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[Nettime-bold] (Announcement) SARAI NEWSLETTER 09. JANUARY 2002 |
Dear All at Nettime, The Best wishes to everyone for 2002. May this year be less plagued by war then the last year has been. We thought that we would like to let everyone on the Nettime list know more about what is happening at Sarai : The New Media Initiative, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. I am enclosing below a programme for the month of January at Sarai. To know more about Sarai, please see our website www.sarai.net or write to dak@sarai.net Cheers Shuddha ______________________________________________________ SARAI NEWSLETTER 09. JANUARY 2002 Table of Contents Talks @Sarai Installations @Sarai Workshop @Sarai: Introduction to Cyberculture New Discussion Lists: Community Radio and Solaris Films @Sarai: Remembering Subrata Mitra --------------------------------- Sarai wishes all of you a very happy new year. I. Talks @ Sarai We start the New Year with a series of lectures and presentations - grouped thematically under our three Occasional Seminar Series. All talks and paper presentations will take place at 3:30 pm, in the Seminar Room, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 110054 1.Media Publics and Practices Seminar i. January 2, 2002, Wednesday Politics of Information in Bio-technology Mike Fischer MIT Program on Science, Technology, and Society ii. January 8, 2002, Tuesday Technology, the Turing Test & Artificial Intelligence Sanmay Das, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Boston iii. January 16, 2002, Wednesday Politics of Global Circulation of Human Genetic Materials Kaushik Sunderajan MIT Program on Science, Technology and Society, USA 2. Language beyond Literature Seminar January 10, 2002, Thursday Hindi Commercial Press & the Urban Publics: The Case of Late Colonial U.P. Charu Gupta Department of History, Motilal Nehru College (E), University of Delhi 3. Urban Cultures and Politics Seminar January 30, 2002, Wednesday The Idea of Bombay Gyan Prakash Department of History, Princeton University, USA II.Installations @ Sarai The Sarai Interface Zone will host three installations by artists and media practitioners through the month of January. Unless otherwise specified, the artists will be available for discussions. All installations and exhibitions will be located in the Interface Zone at Sarai. i). January 2nd - 4th 2002 Dilliwale Kaun? Baharwale Kaun? A photographic exhibition on a digital platform by Syeda Farhana Dilliwale Kaun? Baharwale Kaun? is an exhibition of Syeda Farhana's photographic & textual narratives on the theme of "The Outsider". Focussing on Bangladeshi migrants, the exhibition is a product of her part - residency at the Interface Zone at Sarai. This residency is a collaboration between Sarai and the Khoj International Artists Residency Programme. Syeda Farhana is a photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She will be present through the exhibition at the Interface Zone. ii)January 11th - 18th 2002 The Wrong City : Paris@Delhi An Installation by Olga Kisseleva This Installation explores what happens when the reality of one city enters the imagination of another. The installation is paired with another Wrong City Installation - Delhi@Paris that will occur concurrently in Paris. The url for the Paris event is www.mainsdoeuvres.org Olga Kisseleva is a digital artist with special interest in cities - Some of her earlier work has been on New York, St Petersburg and Paris. iii. January 24 and 25, 2002 Initializing History An Exhibition of the Video Art of Peter Callas Peter Callas will present his work in the form of an illustrated lecture on January 25, 2002. The Screening-Lecture will be followed by a discussion. (A version of) This work is also available at http://www.anu.edu.au/ITA/CSA/callas/CAN_+main_I.html Peter Callas, based in Sydney, Australia, is one of the internationally recognised exponents of Video Art. He is currently visiting India on an Asialink Artists Fellowship. III. Workshop @ Sarai January 31 - February 1, 2002 10:30 am - 4:30 pm, Interface Zone, Sarai Introduction to Cyberculture with Patrice Riemens The workshop on Cyberculture will focus on: i.Digital Divide and how to address it ii.Hackers & 'Hackerism' iii.From Proprietary Knowledge to Intellectual Property iv.Networked Communities Patrice Riemens is an independent theorist and cyber activist , and a geographer at the University of Amsterdam. He is in India as a part of the exchange programme between Sarai and the Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam - www.waag.org IV.New Discussion Lists >From the 1st of January, 2002, Sarai will start hosting a new Discussion List: Community Radio-India. This is a mailing list to campaign for the opening up of community-radio stations in India. It is aimed at supporting a campaign by development workers, NGOs, academics and media persons interested in unleashing the potential of low-powered, local radio for the benefit of development in the country. This list was set up following a national conference on community radio, held in mid-2000 in Hyderabad. It is open to all who believe that India too should harness the power of community radio. To subscribe write to cr-india-request@sarai.net with "subscribe" in the subject field, or in the body of the message. You could also ask to be subscribed by mailing either Subramaniam Vincent subbuvincent@yahoo.com or Fredrick Noronha fred@vsnl.com. V. Films @Sarai Remembering Subrata Mitra We start the new year with a set of screenings of films shot by the distinguished cinematographer, Subrata Mitra who passed away in Calcutta in December 2001. Subrata Mitra was the cinematographer for the first 10 films of Satyajit Ray, including the Apu Trilogy and Charulata. He also shot some of the earlier work of Merchant Ivory Productions. He was awarded the Kodak Award for Excellence in Cinematography. Mitra revolutionized prevailing aesthetics in Indian cinematography with innovations designed to make light in film both more realistic and poetic. The screenings, at 4:30 pm in the Seminar Room, CSDS will be followed by discussions on the role of the cinematographer. The films are listed in the order of screening. 1. January 4, 2002 Aparajito 1956, 127 minutes Director: Satyajit Ray This second film of the Apu trilogy marks Mitra's first technical innovation. Thanks to monsoon rain art scenes in the Benaras house had to be shot on studio sets. Mitra realised that he could never recreate the diffused lighting of typical Benaras courtyards with the conventional studio lights. Thus was born the bounce light - that he later considered to be one of his most important tools. 2. January 11, 2002 Charulata 1964, 117 minutes Director: Satyajit Ray Charulata, or The Lonely Wife, has been widely acclaimed as the highlight of Mitra's cinematography. Beautifully rendered sequences of Charulata daydreaming in the garden,or observing a set of 19th century Bengali stereotypes with her opera glasses through her windows remain etched in audience memory. While shooting Charulata, Mitra invented the 'dabba' - as source of soft diffused light - a breakthrough in international cinema. 3. January 18, 2002 Teesri Kasam 1966, 159 minutes Director: Basu Bhattacharya Teesri Kasam marks Mitra's only foray into mainstream cinema. Mitra's passion for beautiful frames comes out in the film's seamless lyrical imagery. This was the only time Mitra got an opportunity to film song and dance sequences extensively - something that he always wanted to do. --------- This is also the time when i bid a goodbye to this list. Ranita Chatterjee, who joins Sarai as the new Programme Coordinator, will administer this list henceforth. Any queries may please therefore be directed to ranita@sarai.net. Signing off, I wish to say that it has been an enjoyable experience to administer this list. In little more than six months this list has grown to more than a thousand members. I hope this community friends of Sarai continues to grow. I wish all of you a very happy new year again. Saumya _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold