From santhosh.kanipayur at gmail.com Tue Apr 1 11:46:40 2008 From: santhosh.kanipayur at gmail.com (Santhosh Kumar) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:46:40 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Documentary films Message-ID: <19d498870803312316s6ccfe903x1a78966851e7842@mail.gmail.com> *Dear friends,* * * *SPECIAL PACKAGE OF FILMS FROM Other Media Communications.* * * *Greetings from Other Media Communications, Bangalore!* Other Media Communications is an institution set up to cater to the communication needs of social movements and civil society groups in India. We work in print, audio-video and new media areas. We have produced more than half a dozen documentaries on social issues in India.** * * *As part of our endeavour to make socially meaningful films more accessible to individuals, organisations and educational institutions, we* are *pleased to present to you a very special package. Not only does the package include five of our highly acclaimed documentaries from the recent past, but more importantly, it comes to you at subsidised prices.* * * *The package comprises the following documentaries:* * * *Hey Ram!! Genocide in the Land of Gandhi* *Hey Ram!! was the first film to be completed on the Gujarat Genocide, February 2002 in the aftermath of Godhra and was released even as the violence was raging in Gujarat.* * * *Resilient Rhythms** * This film documents the various atrocities that are committed on people simply because of their caste and shows how Dalits are fighting back. ** *Naga Story: The Other Side of Silence* *The film provides an introduction to the history of the Naga struggle, and documents the human rights abuses suffered by the Naga people in more than 50 years of existence as part of Independent India. * * * *Naka Naka Dupont, Naka (No to Dupont) *** *This film is the story of the Goan peoples' triumph over the multinational company 'Dupont' and a sterling model for similar struggles.* * * *BHOPAL – The Survivor's Story* *'Bhopal – The Survivors Story' explores the grim reality of lakhs of survivors and their children, caught between Dow-Carbide's denial of liability and the Government's reluctance to pursue Dow-Carbide, as they continue to face the unfolding hardships of the nearness of death and living poisoned everyday. * * * *For more details visit, www.othermediacommunications.com* * * *The documentaries are available in both VCD and DVD formats, and you also get copy of 'Burma: A Multi Media Presentation' (VCD) in the package. The DVD package is priced Rs.3500/- and Rs.2000/- and VCD package Rs.2000/- and Rs.1000/- respectively for Institutions and Individuals within India. Prices are different outside the country.* * * *Please place your order either by a letter to the address below or by e-mail to santhosh at othermediacommunications.com. We will require three weeks for the delivery of these films, after your confirmation of order and payment. * * * *Seeking your co-operation in reaching out to a wider audience.* * * *With warm regards,* * * * * *E. Deenadayalan* *Other Media Communications Pvt. Ltd.* *139/9, Domlur Layout* *Opp. Trinity Golf Links Apartments* *Bangalore – 560 071, India * *Tel: 91 80 41151587* *www.othermediacommunications.com* -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We're specifically looking for media-specific parodies, poking fun at wiki features and wiki culture: *Revert Wars *Histories *Talk Pages *Interwiki links *Stubs You can already see examples of contested articles, articles accidentally pasted in help pages, odd comments in the update histories. Of course there is also plenty of room for wiki parodies of newspaper content. The issue already includes: Want Ads, Comics, DIY Obituaries, Kids soccer reports, and more. The feature is currently up but goes live as the home page April 1, and it will remain the Bunk front page for at least 6 months. Afterwards it will enter the hallowed Bunk archives. Please join us in some cyber-satire. This is online humor that everyone can edit. Participation guidelines below. This marks the 10th anniversary of Bunk Magazine! Best, Mark Marino Editor Bunk Magazine and Writing Program University of Southern California http://WriterResponseTheory.org http://CriticalCodeStudies.com How to Play 1. Create and Account (feel free to use ridiculous pseudonym) 2. Type the name of a new article in the box on the front page 3. Press the Button 4. Write the article 5. Choose the newspaper category for the article. Or just edit an existing article. Once you are done, give yourself credit by adding to the "contributors" list on the masthead on the front page. If you write an article for a category that does not exist, let us know, or create the category page if you know how to do that. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080331/99d7ed75/attachment-0001.html From turbulence at turbulence.org Tue Apr 1 23:44:04 2008 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:14:04 -0400 Subject: [Announcements] Turbulence Commission: "No Time Machine" by Daniel C. Howe and Aya Karpinska Message-ID: <008401c89424$3e4ff4a0$baefdde0$@org> Turbulence Commission: "No Time Machine" by Daniel C. Howe and Aya Karpinska http://turbulence.org/works/notime Needs a Java-Enabled Browser Quiet time, dead time, free time -- call it what you will, there seems to be less and less of it. What do people give up in the race to maximize every second of their waking life? What kinds of activities are replaced by the panicked drive for efficiency? "No Time Machine" explores these questions by mining the Internet for mentions of the phrase "I don't have time for" and variations such as "You can't find the time for" and "We don't make time for." Based on a set of procedures they've set up, a program analyzes the search results and reconstructs them into a poetic conversation. Interwoven with this "found poetry" generated by the program are sentences that they re-contextualized themselves; a human-computer collaboration that expands the field of creative writing to include networked and programmable media. "No Time Machine" is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation. BIOGRAPHIES Daniel C. Howe is a digital artist and researcher at NYU's Media Research Lab. His interests include generative systems for artistic practice (specifically for digital literary production) and the social/political aspects of technology design. In addition to a background in music, he has graduate degrees in both computer science and creative writing, and has exhibited and performed his work internationally since 1997. He is currently a visiting professor at Brown University. Aya Karpinska is an interaction designer and artist working in digital media. She creates interactive experiences through installation art, text, sound, and game design (but not all at the same time). Aya is currently an Electronic Writing Fellow at Brown University, developing children's stories for mobile devices. She splits her time between Providence and New York City. Daniel and Aya collaborated previously on a spatial poetry project, "open.ended." For more Turbulence Commissions, please visit http://turbulence.org Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade New American Radio: http://somewhere.org From moinakb at yahoo.com Wed Apr 2 15:59:22 2008 From: moinakb at yahoo.com (moinak biswas) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 03:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Announcements] Journal of the Moving Image is Online Message-ID: <696009.52605.qm@web54307.