From dak at sarai.net Thu Jun 17 00:50:36 2010 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:50:36 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] City as Studio: EXB 10.03- Invitation Message-ID: <4C192404.1050808@sarai.net> We invite you for the first open day of *City as Studio: EXB 10.03*, the third in the City as Studio exhibition series. The City as Studio exhibition platform is an artist run space for emerging and experimental contemporary art in the heart of Delhi. Rife with curious energy, open to new practices, sharp and finely tuned to the frequencies of a rapidly changing world and a transforming city. City as Studio is a space hospitable to all those who are willing to re-define art and life, speculate, fantasize, play and take the pulse of a critical time. The platform is closely associated with the 'City as Studio' programme for artists and practitioners at Sarai and committed to showcasing new work and processes on a regular basis. The third in the exhibition series, *City as Studio: EXB 10.03* brings together *17 artists* who collaborate to produce *6 works* and *3 performances*. The exhibition showcases some finished work and some in the making. *Time: 6: 30 pm* *Date: Friday, June 18, 2010* *Venue: Sarai CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi (5 min walk from the Civil Lines metro station)* *Exhibition Timings: 11 am and 5 pm, Monday to Friday.* *The exhibition runs till July 14, 2010.* *Performances by:* *1] Manola K. Gayatri* Street Walkers: Groping in the dark- fantasy or night mare? What markers a new city as home? What's the apparel change from one side of the street or the country to the other? A dramatic monologue on street life experiences for the 'walking' Akka-hood. Manola K. Gayatri is currently pursuing her PhD at the School of Arts and Aesthetics JNU, New Delhi. Experimenting with performance and writing, her earlier work includes Red a dramatic monologue and Excess a choreography for the Gati Summer Dance Residency 2009. Her research work focuses on liveness, technology and body in performance and collaborates with media artists interested in the performing body. *2] Ambarish Satwik* Bodily: short fiction and graphic essays on anatomy and pathology by Ambarish Satwik. Rochie Rana will read from Paraphilia (a short story by Ambarish Satwik). Lurid in addition to being graphic. Prepubescents and puritans should refrain from attending this session. Ambarish Satwik is a Delhi based vascular surgeon and writer. His debut work of fiction Perineum: nether parts of the Empire was published by Penguin in 2007. His polemical commentary on sundry matters involving food, sex, popular culture and pathology appears most often in Time Out. He is currently collaborating with artists to produce graphic non fiction. *3] Gautam Ghosh* Wiping Pink Mountain : The Pink Mountain is a skin that has been hung to dry. Sandwiched between layers of mist, and fluctuating shadows, this skin is opaque and transparent. It forms a diagram of restlessness: some dissolving, some drying, increasing, decreasing. Goutam had studied visual arts and art history from MS University, Baroda. His work has been shown in several group shows. He is currently an Associate Fellow with the City as Studio process at Sarai. *Showing works by:* Prayas Abhinav Shamsher Ali Love Anand Hemant Babu Konrad Bayer Ram Bhat Nabina Das Neelofer Gaigongmei Gangmei Goutam Ghosh Deepankar Gohain Niha Masih Suraj Rai Ish S Nishant Sharma The event announcement can also be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111870292192834&ref=mf To read more about the City as Studio process, see - http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/the-city-as-studio-associatefellows-2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *[[END OF NEWSLETTER]]* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Thu Jun 24 15:49:49 2010 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:49:49 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Ghumakkad Baaja at Sarai. Message-ID: <4C233145.3040604@sarai.net> *City as Studio : EXB 10.03 * * * *Presents * * * *== Ghumakkad Baaja == * * * *An open collaboration between Prayas Abhinav, Hemant Babu, Ram Bhatt and Nishant Sharma * * * *A demonstration of an open and unregulated way of doing audio transmissions * * along with discussions about transmissions, public networks and "selling air".* ====================================================================================================== Can we be active broadcasters and not just passive consumers ? Can we create and share audio/video content in a widely accessible way? Could there be a platform much like satellite T.V, but in an on-the-move outdoor friendly format without needing a multi-crore license? ====================================================================================================== *6:30 p.m, Saturday, 26th June, 2010 Sarai-CSDS, 29, Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054 * We plan to use an amplified and meshed version of 2.4 ghz (Wi-fi) transmission. This micro-wave segment of spectrum is not radio-waves. We are doing this through high powered 4 Watt ERP transmitter-antennas, at city scale, to make unregulated open-to-air audio broadcasting. We are also developing a low-cost device which can receive these audio broadcasts on the move. Leveraging the potential of an open community of content creators, existing professionals, we will be populating multiple channels of community, local and entertainment content on this infrastructure. India has a heavily regulated and censored radio-spectrum use policy for broadcasters. There are no ways for people to create and share audio content in a widely-accessible way. Internet-radio is not localized due to bandwidth access. Community radio is very restrictive, low power and does not allow news and political content. The radio industry is dominated by commercial music syndicates and public bodies which restricts the kind of content possibilities. In comparison, other media (like TV, print, Internet) has much more diversity to offer. Audio platforms have remained mostly one-way, and have not exploited opportunities of p2p broadcasting networks. A meshed Wi-fi local network (wireless ethernet) offering audio content on a low cost device, so that news, local content and entertainment in audio form can be accessed widely. The use of amplified wi-fi bandwidth delivers high speed, interactive audio content city-wide. Our solution will provide a platform much like satellite TV, but on audio and in a on-the-move, outdoor-friendly format. The solution will inherently be capable of being used for p2p data exchange and audio streaming. This will enable people to be active broadcasters and not just passive consumers of information. ==================================== *City as Studio: EXB 10.03 is showing works by: * Prayas Abhinav Shamsher Ali Love Anand Hemant Babu Konrad Bayer Ram Bhat Nabina Das Neelofer Gaigongmei Gangmei Goutam Ghosh Deepankar Gohain Niha Masih Suraj Rai Ish S Nishant Sharma *Realised by Iram Ghufran, Amitabh Kumar Produced at Sarai Media Lab, Sarai- CSDS June 2010 Exhibition Timings: 11 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday from June 18 to July 14, 2010* For details on the works, go here - http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/city-as-studio-exb/exb-10-03 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *[[END OF NEWSLETTER]]* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: