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 Madhuri Rao | Vidyashilp University Faculty

Ms.Madhuri Rao

Adjunct Faculty
School of Design Studies
Former Faculty Member of Srishti-Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology
Independent Artist
Masters in Fine Art (MFA)
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Biography
Professional Education
Teaching Courses
Research Interests
Biography

Madhuri Rao is an artist, researcher and pedagogue based out of Bangalore. Her current research questions the future of art practice and the evolving conditions of lived experience under the pervasive influence of mediating technologies. Through her philosophical and artistic explorations, she investigates the performative nature of sound and other new media, its demands on durational engagement and its transmission to a viewer-participant.

Madhuri has had over twelve years of work experience in the arts, and is currently an Adjunct Faculty at Vidyashilp University teaching studio courses in design and art practice. She was formerly a faculty member of Srishti-Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology and was previously an Assistant Curator for both the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bengaluru and the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai.


Professional Education
  • Masters in Fine Art (MFA), Edinburgh College of Art, 2011.

Teaching Courses
  • Design for Social Justice

Research Interests
  • Contemporary art
  • Critical theory
  • Sound art and sonic practices
  • Design education
  • Philosophy
  • Artificial Intelligence and linguistics

Madhuri Rao is an artist, researcher and pedagogue based out of Bangalore. Her current research questions the future of art practice and the evolving conditions of lived experience under the pervasive influence of mediating technologies. Through her philosophical and artistic explorations, she investigates the performative nature of sound and other new media, its demands on durational engagement and its transmission to a viewer-participant.

Madhuri has had over twelve years of work experience in the arts, and is currently an Adjunct Faculty at Vidyashilp University teaching studio courses in design and art practice. She was formerly a faculty member of Srishti-Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology and was previously an Assistant Curator for both the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bengaluru and the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai.

  • Masters in Fine Art (MFA), Edinburgh College of Art, 2011.
  • Design for Social Justice
  • Contemporary art
  • Critical theory
  • Sound art and sonic practices
  • Design education
  • Philosophy
  • Artificial Intelligence and linguistics
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