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Journal of the Moving Image, the annual publication of the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, is now available online at www.jmionline.org JMI 4 and JMI 5 are on view at the moment. JMI. 6 will come up by the end of the month. The back issues will be uploaded thereafter. We would like to receive your comments. Moinak Biswas On behalf of the Editorial Board (Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay, Moinak Biswas, Abhijit Roy, Madhuja Mukhopadhyay, Anindya Sengupta, Manas K. Ghosh, Subhajit Chatterjee) Department of Film Studies Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032 Ph. 033 2411 1143 (home), 033 2414 6689 (office) ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080402/f1bb6aee/attachment.html From moinakb at yahoo.com Wed Apr 2 15:59:32 2008 From: moinakb at yahoo.com (moinak biswas) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 03:29:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Announcements] Journal of the Moving Image is Online Message-ID: <392263.46809.qm@web54301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Journal of the Moving Image, the annual publication of the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, is now available online at www.jmionline.org JMI 4 and JMI 5 are on view at the moment. 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The Celebrations shall continue all night till the arrival of the first rays of Sun on 7th April,08. *Venue:* Hari Parvat Anangpur Village,Faridabad. *Time* from 2.30 PM onwards on 6th April,07 Anangpur is a small village,nestled between the Aravalis.A small by lane almost 1km ahead of Surajkund (on the Firing Range Road)takes you to the village.Atop the hillock,near the Anangpur Village,Faridabad,rests the replica of the temple of Sharika(the presiding deity of Kashmir). For any information please feel free to contact me at 9810049979. Best Regards and Have a Glorious Year Ahead... -- Rashneek Kher http://www.nietzschereborn.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Potential Genres: * Electronic Poetry * Hypertext * Interactive Fiction * Interactive Drama * Conversational Agents * Video Mashups * Serious Games * Flash Works * Codeworks Any work that could be labeled "Electronic Literature" is welcome Or you may read an excerpt of one of your favorite elit works. Performance Spots Length: 7 Minutes Max The performance will be Free and Open to the public. Contact: To sign up, contact Jeremy Douglass [jeremydouglass [at] gmail] Organized by Mark Marino, Jeremy Douglass, and Jessica Pressman with support from Holly Willis of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy and from the Electronic Literature Organization. For more information see: http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2008/04/03/underthestars/ -- Writing Program University of Southern California http://WriterResponseTheory.org http://CriticalCodeStudies.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Earlier speakers in the series include Professors Charles Taylor, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Raimundo Panikkar, Bhikhu Parekh, Ernest Gellner, Ali Mazrui, Roberto Unger, Michael Walzer, John Keane, Amit Bhaduri and Giorgio Agamben. "Bina Agarwal" is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. She has written on a range of subjects: land, livelihoods and property rights; environment and development; the political economy of gender; poverty and inequality; law; and agriculture and technological change. Among her books are "Cold Hearths, Barren Slopes: The Woodfuel Crisis in the Third World" and "A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia". Her writings have been used extensively in framing policy by governments, NGOs and international agencies. She has participated in the formulation of several of India's Five Year Plans. 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It is based on a precise intervention logic; through contemporary theory, critic, art projects, activism and self-organization it aims to intervene in Slovene, Balkan and international space. The platform allows networking with other critical, activist, theoretical and art subjects in Slovenia, Europe and worldwide, who are interested in the possibility to create and maintain a dialogue with concrete social and political spaces. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080403/dbd5124f/attachment.html From anivar at movingrepublic.org Sat Apr 5 11:09:37 2008 From: anivar at movingrepublic.org (Anivar Aravind) Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:09:37 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Join the ViBGYOR Film Fraternity! Message-ID: <47F71099.9050609@movingrepublic.org> *Join the ViBGYOR Film Fraternity!* ViBGYOR- the PEOPLE'S FILM FESTIVAL =================================== Celebrating Identities and Diversity The Annual ViBGYOR Film Festival in Thrissur, Kerala and its associated activities have, in the last 3 years, become a significant alternative space for issue based independent films and a meeting place for filmmakers, social movements, activists and the student community. It is today among the biggest independent documentary film festivals in the country and is fast becoming an important event for independent filmmakers and people's movements. Please visit our site www.vibgyorfilm.com for details on our festivals and other activities in the past three years. The 3rd edition of ViBGYOR was held from February 13-17 2008. Nearly 1500 women and men participated and 175 films were screened at the 3 venues in; Thrissur town, the `Village ViBGYOR' (held in different centers of Pananchery village panchayath) and `Campus ViBGYOR' (in 3 colleges). This year's edition also saw open forum discussions, a media exhibition and music performances. True to its activist traditions, the festival also served as a space to highlight three important campaigns on the Athirappilly (Chalakudy) Hydroelectric project, the Chakkankandam (Guruvayur) sewage plant and the ongoing Human Rights violations in the state of Manipur. 