Beyond ‘I like It’

Pooja Kaul is a visual artist, educator, and researcher whose practice explores drawing, image-making, and art as a way of thinking and knowing. She holds degrees in Painting from the College of Art, University of Delhi, and Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. Her doctoral research at the Centre for Exact Humanities, IIIT Hyderabad, examined the ontology of painting through Indian philosophical traditions, particularly the Spanda philosophy of the Kashmiri Trika Śaiva system. Since 2012, she has taught at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, and is co-founder of the Jamun Artist Collective and founder of The Mamuli Studio, an independent art-research space in Naggar, Himachal Pradesh.

Anil Kumar H. A. is a Bangalore-based art historian, translator, and writer who has taught art since the early 1990s. He translated Ways of Seeing (2012) into Kannada and wrote the screenplay for the nationally awarded best Kannada film Harivu (2015). He has written bilingual monographs on artists including Sankaragowda Bettadoor, M. S. Nanjundarao, and K. T. Shivaprasad, alongside writing on Kannada films and literature published in journals and periodicals including TOI, Indian Express, and Deccan Herald. He is Head and Professor, Department of Contemporary Arts Practice, Srishti Manipal Institution, MAHE, and a recipient of fellowships from CWIT, Pro-Helvetia, UNESCO-Aschberg, and the Kempegowda Award.