From naravive at gmail.com Mon Mar 3 17:00:50 2008 From: naravive at gmail.com (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:00:50 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Almost Island Dialogues 2: March 6-9, New Delhi Message-ID: <79705fb50803030330l1e5f6211nb2b3c91be15b40b7@mail.gmail.com> ALMOST ISLAND: DIALOGUES 2 MARCH 6TH TO 9TH 2008: INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, DELHI Almost Island is a new online literary magazine based in India, but international in scope. We have been trying to slowly unfold and discover a specific kind of intervention in the Indian context: we conceive of and believe in poetry and prose on an equal footing, are interested in and open to (but certainly not simplistically beholden to) the idea of global literary avant-gardes and, more generally, literature of a philosophical nature. We are not afraid of difficulty, complexity, or seriousness, and we're certainly not afraid of the effects and legacy of more than a century of literary modernism! Part of this agenda is also to foster a higher and more intense level of literary engagement at the local level by bringing major voices from around the world in contact with Indian writers. The idea here is not so much to be absorbed into the making of literary celebrity, or to make a festival of India's supposed arrival on the world stage, but to listen closely and to find ways to think through literature as practicing writers and not as academics, without, on the other hand, "dumbing down". This year the conference will extend from the evening of 6th March 2008 to the evening of 9th March 2008, at the India International Centre (IIC), Delhi. There will be readings each evening, including a rudraveena concert by Bahauddin Dagar on the night of 6th March. During the day, there will be extended discussions and talks. The evening readings, from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th March are open to all. The day sessions are also open to all interested participants, but **please note that we can only provide lunch for a limited number of participants who have pre-registered**. If you have any questions or clarifications, please contact Kavita Bhanot at 9871716994 / bhanot.kavita at gmail.com. Please find a detailed programme below: 1) bios of panelists / readers; 2) schedule of evening readings; and 3) details of the day sessions. *1. PANELISTS AND READERS: ALMOST ISLAND DIALOGUES 2* Bei Dao* is considered the most notable of the "misty poets", a group pf Chinese poets who opposed the restrictions of the Cultural Revolution; his oblique verses were memorized by students and chanted at Tiananmen Square, and as a result he went into in exile from China from 1989 to 2006, when he was allowed to return to Hong Kong, where he is currently based. Despite his fame and the political circumstances of his life, he has continued to write a poetry that is both formally experimental and insistently difficult, responding to politics in hidden ways, influenced by the work of Paul Celan. He is also the editor in chief of the influential Chinese literary journal, Jintian. He has won numerous awards and has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. *Nabaneeta Dev Sen* is one of Bengal's leading writers. She is the author of over fifteen novels, three books of poetry, children's books, plays and translations. Her two recent novels are *Dwiragaman* and *Ramdhan Mittir Lane*. Her most recent collection of poetry is *Shreshtha Kabita*. In 2000 she was awarded the Padma Shri for her contribution to Literature. She has been for many years, a Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University in Kolkata. *Claudio Magris* is the author of the novels *A Different Sea* and *Inferences from a Sabre*, along with scholarly works on Austrian and Central European literature. In the English speaking world, he is known principally as the author of two books, *Danube* (a journey from the source to the mouth of the river) and *Microcosms*, densely allusive literary journeys that seem to take the genre of "travelogue" into a class of their own. Magris teaches German literature at the University in Trieste and has been for many years a columnist for the Italian daily Corriere Della Sera. He has been awarded several prizes, among them the Strega Prize and the Erasmus Prize, and has also been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. *Allan Sealy* is the author of several acclaimed novels including *The Trotter Nama*, *The Everest Hotel*, *The Brainfever Bird* and *Red*. He was awarded the Commonwealth Prize for *The Trotter Nama* and is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award. *George Szirtes* is one of England's leading poets as well as the translator of several works from the Hungarian, including novels by Sandor Marai and Lazlo Krasznakorkai. He has over fifteen collections of poetry, the most recent being *An English Apocalypse* and *Reel*, which won the T.S. Eliot prize, Britain's highest honour for a single book of poetry, in 2005. He currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. *Udayan Vajpeyi* is a poet, short story writer and essayist. Among his books are *Sudeshna*, a book of short stories, two collections of poetry, *Kuch Vakya* and *Paagal Ganitajna ki Kavitayen*, and *Abhed Akash*, a book of conversations with Mani Kaul. He has also translated the work of Paz, Borges and Brodsky into Hindi. Mr. Vajpeyi has also written texts for films directed by Sudhansu Misra and Kumar Shahani. He is a recipient of the Krishan Baldev Vaid award and is a medical doctor by training. Vivek Narayanan's first book of poems, *Universal Beach*, appeared in 2006. He is an associate editor at the Boston-based international poetry annual, *Fulcrum*, and is consulting editor of *Almost Island*. He is based in Delhi, and works at Sarai-CSDS. *Sharmistha Mohanty* is the author of two novels, *Book One* and *New Life*. Her translation of Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, *Broken Nest and Other Stories* is due out later this year from Westland Books. She is the editor of *Almost Island*. 2. SCHEDULE OF EVENING READINGS: ALMOST ISLAND DIALOGUES 2 March 6th-9th, 6:30 p.m. Venue: *India International Centre Annexe Lawns* *March 6th – 6.30 pm* Udayan Vajpeyi Bei Dao And closing with a dhrupad performance by Bahauddin Dagar on the rudra-veena. *March 7th – 6.30 pm* Allan Sealy Nabaneeta Dev Sen *March 8th – 6.30 p.m.* Vivek Narayanan George Szirtes *March 9th – 6.30 p.m.* Sharmistha Mohanty Claudio Magris *3. PROGRAMME FOR DISCUSSIONS DURING THE DAY* The discussions at these dialogues emerge from our own concerns at Almost Island. We are committed to writing that is continually seeking new paths. More specifically, these discussions emerge from the writers who come together for these dialogues---their work, their thoughts. We welcome an audience that is keen to listen and to interact, question, disagree. *MARCH 7, 2008* VENUE: Conference Room I, above the library, India International Centre SESSION 1: 10.00 a.m. – 1 p.m. Panelists: Bei Dao, George Szirtes, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Udayan Vajpeyi, Vivek Narayanan Bei Dao says, "Many poets separate their experience from the language they use in poetry, but in the case of some, like Paul Celan, there is a fusion, a convergence of experience and experimental language." Can this separation, and this fusion, be explored? George Szirtes says, "Speaking personally, I suspect the poet's key experience is of the simultaneous treacherousness, fragility and beauty of language, of the narrow divide between signification and meaninglessness or distortion of meaning. This is related to the question of community. How far is the language of the community to be trusted? What if the community doesn't trust you? What kind of language are you left with outside the community?" Can we look at these questions through the tools of the craft---syntax, diction, metaphor? And, says Nabaneeta Dev Sen, "What about the silences, what the poet does not wish to say? SESSION 2: 2.30 – 5.00 p.m. A conversation with Bei Dao with Sharmistha Mohanty and Vivek Narayanan) *MARCH 8, 2008*: VENUE: Conference Room I, above the library, India International Centre SESSION 3: 10.00 a.m. – 1 p.m. A talk by Claudio Magris on the search for form in his work, in conversation with Sharmistha Mohanty. SESSION 4: 2.30 – 5 p.m. Conference Room I, above the library, India International Centre Panelists: Sharmistha Mohanty, Claudio Magris, Allan Sealy, Nabaneeta Dev Sen "What then is the place of fact in the writer's imagination? By fact I mean factual knowledge—whether of history, or geology, or natural processes--information now so widely available to us about the world. I do not mean historical novels here, or novels based on obvious realities like a war, or a natural disaster, I do not mean works of representation. I mean works of prose where the writer uses different kinds of facts, related or unrelated, and unifies them in her own vision, creating a new experience, a new insight. "The writer of literature does not use fact as sociological observation, and stand back. Her self is committed and she builds from the emotions and ambiguities and mysteries that the fact itself generates. The late W. G. Sebald was a great practitioner of this mode of writing. "How then does fact work as an element that builds emotion and insight, how does it push the imagination further?" --Sharmistha Mohanty *MARCH 9, 2008* VENUE: FOUNTAIN LAWNS, IIC SESSION 5: 10.00 a.m. – 1 p.m. Panelists: Allan Sealy, Udayan Vajpeyi, George Szirtes, Vivek Narayanan "I'm interested in the idea of looking vs. reading, that is, gathering one's material from the world as opposed to gathering it from books. This is only partly the contemporary / historical divide; it's also a fact / fiction fight, with the imagination and truth as referees." —Allan Sealy "As I understand it, Allan's statement points to a long and varied tradition in literature that (even as it draws on its own past for sustenance) specifically refuses or qualifies "book learning" and insists instead on the primacy of direct perception and—perhaps?