3 films relating to these struggles were screened at the festival and representatives from each area spoke to the public and media. We have been inspired and enthused by the support we received for the past three editions of ViBGYOR and hope to screen films across the country this year through a Traveling Festival. We are also in the process of making the collections of the ViBGYOR Digital Film Archives available to the general public, with around 2500 films--documentaries, short fiction, feature-length fiction, animations, music videos and spots—already in our stack. Depending on the type of membership that individuals and institutions may want to avail, different services of the Archives will be offered to them. This membership scheme is an attempt to broaden the organizational and financial support base of ViBGYOR. =/ APPEAL:/= As with any people led initiative, ViBGYOR film festival has faced severe financial crisis. In spite of support from local groups, activists and partner organizations, the local organizers of the festival have incurred a cumulative loss of approximately rupees Seven lakhs over the past 3 years. One of the reasons is that the festival in principle does not accept any corporate funding and has received little support from Government departments and public trusts. Major expenses incurred have been for travel, hire of equipment, halls, publications and accommodation and food for filmmakers and activists who attend the annual event. We appeal to friends and well-wishers to join the ViBGYOR Film Fraternity and thus support this alternative film festival, so that we can address the current financial crisis and also plan for the future. There are several ways to become part of the ViBGYOR Film Fraternity: 1. Contribute a lump sum of Rs. 5000 ($ 150 for people outside India) and be an Associate of the ViBGYOR Film collective. 2. Contribute Rs. 100 a month or Rs. 1000/- as one time payment and become a Member of the ViBGYOR Support Group 3. Contribute any amount as an individual Contributors to the ViBGYOR Fund, apart from becoming eligible for different types of Memberships, will be listed on our website, ViBGYOR Souvenir, the monthly News Letter and the next Festival Book. They will be entitled to one Guest Pass entry to ViBGYOR Annual Film Festival and associated activities. An e-group will link all friends and supporters of ViBGYOR, with monthly updates on all ViBGYOR events. We hope to collect at least rupees 10 lakhs towards the deficit in the past and for the activities we have planned for the next three years. If you are interested in supporting this initiative, please write a DD/cheque to `ViBGYOR Film Collective' payable at Thrissur and mail it to the address below. Or you may directly transfer the money to the ViBGYOR Collective account (a/c number: 110533, Catholic Syrian Bank, Thrissur Town Branch). Please provide us with your postal address so that we can send you the receipt. Awarding of Membership to the ViBGYOR Film Fraternity will take place in the near future in a public function attended by eminent filmmakers and other dignitaries. For ViBGYOR Collective, K.P.Sasi (President) C.Saratchandran (Vice President ) Fr. Benny Benedict (Secretary) K.C.Santhoshkumar, Anivar Aravind ,Jibu Thomas, T.N.Prasannakumar, K.K.Sunilkumar (Joint-Directors) Mustafa Desamangalam, Adv. Lima Ramadas (Depty. Directors) ViBGYOR Film Festival Office Chetana, Kalliath Square, Palace Road Thrissur: 680 020, Kerala, INDIA Tel: +91-487-2330830/0-9447000830 info at vibgyorfilm.com, www.vibgyorfilm.com From pearl at osians.com Mon Apr 7 10:47:32 2008 From: pearl at osians.com (Pearl Sandhu) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:47:32 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Call For Entry-TALENT CAMPUS INDIA#5 2008 Message-ID: CALL FOR ENTRY Osian'sCinefan is proud to announce the 5th edition of Talent Campus India organised in collaboration with the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale Talent Campus and Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi. The 5th Talent Campus India will take place from 13 to 18 July, 2008. It will run along side Osian's Cinefan, 10th Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (10-20 July), within the framework of the programme 'Infrastructure Building for Minds and Markets - IBM2. Talent Campus is a 6-day workshop where up to 30 young aspiring filmmakers will be invited to New Delhi to interact with renowned filmmakers and film professionals from India and abroad. The aim of the workshop is to provide Indian and South Asian youth a forum for learning and sharing the process of filmmaking. The application is open to India, its neighbouring countries as well as Iran. Participants will benefit not only from the calibre and experience of the professionals involved, but also from the exchange of ideas among themselves. The focus of the festival is Literature and Cinema which would also be the major influence on discussions in talent campus along with sessions on Screenplay Writing, Cinematography and Direction and other key aspects of filmmaking like Casting and Production Design. In addition to attending workshop session, the selected talents will have the opportunity to see the very best of Asian and Arab cinema being showcased during Osian'sCinefan. We would be grateful if you would circulate this information among students and those who you feel may benefit from this initiative. The application can be downloaded from our website www.osians.com Applying for Talent Campus India Along with the application, applicants are required to submit one of the following A one'minute film. This can also be a one'minute excerpt of a longer film. Any entry that is longer than 60 seconds will NOT be considered. OR A five'minute film. This should be directed by the applicant especially for Talent Campus India specifically on the subject of EVERYDAY JOURNEYS. The film should be NO LONGER than five minutes. The best two of the selected five'minute films will be awarded a Certificate of Appreciation. OR 3500 - 4500'word film script. Make sure that it is a film script! The language of the script needs to be English. It can be a translation of a script written in any other language and the original can also be sent along with the English version. The script needs to be a typed printout and not handwritten. Subject of the Five'minute film EVERYDAY JOURNEYS - Do you often travel from one place to another, one stage to another or by one mode of transport or another? Do you trace imagined journeys of sorts through books, photographs, conversations, encountering and unravelling the complexities of interaction, engagement and discovery? Do you map a plan as to how to get from point A to point B in a city or how to catch the next bus, auto rickshaw or taxi? Or does your mind travel when you are waiting to take the train from the suburbs to the city? In their growth Asian cities, suburbs and villages have carried forward histories, cultures, lifestyles and people with the kind of spatial and temporal simultaneity and existence that makes way for complex everyday negotiations. It is these everyday passages that we are interested in seeing represented in your films! A journey between your home and college or work can be just as intriguing as a journey across borders and dreaming in broad daylight is a journey as well that we have all indulged and found pleasure in. It is these everyday journeys that we want your film to explore, celebrate, question or ponder on. Your film can explore any genre - funny, sad, grim, ponderous. It can be fiction or documentary or even experimental. You can send us the one'minute or five'minute film on a VHS, VCD or a DVD. (We will not accept multi- media video formats like AVI, windows media format (WMF), mpeg, quick time, real video or shockwave (flash/format) An independently constituted Committee will select up to 30 Talents to attend the final workshop. We look forward to meeting these participants from around the country and from neighbouring countries. The deadline for applications is 10th May 2008 Pearl Sandhu Coordinator, Talent Campus India Osian's-Cinefan festival of Asian and Arab Cinema Tel: 91-11-41743157 / 58 / 66 pearl at osians.