From newsletter-admin at mail.sarai.net Tue Jan 1 13:38:06 2002 From: newsletter-admin at mail.sarai.net (newsletter-admin at mail.sarai.net) Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 13:38:06 +0530 Subject: Sarai Newsletter 09 Message-ID: <200201010803.JAA14219@zelda.intra.waag.org> Table of Contents Talks @Sarai Installations @Sarai Workshop @Sarai: Introduction to Cyberculture New Discussion Lists: Community Radio and Solaris Films @Sarai: Remembering Subrata Mitra --------------------------------- Sarai wishes all of you a very happy new year. I. Talks @ Sarai We start the New Year with a series of lectures and presentations - grouped thematically under our three Occasional Seminar Series. All talks and paper presentations will take place at 3:30 pm, in the Seminar Room, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 110054 1.Media Publics and Practices Seminar i. January 2, 2002, Wednesday Politics of Information in Bio-technology Mike Fischer MIT Program on Science, Technology, and Society ii. January 8, 2002, Tuesday Technology, the Turing Test & Artificial Intelligence Sanmay Das, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Boston iii. January 16, 2002, Wednesday Politics of Global Circulation of Human Genetic Materials Kaushik Sunderajan MIT Program on Science, Technology and Society, USA 2. Language beyond Literature Seminar January 10, 2002, Thursday Hindi Commercial Press & the Urban Publics: The Case of Late Colonial U.P. Charu Gupta Department of History, Motilal Nehru College (E), University of Delhi 3. Urban Cultures and Politics Seminar January 30, 2002, Wednesday The Idea of Bombay Gyan Prakash Department of History, Princeton University, USA II.Installations @ Sarai The Sarai Interface Zone will host three installations by artists and media practitioners through the month of January. Unless otherwise specified, the artists will be available for discussions. All installations and exhibitions will be located in the Interface Zone at Sarai. i). January 2nd - 4th 2002 Dilliwale Kaun? Baharwale Kaun? A photographic exhibition on a digital platform by Syeda Farhana Dilliwale Kaun? Baharwale Kaun? is an exhibition of Syeda Farhana's photographic & textual narratives on the theme of "The Outsider". Focussing on Bangladeshi migrants, the exhibition is a product of her part - residency at the Interface Zone at Sarai. This residency is a collaboration between Sarai and the Khoj International Artists Residency Programme. Syeda Farhana is a photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She will be present through the exhibition at the Interface Zone. ii)January 11th - 18th 2002 The Wrong City : Paris at Delhi An Installation by Olga Kisseleva This Installation explores what happens when the reality of one city enters the imagination of another. The installation is paired with another Wrong City Installation - Delhi at Paris that will occur concurrently in Paris. The url for the Paris event is www.mainsdoeuvres.org Olga Kisseleva is a digital artist with special interest in cities - Some of her earlier work has been on New York, St Petersburg and Paris. iii. January 24 and 25, 2002 Initializing History An Exhibition of the Video Art of Peter Callas Peter Callas will present his work in the form of an illustrated lecture on January 25, 2002. The Screening-Lecture will be followed by a discussion. (A version of) This work is also available at http://www.anu.edu.au/ITA/CSA/callas/CAN_+main_I.html Peter Callas, based in Sydney, Australia, is one of the internationally recognised exponents of Video Art. He is currently visiting India on an Asialink Artists Fellowship. III. Workshop @ Sarai January 31 - February 1, 2002 10:30 am - 4:30 pm, Interface Zone, Sarai Introduction to Cyberculture with Patrice Riemens The workshop on Cyberculture will focus on: i.Digital Divide and how to address it ii.Hackers & 'Hackerism' iii.From Proprietary Knowledge to Intellectual Property iv.Networked Communities Patrice Riemens is an independent theorist and cyber activist , and a geographer at the University of Amsterdam. He is in India as a part of the exchange programme between Sarai and the Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam - www.waag.org IV.New Discussion Lists From ranita at sarai.net Mon Jan 28 17:08:09 2002 From: ranita at sarai.net (Ranita Chatterjee) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:08:09 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter]The Idea of Bombay - Talk @ Sarai Message-ID: <02012817080904.01158@saumya.sarai.kit> Urban Cultures and Politics Series Presents: “The Idea of Bombay” by Gyan Prakash, Wednesday, 30th January, 3.30 pm At Sarai, CSDS Seminar Room, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi. Gyan Prakash  is Professor of History, Princeton University. He is the author of Bonded Histories, (1990) and the editor of  After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (1995). and a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective. His recent book was Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India, (2000)