Deepak John Mathew
Biographic Data
| ID | 3064641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deepak John Mathew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deepak John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mathew |
| SIGNATURE | MATHEW D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5944-8035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imaginative storytelling – novel immersive production practices and processes for mobile cinematic, interactive 360-degree and real-time VR
This article adopts creative practice research to explore novel Virtual Reality (VR) production practices and processes for mobile cinematic VR (MCVR), parallel interactive narratives in VR (PIN VR) and real-time VR (RT VR). As a result of Creative Practice research, Imaginative Storytelling analyses and describes these original production approaches and processes for immersive storytelling and illustrates emerging aesthetic formations, which sha…
Visual ethnography of the Dandari Gusadi festival of the Raj Gonds of Telangana, India: Focusing on the social and ceremonial cultural expressions
The present visual ethnographic essay interacts with the photographs as part of the ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2020 and 2024 in Telangana, India's Adilabad and Asifabad districts. The essay reflects on the socio-cultural expressions of the indigenous dance festival known as ‘Dandari–Gusadi’ performed by Telangana's Gonds and Kolams communities. The essay provides insights into the importance of various artefacts and rituals associat…
Emergence of Colour Film Laboratories in Bombay: A Historical Narrative of Technological Dependence, Redesign and Inordinate Delay of Colour Cinema
This article offers a historical analysis/story of the emergence of colour film processing and printing laboratories in early Bombay. Particularly in the context of technological dependence, redesign of laboratory machines and inordinate delay of colour cinema. Based on archival analysis with the help of technical papers, trade journals, film magazine reports, and different committee reports, this article narrates several reasons why the spread o…
Navigating parallel interactive narratives in virtual reality
The application of Campbell’s hero’s journey in cinema commonly adopts a director-centric approach in which the director decides how the viewer will see the narrative. A parallel interactive narrative in virtual reality titled Table for Two adopts screen production enquiry to investigate the divergence from the hero’s journey from a director-centric approach towards a navigator-centric approach. Here, the conventional cinema viewer is proposed as…
Rediscovering the Work of Sham Sundar Das: A Look at the Photographer’s Unrecognized Legacy
Kshama Mahajan for believing in us and providing us access to the Sham Sunder Das Collection for research and publication.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Rediscovering the Work of Sham Sundar Das: A Look at the Photographer's Unrecognized LegacyAll authorsAnkana Sen & Deepak John Mathew https://doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2023.2208450Published online:18 May 2023Figure 1. Sham Sunder Das (standing r…
India after Modi: Populism and the Right
The rise of right-wing authoritarianism in India in the guise of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has incapacitated the Indian Left and created a political cul-de-sac of majoritarian populism to which the liberal left has no answers. Ajay Gudavarthy’s India after Modi: Populism and the Right not only examines why the Right prefers populist politics and how it effectively uses populism to further its divisive agenda but also prov…
Being against the Anthropocene
Book Review| November 01 2020 Being against the Anthropocene Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, by Demos, T. J., Berlin: Sternberg, 2017, 132 pages, $20.90 (paperback), ISBN 978-3956792106 Saswat Samay Das; Saswat Samay Das Saswat Samay Das is associate professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sn…
Architecture and Living Traditions Reflected in Wooden Rafters of Śrīvilliputtūr Temple
The present article cursorily examines the wooden images set in exterior hall of the Vaṭapatraśāyī complex. The temple priests told me these images were part of an old temple car, tēr that existed in the nineteenth century. A collection of 135 wooden sculptures is packed in this hall of which select specimens are reported. Each image is supposed to be housed in a vimāna. The unique features of the images vis-à-vis their architectural setting is i…
India after Modi: Populism and the Right
The rise of right-wing authoritarianism in India in the guise of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has incapacitated the Indian Left and created a political cul-de-sac of majoritarian populism to which the liberal left has no answers. Ajay Gudavarthy’s India after Modi: Populism and the Right not only examines why the Right prefers populist politics and how it effectively uses populism to further its divisive agenda but also prov…
Architecture and Living Traditions Reflected in Wooden Rafters of Śrīvilliputtūr Temple
The present article cursorily examines the wooden images set in exterior hall of the Vaṭapatraśāyī complex. The temple priests told me these images were part of an old temple car, tēr that existed in the nineteenth century. A collection of 135 wooden sculptures is packed in this hall of which select specimens are reported. Each image is supposed to be housed in a vimāna. The unique features of the images vis-à-vis their architectural setting is i…
Being against the Anthropocene
Book Review| November 01 2020 Being against the Anthropocene Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, by Demos, T. J., Berlin: Sternberg, 2017, 132 pages, $20.90 (paperback), ISBN 978-3956792106 Saswat Samay Das; Saswat Samay Das Saswat Samay Das is associate professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sn…
India after Modi: Populism and the Right
The rise of right-wing authoritarianism in India in the guise of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has incapacitated the Indian Left and created a political cul-de-sac of majoritarian populism to which the liberal left has no answers. Ajay Gudavarthy’s India after Modi: Populism and the Right not only examines why the Right prefers populist politics and how it effectively uses populism to further its divisive agenda but also prov…
Rediscovering the Work of Sham Sundar Das: A Look at the Photographer’s Unrecognized Legacy
Kshama Mahajan for believing in us and providing us access to the Sham Sunder Das Collection for research and publication.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Rediscovering the Work of Sham Sundar Das: A Look at the Photographer's Unrecognized LegacyAll authorsAnkana Sen & Deepak John Mathew https://doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2023.2208450Published online:18 May 2023Figure 1. Sham Sunder Das (standing r…
Navigating parallel interactive narratives in virtual reality
The application of Campbell’s hero’s journey in cinema commonly adopts a director-centric approach in which the director decides how the viewer will see the narrative. A parallel interactive narrative in virtual reality titled Table for Two adopts screen production enquiry to investigate the divergence from the hero’s journey from a director-centric approach towards a navigator-centric approach. Here, the conventional cinema viewer is proposed as…
Emergence of Colour Film Laboratories in Bombay: A Historical Narrative of Technological Dependence, Redesign and Inordinate Delay of Colour Cinema
This article offers a historical analysis/story of the emergence of colour film processing and printing laboratories in early Bombay. Particularly in the context of technological dependence, redesign of laboratory machines and inordinate delay of colour cinema. Based on archival analysis with the help of technical papers, trade journals, film magazine reports, and different committee reports, this article narrates several reasons why the spread o…
Imaginative storytelling – novel immersive production practices and processes for mobile cinematic, interactive 360-degree and real-time VR
This article adopts creative practice research to explore novel Virtual Reality (VR) production practices and processes for mobile cinematic VR (MCVR), parallel interactive narratives in VR (PIN VR) and real-time VR (RT VR). As a result of Creative Practice research, Imaginative Storytelling analyses and describes these original production approaches and processes for immersive storytelling and illustrates emerging aesthetic formations, which sha…
Visual ethnography of the Dandari Gusadi festival of the Raj Gonds of Telangana, India: Focusing on the social and ceremonial cultural expressions
The present visual ethnographic essay interacts with the photographs as part of the ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2020 and 2024 in Telangana, India's Adilabad and Asifabad districts. The essay reflects on the socio-cultural expressions of the indigenous dance festival known as ‘Dandari–Gusadi’ performed by Telangana's Gonds and Kolams communities. The essay provides insights into the importance of various artefacts and rituals associat…
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