The three-day workshop will be held in association with the Association of Academics, Artists and Citizens For University

Autonomy (ACUA) and the India Foundation of Arts (IFA), Bangalore.

The conference is an attempt at evolving a plan for research institutions to help them build visual archives.

The initiative will facilitate further research in the field of visual arts and humanities.

Encouragement to survey of archiving history and existing archiving, as well as research and teaching practices of art history in the country's art schools will be the key concern of the conference, said Panikkar.

He said the conference will also try to devise ways of improving the present state of visual archives in art teaching institutions in the country.