Culture, Impact.

I am Chaitanya. Designer and cultural worker, trying to understand how the arts get made, funded, governed, and kept alive. I am heading to LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore later this year to study arts management properly. Apart from my work, I build small software projects, care about the open web, and write here.

The Field Blog is my digital plot of land where technology, art, and the earth intersect.

Writing

All writing →

Personal

My favourite comment on YouTube

Under Jonny Mozza’s video “You’re way more interesting than you think you are”, Jacob Motl wrote: I’m a composer, visual artist, game developer, and writer, all of which encompass my career. My day job is frying chicken at a deli. Amongst the …

Climate & Environment

Who is actually fighting climate change and who is throwing a tantrum in the corner

There is a map I keep returning to in my head. It is my mental picture of who is actually doing what about climate change, and who is busy dismantling the little that was built in the last few decades. It is roughly this: Europe writes the rules. …

Personal

Love leaks slowly and fades away

Nobody tells you it can happen this quietly. No argument, no betrayal, no clean break to point at. Just a slow thinning, like the way a song you loved gets played one too many times and you stop noticing it. You still do the things. You show up, you …

Tech & Privacy

The quiet Linux spread

I did not set out to convert anyone. I just helped a friend install Linux, the way you’d help someone move furniture. You are there, you do the thing, you go home. Then his cousins wanted to see it. Then a friend of his asked questions. Then someone …