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080407/dc99c120/attachment.html From info at e-artnow.org Mon Apr 7 02:59:12 2008 From: info at e-artnow.org (e-artnow) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:29:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?Call_for_entries=3A_Volgograd_Inte?= =?iso-8859-1?q?rnational_video_festival_Forward=BB2018?= Message-ID: e-artnow: 06.04.2008 Call for entries: Volgograd International video festival Forward»2018  Volgograd International video festival Forward»2018 Art Incubator "Videology" 400131, Russia, Volgograd, Prospekt Lenina, 21, GUK Volgograd Museum of Graphic Arts Phone: +79061685301 Fax: +79061685301 Contact: Fedor Yermolov forward at interra34.ru www.forward.interra34.ru/english.htm DEADLINE For works sent by snail-mail – 20th of April 2008. For works sent by FTP – 1st of May 2008. Volgograd International video festival Forward»2018 Invites artists and curators to participate Volgograd International Video Festival Forward»2018 announces the start of accepting works and invites artists and curators to participate. Festival will take place in Volgograd in May-June 2008 and it is planned that it will have the usual cinema hall format as well as online format in the Internet. It will allow presenting the festival programme not only to local, but also world wide audience. Works of multiple genres can participate: from short-length films and video art to animated cartoons and documentaries. It will be the Civil Jury that will evaluate the works, and it will involve specialists of different culture areas, but also, what is no less important – Citizens of Volgograd, recognizing their personal responsibility for social and cultural situation in the city. Besides, a Prize of Audience"s Sympathy will be awarded. Manifest Volgograd is an extraordinary city. Extraordinary and sophisticated – in many ways. It emerged from ruins in times of the Golden Horde in "no man"s land" between Europe and Asia (initially the fortress stood on an island amid mighty Volga, which was a boundary river then). Three times the city changed its name (and made it into history under sinister name of Stalin – it is here, in Stalingrad, where the decisive battle of the Second World War took place). It changed its appearance – from wooden fort to redbrick merchant town, from a pile of burnt bricks of war times to Empire style haughty polis. It incurved along the Volga bank – a pulsating vein of Russia, with a dot-and-dashed line (or rather unread Morse code message, where dots are plants and dashes – residential areas). Here everything is intermittent and pulsating. Vertical lines of sky scrapers under construction (and the main vertical – Mother Russia monument, the highest in the world), interlace with low blocks of residential houses; local transport-miracle – express tramway – dives underground, and then again comes on surface to broad daylight; a street rumble of a million-people-city changes to patriarchal silence of old patios… Everything is dashed and pulsating. So is the city"s cultural life. For the past few years Volgograd got acquainted with modern art on an international level again. Again – because before post-perestroika still air period international avant- garde art festivals already rioted here, the first of them being not in Russia even, but still in USSR. And again a new generation of modern artists appeared in the city – video-artists included. Not spouted from the old perestroika generation – but rather, jumped out of void, out of a pause in total Volgograd pulse. It"s exactly for this new, unknown generation (and by its forces) that this festival is being prepared. As a launching point, as a territory for a dialogue with equal young video-makers from all around the world… This festival is for the young in the first place. The number 2018 in the name of the festival is not a misprint, since today we invite to show their debut creative work those people who in 10 years time, in 2018, will become a formed core of modern art, We want to look forward together with You, forward into next decade. We want to show ourselves – to the city and to the world. We are not afraid of putting ourselves into world cultural context – even if the comparison would not be in our favour – and we invite young artists to come forward together with us. We invite the senior to show us their excellence. We want to learn, want to find our own place in modern culture. And perhaps, and why not – to lay foundation of a new local cultural tradition, which would not be intermitted. Planned programmes Forward– competitive programme for young artists (under 33 years of age). REview – Competitive programme for artists above 33 years of age. Each artist can submit TWO works, one of which represents the opening stage of his creative work, and the other – today"s stage. DEADLINE For works sent by snail-mail – 20th of April 2008. For works sent by FTP – 1st of May 2008. Festival"s organizers "Art-incubator "Videology" workshop with support from Volgograd regional NGO "Centre for cultural initiatives development" "InTerra". Contact information Address: 400131, Russia, Volgograd, Prospekt Lenina, 21, GUK Volgograd Museum of Graphic Arts mail: forward[a]interra34.ru www.forward.interra34.ru/english.htm UNSUBSCRIBE from e-artnow www.e-artnow.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Join us in Second Life! http://tinyurl.com/3auf7z Dead media unwinds time from its spools. Two electromagnetic machines capture the unfolding of an era in which memory encodes the loving caress of electron imprinted tape. Time out of joint falls in & out of tape sync; more inhuman than human loops the frequency. "I wanted my human experience with machinic love to have the intensity of a hands-on relationship." Thus, van Veen turned to reel-to-reel (RTR) tape machines and Konstantin Raudive's experiments with blank media in which he attempted to record the 'voices of the dead'. (Little did van Veen know that John Hudak was exploring similar terrain in "Voices from the Paradise Network".) "This led to a series of investigations of the sonic realm arising between two networked R2R machines, a simple mixer and a DSP processor (to add spatialization and stereo channel manipulation to sometimes mono signals). These investigations revealed a performative realm, a space to improvise and to develop a capacity to 'play' the machines, or rather tweak & twiddle their hard knobs into spasms of ecstasy, cries of joy &, at times, moans of despair. The machines sang to me & each other, & I was drawn into the