From iwasthere2000 at yahoo.com Tue Nov 1 00:16:21 2005 From: iwasthere2000 at yahoo.com (shashidhar sabnavis) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:46:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] Re: [peace initiative] Kashmir Quake, Delhi Bombings and Our Response In-Reply-To: <20051030132605.73806.qmail@web51411.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20051031184621.37207.qmail@web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Very very narrow perspective on an event of such tragic consequences. I work for an NGO and I have till date been actively involved in three disaster relief missions, people are reluctant to donate for various reasons and it has to be respected, i have never met any person who has blatantly said that he would not donate to a Muslim, a majority of the people we are helping in Kashmir do not really practise any religion, like me. One of our directors who had come down was shocked and amused at the thought of sending in relief from Pune, he said Pune is 2300 KM from Jammu and Banglore must be a little more, people living in such distances rely on the media for information and everyone would agree that the Tsunami had better representation in the media. The real problems surrounding the earthquake are 1: - No one knows what to send, the mountains are a terrain unknown to many people. 2: - The names of the people, POK, LOC etc. have confused the people so much so that they really do not know of the areas which have been hurt. 3: - Communication is the biggest bane, no networks nothing in existence. 4: - Lack of government initiate to form coordination committees ( In Tamil nadu, relief and rehab were completely separated, each affected district under the collector formed an NGO coordination committee and each such committee allocated a certain part to NGO to manage). This still has not happened. 5: - Apathy and lack of support of from people who know of the climatic conditions . Regards, Shashi __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From mediachef at gmail.com Tue Nov 1 13:03:44 2005 From: mediachef at gmail.com (Steve Dietz) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 01:33:44 -0600 Subject: [Reader-list] ISEA2006 Edgy Products call Message-ID: <85d7931b0510312333g5a148665t5237503bf0b55a7@mail.gmail.com> EDGY PRODUCTS CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/edgyproducts/ This is an invitation by the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge to groups and individuals to submit proposals for exhibition of interactive art work and projects reflecting on the thematic of Edgy Products. This is the first and only call for artworks in this category. Proposals Due: December 15th, 2005 Final Decisions: Feb 10, 2006 SUBMISSIONS http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/register/submission.php The consumer electronic device has become the standard currency of technology in contemporary global culture. The light bulb and the home sewing machine have bred and multiplied to fill every part of our homes, offices, pockets and purses. They have colonized industry after industry: publishing, photography, music, film, communications, and entertainment. Consumer electronics have gradually colonized publication and photography, music and film, communications and entertainment. With the constant promise of increased efficiency, these devices may be seen as improvements over previous techniques. But for every measure of ease or efficiency there are secondary effects, artifacts, and renegotiations. Far from being neutral, consumer products are powerful arguments for norms and lifestyles, suggesting and facilitating specific ways of acting and being in the world. Made by researchers and marketers working for corporations, they form a sort of culture industry. And as Theodor Adorno suggested, their products serve the interests of this industry as much as they serve their users. Artists and designers have tried to refigure the product, with varied results: Modernist painters, for instance, often incorporated coffee grinders or industrial aesthetics; Warhol even ran a factory. Electronic artists, though, are in a unique position to develop functional alternatives. Dunne and Raby have theorized a darker, more complicated "design noir," comparing traditional products to the banality of Hollywood film. Others have moved towards turning Consumer Off The Shelf (COTS) tools into weapons for activism and non-violent political dissent. Such projects acknowledge the importance of products to shape our lives, and then use the idiom of an "edgy" product to offer alternatives, stage critiques, or subvert market interests. Edgy Products is a call for work by artists and designers who are manipulating, hacking, subverting, queering, hijacking, recombining, or reformulating the notion of product. We are looking for projects large and small, for gallery installation or public intervention, for showing, selling, or gifting. Susan Joyce, Co-Chair Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Co-Chair EDGY PRODUCTS CALL COMMITTEE Kelly Dobson Anthony Dunne Nathan Martin Eddo Stern CALL http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/edgyproducts/ SUBMISSIONS http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/register/submission.php MAILING LIST http://cadre.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/isea2006 If you have questions contact edgyproducts at yproductions.com -- Steve Dietz Director, ZeroOne: The Network Director, ISEA2006 Symposium + ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge http://isea2006.sjsu.edu : August 7-13, 2006 From oishiksircar at hotmail.com Tue Nov 1 13:55:17 2005 From: oishiksircar at hotmail.com (Oishik Sircar) Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:25:17 +0000 Subject: [Reader-list] Absurd ToI Editorial Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20051101/fa09eb67/attachment.html From aarti at sarai.net Wed Nov 2 15:44:03 2005 From: aarti at sarai.net (Aarti) Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:44:03 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] The Simoqin Prophecies: Book reading and Discussion Message-ID: <4368916B.5050800@sarai.net> 5:30 pm, Thursday, 3 November 2005 Interface Zone Sarai-CSDS We invite you for an evening of coffee and conversation with Samit Basu, author of The Simoqin Prophecies. Samit will read from the book and discuss the 'The Manticore's Secret', the forthcoming book in the trilogy. Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Anand Vivek Taneja will be discussants for the evening. "The Simoqin Prophecies/ is at once classic SFF and subtle spoof, featuring scantily clad centauresses, flying carpets, pink trolls, belly dancers and homicidal rabbits. Monty Python meets the Ramayana, Alice in Wonderland meets The Lord of the Rings and Robin Hood meets The Arabian Nights in this novel - a breathtaking ride through a world peopled by different races and cultures from mythology and history..." [Samit Basu is a writer and sci-fci enthusiast. He also works as a columnist for The Telegraph, Calcutta, and as a freelance scriptwriter, journalist and reviewer. He is the author of 'The Simoqin Prophecies', published in January 2004 by Penguin India. The second in the trilogy, 'The Manticore's Secret', is slated for release December 2005.] Do try and come! _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From aarti at sarai.net Wed Nov 2 15:45:15 2005 From: aarti at sarai.net (Aarti) Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:45:15 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Bare Acts Picnic Message-ID: <436891B3.7050904@sarai.net> ================================= Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts Picnic ================================= Lodhi Gardens, Delhi 3:30 pm, Saturday, 5 November 2005 From this November onwards we are trying to intiate a monthly informal discussion around particular texts from Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts. The idea is to get different people to respond to texts from their particular locations and perspectives, and share this with a group of interested interlocuters. Each month we will consider a different set of texts grouped around a broad theme. The first picnic will be held on the 5th of November at 4:00 pm in Lodhi gardens. It will be an informal gathering and the texts are grouped around the theme of gender and sexuality. We will meet at the gate outside the India International Centre. You can also ask for directions and so on by calling Aarti at 9810105158. Do bring along tea/coffee and fruit to help the conversation along ! Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Aarti Sethi, Gautam Bhan, Monica Mody and Sunalini Kumar will discuss the following texts from the reader which attempt to explore the fraught relationship between the law and realms of intimacy, sexual labour, pornography, movements for the assertion of sexual rights. The texts can be downloaded in pdf format at: Negotiating Territory: Ateya Khorakiwala, discussant Gautam Bhan http://www.sarai.net/journal/05_pdf/07/04_ateya.pdf Womanhood Laid Bare: Alice Albinia, discussant Sunalini Kumar http://www.sarai.net/journal/05_pdf/10/01_alice.pdf Representing a Woman's Story: Hirakari Hori, discussant Monica Mody http://www.sarai.net/journal/05_pdf/10/05_hikari.pdf Sex Workers Manifesto: Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Samiti, discussant Shuddhabrata Sengupta http://www.sarai.net/journal/05_pdf/13/03_sex_worker.pdf Judicial Extract: discussant Aarti Sethi http://www.sarai.net/journal/05_pdf/10/04_cabaret.pdf _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From isouweine at gmail.com Thu Nov 3 09:30:32 2005 From: isouweine at gmail.com (Isaac souweine) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 23:00:32 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dies at 92 In-Reply-To: <20051025043255.41012.qmail@web8403.mail.in.yahoo.com> References: <20051025043255.41012.qmail@web8403.mail.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <34bf33330511022000m2684b1c4w29ac7cdd44ef49fb@mail.gmail.com> All: Since a Rosa Parks obit has already been posted to the list, I thought people might be interested in my letter to the editor in response to the New York Times obit. Inspiration for the letter was largely taken from the research for my piece in the Bear Acts edition of the Reader. For more of the same, see Juan Williams' op-ed on Park's passing in the Times. Best, Isaac The Times obit can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/national/25parks.html?ex=1131080400&en=605629f10a2bc7f4&ei=5070 My response is here: To the Editor By affirming her individual genius while glossing over the context in which it operated, your obituary for Rosa Parks (Oct. 25) perpetuates a gap in standard interpretations of her life. In the obituary, vague causal statements and passive verbs turn Ms. Parks' into an angel of history, whose single act of civil disobedience magically crystallized into a movement. Ms. Parks' action "grew into a mythic event", (but who watered it?); "Ms. Parks clarified for people", (but who mediated her message?). Such fudging detaches Parks' action from the tradition of political dissent in which it operated. While the obituary does well to acknowledge Parks' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and describe how her arrest was seized upon by the movement, it fails to spell out a basic lesson of her story: that an essential piece of non-violent, communal action is the skillful manipulation of slogans and images in the creation of political myth. Juan Williams op-ed is here http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/opinion/31williams.html On 10/24/05, anupam pachauri wrote: > > Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dies at 92 > > DETROIT - Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus > seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights > movement, died Monday evening. She was 92. > > Mrs. Parks died at her home during the evening of > natural causes, with close friends by her side, said > Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the > past 15 years. > > Mrs. Parks was 42 when she committed an act of > defiance in 1955 that was to change the course of > American history and earn her the title "mother of the > civil rights movement." > > At that time, Jim Crow laws in place since the > post-Civil War Reconstruction required separation of > the races in buses, restaurants and public > accommodations throughout the South, while legally > sanctioned racial discrimination kept blacks out of > many jobs and neighborhoods in the North. > > The Montgomery, Ala., seamstress, an active member of > the local chapter of the > National Association for the Advancement of Colored > People, was riding on a city bus Dec. 1, 1955, when a > white man demanded her seat. > > Mrs. Parks refused, despite rules requiring blacks to > yield their seats to whites. Two black Montgomery > women had been arrested earlier that year on the same > charge, but Mrs. Parks was jailed. She also was fined > $14. > > Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said he felt a personal > tie to the civil rights icon: "She stood up by sitting > down. I'm only standing here because of her." > > U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (news, bio, voting record), > D-N.Y., lauded Mrs. Parks' mettle. > > "I truly believe that there's a little bit of Rosa > Parks in all Americans who have the courage to say > enough is enough and stand up for what they believe > in," Rangel said. "She did such a small thing, but it > was so courageous for her as a humble person to do." > > Speaking in 1992, Mrs. Parks said history too often > maintains "that my feet were hurting and I didn't know > why I refused to stand up when they told me. But the > real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I > had a right to be treated as any other passenger. We > had endured that kind of treatment for too long." > > Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus > system organized by a then little-known Baptist > minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who later > earned the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. > > Read further at: > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051025/ap_on_re_us/obit_rosa_parks > > > Regards, > Anupam > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com > _________________________________________ > 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. > List archive: > From gl_sudhir at yahoo.co.in Thu Nov 3 14:28:02 2005 From: gl_sudhir at yahoo.co.in (Gulati, Sudhir) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:58:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Reader-list] ASEAN: Funding for Research Scholars Message-ID: <20051103085803.38064.qmail@web8412.mail.in.yahoo.com> FYI. "Gandhi, Valentine Joseph" wrote:To: Development Cafe From: "Gandhi, Valentine Joseph" Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:18:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: [The_Development_CAFE] ASEAN: Funding for Research Scholars Research Scholars ASEAN Graduate Research Scholars Appointment from Asia Research Institute The Asia Research Institute of NUS invites applications from ASEAN citizens (except Singaporeans) enrolled for a fulltime advanced degree at a university in an ASEAN country for consideration as ASEAN Graduate Research Scholars. The Programme is intended for graduate students working in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Asian topics, and will allow the participants to conduct