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A projected screen collage of seven panels showing temple and ritual scenes. Top left, a small shrine room with deity murtis and a seated woman. Top right, a decorated altar with a large deity murti, garlands and a standing priest in white. Middle row, a hall with many deity murtis where seated devotees face a central area, a Los Angeles Arunachalam sign below; a central panel with a striped mat, lamps and seated participants; and a right panel with seated devotees and a man in white leading a puja beside a Phoenix Kanchipuram sign. Bottom left, a Malaysia Pelani altar with garlands and seated devotees. The collage is a graphic of photographs shown on a screen, so no people are physically present in the room beyond the photographed scenes.

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September 23 20112011-09-23Photograph of a projection screen showing a nine-panel video collage of simultaneous satsang or group sessions at different centres. Top-left panel shows a Los Angeles Arunachala centre with seated devotees in front of shrines and a name placard reading Los Angeles Arunachala. Top-right panel shows a Seattle Chidambara centre with seated participants before a deity altar and a Seattle sign. Middle row includes seated devotees on striped mats and a centre labelled Ohio Prayag. Bottom row includes a Singapuram panel with two women in white seated on a mat before a sign reading SINGAPURAM, and a right panel showing a figure in orange and red robes with a crown-like headdress seated on an ornate golden throne-like seat, with white-clad attendants standing on either side.2011-10-11A large screen shows a grid of video-call tiles for a satsang, with labelled windows reading Malaysia Palani, Toronto Kailasam, Phoenix Kanchipuram, Los Angeles Arunachala, San Jose Madurai, Ohio Center and Seattle Chidambaram. Tiles show people seated on mats performing puja with oil lamps, a brass thali, flowers and kalasha-like vessels, and a man in white and orange seated before a red-draped altar. In the bottom-right tile a man with long hair, saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits before a gold-decorated backdrop, the screen content being the satsang broadcast. The photograph is of the screen, so the people on it are not physically present.2013-04-09December 30 20112011-12-30September 09 20112011-09-09July 18 20122012-07-18February 10 20152015-02-10October 08 20122012-10-08A multi-panel collage of video feeds from several centres, shown on a dark screen. Panels include a shrine room with a golden arch and a saffron-robed figure before deity murtis, a group of devotees seated on a mat labelled SINGAPURAM, a seated group in a hall with a sign reading MALAYSIA PALANI, a large congregation seated on white cloths labelled ARUNACHALA LOS ANGELES, a room labelled SAN JOSE MADURAI with seated figures on a striped mat, and a lower-right panel showing a figure in saffron and orange robes seated on a golden throne flanked by two golden deity statues, with a red and orange cushion. The collage shows satsang and puja activities across centres, with the panels themselves not counted as physical people.2011-12-25A flat-screen monitor displays a multi-window video call of several ashram locations, photographed at an angle in a dark room. Top left panel shows a hall labelled "LOS ANGELES ARUNACHALA" with people seated on mats before decorated deity shrines. Middle left panel shows a temple labelled "TORONTO KAILASAM" with a woman in white and a few seated devotees near an altar of deity murtis. Middle centre panel shows a seated figure in white in a red-draped room beside a framed photograph, and a row of seated devotees appears at right. Bottom left panel shows a room labelled "KAJANG MALAYSIA" with people seated on a sofa and floor in orange and white. Bottom right panel shows a figure in an ornate gilded chair wearing saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala, with long dark hair.2012-06-20 +1 copiesApril 13 20132013-04-13December 11 20112011-12-11