—the truth of experience as well. It's a tradition of "witness" (I think) that could be drawn through the bhakti poets and William Blake, or from Thoreau through to Gandhi, or indeed, from Darwin. (I set aside the debate over empiricism / vision for the moment.) Of course on one end of the scale, this is the naïve belief of many a young writer who might take it as an excuse not to read; but for an experienced writer (who is by definition well read) it represents a very different challenge. Allan's emphasis on "looking" underlines the fact that it is an active and focused engagement rather than something to be taken for granted. This, in a way, could be understood as literature's special insistence even in our age, its gift to the disciplines. In a sense, and in a sense only, this is the opposite of the "fact" drawn from "sources", and it is found not just in fiction but in lyric as well. It relates equally to the relationship between experience and language that will come up in our first panel. "However, it can be harder, today, to make a case for "gathering material from the world" (or from the self in the world) as a separate, oppositional activity. Even if we look beyond postmodernist theories that profoundly question the very possibility of unmediated perception and / or experience, we are still stuck with the incredible glut of books and data that we cannot turn our eyes away from, the very fading away of the material world as information itself becomes a kind of material. In a current sequence of poems, Mr. Subramanian, I find myself exploring this mediated reality and somehow stubbornly, despite everything, find myself looking for and returning to the truth of experience and of direct perception. What kind of sense does the "truth of experience" (and of witness) make today?" --Vivek Narayanan SESSION 6: 2.30 – 5.00 P.M. 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Brun, Editions L'Harmattan, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35502-tit--Trois-plaidoyers-pour-un-art -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 002 (28/02/2008) Call for Participation: HoritzoTV, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35506-tit-Appel-a-partitipation-HoritzoTV- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 003 (28/02/2008) Publication: [d]écrire - [be]schreiben, entre Nice et Berlin, Germany. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35511-tit--d-ecrire- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 004 (28/02/2008) Call: Film Festival Tour 2008, Germany. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35518-tit--Film-Festival-Tour-2008- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 005 (28/02/2008) Call: e-MobiLArt: European Mobile Lab for Interactive Artists, Workshops, Europe. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35519-tit-Appel-a-Candidature-e-MobiLArt-European -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 006 (28/02/2008) Call: Web Flash Festival, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35520-tit--Web-Flash-Festival- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 007 (28/02/2008) Call: Photography competition 2008 pixelcreation, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35521-tit--Concours-de-photographie-2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 008 (28/02/2008) Call: Festival of Regions 2009, Normality, Ottensheim, Austria. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35522-tit--Festival-of-Regions-2009-Normality- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 009 (28/02/2008) Job: Director Casco, office for art, Utrecht, Netherlands. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35523-tit--Casco-office-for-art-Pays-Bas- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 010 (28/02/2008) Call: Hack.Fem.East. Berlin, Germany. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35525-tit--Hack-Fem-East-Berlin- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 011 (28/02/2008) Appel à candidature : European Sound Delta, Radio Art, Europe. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35526-tit--European-Sound-Delta-Radio-Art- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 012 (28/02/2008) Call for participation: city hall elections, Fred Forest, Nice, Second Life. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35529-tit--Elections-municipales-creation-Fred -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 013 (29/02/2008) Call for participation: Call for Papers for the symposium, the political voice of artists "La parole politique des artistes", MSH Paris Nord, Saint-Denis, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35536-tit--Appel-a-contributions-pour-le-colloque- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 014 (29/02/2008) Meetings: Ernest Pignon-Ernest : a theater in the silent noise of the city, Friday, February 29, 2008, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35539-tit--Ernest-Pignon-Ernest-un-theatre -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 015 (29/02/2008) Residencies: Abbaye de la Pree, Pour Que l’Esprit Vive Association , Segry, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35541-tit--Abbaye-de-la-Pree-Association-Pour-Que -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 017 (29/02/2008) Residencies: visual artist, La malterie, Lille, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35543-tit--Artistes-plastitiens-La-malterie-Lille- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 018 (29/02/2008) Residencies: arts visuels, Le point Ephemere, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35545-tit--arts-visuels-Le-point-Ephemere-Paris- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 019 (29/02/2008) Call: "Parole Photographique" competition, Actuphoto.com, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35546-tit--concours-Parole-Photographique- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 020 (29/02/2008) Call: New York Photo Awards 2008, New York, Usa. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35547-tit--New-York-Photo-Awards-2008-New-York- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 021 (29/02/2008) Call: "Bourse du Talent #34 REPORTAGE" competition, photographie.com, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35548-tit--Bourse-du-Talent-34-REPORTAGE- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 022 (01/03/2008) Meetings: Cultural programme in March 2008, conference room, ensba, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35512-tit--culturel-mars-2008-salle-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 023 (01/03/2008) Publication: (U)L.S n°0, (Un)Limited store, Lendroit, Rennes, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35516-tit--U-L-S-n-0-Un-Limited-store-Lendroit- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 024 (01/03/2008) Residencies: Artist In Residence, Balatonfured/Csopak, Hungary. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35540-tit-Residences-Artist-In-Residence- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 025 (01/03/2008) Call for Participation: Call for contributions: Days CEAQ 2008, University Paris Descartes - Sorbonne, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35544-tit--appel-a-contribution-Journees-du-CEAQ -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 026 (02/03/2008) Call: Seoul International Film Festival, Korea. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35524-tit--Seoul-International-Film-Festival- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 027 (03/03/2008) Meetings: Signals in the City, Exhibition & Colloquium, 3 March – 2 May 2008, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35441-tit--Signals-in-the-City-Exhibition- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 028 (03/03/2008) Job: The digital hub des Beaux Arts in Paris recruits: audiovisual technician, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35504-tit--Le-pole-numerique-des-Beaux-arts-de-Paris -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 029 (03/03/2008) Meetings: Numerica, generic-festival, Montbeliard, Mulhouse, Belfort, Besançon, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35508-tit--Numerica-generic-festival-Montbeliard- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 030 (03/03/2008) Divers : Program for the 10th Spring of Poets "10e Printemps des Poetes" « Eloge de l’autre », Crossroads, crosses, interchanges, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35537-tit-Divers-programme-pour-le-10e-Printemps-des -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 031 (03/03/2008) Publication : "When artists, dissidents and Jews fleeing the Nazis " Quand les artistes, les dissidents et les Juifs fuyaient les nazis (Marseille, 1940-1941), Varian Fry, Editions Agone, Marseille, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35551-tit--Quand-les-artistes-les-dissidents-et-les -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 032 (03/03/2008) Call: 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge in San Jose, Usa. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35550-tit--2nd-Biennial-01SJ-Global-Festival-of-Art -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 033 (03/03/2008) Publication: N°1, review So Multiples, Review of french editions of contemporary artists, Lille, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35552-tit--N-1-La-revue-So-Multiples-Revue -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 034 (03/03/2008) Call fo participation: Call for Papers, a publication of Issue 2 of the review So Multiples, Lille, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35553-tit--Appel-a-contribution-publication-du -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 035 (03/03/2008) Publication: Launch of the review Pause, Frac Bourgogne, ut of the first issue in April 2008, Dijon, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35555-tit--Lancement-de-la-revue-Pause-Frac -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 036 (04/03/2008) Meetings: Symposium at the School of Fine Arts in Nantes, 4, 5 and 6 March 2008, Nantes, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35442-tit--Colloque-a-l-ecole-des-beaux-arts-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 037 (05/03/2008) Meetings: Pascale Cassagnau, Observatoire des nouveaux medias, March 5, 2008, Ensad, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35538-tit--Pascale-Cassagnau-Observatoire-des -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 038 (06/03/2008) Various: Evening poetry readings and performances, Ecole d'Art de Calais, Calais, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35558-tit-Divers-Soiree-lectures-poesies-et -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 039 (07/03/2008) Meetings: Educational Programs of the Centre Pompidou, Festival du reel, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35510-tit--s-educatifs-du-Centre-Pompidou-Festival -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 040 (08/03/2008) Meetings: LES SCIENCES BRUITISTES, Instants chavirés, March 8, 2008, Montreuil, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35444-tit--LES-SCIENCES-BRUITISTES-Instants -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 041 (12/03/2008) Meetings: From the point at line: continuities and discontinuities in aboriginal art practices, the seminar « Art et changement social ; l’artification », Ehess, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35430-tit--Du-point-a-la-ligne-continuites-et -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 042 (12/03/2008) Meetings: Workshop, Claude Rutault, definitions and methods, Wednesday, March 12, 2008, INHA, Paris, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35549-tit--Journee-d-etude-Claude-Rutault- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 043 (14/03/2008) Exhibition: Exhibition Marc Geneix / Sebastian Maloberti, exhibition space Falexpo, Clermont-Ferrand, France. http://www.pourinfos.org/art-35534-tit--Marc-Geneix-Sebastien-Maloberti- From kj.impulse at gmail.com Wed Mar 5 14:08:43 2008 From: kj.impulse at gmail.com (Kavita Joshi) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:08:43 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] =?windows-1252?q?4th_IAWRT_ASIAN_WOMEN=92S_FILM_F?= =?windows-1252?q?ESTIVAL_2008?= Message-ID: <821019d70803050038h1227ada4sa2d518e17826e7d9@mail.gmail.com> 4th IAWRT ASIAN WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL 2008 Presented by the IIC – Asia Project, UNESCO and the IAWRT (International Association of Women in Radio and Television) on 7th + 8th March 2008 at the India International Centre, Lodi Estate, New Delhi [No passes needed. Entry by Free Registration at the venue. All are welcome.] Broadly woven around the theme of "Insights and Aspirations", this year's festival brings together 24 films by Asian women directors from 5 countries. The highlights of the festival include Paromita Vohra's incisive "Morality TV and the Loving Jehad", Rajula Shah's exquisite "Word within the Word", Kato Haruyo's touching Cheese and the Worms, Vani Subramaniam's Ayodhya Gatha, Nishtha Jain's Lakshmi and Me, and Madhushree Datta's Scribbles on Akka. This year's festival screens several short fiction works including Mira Nair's short film on HIV and Nandita Das' public interest spots. The festival also includes animation films, talks and presentations. For more information: iawrtindia.blogspot.com Contact us: iawrtindia(AT)gmail.com with cc to: jaichandiram(AT)yahoo.co.uk For schedule: see below 7TH MARCH 2008, FRI 09:30 AM: REGISTRATION 10:00 AM: INAUGURATION, foll. by EVERYDAY [7m / 2007 / India] by Anupama Srinivasan / onusrinivasan[AT]hotmail.com A reflection on relationships. A story of a pigeon. MANPASAND – THE PERFECT MATCH [11m / 2006 / India] by Dhwani Desai / dhvanidesai[AT]yahoo.com An animation film about the journey of a father in search of a suitable groom for his daughter. 11:00 AM TEA BREAK 11:30 AM MORALITY TV & THE LOVING JEHAD [29m / 2007 / India] by Paromita Vohra / info[AT]psbt.org The film looks outside the frames that weave the frenetic tapestry of Breaking News on India's news channels to uncover a town's complex dynamics – the fear of love, the constant scrutiny and control of women's mobility and sexuality, a history of communal violence, caste brutalization and feudal mindsets. 12:00 NOON KNOWING FOR SURE, WITHOUT KNOWING FOR CERTAIN: HOW I MAKE FILMS [30min] An illustrated presentation by Paromita Vohra parodevi[AT]mtnl.net.in 12:30 PM OCCAM'S RAZOR – ISHRAT JEHAN'S VERY EASY DEATH by [24m/ 2005/ India] Priti Chandriani / Chandriani[AT]pace-productions.com Raises questions about the manner in which encounter killings are carried out in this country. 1:00 PM: LUNCH BREAK 2:00 PM: LAKSHMI AND ME [59m / 2008 / India] by Nishtha Jain / raintreefilms[AT]gmail.com The filmmaker explores her changing relationship with Lakshmi, her part-time maid. foll. by TAAZA KHABAR [31m/ 2006/ India] by Bishakha Dutta / magiclantern.foundation[AT]gmail.com An all-woman team of journalists publish "Khabar Lahariya" from a small town in Uttar Pradesh, covering all the news that the mainstream media forgot. foll. by LEAP FROG [4m / 2007 / India] by Nandita Das / leapfrog.india[AT]lycos.com 3 spots on education and water harvesting. 3:30 PM TEA BREAK 4:00 PM EK AJEEB SI JHUNJLAHAT [3 m / 2007 / India] by Ein Lall / einlall2004[AT]yahoo.co.uk The covered face, the pestle, the mortar; the excessive force with which the pestle swings down; the remorseless regularity of stone pounding on stone; all contribute to a strange tremor of unease…. foll. by GODDESSES [42m / 2007 / India] by Leena Manimekalai / cjerrold[AT]gmail.com Notes from the lives of three extraordinary women – a funeral singer, a fisherwoman & a graveyard worker. 4:45 PM M S AMMA: A SHY GIRL FROM MADURAI [22m / 2007/ India] Swati Thiyagrajan / NDTV A journey into the life and times of the legendary M S Subalakshmi through the eyes of her granddaughter. foll. by LOSING TO WIN [22 / 2007 / India] Uma Sudhir / NDTV On Gujarati Muslim families sending their children away from their "watan" to complete their studies. 5:30 PM BREAK 6:30 PM MIGRATION [18 m / 2007 / India] by Mira Nair / shenny.italia[AT]gmail.com The film deals with the AIDS virus as a great class leveller in society by following its transmission through interweaving stories linking urban and rural India. foll. by THE CHEESE & THE WORMS [98 m / 2005 / Japan] by Kato Haruyo / info[AT]chee-uji.com The director affectionately captures her sick mother's final days with her grandmother and brother's family. 8:30 PM CLOSE --------------------------------------------------------------------- 8TH MARCH 2008, SAT 9:30 AM SHADOWS OF FREEDOM [36 m / 2004 / India] by Sabina Kidwai / sabinakidwai8[AT]gmail.com Traces the history of three women in a Muslim family and how the issues of identity and gender conflict with their lives and that of their family. foll. by OUTSOURCED [49 m / 2006 / Aus.] by Safina Uberoi, Anna Cater / anna[AT]mitrafilms.com.au A portrait of four women working inside an Indian call centre and their battle with workers in countries like Australia for jobs on globalisation's new frontier. 11:05 AM: TEA BREAK 11:30 AM DESIRE AND REPETITION: THE MINIATURIZATION OF THE NEW HINDI SONG MUSIC [25 min] A presentation by Shikha Jhinghan / shikha.jhingan[AT]gmail.com Tracing the development of female singers in popular Hindi film music. 