research at NUS for a period of three months. The aim of the Programme is to enable scholars to make full use of the wide range of resources held in the libraries of NUS and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), and to interact with NUS academics and fellow ASEAN scholars. The Programme will commence on 1 May 2006. Successful candidates can expect the following benefits: a. A monthly allowance of SGD$1750 (inclusive of housing allowance). b. A one time travel subsidy of up to SGD$1000 on a reimbursement basis upon being accepted for the fellowship. c. Access to library and computer resources on campus. Applicants are invited to email/facsimile/mail their curriculum vitae, a 2-page research proposal in English to the address below by 15 December 2005. Arrangements should also be made for at least two letters of reference, one of which from your principal supervisor, to be sent confidentially to the same address by the same deadline. The research proposal must include the following details: 1) how the attachment at ARI will contribute to the proposed research; 2) the types of sources to be consulted in Singapore; 3) a proposed work plan during the period of attachment. Human Resources Asia Research Institute 5 Arts Link Level 4 Shaw Foundation Building, AS7 Singapore 117570 Email: joinari at nus.edu.sg Fax : 65 67791428 Website: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg --------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Sudhir Gulati Post Graduate Student MBA, 2nd Year Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Cell No #09839351179 ---------------------------------------------------------- "Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." --------------------------------- Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20051103/a01381c5/attachment.html From rajivansa at hotmail.com Thu Nov 3 16:29:56 2005 From: rajivansa at hotmail.com (rajivan Sa) Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:59:56 +0000 Subject: [Reader-list] THE AIR AROUND (a sound installation) In-Reply-To: <43693B72.1040109@sarai.net> Message-ID: THE AIR AROUND (a sound installation) RAJIVAN.AYYAPPAN. SOUND ARTIST. INDIA. This is to invite you all to be a part in the making of my recent sound installation-- The air around-- as one of the performers/ contributers from your geographical location. The air around is a radio/telephonic installation. It's made of an FM network that receives sounds through telephones�mobile, landline or internet phones�from around the world and integrates them into a soundscape. The installation has a central computer with a list of participants and their phone numbers. It would dial a number, remain open to engage the participant, hang up after a period of time, start another number and so on. These interactions would be transmitted to the The air around installation site. The location of the installation will be in Bangalore. It is a part of World-information city conference, organised by Waag Society (Amsterdam), Institute for New Culture Technologies (Vienna), Sarai CSDS (Delhi), Mahiti and Alternative Law Forum (Bangalore). The central theme of The air around is this: Access a whole lot of people who are in different locations and time zones through the internet and integrate them, live, into the new context of a synthesized soundscape installation. Our plan is to have a list where as many people are ready to take the call. Therefore I want you to be in The air around's list to recieve a call from the installation. What I would like to have from you is a 30 sec to 3 or 4 minutes of sound event that are voiced, played back or performed online by you. There are no rules for what you must do. Strictly no rules. You can just pick up the phone, identify your number or name and behave as if you have a microphone in hand. Your interaction with the call will be one of the sound events in the installation. It will be transmitted at the air around site. The air around installation will be active for 3 days, 3:00pm to 6:00pm (India. Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +5:30 hours) starting 14th November and ending on 16th November 2005. If you are keen tell us the dates & times when it would be possible to call you. The call will be made from the installation, to your land line or mobile. You will not be charged with any phone call rates. It will be paid by the the air around project. Please mail me for clarifications and planning.I could send you more details regarding the procedure. Love to hear from you. Rajivan.Ayyappan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- please follow the URL for more information about the event. WORLD INFORMATION EXHIBITION http://world-information.org From cahen.x at levels9.com Fri Nov 4 01:37:11 2005 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:07:11 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] pourinfos Newsletter / 10-28 to 11-03-2005 Message-ID: <436A6DEF.8060909@levels9.com> pourinfos.org l'actualite du monde de l'art / daily Art news ----------------------------------------------------------------------- infos from October 28, 2005 to November 3, 2005 (included) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (mostly in french) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 Call:"SLEEP" international arts project, Depot Dortmund Germany 2006, Dortmund, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2227 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 Meetings : Symposium Spectrum Cartography, Symposium international on the culture of the new media, november 5 and 6, 2005, Point Ephemere, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2226 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 Meetings : Thursdays of the cultural patronage, Culture and the Communication Ministry, national Institute of history of art, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2225 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 04 Meetings : extensions # 5, Jeff Guess, Tuesday November 8, 2005 at 7h30 PM, Ensci,, Ensci, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2224 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 05 Meetings : Visual writings on numerical support, international Conference, November 4 and 5, 2005, CIEREC, Saint-Étienne, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2223 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 06 Meetings : Conference, projects of the Fabre agencies & Speller and Domenica Perrault, Friday November 4, 2005, Maison de l'architecture en Île-de-France, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2222 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 07 Publication : archee, cybermensuel, october_2005, Montreal, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2221 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 08 Publication : 5th increased edition of the International Guide Art & Contest, épithème éditions, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2220 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 Various : One day song, Poetry for one evening, Thursday November 10, 2005, Manufacture Chanson, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/divers/item.php?id=2219 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Variouss : Sidebrow: Update & Call for Submissions, San Francisco, CA, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/divers/item.php?id=2218 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Screening : Palestine / Israel, glance not neutral, Films and scenario Switzerland writers in Paris, Entrepôt et Centre culturel suisse, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2217 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Exhibition : flux / energy, SphèrAléas, university Pole Lardy Vichy, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2216 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Program : november and beginning of December, movie theater Le Barbizon, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2215 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Exhibition : 6th festival internacional de multimedia, film et music of Lisboa, Portugal. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2214 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Exhibition : Open studios, december 2,3,4, 2005, Rennes, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2213 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 Exhibition : Timecode, Herve Trioreau, Glassbox Paris, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2212 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 Exhibition : Kirsten Klein, Galerie Birthlauren, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2211 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 Exhibition : the end is far, Sebastiaan Schlicher, Museum MAN, Liverpool, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2210 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Exhibition : paintings, Gaël Le Déroff, Association Tripode et le SEPA, Rennes, France. lien http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2209 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Call : Belluard Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2208 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 Call : 11th edition of the contest of Foundation HSBC for Photography, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2207 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 Call : Atelje 2050, Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2206 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 Call : CHEAP. a review, Editions Cheap, Nantes, France. lien http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2205 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 Call: decoration for a public construction/artistic 1% , Haubourdin, France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2204 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 Call : interactive art work , The 2006 edition of the internationally, ISEA, Californie, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2203 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 Call : on the subject of Dreams, video and multimedia works, The Chapel + Cultural Center at Rensselaer, Troy, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 Call : « The NEWS BAD IMAGE », Bezalel, Israel. http://pourinfos.org/participation/item.php?id=2201 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 Job : Cultural worker (man or woman), museums of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. http://pourinfos.org/emploi/item.php?id=2200 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 Job : assistant in artistic engineering, Le SEPA Le Bon Accueil , Rennes, France. http://pourinfos.org/emploi/item.php?id=2199 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 Meetings : Conference : “art and web” , 13Th of January 2006, Associazione Culturale Borgo San Dalmasso, Italy. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2198 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 31 Residence : residences program d'Est-Nord-Est, spring and autumn 2006 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/residences/item.php?id=2197 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 32 Residences : The Netherlands Media Art Institute AiR 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands. http://pourinfos.org/residences/item.php?id=2196 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 33 Publication : DVD Andre Breton, Editions Sevendoc, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2195 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 34 Various : Thesis of Arts and Sciences of Art: the borders from one relation to another, 26 Novembre 2005, INHA, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/divers/item.php?id=2194 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 35 Performance : Intervention #2 : "For the Tuesday, equal rights" November 15, 2005, national Parliament, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2193 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 36 Variouss : Real Art is back directed by Art Hunter , Metz, France. http://pourinfos.org/divers/item.php?id=2192 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 37 Various : Suppport for Rhino, Geneva, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/divers/item.php?id=2191 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 Performance : "of the analogical body to the numerical body", 7th symposium of Presence Capitale, 19 novembre 2005, CAPC de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2190 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 39 Exhibition : even clean, the hands leave marks and damage surfaces, the Station, Nice, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2189 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 40 Exhibition : Joachim Mogarra, the divine comedy, Images au centre_05, Ecole superieure des beaux arts de Tours, Tours, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2188 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 41 Exhibition : [A] venir, Le Centre d'art de Chelles - Eglises Ste Croix / St Georges, Chelles, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2187 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 42 Exhibition : One shot, Cyprien Gaillard, Galerie Nuke, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2186 From mediachef at gmail.com Sat Nov 5 02:51:44 2005 From: mediachef at gmail.com (Steve Dietz) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:21:44 -0600 Subject: [Reader-list] ISEA2006 Community Domain Call #2 (Final) Message-ID: <85d7931b0511041321v416f3b00qd8bad07e1ebb7a35@mail.gmail.com> COMMUNITY DOMAIN CALL FOR PROPOSALS #2 (Final) This is an invitation by the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge to groups and individuals to submit proposals for exhibition of interactive artworks and projects reflecting on the thematic of Community Domain. ABOUT THE ISEA2006 SYMPOSIUM AND ZEROONE SAN JOSE FESTIVAL The 2006 edition of the internationally renowned ISEA Symposium will be held August 7-13, 2006, in San Jose, California. See http://isea2006.sjsu.edu for more information. The Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies. Prior host cities include Helsinki, Paris, Sydney, Montreal, Chicago, Manchester and Nagoya. ZeroOne San Jose is a milestone festival to be held biennially making the work of the most innovative contemporary artists in the world accessible. In 2006 it will be held in conjunction with the ISEA2006 Symposium. ABOUT THE COMMUNITY DOMAIN CALL ISEA2006 and ZeroOne San Jose seek to engage diverse communities -- of interest, geography, ethnicity, race, or belief. In particular, we seek projects that recognize the hybridity of communities and take transverse routes across communities. Many of the members of these communities have no specific interest in art or technology or their intersection. Yet they have stories to tell and images of the city to map. ISEA2006 and ZeroOne San Jose are looking for exemplary projects that actively engage these audiences and help build bridges between them in ways that may utilize digital technologies, but which are not necessarily specific to those technologies. In other words, the goal is not to train community members to become artists but to use digital and networked technologies to allow them to participate in the creation of their own stories -- to become dynamic producers rather than only static consumers. Proposed projects can derive from any local context and do not need to be related specifically to San Jose and the surrounding Silicon Valley region, although projects can, of course, engage San Jose / Silicon Valley audiences as well. For this call, unlike with the early Community Domain call (http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/communitydomain1/), we do not have available funding to support accepted projects, although we will do what we can to provide materials necessary for and helpful to fundraising as well as a venue and an audience for the work. TIMELINE Submissions Due: December 15, 2005 Notification: February 10, 2006 CALL http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/communitydomain2/ COMMUNITY DOMAIN THEME http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#community SUBMISSIONS http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/register/submission.php MAILING LIST http://cadre.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/isea2006 QUESTIONS communitydomain at yproductions.com -- Steve Dietz Director, ZeroOne: The Network Director, ISEA2006 Symposium + ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge http://isea2006.sjsu.edu : August 7-13, 2006 From lawrence at altlawforum.org Sat Nov 5 19:10:30 2005 From: lawrence at altlawforum.org (Lawrence Liang) Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:10:30 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] World Information City Newspaper- IP Edition Message-ID: Hi All The Newspaper for World Information City (14th-19th November, Bangalore) is now available online. The publication presents a collection of articles, interviews and essays relating to questions of Intellectual Property and urban transformations. The 30.000 copies of the World-Information City publication will also be distributed in Europe and Asia as well as at events related to the World Summit of Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis November 2005. http://static.world-information.org/infopaper/wi_ipcityedition.pdf The Paper has contributions from Peter Drahos, Joseph Stiglitz, James Love, Jamie King, Saskia Sassen, Solly Benjamin, Mike Davis, Ronaldo Lemos and many others More news on WIC to Follow Here are some links in the meantime Schedule: http://www.altlawforum.org/WIC_schedule Overall Description of the event: http://world-information.org/wio/program/bangalore2005 Lawrence From bakwaas_das at yahoo.com Mon Nov 7 02:37:33 2005 From: bakwaas_das at yahoo.com (Bakwaas Das) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 13:07:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] What is a List? Message-ID: <20051106210734.66098.qmail@web36414.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hello ji, Let me first apologise for not saying "Dear all" or "Hi all". Both sound extremely comfortable and arrogant: too self-serving. What is a List (apart from networking, liasioning, intelligently PR-ing, intellectualling, new media racketeering? Post-post-post...ad infinitum...theorising?)? Here is a definition: List: (of a ship etc) lean over to one side, esp. owing to a leak or shifting cargo. O let me lean over to one side. I must take a leak. The cargo inside me is shifting. The dinner: O god, the shifting cargo! O let me lean over to one side: O now I must lean over to the other side. Throw-up ist verboten. Throw up! Ignore, yaar. 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URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20051106/a1afa24b/attachment.html From iram at sarai.net Mon Nov 7 14:14:07 2005 From: iram at sarai.net (iram at sarai.net) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:44:07 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] Fwd: Strugglers & Jugglers Message-ID: ------ Original Message ------ Subject: Fwd: Strugglers & Jugglers To: reader-list at sarai.net From: Prashant Pandey Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:40:16 +0100 Saukat Rana is in his early twenties. He is from Calcutta.I meet him in the Indian Idol Auditions at the Ravindra Natya mandir, Dadar, Mumbai. I call him Shaukat. He tells me " Its Saukat". He has not learnt classical but he says that he is an orchestra singer in Calcutta. He follows Kumar Sanu. He takes out his notebook which has some 1000 kumar sanu songs in Bengali and Hindi. "I sing only sanu da". If they give me a mike here I will tear apart everybody." (sabki phaad doonga). I tell him there is no mike here and one has to just sing. He says "no problem " and starts to sing sanus' latest album song. Everybody notices Rana and his shrill nasal style. Some people smile. Others comment that he is a Kalkatia (one belonging to kolkota) and like all kalkatias can not think beyond Sanu and Babul Supriyo and Kishore . Ravi, a cable tv technician from Allahabad comments "aap ka pucca ho jaiga….lo biskut khao" we eat Parle G biscuits. Its 7 pm. auditions are tomorrow. Yet there is crowd of almost 500 participants that refuses to leave. Rana says " kaha jaiga" paisa khatam ho gaya. Rana has no money. He was staying at his friends' buas' bari( he means home) but he is not comfortable there as "they ask too many questions." I ask him that he is an orchestra singer…doesn't he make money ? He tells me that programmes are very rare. That's why he has come to idol so that he gets stage shows. I tell him to work hard and impromptu he hums a starting tune of a kishore kumar song which has shades of raag Darbari. He asks me to repeat it. I do. "isse gala thik rahta hai" ( this is good for throat) I am learning classical and its quite amusing to see Rana do his voice culture from a hindi film song. I ask him why he likes sanu so much. He says " uska gaana sabse meetha hai" he sings chehra kya dekhto ho dil me utar kar dekho na. "Sanu da dil me bas jata hai"….( Sanu makes a place in ur heart). I tell Rana that when I was in class 11th I used to sing in an orchestra and I sang sanu da's songs. Rana feels very happy. He holds my hands…as if making a promise " Tum agar dil se gaaya hai na toh jaroor upaar jaiga" ( if u have sung with your heart you will go ahead) 10 minutes later……. I offer that I will treat everybody. I tell that I am working and let me pay for this chai and everyone can eat whatever one wants. I keep saying to myself that this is not my job and these people are not my subjects for a book or case study. I must never be condescending. Everybody here wants to be a part of the music industry that's the bottom line. Ravi, volunteers to pay the bill. I say " kya hai" drawing his hands away. I pay 45 rupees for wada paavs, chai and biscuits. Rana's song book is funny. His Hindi is pointless. Does he remember all these songs ? "Yes… hamara kali puja me iska puja karta hai. Gaana nahi jaata." (I worship my notebook in Diwali kali puja. That's why I remember all the songs.) By now everybody has started calling him Sanu. I tell him not to worry and just focus on the auditions. I suggest that we will pool in money for Sanu's back ticket. Rana now christened as Sanu looks wretched. I ask him if he has eaten. Half an hour later we are sitting in a crowded South Indian restaurant in Dadar. There is no ventilation and fried rice fumes keep hanging in there above our heads. I tell him that not to think anything and eat as he is from a different city visiting Bombay. He says "tum kaalkatta aaega to mere ghaar rukna." (If you come to Calcutta you stay at my place) We start chatting. This is roughly what we chatted about. Tell me a bit about your family I have a mother and an elder sister who is married in Murshidabad now. We are originally weavers. My father used to make and sell cloth. We did nt have a shop but esee hee cycle pe bechta tha. So? Vo marr gaya.( he is dead) Ok. And you do not want to be a weaver. Naa…essa sawaal kyo poochta hai ( why do ask such a question? ) I want to sing. One day I will have my own album. Just now a music company owner in Calcutta called me and told to sing a song in an album. I told him that I am in Bombay. Ohh… what a miss… Haa… paisa hota to plane se chal ke jata. ( if I was rich I would have taken a flight). I was after this mans life. He is a big music promoter from Calcutta. he has a record label also. He had promised me a song. Now it was time but I am in Bombay. So tell him that you are doing a show in Bombay and will record after you reach Calcutta. Yes… it's a good idea. Are you studying? No. 9th takk kiya hai .( just till 9th standard) singing and studies do not go together. Stage pe jaiga…school nahi. ( will only do stage shows wont go to schools) But you don't get enough stage shows. Milega. That's why idol me aaya hai. (That's why I am participating in Indian idol) How do you like Bombay? Accha hai… dadar kitna bara hai re… sala itna bara station itna rush.. howra bhi phail hai…parr idhar do cheez bahut bekar hai. Pehla toilet nahi hai doosra police kuch madad nahi karta. ( Bombay is good. Dadar station is so big.. its so crowded much more than what is there in howrah. But there are two things that I do not like above Bombay. First there are no toilets then police does not help.) How long have you been in Bombay? 3 days. Where is your luggage … He shows me his little bag which has just a t-shirt, his mobile phone charger, a tooth brush, tooth paste and a comb. So for three days you have been wearing the same clothes. Yes.. I notice his green pants and deep red polo t-shirt and white shoes. Bombay everybody is so stylish. I wanted to compete with them. So I have got best of my clothes. But phir bhi yaha par bahut hero hai. Clothes do not matter. NO! Like you are so well dressed. In Calcutta if you go like this no body will touch you. Ok… if you clear this round. You can take my shirt. But plz tell sonu sir that this is Prashant's shirt. He smiles. In Bombay nobody talks to you. Noboby looks at you. You must have lots of time to talk to me. Or you must be a good person as you are taking me to this restaurant. Now I do not feel like telling him about my research work on the music industry. Its banal, artificial and it is going to kill all the innocence that is their in our conversation. I tell him that I am doing all this because I have a job and hence I can afford to pay and then I expect him to do the same I once I m in Calcutta. What is your job? My job is research. Are you from Zee Tv. ? (This shocks me) No I am just a writer. But you are a singer… are nt you ? Yes I am a singer. Then you make money by singing or by writing. Sanu is asking very tough questions. But I think something and tell him . I make money by writing and use it to learn singing. Ok… you are learning.. Yes…. What ? Hindustani classical… Ok ok Why do you have to learn…. Just sing like I do. Be free. Classical se dimaag kharab ho jata hai… Kaise ? Mera bahut dost Calcutta me classical sikha hai( a lot of my friends have learnt classical in kolkata) they are scared. Ek ek suur lagane me darta hai . (Every note they sing ….they are scared) Tell me about your friends…. I have two girlfriends…. Girlfriends? Yes… I don't make friends. I make girlfriends but now my heart has taken a beating. (He puts his hand on his chest) iss dil ne bahut kuch saha hai. You had a break-up? Yes… ten days back. My girlfriend told me that I am good for nothing. She hurt me. She said that I would never become a singer. She called me loafer. You tell me…. was kishore da a loafer? No Then?? ….everybody needs time. I am just 19. I can not give her expensive gift. I don't have a car. I told her you should love a seth.( a rich man) Seth ? In Calcutta marwaris have so many girlfriends and they have so much money which never finshes. Ok. Are you jealous of marwaris…….. No no… I have some marwaris friends also. I meet then when I go to the city. Means ? you live in Calcutta na ? No. not exactly in the city. But very near. It's a place called santragacchi. Ok. And your girlfriend is from santaragashi ? No no she is from Calcutta. She thinks I am a village joker. How old is she? She is 25. You are 19? Yes . Tum bahut shane ho yaar. Nahi…earlier she came after me… but when I became serious she ran way… Why ? Because I am a very passionate person…. Jaisa vo darr me shahrukh khan jaisa…she is just a school teacher. She ran away. How can she ever feel what I feel? Why? See I am artist. I think different from her. Before parting I told her…. "tum makkhi hai " ( you are a filthy fly) So what was her reply? Nothing. She said nothing. Not even a change of expression. You know what…..never ever care for a silent type of girl. He tells me a sher, a couplet in urdu which sounds very funny due to his accent. It has words like " khamosi" So you think girls go after rich guys….say marwaris that's why you want to be a singer…….rich……. and famous so that girls come to you. Yes……… like makkhi (flies) Oh… yes… We have spent a lot of time talking. I ask him about his plans. He says I want to follow Sanu Da's foot steps. He has become a film producer. You know him No Then how do you know Just like that. You tell and you hide. Everybody in Bombay is like that only. Do not speak much against this city. If you want to be a singer you are going to live in this city. Oh when I asked about your plan I meant plan right now We are planning to spend the night in the nearby park. (There are nearly 100 people camping for the next day auditions) Ok. I suggest that you all go to Dadar Station and spend the night there. When I say this I have these people around - 2 college students from pune, , Ravi, a cable tv technician from Allahabad, Suman, a 17 year talented singer from jabalpur with his father and Nitin, a pest control worker from Indore and Rana aka Sanu, the orchestra singer from Kolkata. Sumans' father says that there is a temple nearby and he has made arrangements there. Nitin and Ravi want to go to Dadar as Ravi wants a good shave and facial, a solid bench to sleep and Nitin wants to see Mumbai call girls. The two college students are going to a nearby guesthouse called "Mother India" where they will pay 280 rupees for a night. Police have dispersed this motley crowd of strugglers twice. Its clear. It's a posh locality. We don't want complain from the Society (as in the building association) No trouble here. Go anywhere. Mumbai is very big .Rot anywhere. Not here. Stern and polite. "Where will you go? Come with us", everybody says. "How can you sleep? " "Common we will sing songs…" Nitin says "raat ka nazara dekhenge". I just have to smile. I know these requests will die out and I would be back in my comfy room in an hour. They do not have homes. They are strangers. I should not spend/waste my time or spend too much time with them. After all they are what. They are strugglers. Its 11 pm. I wish Sanu and Suman goodbye. Rest of the people are somewhere. I feel relieved as Nitin is not around. He has gone to gather support for a visit to a local bar and then to a nearby red-light lane. Sumans' father, a worker in a chemical factory in jabalpur, says " kal jaroor aana". He says that a lot of kids are not serious and have come at the pretext of giving auditions. The tea-vendor says" He (Nitin) was asking me about girls…do I look like a pimp? "Gaana gane ka aur ghar jaane ka". 