Indofuturism

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Names

  • Indofuturism
  • Indofuturisms
  • Indo-Futurism
  • Indo-Futurisms
  • Can overlap with Desifuturism(s)
  • Can overlap with South Asian Futurism(s)
  • Can overlap with Global South Futurism(s)
  • Can overlap with Indigenous Futurisms, Adivasi Futurism, Dalit Futurism, Tamil Futurism and others

Origin

  • The term was used as early as 2005 by Pravin Pillay, and was also a forming genre in the decades prior via Indian speculative fiction and cinema. Indian speculative fiction, in particular, has been present since the 1970s. Like many emerging futurisms of this time, it was inspired by Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms, and the larger de-colonial turn in the futurist arena.
  • The term made moves forward in the late 2010s and early 2020s thanks to the activity of Antariksha Studio and Elsewhere in India, projects by the group Murthovic & Thiruda. Ryan D'Souza also popularized the term in his 2019 essay, "Imagining a Desi Future".
  • The term has also been used to reference musical and sonic projects, and there are many music videos from the 2010s and 2020s which are Indofuturist or which incorporate the visions of Indofuturist artists such as Sam Madhu's collaborations with Raja Kumari.
  • The term took off again in the 2020s with the advent of AI, which saw many artists like Prateek Arora and Vimal Chandran creating futurist worlds and scenes within India or Indo-cultural references. This also incorporated 3D imaging, drawing & painting, photo & video, fiction writing and social media, and it began to overlap with larger Desifuturism and South Asian Futurism worlds.
  • In 2021 Priyanka Bandodkar wrote an official thesis on Indofuturism for OCAD University.

Artists and Creators

Curators, Writers and Theorists

Events

  • KALAK, Roundhouse London, March 10-12 2023. Curated by Sarathy Kolwar.
  • Elsewhere in India, performed by Murthovic and Thiruda, Roundhouse London, April 7-8 2023. "This immersive XR (Extended Reality) experience, set in post-cyberpunk India, fuses video games with live electronic music in a pioneering blend of both artforms..."
  • The Endless Mind, performance by Vyuti Dance Company, G5A, Mumbai, April 11-16 2023.
  • COSMOS Residency and Showcase, Goa, India, Nov 2023.
  • Elsewhere in India, Audiovisual performance by Murthovic (music producer/DJ) and Thiruda (visual artist/VJ) , ACMI, Melbourne, February 15 2025.

Discussions and Panels

Conferences and Symposia

Exhibitions & Catalogues

2024

  • Fragments of a Panorama by Murthovic and Thiruda, Arebyte Gallery, Java House, London. July 12 to October 13, 2024. Artists: Murthovic and Thiruda. Curated by Kinnari Saraiya. "Fragments of a Panorama is a kaleidoscope of worlds oscillating between a speculative future and an alternative past...Since 2016, Thiruda and Murthovic have taken on the role of archivists, remixing and fragmenting millennia of cultural traditions, sonic and visual heritage, and classical dances of India."
  • PhotoINK at India Art Fair 2024, New Delhi, February 01-04, 2024.

2023

  • PhotoINK at Art Mumbai 2023, Mumbai. November 16-19, 2023.
  • PhotoINK at India Art Fair 2023, New Delhi. February 09 - February 12, 2023.

Films, Short Films and Series

  • Leila, Netflix India, 2019. Based on the book by Prayaag Akbar. Directed by Deepa Mehta. Hindi.
  • Renascence, Directed by Harshdeep Singh Gill, 2021. Starring Santoshi Shetty.
  • Kalki 2898 AD, Vyjayantha Movies, 2024. Directed by Nag Ashwin. Telugu and Hindi.

Music Videos

Publications

Books

  • Shiv Ramdas, Domechild, India Penguin, 2013.
  • Raminder Kaur, Saif Eqbal, Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India, Routledge India, Oct 2018, 240 pp. Publisher.
  • Sukanya Venkatraghavan (ed.), Magical Women, Hachette India, April 25 2019, 240pp. English. Works by Asma Kazi, Kiran Manral, Krishna Udayasankar, Nikita Deshpande, Ruchika Roy, Samhita Arni, Sejal Mehta, Shreya Ila Anasuya, Shveta Thakrar, Shweta Taneja , Sujatha S.V., Sukanya Venkatraghavan, Tashan Mehta, Trisha Das.
  • Tarun K. Saint (ed.), The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Hachette India, 2019, 424pp. Works by Adrish Bardhan, Anil Menon, Arjun Rajendran, Arunava Sinha, Asif Farrukhi, C.M. Naim, Chandrashekhar Sastry, Clark Prasad, Giti Chandra, Harishankar Parsai, Kaiser Haq, Keki N. Daruwalla, Manjula Padmanabhan, Maya Joshi, Mimi Mondal, Mohammad Salman, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, Payal Dhar, Premendra Mitra, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Rahul Sankrityayan, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, S.B. Divya, Sami Ahmad Khan, Shovon Chowdhury, Somendra Singh Kharola, Sumita Sharma, Syed Saeed Naqvi, Tarun K. Saint, Vandana Singh.
  • Tarun K. Saint, Francesco Verso (ed.), Avatar अवतार: Indian Science Fiction, 2020, English and Italian, 312pp. Works by Vandana Singh, S.B. Divya, Anil Menon, Manjula Padmanabhan, Shikhandin, Giti Chandra, Shovon Chowdhury, Priya Sarukkai Chabria.
  • Tarun K. Saint (ed.), The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2, Hachette India, Sept 30 2021, 488pp. Works by Manjula Padmanabhan, Tarun K. Saint, Shiv Ramdas, Medha Singh, Tashan Mehta, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Vajra Chandrasekera, Senaa Ahmad, Arjun Raj Gaind, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Soham Guha, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Kehkashan Khalid, Bina Shah, Anil Menon, Aparna Ramachandran, Jayant V. Narlikar, Vandana Singh, Gautam Bhatia, Kaiser Haq, Kalsang Yangzom, Gita Chandra, Haris A. Durrani, Usman T. Malik, Salik Shah, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Sami Ahmad Khan, Shovon Chowdhury, Sukanya Datta, Premee Mohammad, Naveen Weeraratne, Saad Z. Hossain.
  • Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, Routledge, Oct 2023, 716 pp. Publisher.

Magazines, Journals, Blogs and Websites

Videos, Podcasts, Radio

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters

  • Ahmed, Awais, Kunalika Gautam, Nihariki Mehrotra, Prachi Shevgaonkar, Nandini Harihar, Ruchira Goyal, Dhruvak Aggarwal, Gunraagh Singh Talwar, Dhairya Nagpal, Saikot Sukla, Radhika Bhajoria, Anoushka Sinha, India in Future Tense: 47 Words for 2047, New Delhi: Council on Energy, Environment and Water in the United Nations, 2024.
  • Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, "A Sonic Indofuturism", Organised Sound 30(1):1-9, Cambridge University Press, April 2025.

Theses

See Also

Futurisms, Desifuturism, South Asian Futurisms, Indigenous Futurism, Adivasi Futurism, Global South Futurisms, Third Culture, Post Western, Tropical Futurism, Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, Arab Futurism, Gulf Futurism, Decolonization, AI, Sci-Fi, Speculative Aesthetics, Quantum Culture

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