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For four-star hotels, Bangalore has a surplus of comfort and luxury.  Our world-class accommodation offer some of the most splendid features available, with a generous mixture of hospitality and convenience.  We offer a marvelous array of lodgings, and we specialize in the revitalization of the body and spirit.  You will adore the fantastic food available here, prepared by chefs who are trained in traditional cooking as well as the most contemporary innovations.  Fine dining is at a premium here, and conveniently located within your hotel.  Guests here will experience a lovely sense of relaxation, preparing them for new adventures in the city.

Bangalore has a lot to offer travelers of all ages.  It is one of the world’s great centers of technology, and the local economy has been quite good recently.  There has been a trend toward young people returning to Bangalore from time spent abroad, lulled back by its financial promise.  This makes for a fascinating cultural mix, where locals are suddenly getting to know their own city again for the first time.  This has resulted in new and interesting cultural experiments, blending innovation and tradition to the entertainment menu.  In this light, there is the Bangalore Roof Top Film Festival, which brings together audiences for intimate evenings of independent entertainment.

The Roof Top Film Festival is a wonderful way to get to know local culture in Bangalore, as the events are very informal.  People gather with the intention of watching lesser-known films in a neighborhood setting.  It is very community-oriented, which means that there is a strong connection to the local and global, and visitors here can observe and take part in the next wave of film viewing.  This is an open forum where people can see new and exciting work, and discuss what they see in an atmosphere of open inquiry.

To travelers all around the world, Bangalore restaurants are some of the best in the region.  In a city where culture and technology meet and continually re-define each other, there are always innovations in the cuisine, but also long traditions that one can depend on.  A place that has been shaped by migration in a way that is like no other, Bangalore has seen a brain drain, when the young were leaving for economic reasons, and a reverse brain drain, where they started to return for the same reasons.  It’s an interesting place of interesting contradiction, and the cultural expressions here are likewise steeped in old-world traditions and new-world technologies.

It is in this setting that a remarkable new installation, “Digital Palimpsest,” comes to Bangalore.  Organized by the French Embassy in India, Fil d’Ariane, Point Ephemere, Alliance Francaise, and the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technoloy, “Digital Palimpsest” is a fascinating interactive installation.  Designed and created by B2Fays and Mathieu Constans, this work is engineered to make works of electronically-generated visual art that are then modified by the viewer’s participation.  The spectator’s image is projected into the work, and electronic impulses measure the body movements and vocal impressions to change the work while it is in motion.

This exciting new work is part of a global trend toward digital art, and it would be no surprise to find it in Bangalore, with a reputation for being on the cutting edges of technology.  The French artists developing the work are also participating in an exciting collaborative action that moves the work to muti-national proportions.  It is very interesting to note that the social landscape of Bangalore, shaped by a shifting identify based on leaving and returning, with constantly transforming versions of self, finds itself metaphorically represented in this work.  In a kind of marriage of art and life, the impressions left by the visitor are impossible to control, and difficult to measure, but absolutely there in the landscapes of living memory.