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From: Prashant Pandey Subject: Strugglers & Jugglers Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:23:34 +0530 Size: 17917 Url: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20051107/74db919b/attachment.mht From jcm at ata.org.pe Mon Nov 7 16:51:51 2005 From: jcm at ata.org.pe (Jose-Carlos Mariategui) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:21:51 +0000 Subject: [Reader-list] (In)visible Videographies - recent video art from Latin America Message-ID: ---> English (Spanish version follows) V I D E O G R A F I A S I N ( V I S I B L E S ) [ (In)visible Videographies ] A selection of recent video art from América Latina (2000 ­ 2005) Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid ­ Spain 16th of november to 14th of december, 2005 Curators: Jorge Villacorta + José-Carlos Mariátegui In the brief history of electronic art in Latin America there are two recognizable stages. The first took place in the 1980s, or possibly the late Seventies, when artists, either isolated or in small groups, began to experiment with available electronic media, usually imitating what had already been done in Europe or the United States. The second stage, which began around 1990, involved the appearance of new artists immersed in electronic creation. This stage coincides in time with one or more local cultural initiatives ­public, private or a combination of the two­ with the aim of giving an institutional framework for creativity in electronic media and its promotion. In Argentina and Brazil these two stages appeared before they did elsewhere in Latin America; in Argentina the first stage took place in the second half of the Sixties, and in Brazil, in the early Seventies. Since Latin America is such a vast territory, whose development has been marked by the necessary transference of technology, it is easy to understand how electronic art becomes inserted in an ultimately cultural phenomenon of transference, even if its basis and its immediate devices are to be found in technology. As we can also see in the rest of the world, electronic media in Latin America are used nowadays in artistic creation in a context of fast changes, novelty developments, impact and surprise. Due to these changes artists travel to new places and become conscious of the uniqueness of their present position, awakening new insights, which in turn give important feedback to their work. Even if electronic art in Latin America as a whole still lacks stability, video art has become one of the contemporary aesthetic practices in recent Latin American visual arts. It is often included in international art exhibits and shows, as it is considered to have all the marks of regional representation, as well as acknowledged international legitimacy. However, little is known about recent video art production in Latin America as a whole, outside of some well-known names. It is hard to believe that at the beginning of the 21st Century, in spite of ubiquitous communication and information technology, we still have no access to any information about the creative processes which take place in certain areas. For us Latin Americans it is even more difficult to have access to information about our own region. It therefore becomes a necessity to build a network of creative connexions focused on the knowledge about video art in the region, searching at the same time for the particularities which ensure that in each country in Latin America there is a continuous flow of creative projects in new media. (In)visible Videographies proposes rendering visible some of these possible connexions revolving around ideas, concepts and recent proposals linked to video art works by Latin American creators unknown to the general public, in an attempt to contribute to the redefinition of our global concept of media art. The curatorial activity in this exhibit is focused on the selection of recent innovative projects, in an attempt to generate a receptive space for new cultural contents where visitors can actively immerse themselves. The projects chosen here have been produced by artists from those places which have little representation in the development of video art, but where, as our recent researches have confirmed, there is as much talent as that of the more visible areas of Latin America. (In)visible Videographies is divided into five thematic selections: 1.- MUSIC FOR THE EYES (16th of November, 19:30 h) The artists take a look at mass culture, with an avid aye for identifying the contours of a media culture which can be easily and directly comprehended. From animation to the dramatization of urban violence, this selection covers testimonial instances of how a commercial format (the video clip) has left its mark on visual creation, using video as a medium. What is foreign to them is effectively assimilated and reinterpreted from a witty local standpoint. Álvaro Zavala (Peru) ³¡Qué lindos son tus ojos!², 2001, 4¹ 30¹¹ Allora & Calzadilla (Cuba / USA) ³Returning a Sound², 2005, 5¹ 30¹¹ Orlando Galloso (Cuba) ³El telón², 2002, 3¹ 10¹¹ Katia Lund (Brazil) ³A minha alma², 2000, 6¹ Victoria Sayago (Argentina) ³Algo pasa en Potosí², 2005, 8¹ Brooke Alfaro (Panama) ³Aria², 2003, 3¹ 27¹¹ Ángel Alonso (Cuba) ³El hogar y sus fantasías², 2003, 7¹ 15¹¹ Ximena Cuevas (Mexico) ³Cinepolis², 2002, 22¹ Claudio Santos and Alexandra Soares / Voltz Design (Brazil) ³MOV_03², 2002, 2¹ 30¹¹ Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil) Fifteen clips from the series ³Postales², 2000-2003 (inserted in the program) 2.- EXERCISES TO FIGHT OBLIVION (23rd of November, 19:30 h) This selection explores the way memories of the recent past generate forms of audiovisual stories multiplying the senses in the construction of traditional historicity. The experience of television consumerism becomes one of the references that filter a cumulus of narrations, where nothing is rejected a priori: the personal or family history can become enmeshed in regional history ­be it geographic or social­ and both can reveal the political dimension. Javier Cambre (Puerto Rico)³Paseante², 2005, 7¹ 35¹¹ Ernesto Salmerón (Nicaragua)³Documento 1/29², 2003, 3¹ 47¹¹ ³Documento 2/29², 2003, 51¹¹ ³Documento 3/29², 2003, 1¹ 40¹¹ Enrique Castro (Panama)³memorias del hijo del viejo², 2003, 20¹ Diego David Cifuentes (Ecuador)³Cuentos del desfortunio², 2003, 4¹ 46¹¹ Edgar León (Costa Rica)³Memorias del porqué², 2001, 4¹ 47¹¹ Federico Falco (Argentina)³Estudio para horizonte², 2003, 6¹ 35¹¹ Carlos Runcie Tanaka (Peru)³DOS², 2003, 12¹ 3.- IMPURE CINEMA (30th of November, 19:30 h) The discovery of cinematography from a videographic perspective has resulted in a series of combinations which bring possibilities for innovating and transgressing the traditional movie format. This range of new possibilities of creation in the context of the visual arts in Latin America seems to have contributed to the recuperation of the experimental potential of narrating, lushly and impeccably, in images and sounds. Its wider sense of conceptualization gives direction to each and every process of edition and composition, be it analog or digital. Carolina Saquel (Chile)³Pentimenti², 2004, 8¹ 30¹¹ Diego Lama (Peru)³Chimera², 2004, 10¹ 5¹¹ Iván Marino (Argentina)³In Death¹s Dream Kingdom², 2002, 17¹ Milagros Mumenthaler (Argentina) ³Cape Cod², 2003, 3¹ Andrés Denegri (Argentina)³Uyuni², 2005, 8¹ Martín Sastre (Uruguay)³Montevideo ­ the dark side of the Pop², 2004, 14¹ Héctor Pacheco (Mexico) ³Doce muertes violentas de artistas contemporáneos², 2003, 5¹ 4.- (MEDIA) HABITAT (7th of December, 19:30 h) The journey along the territory of reality in Latin America is made with a critical slant. The focus is on the way reality is transformed in the mass communication media: the artists work on the images in order to generate spaces which can be open for discussion. In the same way, poetics born from the experimental use of the digital medium bring about visual dimensions which consciousness experiences as belonging to a separate reality. María José Cuevas (Mexico)³Mal de amores², 2005, 3¹ 35¹¹ Los artistas de la Gente (Honduras) ³Nos vale verga², 2003, 7¹ Marcellvs L. (Brazil) ³A Man, a Road, a River ­ 0778², 2004, 9¹ 27¹¹ Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain (Brazil) ³Flatland², 2003, 7¹ 36¹¹ Glenda León (Cuba)³Cada respiro², 2003, 2¹ Fernando Arias / Diego Arias (Colombia) ³Orisa², 2001, 22¹ Omar Flores (Peru)³Viva la muerte², 2003, 8¹ 30¹¹ Edgar Endress (Chile)³La memoria ­ Undocumented², 2004, 8¹ 30¹¹ Eder Santos (Brazil)³Accidentes geográficos², 2000, 18¹ 30¹¹ Gabriela Golder (Argentina) ³Vacas², 2002, 4¹ 26¹¹ 5.- PERFORMED IMAGERY (14th of December, 19:30 h) With a clear sense of the necessity to redefine video performance, a new generation of Latin American artists takes over situations and subjects deeply rooted in national imagery. The ethical status of the artist in the social context becomes in turn an object of ironic or playful reflection. Narda Alvarado (Bolivia)³Fire-men², 2004, 6¹ Sandra Monterroso (Guatemala) ³Tus tortillas mi amor², 2004, 23¹ Donna Conlon (Panama / USA) ³Singular, solitario², 2002, 5¹ 46¹¹ Cezar Migliorin (Brazil)³Acción y dispersión², 2003, 5¹ 30¹¹ Carlos Quintana (Venezuela)³El tigurón Franquejten², 2003, 9¹ 38¹¹ Milena Pafundi (Argentina) ³Un tiempo², 2003, 26¹ Narda Alvarado (Bolivia)³Olive Green², 2003, 4¹ 30¹¹ --------- This project has been produced by Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporáneo Español (Valladolid ­ Spain), Alta Tecnología Andina - ATA (Lima - Peru), the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno and the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional - AECI. Sponsor: Ministry of Culture, Spain ---> Spanish V I D E O G R A F I A S I N ( V I S I B L E S ) Una selección de video arte reciente de América Latina (2000 ­ 2005) Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid ­ España 16 de noviembre a 14 de diciembre, 2005 Comisarios: Jorge Villacorta + José-Carlos Mariátegui En la breve historia del arte electrónico en América Latina es posible reconocer dos momentos. En el primero, acontecido en la década de 1980 ­aunque podría ser a fines de los ¹70­, aparecen artistas aislados o núcleos reducidos de artistas que experimentan con los medios electrónicos disponibles (a menudo, imitando lo ya hecho en Europa o Estados Unidos). El segundo, aproximadamente a partir de 1990, viene con la aparición de nuevos artistas inmersos en la creación electrónica, cuya voluntad es integrarse culturalmente a un clima visual de época, sin fronteras nacionales. Este momento coincide en el tiempo con una o más iniciativas culturales locales ­estatales, privadas o mixtas­ cuyo fin es dotar de un marco institucional a la creación en medios electrónicos y promoverla. Para Argentina y Brasil, estos dos momentos se producen antes que en otros países (en Argentina, el primer momento tiene lugar durante la segunda mitad de la década de 1960 y en Brasil, a principios de la década de 1970). Por ser América Latina un enorme territorio cuyo desarrollo ha estado marcado por la necesaria transferencia de tecnologías ­y sigue estándolo­, es posible comprender cómo el arte electrónico queda insertado en el fenómeno de una transferencia primordialmente cultural, a pesar de que su base sea lo tecnológico (así como sus dispositivos inmediatos). Como en el resto del mundo, hoy en América Latina el uso de los medios electrónicos para la creación artística se da en un contexto de cambio rápido, de desarrollos novedosos, de impacto y sorpresa. Gracias a este cambio los artistas se desplazan a nuevos parajes y toman consciencia de lo inédito de su ubicación actual, lo que hace que nazcan en ellos nuevas percepciones que alimentan su trabajo. Si bien el arte electrónico de América Latina en el conjunto de sus manifestaciones carece aún de lugar estable, el videoarte se ha instituido como una de las prácticas estéticas contemporáneas en el arte visual latinoamericano reciente. A menudo es incluido en exposiciones y muestras de arte a nivel internacional, ya que se considera que posee todas las señas de representatividad regional, además de una reconocida legitimidad internacional. Sin embargo, fuera de los nombres conocidos se sabe poco de la producción reciente de videoarte en América Latina como conjunto de países. Es difícil pensar que a principios del siglo XXI, pese a la comunicación ubicua y a las tecnologías de información, aun no tengamos acceso a información sobre los procesos creativos que acontecen en ciertas zonas. Para nosotros los latinoamericanos es aún más complejo poder acceder a información sobre nuestra propia región. Resulta por ello necesario construir una red de conexiones creativas que privilegie el conocimiento del videoarte en la región y que busque paralelamente las particularidades que hacen que en cada país de América Latina surjan continuamente proyectos de creación en nuevos medios. Videografías in(visibles) propone hacer visibles algunas de estas posibles conexiones centradas en ideas, conceptos y propuestas recientes ligadas a obras de videoarte de creadores de América Latina, desconocidas para el público, en un intento de contribuir a la redefinición de nuestro concepto global del media art. La acción curatorial de la muestra está concentrada en la selección de proyectos innovadores de creación reciente, en el intento de generar un espacio de recepción de nuevos contenidos culturales en el que el visitante se sumerja activamente como espectador. Se ha elegido incorporar proyectos producidos por artistas de zonas poco representadas en cuanto al desarrollo del videoarte pero en las que nuestras búsquedas recientes nos confirman que se produce con el mismo talento que en las áreas más visibles de la región. Videografías in(visibles) comprende cinco selecciones temáticas: I. MÚSICA PARA LOS OJOS (16 de Noviembre, 19:30 h) La cultura de masas es mirada por los artistas con ojos ávidos de identificar los contornos de una cultura medial de lectura fácil y directa. Desde la animación hasta la dramatización de la violencia urbana aparecen en esta selección como instancias testimoniales del modo en que un formato comercial ­el videoclip­ ha dejado huella en la creación visual que utiliza el video como medio. Lo foráneo es asimilado y reinterpretado desde perspectivas locales ingeniosas con resultado eficaz. Álvaro Zavala (Perú) ³¡Qué lindos son tus ojos!