From gramophone records to videohome system tapes to the latest digital recording tools, the IGNCA is now putting on show all audio and visual equipment used in the past 25 years to document the country's arts, craft, films and traditions.
The 10 day exhibition "25 Years of audiovisual journey: Recalling through Equipment and Documentation" which began at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts here today aims to be a retrospective stopover to view process of evolution over the past quarter century and how the world is negotiating towards the future."
"The exhibition is for people, who want to know about the process of documentation. It will also showcase the archival work we have been doing in this centre," says Dipali Khanna, member secretary IGNCA.
The IGNCA Media Centre has been been undertaking audio-visual research documentation, archiving them for posterity, post-production and dissemination of documentaries through DVD publication, Doordarshan transmission, film shows and outreach for scholars through audio-video viewing and listening counters.
The Centre is also organising a film festival which will screen six documentaries from renowned directors to highlight during the exhibition. A workshop on documentary making would is also scheduled.
"I am very impressed with this exhibition. This exhibition portrays the change in technology. I want that these DVDs should be sold on small platform so it can accessed easily," actor Kulbhushan Kharbanda said at the launch.
