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A photograph of a dark room with a large display screen showing a multi-panel video wall of live feeds from several centres. Top left panel labelled NEW JERSEY - Omkareshwar shows a seated figure on a rug before a low table with offerings. Top right panel labelled Calgary Amarnath shows a dim interior with people. Bottom row panels include SINGAPURAN, showing people seated on mats in a group, and CHARLOTTE-SRISAILAM, showing seated devotees in an indoor hall, with a woman in a dark headscarf and striped sari in the foreground. Other devotees in white and colourful clothing sit in the video panels, and a partial feed at right shows a hall with people. The screen displays pictured participants rather than the room's occupants.

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April 01 20132013-04-01A photograph of a large dark display screen showing a multi-panel collage of event photos. Labelled panels read NEW JERSEY - Onkareshwar, Calgary Amarnath, CHARLOTTE-SRISAILAM and SINGAPURAM. The panels show devotees seated on mats, a group of people in white clothes around a ritual setup with lamps and offerings, and a seated figure in a saffron-orange robe with a rudraksha mala and ornate gold necklace on the right. The collage itself contains no physical people; the screen is in a room with other monitors at the edges.2013-04-01A photograph of a dark display screen showing a multi-window video feed of remote centres, with labelled panels reading NEW JERSEY - Omkareshwar, Calgary Amarnath, CHARLOTTE-SRISAILAM and SINGAPURAM. Panels show people seated or standing in rooms: a woman in a red-and-maroon sari sits on a rug in the New Jersey panel, a group of devotees with folded hands stands in the Calgary panel, a person in white sits on the floor in the Charlotte panel, and a woman in a green sari with palms together appears in another panel. A small purple logo sits in the top-left corner and a partial feed of a room is visible on the right edge of the screen. No a person candidate is clearly identifiable in the visible panels.2013-04-01April 01 20132013-04-01 +1 copiesNovember 05 20112011-11-05A projected screen shows a nine-panel video grid of separate locations linked together. Panels show a temple shrine with a sign reading MALAYSIA PALANI, a woman in white standing by a staircase beside a sign reading CALGARY AMARNATH, a group seated before shrines with a sign reading LOS ANGELES, a seated group holding signs in front of a red curtain reading TORONTO SILASAM, a shrine room with a sign reading OHIO, a man in white seated on a mat with a sign reading SINGAPURAM, and a group standing on temple steps holding a sign reading SAN JOSE MADURAI. Several panels show people holding handwritten or printed placards. The image is a photograph of a projection screen, so the people visible are on the screen rather than physically present.2012-04-04A screen-wall collage of many video-call panels from different centres, each labelled with a place name such as Chicago Sri Ranganathan, San Diego Tiru Alavi, Calgary Amarnath, Monterrey Mexico, Guadeloupe Kamakshi Amman, New Jersey Omkareshwar and Auckland New Zealand. Inside the panels, people in white clothes sit cross-legged on floors or cushions, some on chairs, and one woman in a red and gold top is shown at close range. A panel shows a framed deity picture with an oil lamp on a shrine in Auckland, and another shows a man in a dark tracksuit standing near a white stand. The collage is a photograph of a display screen during a live multi-location session, with the people shown on the panels rather than physically present.2013-04-06November 11 20112011-11-11A photograph of a large display screen showing a video-conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations. Each tile is labelled with a city name in white text, including Phoenix Kanchipuram, Singapore Singapore, Los Angeles Arunachalam, New York Varanasi, Oklahoma Somnatham, Toronto Kailasam, Seattle Chidambaram, Charlotte-Srisailam, Atlanta Ujjaini and San Jose Madurai. Participants sit cross-legged on mats and carpets in meditation or satsang postures, several wearing white kurtas and some in dark clothing, with shrine backdrops of deity murti and red drapes visible in several tiles. On the right edge of the screen a partial tile shows a seated figure in red and orange robes.2013-04-06April 06 20132013-04-06Photograph of a control setup with two monitors showing a video conference grid of remote participant locations. On the left monitor, labelled panels read New Jersey - Omkareshwar, Calgary Amarnath, Charlotte-Srisailam and Singapuram; one panel shows a seated figure in orange and saffron clothing with rudraksha beads, on an ornate golden throne, and other panels show groups seated on mats. On the right monitor, a grid of remote participants includes panels labelled Scottsdale and Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, with people seated in home settings. A cameraman in white clothing with a bracelet operates a tripod-mounted camera at the left edge. Two wall air-conditioning units are visible above.2013-04-01August 16 20142014-08-16