², 2001, 4¹ 30¹¹ Allora & Calzadilla (Cuba / USA) ³Returning a Sound², 2005, 5¹ 30¹¹ Orlando Galloso (Cuba) ³El telón², 2002, 3¹ 10¹¹ Katia Lund (Brasil) ³A minha alma², 2000, 6¹ Victoria Sayago (Argentina) ³Algo pasa en Potosí², 2005, 8¹ Brooke Alfaro (Panamá) ³Aria², 2003, 3¹ 27¹¹ Ángel Alonso (Cuba) ³El hogar y sus fantasías², 2003, 7¹ 15¹¹ Ximena Cuevas (México) ³Cinepolis², 2002, 22¹ Claudio Santos y Alessandra Soares / Voltz Design (Brasil) ³MOV_03², 2002, 2¹ 30¹¹ Lucas Bambozzi (Brasil) 15 clips de la serie ³Postales², 2000 - 2003 (inserciones dentro del programa) II. EJERCICIOS CONTRA EL OLVIDO (23 de Noviembre, 19:30 h) La selección explora cómo la memoria del pasado reciente genera formas de relatos audiovisuales que multiplican los sentidos en la construcción de lo histórico tradicional. La experiencia del consumo televisivo se convierte en uno de los principales ejes de referencia para filtrar un cúmulo de narrativas, sin que nada sea rechazado a priori: la historia personal, familiar, puede quedar entretejida en la historia del terreno de acción ­geográfico o social­ y ambas pueden revelar la dimensión de lo político. Javier Cambre (Puerto Rico) ³Paseante², 2005, 7¹ 35¹¹ Ernesto Salmerón (Nicaragua) ³Documento 1/29², 2003, 3¹ 47¹¹, ³Documento 2/29², 2003, 51¹¹, ³Documento 3/29², 2003, 1¹ 40¹¹ Enrique Castro (Panamá) ³memorias del hijo del viejo², 2003, 20¹ Diego David Cifuentes (Ecuador) ³Cuentos del Desfortunio², 2003, 4¹ 46¹¹ Edgar León (Costa Rica) ³Memorias del porqué², 2001, 4¹ 47¹¹ Federico Falco (Argentina) ³Estudio para horizonte², 2003, 6¹ 35¹¹ Carlos Runcie Tanaka (Perú) ³DOS², 2003, 12¹ III. CINE IMPURO (30 de Noviembre, 19:30 h) El descubrimiento de lo cinematográfico desde la perspectiva videográfica ha dado como resultado una serie de combinaciones con posibilidades que han innovado y transgredido el formato tradicional del cine. Esta gama de nuevas coordenadas de creación en el contexto de las artes visuales actuales en América Latina parece haber contribuido a la recuperación del potencial experimental de narrar, rica y pulcramente, en imágenes y sonidos, con un sentido ampliado de la conceptualización que debe orientar todo proceso de edición y composición, sea analógico o digital. Carolina Saquel (Chile) ³Pentimenti², 2004, 8¹ 30¹¹ Diego Lama (Perú) ³Chimera², 2004, 10¹ 5¹¹ Iván Marino (Argentina) ³In Death¹s Dream Kingdom², 2002, 17¹ Milagros Mumenthaler (Argentina) ³Cape Cod², 2003, 3¹ Andrés Denegri (Argentina) ³Uyuni², 2005, 8¹ Martín Sastre (Uruguay) ³Montevideo ­ the dark side of the Pop², 2004, 14¹ Héctor Pacheco (México) ³Doce muertes violentas de artistas contemporáneos², 2003, 5¹ IV. HÁBITAT (MEDIAL) (7 de Diciembre, 19:30 h) En esta selección el recorrido del territorio de lo real en América Latina es emprendido con un énfasis crítico. La mira está en la transformación de la realidad por los medios masivos de comunicación: los artistas trabajan las imágenes para generar espacios de discusión. Asimismo, una poética nacida del empleo experimental del medio digital provoca la aparición de dimensiones visuales a las que la conciencia enfrenta como experiencias propias de una realidad distinta. María José Cuevas (México) ³Mal de Amores², 2005, 3¹ 35¹¹ Los artistas de la Gente (Honduras) ³Nos vale verga², 2003, 7¹ Marcellvs L. (Brasil) ³A Man, a Road, a River - 0778², 2004, 9¹ 27¹¹ Angela Detanico y Rafael Lain (Brasil) ³Flatland², 2003, 7¹ 36¹¹ Glenda León (Cuba) ³Cada respiro², 2003, 2¹ Fernando Arias / Diego Arias (Colombia) ³Orisa², 2001, 22¹ Omar Flores (Perú) ³Viva la muerte², 2003, 8¹ 30¹¹ Edgar Endress (Chile) ³La memoria - Undocumented², 2004, 8¹ 30¹¹ Eder Santos (Brasil) ³Accidentes geográficos², 2000, 18¹ 30¹¹ Gabriela Golder (Argentina) ³Vacas² 2002, 4¹ 26¹¹ V. IMAGINARIO ACTUADO (14 de Diciembre, 19:30 h) Con un claro sentido de redefinición de la performance para el medio del video, una nueva generación de artistas latinoamericanos echa mano de situaciones y sujetos profundamente inscritos en los imaginarios nacionales. El status ético del artista en el contexto social resulta a su vez objeto de una reflexión irónica o lúdica en el espacio de la videocreación. Narda Alvarado (Bolivia) ³Fire-men², 2004, 6¹ Sandra Monterroso (Guatemala) ³Tus tortillas mi amor² 2004, 23¹ Donna Conlon (Panamá/USA) ³Singular, solitario², 2002, 5¹ 46¹¹ Cezar Migliorin (Brasil) ³Acción y dispersión², 2003, 5¹ 30¹¹ Carlos Quintana (Venezuela) ³El tigurón Franquejten², 2003, 9¹ 38¹¹ Milena Pafundi (Argentina) ³Un tiempo², 2003, 26¹ Narda Alvarado (Bolivia) ³Olive Green², 2003, 4¹ 30¹¹ --------- Esta muestra ha sido producida por el Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporáneo Español (Valladolid ­ España), Alta Tecnología Andina - ATA (Lima - Peru), El Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno y la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional - AECI. Patrocina: Ministerio de Cultura From hfg at konsumerziehung.de Mon Nov 7 17:18:20 2005 From: hfg at konsumerziehung.de (he tears consume) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:48:20 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] he tears consume: for the french people In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <63efa1dbfa4d332bd1915fe1e50c28ab@konsumerziehung.de> the newly revised topic "zero tolerance" is because of the interface of commonness, power and truth. it concerns rule offences (relative on socially brought in traditions) and their relationship to cognitive and/or practical requirements for validity, which are formulated in statement sets and called in in standards. light my fire: http://konsumerziehung.de/marxellaise.mp3 he tears consume: c r o a t i a n s o u n d a r t a r c h i v e http://konsumerziehung.de/ -- this project has been produced by institute of network cultures, university of applied net sciences (lima - peru), the centro panamericana de arte moderno, the agencia esperanto de cooperazión intencional - aeci, and http://braan.org/ From hfg at konsumerziehung.de Tue Nov 8 05:21:42 2005 From: hfg at konsumerziehung.de (croatian sound art) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 00:51:42 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] b r a n d n e w single o u t now n o v e m b e r 0 8 t h 2 0 0 5 In-Reply-To: <436A6DEF.8060909@levels9.com> References: <436A6DEF.8060909@levels9.com> Message-ID: <00c49d0e11bb0a7cb184f0a7c9538885@konsumerziehung.de> b r a n d n e w single o u t now n o v e m b e r 0 8 t h 2 0 0 5 windowsxpserial art damage remix by roesingape http://curmbox.org/curmboxaped.mp3 C U R M B O X s o u n d a r t r o c k b a n d http://curmbox.org/ d i s c o g r a p h y : Klaus Nomi (2002) Die Beste Band der Welt (2003) Die Apotse Kommen (2004) Alfred Harth's Kommune 23 (2005) featuring lasse-marc riek Komissar Pop 7" (2005) Prisma OK Mops – A Tribute to Radiohead (2005) featuring d knef Die Apotse Kommen 2 – Best of (2005) Johnny iPod (2005) featuring matze schmidt / 38317.tk [all released on Mutual Records] featured artist http://www.roesingape.org/ DAS INFO. http://curmbox.org/infoheft.pdf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - dont miss alan courtis at http://experimentalelektronik.de/ november 8th, 2005 frankfurter forum für elektronische und neue musik - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From bakwaas_das at yahoo.com Tue Nov 8 03:07:32 2005 From: bakwaas_das at yahoo.com (Bakwaas Das) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:37:32 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] Turbulence is a cliche, isnt it? Message-ID: <20051107213732.81183.qmail@web36408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Turbulence is a cliche, isn't it? Consider the following: A Story Aakash Kumar, looking into the mirror. It is evening. A mellow light streams through the window, angling across the room, the rays not touching him or the mirror, falling instead upon the bed. Aakash winces. He runs his right palm down his right cheek The palm, sliding down, swivels 180 degrees as it encounters the chin. The fingers run on, below the face. They bump over the vessels, on both sides of the neck, taking blood into and outside the brain. The fingers converge at the Adam’s Apple. “O paenrdi,” Aakash says. “Its darker downwards.” It has been a fortnight now that Aakash, terribly aware of his dark brown visage, has been applying a face cream that promises to make him look fairer. It was a fortnight ago that Aakash bought a tube of “Fair and Handsome”. A men’s fairness cream, to be applied to the face: only. He was tired of being called a “darkie”. Then he saw the ad, on television. It showed a young person climbing up the ladder into a women’s hostel dormitory, to steal/apply a fairness cream abundantly available on that floor. This young, dark person steals into the dormitory. As if he’s been there before, he makes directly for a dressing-table-and-mirror-console (usually not available in a dormitory of a hostel, men or women). He creams himself. The women in the dormitory wake up. There is a chase. While night-gowned women run across, our hero is discovered hiding behind a plant beside a boy of his age. The women, night-gowned, miss him in the chase. Relieved, the boy removes the plant off his face, as does the boy beside him (The Saviour). Says the Saviour figure to this small-town boy, after the farce of discovery is over — the ad makes it clear that the discovery can be nothing but a farce — “Why don’t you try a cream made for men?” The ad promised he would be fairer in two weeks. It was a face cream. Dedicatedly, Aakash applied it on to his face, after the bath in the morning and before going to sleep at night, as the instructions on the slip of paper inserted into the tube-box instructed. A fortnight later Aakash, looking at himself in the mirror in his room in the evening, realised: “O paenrdi, its darker downwards. My face is whiter than my neck.” Then it struck him: “Is my face fairer than the rest of my body?” October 29, 2004. 5:40 pm. Two hours after the police had defused a bomb at Khari Baoli, in Connaught Place, a powerful bomb ripped through the busy Paharganj market near the railway station. “The market,” as the newspaper Indian Express narrates, “frequented by backpack foreign tourists, was thronged with Diwali and Id shoppers. Eleven were feared killed here”. October 29, 2004. 5: 40:56 pm. Aakash, fervently unbuttoning his shirt. Throwing it away. He looks down. It is clear. His face is whiter than the rest of his torso. Aakash walks away from the rectangular mirror set atop the basin in the bathroom, back-gearing, till he manages a perspective that includes face and torso. The change in the colour is visibly visible. The cream has done what it promised. It has made his face fair. “O paerndi,” Aakash reels. “Ye baaki badan! Something has to be done!” He puts on his shirt. Now he looks fair. From out the collar covering his neck rises a face that is actually fairer than it was a fortnight ago. Aakash, checking himself out in the mirror again, up close, is captivated. “Look at that! Nation on alert!” he says, captivated. Immediately he begins to undress himself, visible in the mirror. He takes off the shirt, again; he takes off his pants; his underwear, with a desperate flourish. Eyes glittering, full of purpose, he reaches with his left hand for the tube of “Fair and Handsome” on the shelf just below the mirror. He unscrews the round cap, puts it on the shelf. He exhales. On his right palm, he begins to squirt a milky fluid. He squirts. The narrow mouth of the tube begins to squirt out, in little spirals, “Fair and Handsome” cream. In a jiffy, on his right palm, a spiral grows of gelatinous cream. Standing in the bathroom naked, placing the tube on the shelf below the mirror, Aakash begins to rub the cream all over his torso, his right palm carrying the cream running over his torso to and fro. So. The left hand joins in. So, he breathes out. Aakash, rubbing the cream into his body, urgently. “The maximum deaths occurred with the next explosion in the overcrowded Sarojini Nagar market in South Delhi,” narrates the Indian Express of October 30, 2005 (late edition), “where a bomb placed in a bag in a chat and juice shop went off at around 5:45 pm killing more than 39 people”. Aakash, furiously rubbing “Fair and Handsome” cream into his body, challenging the skin, delighting, because the skin seems to stretch and take in the cream applied on it. He grabs the tube, squirts more cream on his right palm. White tubemouth-poured spirals disappear into his body. Aakash, furiously rubbing himself. He looks at himself in the mirror. It is a glance. It is just a glance. He’s rubbing himself, furiously. “Seven minutes later,” says the Indian Express — 5: 52 pm; October 30, 2005 —“Another explosion rocked Govindpuri injuring 9 persons including the driver and conductor of a Delhi Transport Corporation bus on the Outer Ring Road route. The bus was packed when the blast happened”. Squirt and rub. Rub. Rubba rubba. Brown is out. White is in. Rubba rubba. Squirt. The cream will do on the body the same magic it did on the face, Aakash believes. The mood in the bathroom is: rubba rubba. There he stands, rubbing himself. Desperately, because he’s realised he’s a fortnight late. His body is creamed; it has come upon him that his body will get fair, too. “My face did, didn’t it?” is a thought that runs through his head, inspirationally. His torso is shining, in the diffused light of the bulb, the creamed surface reflecting it. “Two weeks,” he tells himself, arms furiously rushing about, facing the mirror, creaming himself. “Juhi will love my body. --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These research and experimentation grants carry a maximum value of $ 75,000 CAD and are intended to assist these people in the research, exploration and the development of their projects. The deadline to submit a proposal is January 31st, 2006. It is mandatory to use the on-line form, which will be available on December 1st, 2005. Please consult the program guidelines for more information: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/pdf/e/prog_ind.pdf Images from the Future: Lost and Found in the Images du Futur collection, by Viva Paci The Foundation is pleased to present the results of a research conducted by Viva Paci at its Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) during her stay as a Researcher in Residence in 2004. The research project focused on the Images du Futur collection. Images du Futur was one of the first international exhibitions dedicated to art, new technologies and communication, and was held in Montreal from 1986 to 1996. In her text, Ms. Paci examines this concept of the future while providing numerous topical video clips from the collection:http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?Url=CRD/futur.xml From editorial at himalmag.com Thu Nov 10 04:23:57 2005 From: editorial at himalmag.com (Editorial) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:53:57 -0800 Subject: [Reader-list] November/December 2005 Issue of Himal Southasian Message-ID: <01b101c5e580$7814a280$0709a8c0@carey> www.himalmag.com The November December 2005 issue of Himal Southasian is out in hard and soft copy. The 100-page issue includes articles on 'Soft Borders' and Transfrontier matters; reformatting SAARC; the Kashmir Quake; Southasian public television; the India-Pakistan Bomb; the poorest of the poor; Nepali Maobaadi holiday; Bihar's modern zamindari; J&K human rights; Where Assam is; the Iranian pipeline and Delhi; melting glaciers and global warming; women and Hindi cinema; Jehadis of Pakistan; Lankan peace; India and the ID card; Tiger conservation; and so on. PLUS, Bangladesh special: The Hope of Dhaka (at SAARC) Bangladesh and Southasia Tata in Bangladesh Dhaka women's wear Please alert persons on your list. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDITORIAL NOTE The crossborder mentality COVER STORY SAARC and the sovereignty bargain - by | Pratap Bhanu Mehta Fading history - by | Enoka Lankatilleke Where is Assam? - by | David Ludden The line Durand drew - by | Daniel Lak Swapping Identities - by | Sara Shneiderman SAARC: The inevitability of bilateral multilateralism - by | Kanak Mani Dixit Jammu's borderlanders - by | Elisa Patnaik Meghalaya-Sylhet - by | Sanjeeb Kakoty COMMENTARY BANGLADESH - The hope of Dhaka NEPAL - A very Maobaadi holiday - by | Deepak Thapa KASHMIR - The deadliest quake INDIA . IRAN - Embrace of the strategic partner FOLLOW UP Is the magic gone? 