11:55 AM REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PRESENT [80 m/ 2007/ India] by Chandra Siddan / zeidler[AT]sympatico.ca; abulafi[AT]hotmail.com A woman enquires into her first marriage forced on her when she was a child. 1:15 PM LUNCH BREAK 2:00 PM THE BIRTH OF BRAIN FLY [6 m / 2007 / USA] by Nandita Kumar / mermaidontherock[AT]gmail.com An animation charting the surreal course of a psyche's evolution within the invisible landscape of the mind. foll. by SCRIBBLES ON AKKA [60 m / 2006 / India] Madhushree Dutta / majlis.culture[AT]gmail.com On the 12th century Bhakti poet, Mahadevi Akka. A film on identity, rebellion and bhakti. 3:10 PM TEA BREAK 3:30 PM ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES [30 min] A presentation by Iffat Fatima / iffatiffat[AT]hotmail.com Documenting the movement and struggle of Kashmiri women for redressal, justice and human rights from the local to the global platform. 4:00 PM THE SKY BELOW [75 m / 2007 / Pak./ India] Sarah Singh / seetheskybelow[AT]gmail.com A contemporary portrait of India and Pakistan vis-=E0-vis the lingering fallout of the Partition, from Kutch to Kashmir and Karachi to the Khyber Pass. 5:15 PM BREAK 6:30 PM AYODHYA GATHA [62 m / 2007 / India] by Vani Subramanian / vanishes[AT]gmail.com What does it mean to belong to a city that has become a symbol of religious intolerance, majoritarian aggression and communal tumult in India – Ayodhya? foll. by WORD WITHIN THE WORD [74 m / 2007 / India] Rajula Shah / rajulashah[AT]rediffmail.com The film witnesses how Kabir, the 14th century mystic poet resonates ordinary lives in 21st century India. 8:45 PM CLOSE --------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule subject to change. Kindly reconfirm at venue. Films will be followed by a discussion with the director, if present. IAWRT THANKS PSBT AND ALL THE FILMMAKERS WHO HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING THIS FESTIVAL WITH THEIR FILMS AND PARTICIPATION. ABOUT IAWRT: The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) is a non–profit organization of women working in electronic and allied media. IAWRT seeks to ensure that women's views and values become an integral part of programme making. It offers professional skill-training to women. It provides grants and fellowships, and presents awards of excellence. It helps members share inputs by organising workshops and festivals round the world. MORE ABOUT IAWRT INDIA and the FILM FESTIVAL: iawrtindia.blogspot.com From mitoo at sarai.net Wed Mar 5 11:46:51 2008 From: mitoo at sarai.net (Mitoo Das) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:46:51 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Off the Mantle #5- The First City Theatre Readings Message-ID: <47CE3AD3.7090108@sarai.net> OFF THE MANTLE #5 The First City Theatre Readings Homer's ODYSSEY as retold by Simon Armitage 12 March 2008 | 7PM | The Attic -- 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place (near The Shop) Email: theatre at firstcitydelhi.com | call: 011-46070317 It took ten years for the Greeks to achieve victory at Troy, and for a further ten years Odysseus has been heading home, his journey dogged by perilous storms and treacherous landfalls. Now the Gods have decided it is time for the wandering hero to find Ithaca ... Part of a wave of recent versions, reversions, metaversions and paraversions of Homer, Simon Armitage's jaunty retelling of The Odyssey was originally commissioned for BBC Radio. Unlike other recastings of this epic by the likes of Derek Walcott and Margaret Atwood, Armitage does not attempt to translate The Odyssey. His is a radically reduced and simplified version, comprised of a series of dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; between subtle Odysseus (wiliest hero of antiquity) and a range of shape-shifting adversaries - Calypso, Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops - as he and his men are 'pinballed between islands' by adversity. The First City Theatre Foundation is delighted to present scenes from Simon Armitage's retelling of this epic, hoping to quicken and revitalise our sense of it as oral poetry: as indeed one of the greatest of tall tales. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The potential of online distribution to advance social justice, human rights, environmental and other causes is significant. With this in mind Transmission Asia- Pacific (TX-AP) aims to bring together free software web developers and video activists from throughout the region to share skills and forge collaborations. TX-AP will bring together 50 people for five days on the edge of the Gede Pangrango National Park near Sukabumi, 120km from Jakarta. TX-AP will be a space for video makers to learn about free and open source video tools and interface with the technologists developing them. For developers it will be an opportunity to share skills and share code in order to be more effective. The meeting will allow developers to better understand the needs of video makers and for video makers to understand and contribute to the processes of development. TX-AP is a meeting of peers where everyone brings something to contribute. The TX-AP meeting will link into the existing Transmission network. Transmission is a network of video activists, artists, researchers, programmers and web producers who are developing online video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy. The network aims to build the necessary tools, standards, documentation and social networks to make independent online distribution possible. http://transmission.cc The core aims of the meeting are to * build a regional network of online video web developers, online video projects and video makers who can work together into the future * develop the skills of video activists in the areas of encoding, online distribution, open formats and Free software. * develop and discuss new online video tactics in campaigning * increase the uptake and collaboration around shared FOSS online video distribution tools such as Content Management Systems * build upon existing Transmission projects such as translation tools, metadata standard, FOSS codecs, documentation etc. and their application in the region * ensure programmers leave with an enhanced understanding of online video development, understanding of video makers needs and the ability to run video distribution software Who should apply? We're looking for activist video makers, organisers and web- developers from the Asia-Pacific region. If you are a web developer you should have a keen interest in open source technologies, have some knowledge of software programming and preferably already be working with video. If you are a video maker you should already be accomplished in your field and have made several videos. We're looking for video makers and web developers who will take back the skills they learn to their communities and pass them on. How to Apply? To apply to attend you need to fill out the online form here which you can find here: http://www.transmission.cc/Asia_Pacific_Application_Form We particularly encourage women to apply. Please note that given the range of countries participants will be coming from English will be the main language used at the meeting. If you have any questions about the application form or the event you can contact the organisers here: http://www.engagemedia.org/contact-info APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON MARCH 21 Why isn't the meeting open? Due to funding and venue limitations we're not able to make the meeting open for anyone to attend. Apart from specific trainers and Transmission network project leads participants are restricted to the Asia-Pacific region. We are also committed to at least 1/3 of participants being women and that the meeting as a whole is representative of the region, ie that wealthier attendees from a couple of countries do not dominate the meeting. Costs and Scholarships There are a limited number of travel scholarships for people to attend. In the application form you should specify if you need a scholarship and why. There is also a small, scaled attendance fee to help cover costs such as food an accommodation. This is either $75, $50 or $25. This fee can be waived if an attendee or organisation is unable to afford it. All food, accomodation and local transport will be covered for all attendees. Transmission Asia-Pacific is supported by Hivos and the Open Society Institute. More info: http://transmission.cc/txap EngageMedia: http://engagemedia.org Ruangrupa: http://ruangrupa.org From turbulence at turbulence.org Fri Mar 7 03:50:16 2008 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:20:16 -0500 Subject: [Announcements] Networked Music Review Commission: "Voices from the Paradise Network" by John Hudak Message-ID: <00b301c87fd8$5497ff10$fdc7fd30$@org> Networked Music Review Commission: "Voices from the Paradise Network" by John Hudak With Flash programming by erational.org http://turbulence.org/works/paradise "My mother-in-law passed away recently, reminding me of a technique that a parapsychologist named Dr. Konstantin Raudive (1906-1974) used to record what he purported to be voices of deceased spirits. With the amount of