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July 12 2016

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A photograph of a large video wall displaying a grid of live feeds from multiple Aadheenam centres during a Guru Purnima broadcast. Tiles show Oman Aadheenam, Erode Aadheenam, Oklahoma Aadheenam with a figure in a purple robe before a red shrine with deity murtis, Nithyanandeshwar Aadheenam, Hyderabad Aadheenam, London Paduka, and Dhyanapeeta, with participants in white and orange clothing seated or standing in rooms. The screen is the main subject, with small blurred figures in the feeds rather than people in the physical room.2016-07-19July 28 20162016-07-28July 15 20162016-07-15July 19 20162016-07-19Two wall-mounted monitors in a dark room display a video conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations. Each tile shows a group of people seated indoors in homes or centres, labelled with place names such as Los Angeles Aadheenam, St. Louis-Manchester, Morris Plains-NJ, Wellington-New Zealand, Ponca City-Oklahoma, Juarez Mexico, Atlanta, Georgia and Toronto-Canada. Some tiles show people in white and orange clothing seated before a floor cloth or meditation setting. Depicted people are on screens, not physically present, and no in-person candidate is visible.2015-08-16A photograph of a large monitor displaying a multi-panel collage of video stills from temple and ashram gatherings. Several panels show groups of people seated on floors and mats before decorated altars with deity murtis, garlands and flowers. A bottom-centre panel shows a bare-chested man with a white tilak, rudraksha-style garland and a red-patterned backdrop, and a right-hand panel shows a figure in saffron robes seated among offerings. Some panels carry printed city-name signs such as Seattle, Oklahoma Sonnetham and San Jose Madurai. The collage content is screen imagery, so no physical people are counted in the room beyond the handful of people in the scene behind the monitor.2012-09-26July 28 20162016-07-28May 12 20152015-05-12A large screen displays a video-conference grid of many live feeds from different centres, each labelled with a place name such as Toronto Kailasam, Seattle Chidambaram, Oklahoma Somnatham, San Jose Madurai, Sharjah, Ohio Prayag, Kuala Lumpur-Palani, Singapore Sivaganga and Los Angeles Ayuda Nagaram. Inside the panels, people sit on mats around decorated puja tables with offerings, flowers and oil lamps, some in saffron and red clothing, while others stand or sit in a satsang-style gathering. A small framed portrait on one panel shows a smiling saffron-robed figure, identified only by its caption.2013-05-03A photograph of two wall-mounted screens in a hall. The left screen is a grid of video-conference tiles of seated groups at Aadheenam centres, labelled HOUSTON AADHEENAM, SANTA CRUZ AADHEENAM, VANCOUVER AADHEENAM, SAN JOSE AADHEENAM, OKLAHOMA AADHEENAM, LONDON AADHEENAM and OHIO AADHEENAM, with people in white and colourful clothes sitting in rooms. The right screen shows a speaker in saffron-red robes and a red shawl, with long dark hair, a red crown-like headpiece and a rudraksha mala, seated before an ornate gold throne-backdrop with a microphone in front. The speaker is a depiction on screen and is not counted as physically present.2016-01-16September 14 20122012-09-14 +1 copiesA photograph of a large screen displaying a grid of live video feeds from multiple centres, showing groups seated in ceremonial settings with deity altars, red and orange drapery, flower garlands and oil lamps. Several feeds have handwritten placards naming locations such as Seattle Chidambaram, Oklahoma Somnatham and Toronto Ashram. In the bottom-right feed, a bare-chested man with a rudraksha mala and ceremonial gold necklace sits before a red arched backdrop, which may be a person displayed on the screen.2012-10-17