deadzone..." ['til death do us a part] is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for Networked_Music_Review. It was made possible with funding from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. BIOGRAPHY Tobias c. van Veen is a renegade theorist and pirate, techno-turntablist and writer. Since 1993 he has directed conceptual and sound-art events, online interventions and radio broadcasts, working with STEIM, the New Forms Festival, the Banff Centre, Eyebeam, the Video-In, MUTEK, MDCN.ca, the Vancouver New Music Society and Hexagram. His work has appeared in CTheory, EBR, Bad Subjects, Leonardo, Locus Suspectus, FUSE (contributing editor), e/i, the Wire, HorizonZero and through Autonomedia, among others. He has sonic and mix releases on No Type's BricoLodge and the and/OAR labels. From 1993-2000 he was Direktor of the sonic performance Collective [shrumtribe.com] in Vancouver. He is co-founder of technoWest.org with Dave Bodrug, controltochaos.ca with DJ FISHEAD and thisistheonlyart.com with artist ssiess. From 2002-2007 Director of UpgradeMTL [upgrademtl.org] and Concept Engineer at the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT.qc.ca]. Tobias is doctoral candidate in Philosophy & Communication Studies at McGill University. For more Networked_Music_Review Commissions please visit http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/tags/nmr_commission Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade New American Radio: http://somewhere.org From raviv at sarai.net Thu Apr 10 11:08:19 2008 From: raviv at sarai.net (raviv at sarai.net) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:08:19 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] CSSSC workshop for beginning phd scholars Message-ID: <47FDA7CB.3030404@sarai.net> Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta WORKSHOP FOR BEGINNING DOCTORAL SCHOLARS, 2008 Theme: Inequalities and Differences Description: Inequalities and differences in the developing world have evolved historically. Caste, class, gender, ethnicity etc are reshaped to converge with circuits of global capital within and outside the nation-state. How do social and cultural mobilizations produce collective identities? Does the state’s intervention mitigate or reinforce disparities? What effects do solidarities and conflicts among the underprivileged have on society at large? The Workshop will address these and similar questions from the perspective of various social science disciplines. The Workshop is part of a project on ‘Training in New Social Science Research Methods’ being run by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). Eligibility: Candidates with (i) postgraduate degree in any of the social science disciplines (e.g., Economics, History, Sociology, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Environmental Science, Geography, Social Anthropology, Education) and (ii) who have either just begun or are intending to pursue doctoral research. Format: The Workshop will have two parts. First: ‘Teaching Session’: detailed discussion of pre-circulated readings by resource persons. Second: ‘Library Session’: formulation of research questions by participants under the supervision of resource persons. The 4-day workshop will be held from 1 July 2008 to 4 July 2008 at the CSSSC’s Baishnabghata-Patuli campus in Kolkata. The Workshop does not have any fees. Local hospitality and travel expenses of outstation participants will be covered by CSSSC with partial funding from Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust (NRTT). Deadline for receiving applications: 15 April 2008 Application: Each applicant is required to send a 500-word description of her/his proposed research along with curriculum vitae to the following address: The Registrar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta R-1, Baishnabghata-Patuli Township, Kolkata 700 094 OR Write to Madhuban Mitra, Research Officer, CSSSC-NRTT Programme: madhuban_mitra at cssscal.org From logos.theword at gmail.com Sat Apr 12 22:33:08 2008 From: logos.theword at gmail.com (Logos Theatre) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:33:08 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Shreds and Patches - A Solo Performance Based On The Works Of Shakespeare In-Reply-To: <33bc2ee60804121001h590e56c7uf198ce6f3cfeb3bb@mail.gmail.com> References: <33bc2ee60804121001h590e56c7uf198ce6f3cfeb3bb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <33bc2ee60804121003x44c06do73138748c8332f82@mail.gmail.com> Logos Theatre, in association with Natakvalas, is presenting 'Shreds and Patches' - a solo piece devised and performed by Arka Mukhopadhyay - on 23rd April, on the occasion of William Shakespeare's birth and death anniversary. The piece takes as its starting point the question : 'Who is *'my' *Shakespeare? What does he mean to me, as a performer, as an Indian, and as a human being?' An object of deep love and veneration, the ultimate symbol of human genius, or a disturbing symbol of the colonizing force of language? The piece attempts to find the answers in fragments of the bard's plays and sonnets themselves - the shreds and patches of him (the title is taken from the closet scene of Hamlet) that are reflected in various realms of our own experiences. The piece delves first into the troubling questions of staging Shakespeare, of finding his 'meaning', and ultimately, into the meaning of performance itself. It branches out in different directions - Into the exterior world of Bollywood and IT, Iraq and occupied Palestine, of intolerance and organized terror. Yet it is just as much an exploration of form and medium - trying to find, if possible, ways of looking at Shakespeare through the structure of ancient Indian theatre, probing into the universe of the performer's body and its relationship with the peformance space, and finally trying to unify the deeply personal and the universal in the playground of Shakespeare's texts. . Structured in the form of storytelling, the performance is essentially non-repeatable, for it makes itself as it goes along, relying only on its own internal logic to find direction, delving into the ephemeral heart of theatre itself – a tribute to the man who, more than anyone in any age or place, personifies the dramatic art; on the occasion of the anniversary of his birth and death. *At: Centre for Film and Drama, fifth floor, Sona Towers, Millers Road.* *On: April 23rd, at six PM and again at eight PM. * *Duration: fifty-five minutes* *Tickets: Rs. 200/-, available from April 16th onwards. * *Call 9844473429 for details and bookings. * ** -- Logos Theatre In the beginning was the word No. 126, 3rd Main Road, Jayamahal Extension, Bangalore 560046 -------------------------------------------------------- If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be. -- Logos Theatre In the beginning was the word No. 126, 3rd Main Road, Jayamahal Extension, Bangalore 560046 -------------------------------------------------------- If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes? Let be. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080412/54b9e23b/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_5971.