information moving around on the internet these days, and the passing of my mother-in-law, who I thought would want to get in touch (if possible), I thought I'd give Raudive's technique a try within the digital realm." - John Hudak "Voices from the Paradise Network" is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for Networked Music Review. It was made possible with the funding from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. BIOGRAPHY John Hudak has been interested in sound and music from the age of four, when he began to play a variety of instruments. At the University of Delaware and the Naropa Institute for the Arts, he studied English, video, photography, creative writing and dance. John then began to create taped soundtracks for his solo performance-art/dance pieces, that later developed into audio, audio-video, and mixed-media pieces. Language has also been a predominant focus, and John has studied and published haiku poetry, the literary equivalent of the reductive, minimal, and nature-based sound forms that interest him. John's current work focuses on the rhythms and melodies that exist in our daily aural environments. These sounds usually remain hidden, as we tend to overlook their musical qualities; or, their musical qualities are obscured through mixture with other sounds. This work takes the form of audio CDs, web-based projects, mixed-media installations and performances. In simplified terms, what John is doing could be considered reframing and transforming sound in our environment so it can be noted, admired, and valued. 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 Fri Mar 7 10:42:40 2008 From: mitoo at sarai.net (Mitoo Das) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:42:40 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Call for Entries for Drain- A journal on psychogeography. Message-ID: <47D0CEC8.2000907@sarai.net> Call for Entries for /Drain/- A journal on psychogeography. In 1955, Guy Debord described psychogeography as "the study of the specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." Debord's psychogeographical map The Naked City (1957) challenged traditional ideas of mapping relating to scale, location, and fixity, and drew on the work of urban social geographer Paul-Henri Chombart de Lauwe's concept of the city as a conglomeration of distinct quarters, each with its own special function, class divisions, and "physiognomy," which linked the idea of the urban plan to the body. An important strategy of the pyschogeographical was the dérive, "a technique of transient passage through varied ambiences". The 'psychogeographical' has had a pervasive if somewhat amorphous role in contemporary art and culture. As a creative, social and political tactic, wandering through psychogeographic spaces is pertinent to a diverse range of practices including the use of GPS systems, Internet art, photography as well as sound and performance art. This issue of Drain attempts to gather a series of essays, artworks and creative writings that reflect on the current state of psychogeography. How have contemporary artists, writers and thinkers interpreted, or been influenced by, the legacy of psychogeography? Abstract deadline: April 1, 2008 Submission deadline: June 1, 2008 Launch: August 1, 2008 Please send submissions to: celina at drainmag.com and avantika at drainmag.com Celina Managerial Board/Editor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080307/977a8ec6/attachment.html From turbulence at turbulence.org Sat Mar 8 02:13:26 2008 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:43:26 -0500 Subject: [Announcements] Upgrade! Boston: Caleb Larsen Message-ID: <00a901c88093$f79b5840$e6d208c0$@org> Upgrade! Boston: Caleb Larsen http://turbulence.org/upgrade March 20, 2008; 7 - 9 pm Massachusetts College of Art and Design North 181 (Entrance on Evans Way) 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston Caleb Larsen is an artist working digitally and physically through prints, sculpture, software, and installation. He has a BFA in painting and is currently an MFA student in the Digital Media program at the Rhode Island School of Design. His work explores the interval that exists between digital life and physical life and the social paradigmatic shifts experienced culturally as a result of the collective consciousness of the internet. Upgrade! Boston is curated by Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org in partnership with the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. It is one of 27 nodes currently active in Upgrade! International, an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get involved, please email jo at turbulence dot 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 soic2008 at mail-socioinfocyber.org Fri Mar 7 21:39:06 2008 From: soic2008 at mail-socioinfocyber.org (SOIC 2008) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:09:06 -0400 Subject: [Announcements] Last Call for Papers/Abstracts Message-ID: <9E956144-F62B-4A80-BDE5-47FCCCFE8987@mail-socioinfocyber.org> Announcement ------------------------------------------------------- Last Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals for SOIC 2008, (Orlando, Florida, USA. June 29th- July 2nd, 2008) http:// www.socioinfocyber.org/soic2008 Deadlines: Papers/Abstracts Submissions and Invited Sessions Proposal: April 3rd, 2008 Authors Notification: April 25th, 2008 Camera-ready, full papers: May 22nd, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------- All Submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal. Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers/abstracts, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors may not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions. The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, 1) a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems" and 2) a second 4-DVDs/1-CD package 6- hours tutorial titled "Cybernetic Management". The market price of each of these packages is US $ 295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at SOIC 2008 web page. For submissions or Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the web site: http://www.socioinfocyber.org/soic2008/organizer.asp Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Each session to be included in the conference program will have corresponding electronic pre-conference and post-conference sessions for 15 days each. In the electronic pre-conference sessions authors will have access to the papers to be presented at their session and to an associated electronic forum, so they can be better prepared for their conference face-to-face session. Similarly, electronic post- conference sessions will complement and support a follow-up of the respective conference sessions, via an electronic forum and the possibility of evaluating papers presented at the associated session. These evaluations will also support the selection process for the papers to be published in JSCI journal. Best regards, SOIC 2008 Secretariat If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to soic.remove at mail-socioinfocyber.org with REMOVE MLSOIC in the subject line Address: Torre Profesional La California, Av. Francisco de Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela. From jeebesh at sarai.net Mon Mar 10 13:24:15 2008 From: jeebesh at sarai.net (Jeebesh Bagchi) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:54:15 +0500 Subject: [Announcements] Naach, a documentary by Saba Dewan. Message-ID: <60B49847-54AF-44F7-BDB4-E8DCF4E9A9D7@sarai.net> You are cordially invited to the first screening of Naach, a documentary by Saba Dewan. Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Time: 7PM Date: Tuesday, 18 March, 2008 The Sonpur cattle fair in Bihar comes alive every evening when more than fifty girls take to the stage and dance to the latest bollywood songs. A barbed wire fence separates the girls from the spectators who are all men. It is a performance charged with sexual energy. The girls dance, make eye contact, beckon, gesticulate and even abuse a highly responsive audience. What meanings related to contemporary construction and practice of gender, sexuality, labour and popular culture can we read in the dance of these female performers? Director: Saba Dewan Camera: Rahul Roy Editing: Anupama Chandra Sound: Asheesh Pandya Duration: 84 mins Year: 2008 From rocks.neha at gmail.com Thu Mar 13 11:14:42 2008 From: rocks.neha at gmail.com (neha sethi) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:14:42 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] [Reader-list] Naach, a documentary by Saba Dewan. In-Reply-To: <60B49847-54AF-44F7-BDB4-E8DCF4E9A9D7@sarai.net> References: <60B49847-54AF-44F7-BDB4-E8DCF4E9A9D7@sarai.net> Message-ID: Hi, I missed the screening unfortunately, is there any other way I can watch the film. Pls let me know. Thanks On 3/10/08, Jeebesh Bagchi wrote: > > You are cordially invited to the first screening of Naach, a > documentary by Saba Dewan. > Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi > > Time: 7PM > > Date: Tuesday, 18 March, 2008 > > > The Sonpur cattle fair in Bihar comes alive every evening when more > than fifty girls take to the stage and dance to the latest bollywood > songs. A barbed wire fence separates the girls from the spectators > who are all men. It is a performance charged with sexual energy. The > girls dance, make eye contact, beckon, gesticulate and even abuse a > highly responsive audience. > > What meanings related to contemporary construction and practice of > gender, sexuality, labour and popular culture can we read in the > dance of these female performers? > > > > Director: Saba Dewan > > Camera: Rahul Roy > > Editing: Anupama Chandra > > Sound: Asheesh Pandya > > Duration: 84 mins > > Year: 2008 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > announcements mailing list > announcements at sarai.net > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with > subscribe in the subject header. > To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> -- NEHA SETHI -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080313/86023bc6/attachment-0001.html From kj.impulse at gmail.com Thu Mar 13 15:48:53 2008 From: kj.impulse at gmail.com (Kavita Joshi) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:48:53 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] [DFA NewsLetter] Invitation - Film Screening: Naach Message-ID: <821019d70803130318t7c2fb7e3s7e87f986f3a97e82@mail.gmail.com> You are cordially invited to the first screening of Naach, a documentary by Saba Dewan. Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Time: 7 PM Date: Tuesday, 18 March, 2008 Synopsis: The Sonpur cattle fair in Bihar comes alive every evening when more than fifty girls take to the stage and dance for an all male audience. A barbed wire fence separates the performers from the spectators. Originally part of the nautanki, a popular folk theatre genre of north India, the dance of the female performer today has become a replay of Bombay films and music videos that span rural and metropolitan landscape. It is a performance charged with sexual energy. The girls dance, make eye contact, beckon, gesticulate and even abuse a highly responsive all male audience. What meanings related to contemporary construction and practice of gender, sexuality, labour and popular culture can we read in the dance of the female performer ? Director: Saba Dewan Camera: Rahul Roy Editing: Anupama Chandra Sound: Asheesh Pandya Duration: 84 mins Year: 2008 -- Saba Dewan A-19, Gulmohar Park New Delhi 110049 Tel: 00-91-11-26515161 Fax: 00-91-11-26522230 Email: sabadewan at gmail.com khel at vsnl.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please DO NOT REPLY to the sender. 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How we talk about the present is almost always wrapped up in some version of the past. Visual culture inevitably brushes up against those histories, whether real or imagined (for that is not the point). A selection of short videos by Ziad Antar, Yael Bartana, Haris Epaminonda, Iman Issa, Hassan Khan, Rosalind Nashashibi, Shahryar Nashat, Ahmet Ögüt, and The Atlas Group reveal the weight of diverse histories in defining the current moment—whether manifest in the form of national myth, ritual, architecture, or pop culture. In the end, these are not static narratives; they are dynamic, promiscuous, enigmatic. 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Ajaykumar has created the foundation for a 'polyphonic' narrative, one created by many stories -- yours essentially. You can upload still images, movies, texts, music, sounds, and ideas, to create a dynamic, evolving, relational entity in cyberspace. iPak fully comes into 'being' through your participation. "iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses" 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 National Endowment for the Arts. Its production has also been funded by Arts Council England. "iPak" has been researched, developed, and realised through a digital media bursary and support from Artsadmin (UK), funded by Arts Council England; as well as through collaboration with Re-Active (Italy). "iPak" - is a research project of Goldsmiths University of London, curated and engendered by Ajaykumar. BIOGRAPHY Ajaykumar's art and research focuses on 'being': interrogating notions of 'relational being', 'the being of a space', and 'non-anthropocentric being'. It is concerned with engendering new epistemologies in ontological art practice: through reappraising Buddhist, Tantric, and Animistic processes; through investigating the contemporary pertinence of a hypothesis of 'dependent origination' beyond its original Buddhist cultural and religious significance, particularly with regard spectatorship, ludic, performative, and pedagogic processes. Ajaykumar teaches at Goldsmith's College, London. His current courses include: Technology, Art, and Being; Narrative Construction in Film; Notions of void, emptiness, and 'an art of spectatorship' in Japanese Art and Culture; Multi-Media and Site-Specific Art. He is a member of the University of Arts London Research Centre, Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN); and a co-director of the Shapes Design Studio where he is collaborating with an architect and product designer to engender furniture, lighting and gardens that come into 'being' through the play of others. Ajaykumar studied fine art, film, and performance at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London; the Institute of Education, University of London; and at the Royal College of Art. 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 logos.theword at gmail.com Sun Mar 16 20:14:06 2008 From: logos.theword at gmail.com (Logos Theatre) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:14:06 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] UN: \ WorD - Spoken Word, sound, performance, images In-Reply-To: <33bc2ee60803160722j4a23c018v870cd60ad86bb7b1@mail.gmail.com> References: <33bc2ee60803160722j4a23c018v870cd60ad86bb7b1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <33bc2ee60803160744h2c9b1e5dk60a982589738280b@mail.gmail.com> the SpeechMagic initiative, an effort of Logos Theatre, presents "UN: \ WorD - an evening of intermedia improvizations" comprising Spoken Word, sound, music, digital image art and performance on Saturday, 22nd of March, at Origami Creative Concepts, 115,Surya Krupa, Railway Parallel Road, Kumara Park West, at 7:00 PM. This collaborative process features artists from diverse disciplines coming together in a free interplay between space, the body, Word, sound and image; in which the audience is also invited to play an active role. The event features Srijit Mukherjee on the harmonica, Mana Dhanraj Contractor on voice, Yashas Shetty and Talib Hussain on the guitar, Honey Bajaj (digital imagery/ projections) and thestillDancer (Spoken Word/ performance). The event is supported by Origami Creative Concepts. Contact 9880966313 for details. -- 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... 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Are there distinctions to be made between the 'creativity' of capital and the 'creativity' of inhabitants of cities who resist displacement and the re-packaging of global cities as sites of elite consumption, mobility and security? Using concepts drawn from recent political philosophy and radical history such as 'commons' and 'enclosures', Contrapolis will address these and other related themes, such as privatisation of social housing, public space praxis, community action, the Olympics, and art within and against gentrification. The two days will consist of workshops, walks, an exhibition and a public debate. Debate, NAi, 27/3: with Merijn Oudenampsen, Damon Rich/CUP, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Urban Subjects, Peter Blakeney and Christine Schoeffer, Anthony Iles, Daniel van der Velden, Loïc Wacquant and Haegue Yang. Exhibition, NAi, 26/3 - 29/3: Maria Eichhorn, Anja Kirschner, Spectacle, Claire Fontaine, CUP, Haegue Yang, Urban Subjects and Alessandra Chila. Workshops, Poortgebouw, 26/3 and 27/3: the three workshops will be moderated by Merijn Oudenampsen, Maria Theodorou, Marina Vishmidt and Diana Ibanez Lopez, with presentations from Merijn Oudenampsen, Maria Theodorou, Anthony Iles and Sitesize. Walks in Nieuwe Crooswijk, Delfshaven, Heijplaat and/or Zuid, 26/3 and 27/3: guided by Andreas Mueller, Marjolijn Dijkman, Menno Janssen and Krijn Christiansen. An accompanying brochure includes essays from participants - Merijn Oudenampsen, Jeff Derksen, Loïc Wacquant, Anthony Iles, Poortgebouw and Iain Boal -as well as other relevant authors like Neil Smith and Wim Cuyvers and images from Anthony Iles/Max Reeves, Savage Messiah and Alessandra Chila. Online sources, when especially symptomatic or edifying, have also been included. Concept and design praxis by Metahaven. Website hosting by Enough Room for Space. Contrapolis is initiated and organised by Marina Vishmidt, in cooperation with the Jan van Eyck Academie, the NAi and the Poortgebouw. _____________________________________________________________ More contemporary art at http://www.art-online.org From markcmarino at gmail.com Mon Mar 17 12:06:24 2008 From: markcmarino at gmail.com (Mark Marino) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:36:24 -0800 Subject: [Announcements] Electronic