publications about internet, new media, design, cinema and he regularly speaks in conferences (Interactive Frictions 1999, Los Angeles; DAC 1999, Georgia Tech Atlanta; DAC 2000, Bergen; CODE 2001, Cambridge; ArtSci 2002, New York; ARCO03 in Madrid; Beauty of Collaboration at Banff Canada; ECSITE 2003 Munich; x-med-k 2004 Brussels; Nouveaux Territoires du Design La Cambre 2004; FuturAnima 2005; ICHIM 2005 Paris; Le Fresnoy; transmediale 06 Berlin).

In 1990-93, while active in advertising, he conceived/edited "Satyajit Ray at 70" and a series of exhibitions at Cannes Film Festival, London Film Festival,... and has directed/produced "Les voies de Tagore", with the vocalist Sharmila Roy. With a Japan Foundation fellowship in 1996, he directed the video "Tokyo Vignettes". He has been awarded for urbicande.be in 1997 (Prix de la Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia), has been selected for Imagina 2000 and 2002 (transfiction.net) and gave interventions and workshops in Porto 2001. He was multimedia director of Casterman (publisher a.o. of Tintin) from 1998 to 2002, as well as interactive creation director of Groupe Flammarion, Paris, from 2000 to 2002.

Jury Member (Rotterdam Film Festival NETPAC Jury 1996, Orléans Japanese Film Festival, Strasbourg Festival Passages, Salzburg New Media Europrix 2001, Festival International du Film sur Internet in Paris, Belgium Communauté française, ...). Commission member, a.o. Experimentale Media Kunst 2006/07, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Belgium.

Guest lecturer in universities (Amsterdam, Köln, Marseille, Lille, ...) and professor (Fac. Univ. St-Louis, Leonardo Multimedia Master 1997-2003, Louvain la Neuve UCL COMU 2001-in progress).