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 50477 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080412/54b9e23b/attachment-0002.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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May 2008 ******************************************************************** Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED screen. CALL FOR FILM&VIDEO and MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS ******************** The Urban Screens 08 exhibition is looking for Artists, Urban Poets, Filmmakers and Multimedia and Interaction Designers to submit film and videos or multimedia, interactive or participatory screen based projects. A large diverse urban screens infrastructure is available at Federation Square. Criteria We are looking for existing and potentially adaptable projects that interrogate screen media as a medium| content and tackle the festival’s key themes of issues of building community and sustainability in relation to water. These two complex themes aim to provoke discussion and spark questions such as: What is community in times of the high-speed, global flows of the new media scape? How can we explore the diversity of water, an element, essential to the existence of life on earth? For a detailed description of the event and curatorial framework see www.urbanscreens08.net/art-+-events For a detailed description of Fed Squares infrastructure see www.urbanscreens08.net/technical The projects should preferably employ one or more of the listed existing infrastructure of urban screens of Fed Square and should consider and adapt to the special circumstances of outdoor public spaces, transforming urban spaces to foster dialogue and community engagement. We are looking for: A) Film and video such as - Video art, text art, animation, animated slideshows, or fictional advertisements and community information (under 3 min.) - Silent works especially for the joint broadcasting or daily screenings in-between (under 3 min.) - Short experimental films, documentary and journalistic content (under 15 min.) - Small curated programs of the mentioned type of works B) Interactive, performance based or participatory projects such as - Interactive software applications for urban screens - Participatory community projects using creative digital practices - Live media art merging performance and new media - Community displays for education and exchange - Virtual/real world hybrid projects using streaming content - Real-time generated content - Screen related sound experiments - Digital storytelling projects - Mobile games using urban space as social and educative playground - Connecting mobile culture of locative media with urban screens CALL FOR POSTERS ******************** To bridge the Conference and the Multimedia Exhibition, we are looking for posters about the latest development of Urban Screens. They will be displayed in a public exhibition in the Atrium next to the conference venue. Conference will be encouraged to get in exchange with the authors during the breaks. Eight submissions will be additionally shown in an experimental presentation on the four outdoor I-sites around Federation Square. These are equiped with an integrated screen, which offer the possibility to present remotely via scheduled skype sessions, while the audience gathers in groups around them. Criteria Posters are aimed at presenting the latest development in this interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. Posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results of ongoing research projects, drawing important conclusions from practical experiments, for giving an introduction to innovative art works or new practical design applications, reports on cutting edge technologies and content management systems under development. Posters will be reviewed by the Poster Committee, soon to be announced. Authors of accepted submissions must provide a one or two page summary for publication in the conference proceedings. Selected submissions will also be published on-line on the International Urban Screens Association website. APPLICATION AND DETAILED CALL ******************** Please have a look at the detailed calls and the official online forms for application, available at: http://www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects CONTACT exhibition at urbanscreens.net (please use the subject “USM08 - question concerning the CALL”) MAJOR EXHIBITION SPONSORS International Urban Screens Association - www.urbanscreens.net Fed Square Pty Ltd - www.federationsquare.com Barco ‘visibly yours’ - www.barco.com Circus - www.circusexp.com Pinnacle ‘Production Services’ - www.pinnacleps.com. 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For the past several years, Christensen's artistic practice has been based in extensive travel throughout the United States, surveying the ways in which communities are changing in the shadow of corporate real estate development. During these travels, she has often been struck by the similarities between Cleveland, a city of the Rust Belt, and New Orleans, a city of the bayou. Both cities dwell on the shores of bodies of water with global reach: Cleveland on Lake Erie, New Orleans on the Mississippi River. Both cities have seen the boom and bust of industry and population throughout their histories - past and present. Cleveland and New Orleans look remarkably different, but Christensen has often noticed that they have sounds in common: industry, birds, water, tourists. "Rust Belt / Bayou" offers an interactive document of aural snapshots from recent trips to both New Orleans and Cleveland. "Rust Belt / Bayou" is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for Networked_Music_Review. It was made possible with funding from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. BIOGRAPHY Julia Christensen is an artist whose work treads on the thin line between art and research. She also likes to tread on most of the thin lines between various media, between the electronic and the non-electronic, and between audience and performer. Julia is the author of "Big Box Reuse" (MIT Press, Fall 2008), a book about how communities are renovating abandoned Wal-Mart and K-Mart structures for creative new uses. Her photography, sound work, and electronic installations have shown recently at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Lincoln Center in New York City, and the DUMBO Art Center in Brooklyn, among other venues. Julia lectures widely about land use, art, music, and interdisciplinary research. She likes hearing stories, playing with her rock band in Troy, traveling in the depths of the United States, and thinking about the future. For more Networked_Music_Review Commissions please visit http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/tags/nmr_commission Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade New American Radio: http://somewhere.org From mitoo at sarai.net Wed Apr 16 16:02:40 2008 From: mitoo at sarai.net (Mitoo Das) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:02:40 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Talk @ Sarai by Rashmi Sadana Message-ID: <4805D5C8.10107@sarai.net> Hi all, This is a reminder for the talk we have tomorrow afternoon by Rashmi Sadana. The details for the talk is given below. Best, Mitoo. