This document captures an unedited draft on the basis of which art critic Geeta Kapur delivered an illustrated lecture in Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, on 6th December 2006. Versions of this lecture were also presented in the following venues:
- 'Pain Fear Shimmer', Shanghai Biennale Conference: Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, 2004
- 'Pain Fear Shimmer', Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, May 2005
- 'Inside the Black Box: images caught in a beam', School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2007

Artists mentioned in the presentation include Anant Joshi, Nalini Malani, Ranbir Kaleka, Vivan Sundaram, Navjot Altaf, and Sheba Chhachhi