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Now before telling her story let me tell you what I am doing in Calcutta. A friend of mine working for a production house in Bombay informs me about the Calcutta auditions of Indian Idol. I am quite fascinated by this city anyways. Though my job as a researcher working on the music industry does not really demand me to travel to far flung areas yet this visit seems quite significant. I have seen Saregama and Indian Idol auditions in Bombay, POPSTARS auditions in Delhi, Idol auditions in Lucknow and a couple of other auditions here and there. Why Calcutta? Ok maybe because I have never been there. Maybe because my musical sensibilities have suffered a lot at the previous places due the sheer cacophony of so many singers/non-singers and actors models and chintoos masquerading as singers. Maybe because I am fed up of Bombay and need to get out. Maybe because my mother told me that Calcutta is full of singers and musicians. She warns me against trying my chance at these auditions. Should you decide to participate you will be pitted against the best of the best singers in the country. Mummy continues," Rooprekha, Arpita, Aditi Paul… all of them are Bengalis." I tell her that let me go I will see. I have not cleared the Bombay auditions. "Lets see if they allow me." I tell her about the Strugglers & Jugglers series that I am working on. She says "music me waha har koi juggler hai" (in music everybody is a juggler in Calcutta). "Don't forget that I am writing a book", I tell her. She says, "You can write your book in Bombay why go to Calcutta…What's the big deal I have written two books sitting in my room" "But mummy you have written poems" 24th Oct. Howrah 11 am Howrah station is a big mess. I am now used to a Bombay way of life. Howrah gives me a shock. The first thing that I have to do here is to get a back journey ticket as I do not anybody in Calcutta and I don't want to be stuck here. The first thing that I notice about this city is Bangla language. People do not like talking in any other language. So as a Hindi- English speaker I feel as if I am banging my head against a wall… Pankaj Udhas fades in from the 80s…. Deewaro se mil kar rona accha lagta hai Hum bhi pagal ho jainge aisa lagta hai Then I have an imported back-pack so I look like a very "hard-core tourist". (Rhymes with "hard-core terrorist") This adds to my existing problems. Howrah station has a battalion of touts who indulge in never ending guerilla warfare. Shady men appear from nowhere and whisper "BEER- BEER""WHISKY-WHISKY" or reservation ticket…. "poora confirm kara ke dega" I have spent 6 years in delhi. I have been to Haridwar-Risikesh many times. So I have learnt a golden rule for these situations. It says- "A tout is a monkey" Do not make any eye contact else you will have a tough time warding them off. So when a tout approaches, become expressionless. Do not look into his eyes. Look nowhere. Its funny. The only person I know in Calcutta is Mark Campbell. He too does nt live here. He lives in Scotland. His family is vacationing in his ancestral house located in Stal kart lane, Salkia in howrah. (Mark is half Indian). I am dependent on Juno and Babua, his cousins, for any directions and stuff. However my living arrangements are in a guest house located in Calcutta. Howrah. Calcutta Calcutta. Howrah. Hahaha. This is the first lesson that you learn here. Calcutta and Howrah are two different things separated by the mighty Howrah bridge now known as Rabindro shetu.. and its not the Bombay style east-west thing.( say going to Andheri east from Andheri west by crossing a schizophrenia inducing subway) Crossing the Howrah bridge is a feat especially if you take 2 by 2 a city bus. You see some amazing stunts, arbitrary seating arrangements, a ticket that resembles a pregnancy indicator test strip. After an hour I am in my guest house located in Ranikuthi. By now everybody in my khaandan spread all over U.P, rest of India and UK knows that I am in Calcutta. My mom has told that he went away to write a chapter on Calcutta for his book. What book? What chapter? Hello. "The struggling singers of Calcutta", is it what its going to be? After "settlement" in the guest house I take a longish sleep within the confines Of a macchardani(mosquito net ?) 25th Oct. In Calcutta the taxi-drivers are thieves. They do not like to show rate cards and start to speak in Bengali if you argue. The transport system is a big mess. I am going to meet a lady whose daughter is giving Indian idol auditions. I take a taxi from Rabindra Sadan to lake land country club located on the Kona express highway. It's a metered taxi but the taxi wallah takes "sharing" passengers for a destination called Santaragacchi( Rana , another wannabe singers lives near this area). Taxiwallah tells me that for these people- it's sharing and for me- its meter. I pay around 70 rupees. They pay 10 rupees each. I say in interior monologue- "accha beta chootiya bana rahe ho" Neither am rich nor am I a fool. I am none of these. I protest. I take my switched off cell phone…. wave it at the taxiwallah and tell him " I am going to call the police" He takes 10 rupees. What pisses me off is that none of the passengers- middle aged office going junta say anything to the taxiwallah. They are busy reading Bengali newspaper. Imagine a similar situation in Delhi. All the bhaisahabs and bhehenjis… the respectable chaddas and chawlas of Delhi would have smacked this guy down but this is kolkata and I am being cheated like a foreigner here. 10 am. Lake land country club is on the highway far from Howrah as well as Calcutta. Its built around a small lake. On the other side of the lake there is a tea shop and some 10 meters away lays a makeshift bank made for washing clothes and bathing. I meet Shoma there… a misty eyed beautiful girl of my age who has been learning music for 3 years. She is there with her mom. I notice that each contestant is accompanied by parents. Welcome to the Calcutta auditions of Indian idol. The competition is hot. But don't miss this huge family picnic that it seems. I see parents carrying huge tiffin boxes. Water bottles… juice bottles and fruit packets. Some of them are sitting on bedsheets spread on both sides of the mud road leading to the club's main entrance. Infact I see later that a separate tent has been made by the organizers for the parents to sit and wait for their small/grown-up kids to come out. I tell this to Shoma's mother who says, " yaha ka parent log bahut karta hai" ( here parents support their kids a lot). She recalls an incident when she sat for 6 hours just to serve lunch to Shoma as she was giving an exam….."I think it was in Delhi", all the parents were surprised when they saw all the food that I was carrying. What are you carrying now? Dahi…bhaat….aamlait(omlette)…macchi(.fish curry)….apples…jhaal-moody(no fun intended), …achaar…kaju…kishmish….. She gives me jhaal- moody to eat. Shoma is inside giving her auditions. Jhaal-moody is a kind of a mixture namkeen. There are several versions and avatars of mixtures. In Calcutta they call it jhaal-moody. In Delhi if you are drinking its referred to as "chakhna". In Faizabad, my hometown its called "Laiya-namkeen". My brother tells me that in UK it's popular as "Bombay mix" Shoma 's mom explains me the virtues of Jhaal moody while its almost 1 pm. She is getting impatient like all the other parents. She is worried if she falls ill inside would there be a doctor as she has not been eating well since two-three days. She has spent a lot of time with her teacher. Teacher? Uska guruji? (Her music teacher) He has prepared for her 4 songs that is singing today. I tell her not to take any tension. I tell her a very famous Bombay aphorism which has shades of Zen. "Tension lene ka nahi…….dene ka" (Don't take tension upon urself …make other people tense by your acts) She has a motherly smile all the time yet she can not hide her dismay. "Her father does not know about all this. He does not want shuba to pursue a career in music. Its me who supports her. Once she makes it…her life will be made." "Rooprekha ka Zindagi ban gaya."( Rooprekha banerjee, the winner of Fame Gurukul) She tells me that Shoma has cleared C.A intermediate. She is a B.com from City College. If she does not make it… then? Then she will sit for bank P.O. Tell her to go for fame gurukul. Will it happen again? Of course Yes you are from Bombay you know a lot. The she asks my surname….my education…my job….etc. she wants to know if I know people in the channel. Or if I know Sonu Nigam. Again I am in a fix. I am a researcher. Should I be interviewed by my unsuspecting respondents? I tell her anyways that I do not Sonu Sir personally but I have been to his house. Does he live alone? No… he has a very big apartment and he lives with his parents. Shoma 's mom knows a lot about playback singers. She has heard lot of gossip about Sonu Nigam. That ?? " That he lives alone….and lot of women chase him all the time……..she says hesitatingly No….I protest strongly… I tell her about Sonu Nigams' life as I know it. I tell her that he gets up at 3.30 in morning for yoga. He is very religious. Respects his mother and father a lot. Work is worship for him. He can record 10 songs in a day. She can not believe that Sonu Nigam records 10 songs a day. I tell her that Ben, his manager told me all this. I tell her that behind big stars there are so many people helping them do what they do best. Now a couple of people have joined us. Everybody is looking at me in a new light- I am from Bombay and I know so many things about Sonu Nigam and I am here to talk to the participants. Why? Because "he is on a music scholarship", a lady tells her husband in bangla… Now everybody is taking my Bombay number and address. Pradip, a tabla palyer who is escorting his cousin says, "Why don't you give auditions" I gave it in Bombay " Select hua ? No…. What did you sing? Now there are around 10 people looking at me. I sang this…… I start singing…..a bandish in raag Mia Ki Todi. "Langar ka kariya jin maro more angwa lag ja re" When I finish a lady says "bhalo "… everybody liked my song and thinks that I should have made it…this makes me a bit sad. But I say that it's a competition and there are so many singers. They have to choose 150 from each city. Ohh…………. People again start khusur-phusur in Bengali. Perhaps it meant – "this is how One should take rejection" Its 4 pm now and crowd of NOT selected is coming out big time. There is lot of mayhem at the gate. I see two young men arguing with the guards. One of them has a food packet. All I gather is that they want to pass it on to their brother who is inside. It's a heated exchange and I hear words like " amanush" " humanity" Duty". One of the men says last two sentences in English… "This guy is a bastard…. Get lost do your duty somewhere else". He looks at me and says in English, "Ridiculous… he is behaving like a king. We will see him tomorrow." Locals have been watching this. One of them urges the man to say the last sentence in bangla as they couldn't follow it. The guard is shying away now after been shouted at in English. Everybody calls him. The young man says that same thing in bangla and to my surprise everybody claps. The guard melts away. Another one comes from somewhere and takes the food packet inside. Sun is going down. Shoma's mom is still waiting. I am now chatting with a group which has two singers from Bombay. Both of them have missed the Bombay auditions. Now they are feeling uneasy here. The competition is tough. Parminder, a wannabe pop-star continuously curses the kolkata people and the city. He has spent one miserable day here. Shoma comes out. She is not smiling. Ok. No problem. She has not been selected. She had sung "baho me chale aaoo" then she was asked to sing a faster peppy number so she sang, " Dhoom Machale" . It's a great relief to see her not crying or complaining unlike so many. Here people are very emotional. Rejected candidates burst out into impromptu speeches against the channel. Some faint. Some of them are so bitter that you should not even look at them. Sun has gone down. Shoma, her mom and I , three of us have come to the main road. Shoma's mom draws a very detailed address on a chit and gives it to me. I also have shoma's mobile number in case I get lost. Before parting, aunty's last words are, " taratalla se auto le lena" ( take an auto from Taratalla) 26th Oct. I reach Shoma's place at 1 pm. She is not there. She is at her music class. I play her harmonium for a while then I start feeling sleepy-I had a heavy round of refreshments. Aunty is cooking continuously……… god knows what. I sleep on the couch without taking my shoes off. When I get up its 3 pm. I see Shoma sitting in front of me. She is not looking at me. She is watching India-Srilanka one day. She says," You will take tea or lunch". When it comes to lunch. I tell them that I will not eat "murgi"(chicken). Why?, aunty looks very worried. Bcoz I am a veg. Oh.. but u eat anda( eggs) Yes. You are pundit na Yes. 5 min later my head is down -I am eating. There is a dish called patal. (parwal ki sabji), curd, two-three more curries, pakoras, pickles, papad, bhat etc etc… Both the ladies watch me as I eat. Aunty tells me not to mix everything. As soon as aunty leaves I mix everything… sweet curd….pickles…crushed papad…pakoras….bhat…curries…. Shoma is alarmed at this sight. She says " tum kaise khata hai" ( Is this the way to eat?) After lunch I am half-asleep. The rice has done its trick. Here the rice has a very different taste….it has a flavour……unlike the packet rice given by my deliveryman in bombay. In Bombay whatever I eat doesn't taste anything. It means nothing. In Calcutta, food has an address, a history and a story. Shoma's father is a homeopathy medicine supplier and is currently on a trip to my hometown.Faizabad. "Good he is not here….both of you can sing as loud as you want to." aunty says. Shoma starts to sing on her harmonium. She plays harmonium rather meticulously and with a sense of purpose unlike me. Her teacher has written for her, scores for several songs. I can see she has had a more structured music education. She maintains a copy and neatly writes date/day for each sitting. My teacher, Murtaza Mustafa would never write music score of a film song for me. Shoma is not learning classical. She is learning light music. So there is lot of focus on film songs etc. Shoma wants to know everything about how I learn…where I go for my lessons…how much fees I am paying and so on. This lasts for some half an hour. Shoma has a sweet voice and she is very suureeli (one who sings perfect notes). But she makes her voice shrill whenever she talks to her young maid. Shoma is irritated as I am still half-asleep. We have a feedback session where I tell her what I feel about her singing. Shoma 's feedback is Do not play harmonium with your shoes on. Do not eat pickles and curd. This disappoints me as I was looking for a more analytical feedback. So far we have played on harmonium 6-7 songs. Then I start to sing in raag yemen( also known as yaman, Usatd Hafeez Ahmed Khan sahib told me its yemen as it of Iranian origin.) Shoma is impressed with my copying ability as I try to sing a Ustad Ahmed Hussain Mohd. Hussain's ghazal…trying to copy it ditto… as it is in the cassette. Before leaving we have short chat about films. Shoma said that she would have loved to take me out for a Bengali film. I say "next time….But there should be subtitles." "Why? You do not understand bangla at all. " No… " 6 pm. Same day. My train is at 10 pm and I have to meet a Calcutta based budding music director Soumen Chatterjee who is Marks' cousin. (Mark Campbell, the Scottish guy who I mentioned about in the beginning). My train is from Howrah and Soumen aka Babua lives in Stal Kart lane in Salkia. I keep forgetting places in Calcutta. I landed in a big soup when I confused Taratalla with Dharamtalla. "Stal kart" sounds like a mix of Stalin and Wall Mart but my rickshaw wallahs knows the house very well. It's a huge house and my eyes are fixed on a black wooden bed that's 150 year old. I have never seen such a beautiful bed in my life. Images from Charulata…Chokher Bali and Devdas flash in quick succession. I don't have much time so after greetings and gobbling up sweets I am sampling Soumens' tune-bank from his Yamaha keyboard. Bespectacled Soumen is wearing a shirt and a necker and looks far from a music director. When he begins to play its quite something. He has a very good knowledge of Hollywood films and Indian as well as western music. The good thing is that he has done "types" of songs in typical