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Talk @ Sarai* "Koi Acchi Kitab": Transnational Markets and the Indian Publisher Speaker: Rashmi Sadana Date: *17th April 2008, Thursday* Time: *4:00 pm* Venue: *Seminar Room, CSDS * This paper begins with a provocation about the framing of Indian literature in the transnational marketplace, and then turns to a discussion of Ravi Dayal and the Hindi publishers of Ansari Road. I frame my interviews with literary publishers as an intellectual history of the present in order to ask : How did Hindi and English language publishers position themselves in the decades immediately after Independence? And, what might that tell us about the ways in which the two languages having been vying for national legitimacy ever since? The paper will juxtapose these transnational (London-New York) and local (Delhi) narratives of how to make "good books" in order to spark a larger discussion about how literature is produced, texts are interpreted and audiences cultivated. Rashmi Sadana received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 and, from 2003 till 2007, was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia University. She is now based in Delhi, completing a book manuscript about the intersection of language politics and Indian literary production and is co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080416/c7dae12c/attachment.html From chiarapassa at gmail.com Thu Apr 17 13:52:23 2008 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:22:23 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] ECOTRONICA.NET out now! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Friends & colleagues, we're very glad to announce that ECOTRONICA blog is out now at www.ecotronica.net ecotronica.net (bilingual eng/ita) is a blog that pays attention to electronic artworks designed with the purpose and method ecological based on recycling technologies and other forms of artistic expression. ecotronica.net is curate by Luigi Pagliarini & Chiara Passa but we are happy to involve other people interested in the marriage between hi-tech art and ecology. Cheers, Luigi Pagliarini & Chiara Passa -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa at gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://twitter.com/jogador Skype: ideasonair From waterjourneys at rediffmail.com Thu Apr 17 14:21:07 2008 From: waterjourneys at rediffmail.com (Water Journeys) Date: 17 Apr 2008 08:51:07 -0000 Subject: [Announcements] VFW08: Deadline for Entries Extended Message-ID: <20080417085107.5209.qmail@f5mail-237-242.rediffmail.com> Voices from the Waters 2008, The Biggest International Film Festival on Water will be held in Bangalore from 13th September, 2008 to 18th September, 2008. The deadline for acceptance of entries has been extended to 31st May, 2008. Kindly help spread the word by forwarding the new call for entries to your friends and acquaintainces. Voices from the Waters 2008 3rd International Film Festival on Water CALL FOR ENTRIES Bangalore Film Society, Arghyam, Svaraj- Society for Voluntary Action Revitalization and Justice, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, USA (FLEFF) Mountainfilm in Telluride, USA, Alliance Francaise de Bangalore and Water Journeys - Campaign for Fundamental Right to Water are organizing the third International 'Voices from the Waters'- the biggest international film festival on water in August 2008 following on the footsteps of the hugely popular and successful events in 2005 and 2007. This consortium of committed organizations active in water issues are inviting you to be part of this festival by contributing short, documentary, animation and feature films (DVD format only) with English subtitles on water and related issues. Also include a photograph and CV of the film-maker, a minimum of three film stills and a short synopsis of the film. You are also most welcome to send us photographs for exhibition at the festival. The first edition of 'Voices from the Waters' was held in April 2005 in collaboration with Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, while the second was held in June 2007 in Bangalore, India by a consortium of organizations. With the overwhelming success and the positive responses to the festival from across the globe and the urgency of the water issue to a planet headed towards catastrophe, 'Voices from the Waters' is being organized as an annual event of images and sounds, of films, songs, photo and art exhibitions, lectures and conferences, a platform for diverse voices – free as water as nature intended it to be. If you have a film under the following categories: 1. Water Scarcity, 2. The Dams and the Displaced, 3. Water Harvest, 4. Water Struggles, 5. Floods and Droughts, 6. Global Warming and Climate Change, 7. Impact of Deforestation on Water Bodies and 8. Water and Life, you should consider sending it to us so that we may place them in the festival. All entries will be acknowledged. 'Voices from the Waters' is a public awareness program and while there is no entry fee for the festival, the final short-list for the festival will be decided from the entries by a committee comprised of eminent film-makers, film critics and social activists. This is also conceived as a traveling film festival. Deadline for entries is 31st May, 2008 . For more information, contact us at the address below. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, The organizing committee If there is magic on this planet it is contained in water - Loran Eisley Contact:- Georgekutty A.L. Secretary, Bangalore Film Society, 33/1-9, Thyagaraja Layout, Jai Bharath Nagar, MS Nagar P.O., Bangalore- 560 033. Karnataka, India Tel: 91- 80- 25493705 Email: bangalorefilmsociety at gmail.com , waterjourneys at rediffmail.com http://www.voicesfromthewaters.   Campaign for the fundamental right to water, C/o No.33/1-9, Thyagaraj Layout, Jai Bharath Nagar, Maruthisevanagar P.O, Bangalore-560 033. "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water" - Loran Eisley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080417/059a7a39/attachment-0001.html From bordaeok at yahoo.co.in Tue Apr 22 18:53:16 2008 From: bordaeok at yahoo.co.in (Anandamoy Banerji) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:53:16 +0530 (IST) Subject: [Announcements] Fw: Ananda Moy Banerji , Exhibition invitation Message-ID: <957387.42392.qm@web94603.mail.in2.yahoo.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080422/b54f6b47/attachment.html From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Apr 22 11:57:47 2008 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (cologneOFF) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:27:47 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?call=3A_CologneOFF_IV_-_extended_d?= =?iso-8859-1?q?eadline?