With technology getting smarter by the day, are we as human beings becoming smarter too, or is it dumbing us down? That was the premise of an artists’ residency that was held recently across four cities — Bengaluru, Pune, Mumbai and Dhaka — with the theme of Smarter Digital Realities. The participants explored what it means to constantly have access to GPS on your phone, for instance. Does it make you feel safer and more in control? Is Facebook a place to meet likeminded people or a cesspool of existential crises? Those are the sorts of issues they addressed in a mixed media format, through video, audio and art.

Map of Loneliness, an artwork by Kanika Agarwal