Bombay style. So there is a Mohabbatein type of a Jatin-Lalit song…. then a Govinda kind of a tapori song. I really like the tapori composition that Soumen has done. I tell him that he must come to Bombay and try his luck. I am happy that he has some 550 tunes. I tell him that in a film there are 5-6 songs so by this rate he can do around 100 films. As I say this the rapport between us touches great heights. Jokes apart. Take my word…he can any day give any Bambaiya composer a run for his money. Soumen has another talent. He is a story/ scriptwriter. He tells me about some of his ideas with the "customary caution". He says, " Godown me maal bahut hai abhi showroom me lagaya nahi hai" (I have lot of stuff in the godown….its yet to make it to the showroom.) It's a good one…good enough to keep me good spirits for the 36 hours journey back to Bombay. From monica at sarai.net Thu Nov 10 11:50:35 2005 From: monica at sarai.net (Monica Narula) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:50:35 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] November/December 2005 Issue of Himal Southasian In-Reply-To: References: <01b101c5e580$7814a280$0709a8c0@carey> Message-ID: <37C4E561-C2F6-46B0-BAA5-C0CBF2C623CB@sarai.net> Actually the reader-list blocks attachments (like most other lists do) as this makes for easy virus transfers. So, people can either write to himal personally and ask for the pdf file, or Himal could extract and send the material as body text. Images will get stopped too... best M On 10-Nov-05, at 11:29 AM, Jean Piché wrote: > > > The attachment was not included! > > > > > > _______________________ > http://jeanpiche.com > > > > > Le 05-11-09 à 17:53, Editorial a écrit : > > >> >> _________________________________________ >> 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. >> List archive: >> > > _________________________________________ > 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. > List archive: > Monica Narula Raqs Media Collective Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110 054 From jumpshark at gmail.com Thu Nov 10 15:33:25 2005 From: jumpshark at gmail.com (Prashant Pandey) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:33:25 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Absolute Motherfuckers, Bollywood Music, Prashant Pandey Message-ID: Ravinder writes songs and is a self-styled composer. He does not like the word struggler which I use. He says, "You also write and I guess nobody else but you have told me this…so aren't you also a struggler." Means ? Means……till the time you have to say… " I am this…. I am that…. You are a struggler" Would Javed Akhtar or Anurag Kshyap say " I am a writer" Yes they would say if they went to U.S or say any other country.. If they went to U.S na…. Bombay mein to nahi bolna padta( In Bombay they do not have to introduce themselves) Ravinder's angst is work related. He wants a life where he does not have to do rounds of music companies' offices, houses of umpteen directors and production houses. "Make so much market that people come to you." Ravinder is in his late twenties. He is from Gaya, Bihar. "I saw Chandrakantha serial and I decided that I will join this world. I started writing my own Chandrakantha but I gave it up. I wrote two plays but they could not be staged. When I reached class 9th. I had enough. I came to Bombay." Oh that was way back…. You must have been very young. Yes I was. I am still young… but you must be thinking that I have been in Bombay all this while… No I kept going back to my home as one or other problems kept creeping up. Ok……….like what? My brother passed away. Ohh……….Was he ill ? Like there was a marriage ceremony in my village and my elder brother was electrocuted there was an open wire…everybody was drunk and dancing…… When he died I had to go home…. Didn't feel like seeing his face….I was scared……. For one year I was haunted by his dreams…….I was ill for such a long time. Then I came back… You have kheti? (Agriculture) Yes now my uncle does it…….. I have been declared as a bhagoda….in the family. How do u manage in Bombay? I write for some tv shows Like ? Right now I am not writing……..but I manage somehow… How ? Why is my monthly income…….a part of you research…… Yes… you must tell me your income……. Are you from CBI? Tell me yaar Its 8-9… Per week ?? Ravinder looks at me and shakes his head in disapproval and controlled anger. I have pissed him off badly. Its my bad research day. Had I been earning so much. I would not have been sitting in this tea stall with you. I would have been fucking all these model-shodels in my house. This is not a tea stall. Wherever one gets a cup of tea…….is a tea stall for me", he says smugly. We are sitting in a very famous andheri west landmark called hotel kalinga. This is just down the SAB tv building and the tea is on me. Ravinder face looks weathered. I am sorry to tell you but he is a stereotypical struggler. His shirt is dirty. His pant must be torn somewhere. A part of his hair is turning grey. His shoes are old. Yet he looks confident. He looks menacingly at your face but there is lot of intensity and weight in his words especially when he is talking about his future. I met him during one of the visits to the writers association. A lot of struggling lyricists come to association everyday to get their songs copyrighted and registered. "I had written 22 new songs so I came here." he tells me. I had a brief chat with him and asked him to meet up some other day at Fame adlabs. I asked for his cell number but he refused. "If I say I will meet you I will" He has kept his promise. We are sitting at KALINGA café nearby. Hey you must be very young when you came to Bombay. how it was. It was regular. My chacha lived here. He was a manager in a courier company. So he enrolled me in the open school. But ur life and studies have never been smooth. Yes. I never wanted to study so after 12th I decided……..that's it. College will not make me a better writer….this will (he shows a ball-pen) At this point Ravinder gets a phone call. There is great deal of urgency in him now. He says," 5 minutes" Ok. Tell me this last question… you think that Bombay industry has been fair to you? "Yes it has been very fair to me. Industry is good but people are bad. I have given my songs to a lot of directors but they shove it in their ass. Lot of people have stolen my story ideas and have made films. These are the people that you people admire and look up to. But they are absolute motherfuckers. They have no time to think and they need people like us for ideas. I am not Anurag Kashyap or Sameer so I cant screw them. So Prashantji the moral of the story is – if you can not screw them…they will screw you." ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Prashant Pandey From cahen.x at levels9.com Thu Nov 10 18:16:58 2005 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:46:58 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] pourinfos Newsletter / 11-04 to 11-10-2005 Message-ID: <43734142.704@levels9.com> pourinfos.org l'actualite du monde de l'art / daily Art news ----------------------------------------------------------------------- infos from November 4, 2005 to November 10, 2005 (included) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (mostly in french) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 Call : 6th programme artists in context, artists in context programme, mobility programme to support the young creators, Marly le Roi, France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2272 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 Call : program of assistance to the research projects and experimentation, fondation Langlois, Montréal, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2271 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 Call : Normal Null, Büro Schwimmer, Berlin, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2270 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 04 Call : Workshops Immersion 2005, project, Interactivities in the fields choreographic, musical and visual arts, Montbéliard, France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2269 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 05 Call : WJs / Web Performances, Thursday November 17, Les Plasticiens du Web, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/participation/item.php?id=2268 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 06 Meetings : «the Artist like ethnographe», Thursday November 10, 2005, Maison de l'Amérique latine, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2267 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 07 Meetings : Conference : "the experiment of the duration" [Sens] [Public] / ENS / CAC 40 / Biennale d'Art Contemporain, University of Savoie, Lyon, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2266 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 08 Meetings : Public viva Ph-D in Arts and sciences of art, Visual Arts, Sophie Lavaud, Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2265 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 Publication : Marges 04, visual arts and of esthetics review, Paris 8, Saint Denis, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2264 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Publication : frieze issue 95 out now , Londres, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2263 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Publication : Contes picturaux, Jean-Pierre Brazs, Editions materia prima, Billère, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2262 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Job : Professor /Associate professor iN FINE ART specialising iN DIGITAL AND ELECTRONIC ART, Bergen, Norway. http://pourinfos.org/emploi/item.php?id=2261 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Workshop : "Daily/Algorithm", workshop of experimental numerical practices, Experimental Workshop, Clans, France. http://pourinfos.org/emploi/item.php?id=2260 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Screening : Experimental film shows and vidéos artists, Tuesday November 15, 2005, Light Cone, Paris France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2259 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Screening : Barbara Hammer, November 11, 2005, Mon oeil et Polly Magoo, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2258 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 Screening : « POWER[S] », 11 11 edition of "the Week of ethnographic cinema", Crécet , Caen, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2257 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 Various : Astérides, the english version of our website online, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/divers/item.php?id=2256 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 Exhibition : Work in progresse, Aurélie Ben Barek, Jungle Art Galerie, Rencontres Photographiques du Xème, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2255 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Exhibition : The End, galerie Art & Essai, University of Rennes 2, Rennes, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2254 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Exhibition : Radio Kills The Video Stars, Le Collège, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2253 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 Exhibition : Photosynthesis, Bertrand Peret, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2252 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 Exhibition : Celebrate leaf, Parc de la Tête d'Or, Lyon, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2251 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 Exhibition : Equipped, Rio Sao Paulo Brest, Centre d'art Passerelle, Brest, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2250 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 Exhibition: Au pied de la lettre, Marco Cordero, Anthony Lazenberg, Bétonsalon - Paris, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2249 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 Appel à Candidature : Dak'Art 2006, Biennial of contemporary African art, Dakar, Senegal. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2248 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 Call : 5th biennial European in Nimes , Nimes France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2246 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 Call : Prize of the Young numerical creation, Rouille, France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2245 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 Call : Video Artists, Chicago Motion Graphics Festival 2006, Chicago, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2244 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 Call : 64" Film Festival 2.0, Buenos Aires, Argentina. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2243 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 31 Publication : Art and Internet, New figures of creation, Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, éditions CNRS Communication, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2242 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 32 Publication : Cityscapes, HC Gilje, Habitus à Hong-Kong, éditions lowave, Paris, China, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2241 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 33 Meetings : Image and civilisation, representations and collective identities, ÉSAV, Fondation Dar Bellarj, Marrakech, Morocco. lien http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2240 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 34 Meetings : the factory of the territory: structure in Seine-et-Marne, Tuesday November 8, Maison de l'architecture enÎle-de-France, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2239 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 35 Workshop : Workshop for six composers/sound artists and six visual artists, University and The Museum of,Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Copenhagen K, Danemark. http://pourinfos.org/emploi/item.php?id=2238 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 36 Workshop : Studies, ART & THERAPIE, session 2006, École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, Bourges, France. http://pourinfos.org/emploi/item.php?id=2237 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 37 Exhibition : Talk Show, La Galerie, University of Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2236 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 Exhibition : MAC 2005, Manifestation d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2235 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 39 Exhibition : Crossed glances, a District of ZÜRICH is exhibited, L'ECHO MUSEE de la Goutte d'Or, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2234 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 40 Screening : 2 nd Artist film festival, FFA, Musee d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain, Liege, Belgium. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2233 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 41 Exhibition : Wildnis, Stéphanie de Beauvais, Chapelle St Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2232 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 42 Exhibition : 33 years after... 