= Message-ID: <20080422082748.6CD63C22.904938AF@192.168.0.3> Call for entries: extended deadline: Friday, 1 August 2008 --------------------------- CologneOFF IV - 4th edition of Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org is planned to be launched in October/November 2008 under the festival theme: Here We Are! - "memory" and "identity" in an experimental context ---------------------------------------------------- Entry ---------------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org invites artists and directors for submitting videos/films, i.e. narratives and documentations (max 15 min.) experimenting with new concepts of transforming artistic contents into moving images, new forms of representing und new technologies extended deadline: 1 August 2008 All entry details and the submission form can be found on netEX - networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=238 ---------------------------------------------------- About CologneOFF ---------------------------------------------------- CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org was founded in 2006 by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne. He is directing and curating this new type of film & video festival taking place simultaneously online and physical space in cooperation with partner festivals The first 3 festival editions CologneOFF I - "Identityscapes" - 2006 CologneOFF II - "Image vs Music" - 2006 CologneOFF III - "Toon! Toon! - art cartoons and animates narriatives" - 2007 were presented between 2006 and 2008 in cooperation with festivals in New Dehli/India, Rotterdam/NL, Maracaibo/Venezuela, Rosario/Argentina, Lyon/France, Belgrade/Serbia, Szeczin/Poland, Brussels/Belgium, Istanbul/Turkey, Guadalajara/Mexico, Athens/Greece, Sarajevo/Bosnia-Hercegovia and others More info on http://coff.newmediafest.org ------------------------------------------- This call is released by netEX - networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex . info (at) nmartproject.net From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Apr 23 13:22:48 2008 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (soundNET) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:52:48 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?call=3A_SoundLAB_VI_-_soundPOOL?= Message-ID: <20080423095248.8144C1C9.5893F0F2@192.168.0.3> Call for proposals Deadline: 30 November 2008 ------------------------------------------------ SoundLAB - sonic art project environments http://soundlab.newmediafest.org released a new call for its 6th edition to be launched in March 2009 - SoundLAB VI - soundPOOL - sound compositions - a challenge for imagination - SoundLAB is looking for its 6th edition sound compositions which represent a real challenge for human imagination All details, the complete call, the regulations and entry form can be found here http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=242 ------------------------------------------------ SoundLAB IV - "memoryscapes" http://soundlab.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=20 incorporating sound works by 144 soundartists - previously also presented in Palestine, Poland, Italy and Argentina and on FILE Hipersonica Festival 2007 Sao Paulo/Brazil, was participating recently in FILE - Electronic Language Festival Rio 2008 http://www.file.org.br 26 February - 29 March 2008 ------------------------------------------------ Visit also SoundLAB I -V on SoundLAB - sonic art project environments http://soundlab.newmediafest.org corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne www.nmartproject.net directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne. ----------------------------------------------- Released by netEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net info (at) nmartproject.net From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Apr 23 14:58:25 2008 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (Cinematheque) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:28:25 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] =?iso-8859-1?q?Slowtime=3F_-_Quicktime_as_an_arti?= =?iso-8859-1?q?stic_medium?= Message-ID: <20080423112826.7DEADF31.1A3C23FA@192.168.0.3> Cinematheque - streaming media environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net completed recently the 6 months lasting program on Cinema_C, entitled: Slowtime? - Quicktime as an artistic medium presenting from November 2007 until April 2008 each month a new program featuring another 13 artists' Quicktimes. The complete online program including 76 Quicktime videos offers the visitor a variety of aspects how Quicktime is used by artists as a streaming medium. Cinema_C can be entered here ---> http://cinema.nmartproject.net/blog/?page_id=14 ------------------------------------------------- Cinematheque is corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net - Cinema_C and its Quicktime program were realized in the framework of NewMediaFest2007 - http://2007.newmediafest.org ------------------------------------------------- Released by netEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net . info (at) nmartproject.net From mitoo at sarai.net Mon Apr 28 14:41:29 2008 From: mitoo at sarai.net (Mitoo Das) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:41:29 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] LINE- The First City Theatre Foundation Message-ID: <481594C1.7030204@sarai.net> THE FIRST CITY THEATRE FOUNDATION presents *LINE* Based on the play by Israel Horovitz Directed by Neel Chaudhuri & Mallika Taneja May 3 and 4, Stein Auditorium | 7 PM | India Habitat Centre Tickets priced at Rs. 300, 200, 100 and 50 ------------------------------------------------ *About the Play* One by one a group of unacquainted people come together to form a line for some unnamed, upcoming event. Gradually, the struggle for first place begins, and as they lie, cheat, wrestle and push to gain the lead spot an extraordinary panorama of human frailty is made explosively and hilariously real. As, in the end, are the deviousness, the competitiveness, and the pettiness of the small, wasting battles with which we litter our lives. Israel Horovitz's */Line/* is the longest running play in off-Broadway history. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080428/7132c78f/attachment.html From zubi_robin123 at yahoo.com Sun Apr 27 16:05:34 2008 From: zubi_robin123 at yahoo.com (indigo_rebellion) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:35:34 -0000 Subject: [Announcements] [infosouth] Need Your Help. Message-ID: I'm a retired cameraman from India now living in Sydney, Australia with my two kids and wife since 2002. I would like to introduce to this group a blog and would request each of you to take a look. The views are radical and not all of them I would second yet I felt someone from this group might be interested to assist. They are in urgent need of a good documentary editor. I enjoyed working with them n know that they are one of India's finest teams. The blog's id is: http://jan-madhyam.blogspot.com/ Salute Zubi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080427/31c7557c/attachment-0001.html