Literature: New Horizons For The Literary by N. Katherine Hayles. Message-ID: <287213f30803162336ucbf2ae2jac23db5ffd534653@mail.gmail.com> Hi, Here's some news about an exciting new elit publication: ** N. Katherine Hayles' new work, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, offers a starter kit for bringing electronic literature into the classroom. This publication, from Notre Dame Press, brings together, for the first time, a comprehensive guide to digital narrative and poetry, studies of key works, a CD with a wide range of examples, and a companion website that features discussion and new essays. < http://newhorizons.eliterature.org/index.php> * ELC 1 in Every Edition: Included with the book is a CD, The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (ELC 1), containing sixty new and recent works of electronic literature with keyword index, authors' notes, and editorial headnotes. Representing multiple modalities of electronic writing--hypertext fiction, kinetic poetry, generative and combinatory forms, network writing, codework, 3D, narrative animations, installation pieces, and Flash poetry--the ELC 1 encompasses comparatively low-tech work alongside heavily coded pieces. The ELC 1 can also be accessed online at < http://collection.eliterature.org/1/> * New Horizons Website: Complementing the text and the CD-ROM is this website offering resources for teachers and students, including sample syllabi, original essays, author biographies, and useful links. Together, the three elements provide an exceptional pedagogical opportunity. * Hayles' Approach: Hayles develops a theoretical framework for understanding how electronic literature both draws on the print tradition and requires new reading and interpretive strategies. Grounding her approach in the evolutionary dynamic between humans and technology, Hayles argues that neither the body nor the machine should be given absolute theoretical priority. Rather, she focuses on the interconnections between embodied writers and users and the intelligent machines that perform electronic texts. Through close readings of important works, Hayles demonstrates that a new mode of narration is emerging that differs significantly from previous models. Key to her argument is the observation that almost all contemporary literature has its genesis as electronic files, so that print becomes a specific mode for electronic text rather than an entirely different medium. Hayles illustrates the implications of this condition with three contemporary novels that bear the mark of the digital. Electronic Literature: New Horizons For The Literary can be ordered from Notre Dame Press and Amazon.com. Contact person: Marjorie C. Luesebrink. Luesebr1 at ix.netcom.com Mark Marino Communications Electronic Literature Organization -- Writing Program University of Southern California http://WriterResponseTheory.org http://CriticalCodeStudies.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The videogame itself is driven by a separate intricate narrative full of nested puzzles that the user needs to solve in order both to finish the game as well as to discover the full "Moths Drink the Tears" text hidden within the castle walls. Buchanan is collaborating with composer Lisa Mezzacappa ( http://www.lisamezzacappa.com) on a full-scale musical composition element. Mezzacappa and her bass and percussion ensemble "duo B" ( http://www.duobmusic.com) will create an interactive music composition, working through the entire "Moths Drink the Tears" poem text, tagging each line of the poem with an original musical counterpart. When the line of poetry is found, its corresponding musical phrase will play. At any time during the game, users will be able to "play" their poem as a realized musical score, listening to all of the collected musical phrases. Buchanan is uniquely positioned to orchestrate this collaboration. She is a celebrated pianist and award-winning poet, holding degrees from both the New England Conservatory of Music and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. A private foundation, the LEF supports contemporary work in the arts. (http://lef-foundation.org/page.php/id/160). The Electronic Literature Organization will be administering the grant on behalf of the artists. The ELO also plans to present the work at a future conference. For more information, contact Oni Buchanan (onibuchanan at gmail.com, http://www.onibuchanan.com/). Mark Marino Communications Electronic Literature Organization -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This for me was a choice not so much determined by reasons of pleasure but as a way of manifesting my need to literally move on with my life. Around the same time, I began to read Beckett's famous Three Novels, and was moved in particular by "Molloy." Bicycles are a very important metaphor in this book." Haeyoung Kim "I Can't Go On, I'll Go On" is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for Networked Music Review. It was made possible with the funding from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. BIOGRAPHY A sound artist, composer, and audio engineer, Haeyoung Kim explores the territory of sounds in electronic music. Currently, under the name Bubblyfish, she has been creating 8-bit and experimental sound works. Haeyoung has collaborated with many respected sound and visual artists such as Malcolm McLaren, the founder of Sex Pistols, Hans Jochim Rodelius, and the Brussels based media art group, Lab[au]. Her work has been presented in art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries internationally including The American Museum of the Moving Image, Pompidou Center, Kunsthalle Wien, MUTEK, LABoral, Lincoln Center Walter Reed Theater, and The New Museum. 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 machleetank at gmail.com Mon Mar 24 22:22:47 2008 From: machleetank at gmail.com (Jasmeen P) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:52:47 +0000 Subject: [Announcements] BLANK NOISE THIS PLACE In-Reply-To: <277f58b70803240918t24b463adj31903fac7e4abd02@mail.gmail.com> References: <277f58b70803240736g710196f9nd56da9fba4e9f042@mail.gmail.com> <277f58b70803240918t24b463adj31903fac7e4abd02@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hello On behalf of Blank Noise , I invite for you to participate in our new project 'Blank Noise This Place' Blank Noise is built and based on people's testimonials. Taking this belief forward we invite you to engage with our new project- Blank Noise This Place. The site is a witness and your photograph is your testimonial. * * Blank Noise This Place will archive photographs that you send of public places and locations you have been sexually assaulted in any degree that you consider sexual harassment/ violence. To participate we ask you to revisit your site of violation with a camera. * (any camera will do- * *quality is not important as much as your act of revisiting and documenting). * Please email it to us at blurtblanknoise at gmail.com with an account of what occurred- what time-which country.city it took place in Please add in details such as your age and name Your contributions will be put on a world wide map that will specifically identify each participant's site of sexual assault. www.flickr.com/photos/blanknoisethisplace/map/ If you do not wish to have your name up- do tell us. You are further requested to get others involved. Introduce this idea to friends peers and all the women you know! In true spirit, cameras could be borrowed, shared, collective trips could be made to each person's site of violation. Organisations and groups are also invited to participate. We hope to hear from you. Let's Blank Noise This Place! For any queries and suggestions do email us at blurtblanknoise at gmail.com Blank Noise Team -- BLANK NOISE http://blog.blanknoise.org mobile: 0091 98868 40612 Add a Blank Noise button to your blog ! Copy paste the code below- Blank Noise -- BLANK NOISE http://blog.blanknoise.org mobile: 0091 98868 40612 Add a Blank Noise button to your blog ! Copy paste the code below- Blank Noise -- ph: + 91 98868 40612 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20080324/84fd90b8/attachment.html From raviv at sarai.net Tue Mar 25 09:26:22 2008 From: raviv at sarai.net (Ravi S. Vasudevan) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:26:22 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] call for phd applications Message-ID: <47E877E6.6080203@sarai.net> Ruprecht‐Karls‐Universität Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows The Graduate School for Transcultural Studies (GSTS) is part of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows" at the University of Heidelberg (http://www.vjc.uni‐hd.de/). The objective of the Cluster is to examine processes of cultural exchange with a strong focus on interdisciplinary research. The Cluster challenges the master narrative of asymmetrical Western domination along with its historical explanation, its methodology and the resulting structures of humanities and social science research. Starting from winter term 2008 the GSTS offers within its doctoral program 16 doctoral/PhD scholarships in transcultural studies. The GSTS is looking for applicants with an excellent academic background interested in completing a doctoral degree at the University of Heidelberg. Applicants are required to have graduated at a Master level or equivalent by the time of their application. Scholarships are available from 2008 to both home/EU and overseas students up to the age of thirty. They range from 1,000 to 1,400 € per month, depending on family allowance. The scholarships are awarded for two years with possibility of extension for a third year. Eight scholarships are reserved for students from Asia. The doctoral program addresses applicants with above‐average university degree whose PhD‐project fits in one of the Cluster's four Research Areas (http://www.vjc.uni‐hd.de/areas.htm). Currently contributors to the Cluster work in the fields of Anthropology, Archeology, Art History, South and East Asian Studies, Assyriology, Cultural Studies, English Philology, Ethnology, Geography, History, Indology, Islamic Studies, Musicology, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, Religious Studies, Sinology, Sociology and others. Reflecting the interdisciplinary approach of the Cluster, the GSTS invites M.A. holders from these as well as other disciplines from the humanities and social sciences to apply. Electronic submission of the application is mandatory. Deadline for application is May 1st, 2008. For details see the Online Application System at http://www.vjc.uni‐hd.de/graduate.htm. From chiarapassa at gmail.com Thu Mar 27 22:39:48 2008 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:09:48 +0100 Subject: [Announcements] CAC.2-Computer Art Congress 2008 Mexico City In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CAC.2-Computer Art Congress 2008 These are the artworks that constitue the exhibition of CAC.2: "Emerging forms of digital art". Please note there are several kind of artworks, some of them are exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, Toluca City, some of them are Web-based and others are digital performances. Link: http://europia.org/CAC2/exhibition.html Audio-based * Josh Goldman, Language, USA, 2003. Hall of Museum. Computer stations * Ali Miharbi, Eigenrepresentante, Turkey, 2008. Hall of Museum. * Annabel Castro, 45 cartas a los Magnusson antes de la primavera�, Mexico, 2007. Hall of Museum. * Arnaud Hendrickx, Nopers, Belgium, 2000. Hall of Museum. * Marc Veyrat, minE∼i+)_mire, France, 2008. Hall of Museum. * Paul Magee, Everything, Poland, 2004. Hall of Museum. * Sandra Alvaro, En construcción, Spain, 2008. Hall of Museum. * Gianluca Mura, The Meta-plastic constructor, Italy, 2008. Hall of Museum. Installations * Alan Dunning & Paul Woodrow, Ghost 2008, Canada, 2008. Exhibition room 3. * Tania Fraga, Fragments, Brazil, 2007. Exhibition room 3. * Ian Ingram, Triptychle, USA, 2008. Exhibition room 3. * Semi Ryu, SAE-Gurimja: three shadows, USA, 2008. Auditorium of Museum. March 26th, 15 - 16 hrs. * Chun-chi Wang, Urban journal, France and Taiwan, 2008. ITESM Campus Estado de México, Hall of Theatre. Performances * Jack Stenner, Honeypumper, USA, 2008. Main hall of Museum. March 26th, 15 - 16 hrs. * Robyn Taylor, dream.Medusa, Canada, 2007. Auditorium of Museum. March 26th, 16 - 17 hrs. * René Reyes, Writing for myself, Mexico, 2008. Auditorium of Museum. March 26th, 17 - 17:30 hrs. Print * Jana Zufic. Gaia Fading, Croatia, 2007. Hall of Museum. * Luis Ricaurte. LooKumi, Mexico, 2007. Hall of Museum. * Chih-Ling Hsieh. Series of 10 diverse works, Taiwan, 2008. Hall of Museum. * Sally Larson. Thread and Carbon, Oil and Steel: No. 56, No. 19, No. 99., USA, 2007. Hall of Museum. * Can Henne. Cenote, Germany, 2006. Hall of Museum. * Murat Germen. untitled, brid6e / vicious circle, reconstruct #02, kanyon #03, Turkey, 2008. Hall of Museum. * Batya Kuncman. Connections, Possibilities, Preparations, Secret, USA, 2008. Hall of Museum. Second Life [special session: March 26th, 10:30 - 12:00 hrs. Island to be confirmed.] * Stephanie Rothenberg, School of Perpetual Training, USA, 2008. * Stephanie Rothenberg & Jeff Crouse, Invisible Threads: Virtual Sweatshop in Second Life, USA, 2008. * Eleonora Oreggia & Silvano Galliani. The ball in the hole, Italy and The Netherlands, 2008. Video-based * Michael Van den Abeele & Arnaud Hendrickx, Sphere1, Belgium, 1999. Exhibition Room 3. * Michael Van den Abeele, the Sausage Party #4, Belgium, 2008. Exhibition Room 3. * Michael Van den Abeele, Friends for Eternity, Belgium, 2005. Exhibition Room 3. * Daniel Bouillot, Slacknesses, France, 2006. Hall of Museum. * David Crawford, These People From Elsewhere, Sweden, 2008. Hall of Museum. * Dennis Summers, Filament, USA, 2008. Micro-Sala of Museum. * Zlatan Filipovic, Short review of contemporary history of art, United Arab Emirates, 2008. Hall of Museum. Web-based * Chiara Passa, Ideasonair, Italy, 2008. www.ideasonair.net * Walter Nelson, game, game, game and again game, Australia, 2008. www.secrettechnology.com/gamegame/gamegame.html * Blanka Earhart, Me, Myself and I, USA, 2008. -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa at gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://twitter.com/jogador Skype: ideasonair From iram at sarai.net Thu Mar 27 23:07:42 2008 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:07:42 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Fwd: Performance by Inder Salim: "Mochi ki dukaan..." Message-ID: <47EBDB66.8030102@sarai.net> FWD: MOCHI KI DUKAN, KAMLESH KI RASOI ==================================== Dear friends, this about coming performance MOCHI KI DUKAN, KAMLESH KI RASOI ( cobbler's shop, Kamlesh's Rasoi ), in collaboration with Suraj and his family. on 28/03 2008, 7 pm onwards 14th Golf Links, Palette Art Gallery, new Delhi. Auction of art in support of Suraj and his family. you are requested to participate. it part of the on going Performance festival, Khoj 08, Please click my little blog to read and see in detail http://indersalim.livejournal.com with love and regards inder salim From logos.theword at gmail.com Fri Mar 28 11:10:44 2008 From: logos.theword at gmail.com (Logos Theatre) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:10:44 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] ASMI - an evening of contemporary art In-Reply-To: <33bc2ee60803272235g2771bbdaxaa1d8ccb00f2f031@mail.gmail.com> References: <33bc2ee60803272235g2771bbdaxaa1d8ccb00f2f031@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <33bc2ee60803272240g34f03936p7a3c16518e0bceb7@mail.gmail.com> *Veena Basavarajaiah* a Bangalore based contemporary dancer and choreographer who is the recipient of the Young achievers Special mention award 2007 would be presenting * 'ASMI' , *an evening of contemporary dance in collaboration with dancers, musicians, writers and theatre artistes of Bangalore. The Performance includes the following: - '*Finding Ri'*, a duet with renowned Musician *Praveen.D.Rao*. A musician's search for identity with his music and a dancers search for her's through her body. Finding Ri is an elaborate musical piece exploring the intricacies of various raagas and emotions with movements drawing inspiration from Bharatnatyam and Contemporary dance. - *Move-mess : Mu-jinx*: collaboration with renowned Martial artist *Ranjan Mullaratt* experimenting with voices and sounds and different textures of movement of kalari. With an elaborate work of lights and sound it aims at projecting the playful interaction between the performers. - Journeys of the Body - I : Walking/Remembering' Journeys of the Body is a performance series that attempts to use performance and various media to explore the life and work of Akkamahadevi. It will attempt a conversation between her and us, her world and ours. Walking/Remembering looks at her an an archetype of the human quest for transcendence, and bases itself on her intense engagement with the body. It is a myth of travelling to faraway places in order to find our inner home, a fable of the body and its memories. This live art piece is designed by theStillDancer, the performance persona of poet and theatremaker Arka Mukhopadhyay. - *Blue*: a solo dance piece performed by Veena, choreographed by *Mayuri Upadhyay*, dancer and director of *Nritarutya* dance Company. A piece based on love and how Krishna who is an epitome of love is framed beautifully and confined within a limited boundaries. It explores the psyche of someone in love transcending limitations of age and gender and their constant struggle to break free and explore beyond the contours decided by this world. The light design and execution for the whole evening is by *Ranjan Kamath -*theatre artist and film maker. The artistes of the evening include *theStillDancer* (performance artist and theatremaker), *Parshwanath Upadhye * (Dancer & Singer) & *Suhas Kaundinya* (Flautist) ASMI is supported by *Kalari** Academy of performing Arts, Bangalore* The performance is scheduled to be held at *Alliance Francaise de Bangalore *on the *12th of April 2008* at *7: 30 pm*. The entry fee is Rs. 100/- available @ Kalari Academy of Performing Arts, Alliance Francaise & Gangarams. Contact Details: 9945155995, 9880675417 Email. veenatrupti at yahoo.co.in -- 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... 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