1001 photographs of Perse, Yvan Schawandascht, Protestant Church Saint Pierre le Vieux, Strasbourg, France. lien http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2231 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 43 Exposition : 11th bim-biennal of moving images, Center for contemporary images, Geneva, Switzerland. lien http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2230 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 44 Exhibition : "do you moules à merveilles", Laurent Moriceau, Musée Calbet, Grisolles, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2229 -- XAVIER CAHEN -------------- cahen.x at levels9.com Paris France http://www.levels9.com From zainab at xtdnet.nl Fri Nov 11 09:44:58 2005 From: zainab at xtdnet.nl (zainab at xtdnet.nl) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:14:58 +0400 (RET) Subject: [Reader-list] City Streets not ventured Message-ID: <3896.219.65.11.169.1131682498.squirrel@webmail.xtdnet.nl> Decided to take a taxi from Grant Road to Mohammed Ali Road since dinner was happening at Mohammed Ali Road. As I was trying to cross the road at Novelty Cinema, a man walking towards me started singing a sleazy song, as if trying to solicit me. I was upset and blurted out ‘bastard’! I tried to get away quickly because the crowds were in little clusters and the activity at 10 PM tonight was seeking women for satiation of biological instincts i.e. sex (and this city!!!)! I got into a cab. In my mind, I had mapped the route the cab driver would take to get me to Mohammed Ali Road (and I was also calculating the fare and cursing myself to be so profligate these days!). The cab driver started and before I could realize, he was steering the cab in the lanes of Delhi Darbar Restaurant (now Jafferbhai’s). The lane of Delhi Darbar Restaurant at Grant Road is notoriously famous (just like TC’s Nagpada area which is known by the lingo of Bombay No. 8) for prostitution and all that which we fondly and repulsively call ‘illegal’ (and yet cannot survive without it!). I started looking around and the sights and scenes completely fascinated me. Daily I travel through Dimtikar Street, known as Foras Road, where I watch women who have patted their lips with a noxious red colour lipstick and are seeking customers. The women on Foras Road wear a bored look on their faces. There are more middle-aged women here with a wry look, going about the (usual) business. But on this road which I am passing by today, the women were much more playful and young. They were explicit – one of them wore a sexy blue blouse which showed enough of her cleavage and breasts and this was accompanied with the same light blue coloured flair skirt! Her lips were patted with maroon lipstick and she had literally let her hair down. She was flaunting herself as she walked all over the streets. I saw three young girls in jeans and body hugging tops hanging around together. I thought I also saw a couple (literally two) of pimps. There were Nepali women too. And the rooms where the sexual activity was taking place were one room tenements. The space was congested, yet the space was personal and private. The one room tenements gave a cramped appearance and made me uncomfortable in terms of the available physical space – somehow, I conceive that sexual activity requires a decent amount of physical space, but I realize that in a city like Mumbai where space is an absolute premium, our biological instincts have made adjustments to the physical settings. (And then we also have social norms and regulations – I am not sure how I place them vis-à-vis physical space). The street was absolutely fascinating. I have never been here. I’d like to come here, though, as I am traveling, I am imaging how difficult I will find it to walk on this street without being seen and sought as a potential provider. In my fantasies, I want to be a geisha once and I know for sure that this street was never and perhaps will never be part of my geisha fantasy imaginations. Ray was right when he said that Bombayiittes rarely walk in the city. They just use transport! Anyway the ride continued through lanes and streets which I had been unaware of. I watched in awe. It was like the taxi driver was my guide tonight. I became curious and decided to chat with him to see how come he knew these places in the city. I started chatting with him: Where do you usually drive your cab? In these areas? (imagining that he is also a pimp in a way or at least a regular who ferries customer and provider regularly) No. I go uptil Panvel, Virar, Vasai, Mira Road, if I ever those kind of fares (standard response). Do you get these fares usually? Not often, sometimes. Hmmm. So how long have you been driving taxi? Six months err no, no, six years. But actually, I am in this line since 1985. I was in private (sector). But a private is no good. It is better to have your own venture. So I decided to get into driving taxi. Yeah, private is no good. Best to be on your own! So, are you from Bombay? No. I came from Nepal years ago, about twenty seven years ago. Children happened here, marriage happened here, everything. But why are you asking me these questions? I was just curious. I have never been through those streets which you drove me through tonight. I thought you know Bombay very well. Oh, that! Actually many people don’t like me driving through those streets so I take them through other routes. But the deal is that it is faster to get to your destination through those streets and it costs less fare. If you had told me, I wouldn’t have driven you through them. No, no! I completely enjoyed the ride. Thanks. I was sad to end the conversation without asking him for his name and contact numbers. He would have made an interesting person to talk to. Damn me! But the question which I have been thinking about since the ride is what makes streets the way they are in Mumbai? I am not implying that all the streets are the same. In fact, the vibrancy of the city is the character of difference and diversity! Can planners and governments determine the fate of this city? (I hope the city will continue to upset their designs!) Good night! Zainab Bawa Bombay www.xanga.com/CityBytes http://crimsonfeet.recut.org/rubrique53.html From zainab at xtdnet.nl Fri Nov 11 09:46:04 2005 From: zainab at xtdnet.nl (zainab at xtdnet.nl) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:16:04 +0400 (RET) Subject: [Reader-list] TC - Contd - Happy Birthday to researcher and researched Message-ID: <4506.219.65.11.169.1131682564.squirrel@webmail.xtdnet.nl> Tonight I am eating dinner with TC. As I was making plans for the evening, mom started saying: Are you eating dinner with him tonight? Now what is the deal? I thought it was over with him (as in the walks are over, now why do you need to deal with him). I need to finish some business with him, Tonight, I was going to hand over the fee collections from the Urban Buffet Walks so that the money could be used for his Nagpada basketball court. We decided to eat at the Chinese restaurant at Minara Masjid, Mohammed Ali Road. I passed through Pydhonie to get to Mohammed Ali Road. These were the same streets we had walked through during Ramzaan. But the streets were closing down for night’s rest at 10:30 PM. And come to think of it, some days ago, these were the same streets which were open and vibrant all night and the press talked and lauded these areas as the culture of Mumbai. The Minara Masjid area showed some remains of a festive season passed by. The street was less crammed, yet food was the activity. I noticed Suleimaan Usmaan which was advertising Kashmiri Honey on sale and my mind went back to that Saturday night of 29th October when blasts rocked Delhi and the turbulence after shocks were felt in Mumbai with relatives and well wishers calling participants of the Urban Buffet walk – beta, are you sure you want to go there? Be careful. These could just be the areas which may be blasted next. [Aren’t cities wired together by mediated (literally) images in this age of Aaj Tak, NDTV, STAR News, Zee and all those satellite dishes?] I sat at the Chinese restaurant waiting for TC to show up. TC is now a common subject for talking to people. My folks at home now know him as an entity and yet, they have their own imaginations and assumptions about him. Dad tells me – what do you think he is going to eat in a Chinese restaurant? He will ask for bheja fry and kaleji – as if implying that TC cannot have tastes which my sophisticated parents have. He came on his scooter. He was wearing his usual sports cap, jeans and shirt and sports shoes. This was in complete contrast to his looks in the month of Ramzaan where he would wear a pure white kurta and pyjama, accompanied by the skull cap. We sat in the restaurant and after ordering food, we began talking: You are back to your regular appearance now? Yes, yes! Oh yes! I have to be Muslim at least for one month. This malaria struck me on the 26th fast, but I did not leave my fasts (suggesting to me that I should have also observed all the 30 fasts.) But you did not do duty in this month. I had a leave for the first 18 days. Thereafter I had to do duty. But I had told my colleagues that bhai, it is difficult to stand on two feet in the last few fasts, I can’t get into the magachmari of fighting with passengers and levying fines. They (seniors) also respect fasting. So they understood what I was saying. Hmmm. So how are the people who came on the walks? They are all fine. Each one of them enjoyed the experience. I was a bit nervous. Bit? Very nervous! Yes, very nervous. I could not understand what to do with 18 people at one time. Everything went off well. Yes! I now want to go out with this group of yours. Hmmm. TC is obviously excited. He enjoyed the experience himself and perhaps there is some kind of class upliftment he feels after the experience. I don’t know. As we were eating, the conversation continued: The food at this place is excellent. When my group comes here, we binge. I like this chutney (referring to the schezuan sauce). He kept eating with the fork and spoon and continued: I enjoy eating good food, wearing good clothes and traveling. What else does a man earn for? Yeah! I can imagine how much you enjoy traveling. And that’s what makes you what you are! Haha! We must explore some eating place at Bandra. I just know of places here, in our area. Bandra was an interesting remark. It’s a statement of cultural aspiration and upliftment. Bandra symbolizes a global city dream – glamour, Page 3, parties, celebs! Eateries, coffee, the promenade and the works – Bandra is the sub-city within this city! After we finished eating, he offered to drop me home on his scooter. I hopped on, sloppily. The roads were clear. He kept on talking and I kept nodding. There is no law and order in this city when it comes to traffic. Why do you say so? Just because it is night time now and the signals are not working? No, no! It is the same in daytime. We have to be careful while driving. Hmmm. You will find that at the corner of the signal at J.J. Hospital, a havaldar stands but he does nothing. I break the signal in front of his eyes. Everyday I let 20 cops pass by traveling in first class. At least I should also be able to get away without paying fines. He proudly announced that he has not even once paid a fine! And I started thinking about how some negotiations/confrontations between the legal and the illegal are about canceling out each other! Hmmm Finally we reached Byculla: Do you know that it will soon be a year now since we met? Really? I don’t even remember the date. Nor do I! So let’s make happy birthday – celebrate! And all we can do then is to eat – that’s okay nah? Yeah! Happy birthday to us! Zainab Bawa Bombay www.xanga.com/CityBytes http://crimsonfeet.recut.org/rubrique53.html From tunberg2005 at hotmail.com Fri Nov 11 06:19:09 2005 From: tunberg2005 at hotmail.com (despina) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:49:09 -0800 Subject: [Reader-list] Omma Gallery Message-ID: <1729850-22005115110499437@YOUR-25AE075A49> MEMBERSHIP GALLERIES Omma Centers of Contemporary Art are a new concept in the world of art. 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For details please visit http://www.omma.gr or contact me at omma at omma.gr Best regards Despina Tunberg - curator 1221 State street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Tel & Fax (805) 963-4606 http://www.omma.gr If you feel that you have received this message by mistake or you do not want to be on our mailing list, please send a message with the word "REMOVE" in the subject line and we will immediately remove your address Despina Tunberg From mahmoodfarooqui at yahoo.com Fri Nov 11 11:34:44 2005 From: mahmoodfarooqui at yahoo.com (mahmood farooqui) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:04:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] Jama Masjid ki seerhiyon pe dastangoi Message-ID: <20051111060444.45264.qmail@web80908.mail.scd.yahoo.com> At 9.30 on Saturday the 12th I will be doing a brief performance of Dastangoi at the Southern Gate steps of the Jama Masjid-all intrepid and indefatigable Dastan lovers are welcome... __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com From aesthete at mail.jnu.ac.in Thu Nov 10 14:26:28 2005 From: aesthete at mail.jnu.ac.in (Dean School of Arts and Aesthetics) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:26:28 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Talk by Nina Montmann on New Institutionalism Message-ID: <1131612988.87c44e60aesthete@mail.jnu.ac.in> Lecture on New Institutionalism by Nina Montmann critic and author Curator Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Helsink (NIFCA) VENUE: SCHOOL OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS GALLERY DATE 14TH NOVEMBER 2005 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI 110067 All are cordially invited New Institutionalism “Neo-Capitalism and the declining Western Welfare State are causing major changes in the role of the art institution. A director of a museum is supposed to act as a populist politician as well as a manager. For most sponsors and politicians the visitor’s count is the only measurement for the success of an institution. Therefore art institutions are becoming a part of the event and entertainment industry. In this scenario some smaller or mid –sized and more flexible institutions tried to analyze this situation and develop alternative strategies. In my paper I will present the approach of a few institutions (such as the Rooseum in Malmo with Charles Esche as director, the Kunstverein in Munich with Maria Lind, The EA-Generali Foundation in Vienna), as well as two research based exhibition projects I curated, which are dealing with a variety of international institutional collaborations, and have a (self-)reflective perspective on institutional processes as their very topic: the relation of artists and institutions, the societal role of institutions and the role of institutions for artistic productions.” Nina Montmann ============================================== This Mail was Scanned for Virus and found Virus free ============================================== _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From iram at sarai.net Fri Nov 11 18:49:52 2005 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:49:52 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Fwd: November/December 2005 Issue of Himal Southasian Message-ID: <43749A78.9060300@sarai.net> ------ Original Message ------ Subject: November/December 2005 Issue of Himal Southasian To: reader-list at sarai.net From: "Editorial" Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:01:26 +0100 The November December 2005 issue of Himal Southasian is out in hard and soft copy. Please go to www.himalmag.com The 100-page issue includes articles on 'Soft Borders' and Transfrontier matters; reformatting SAARC; the Kashmir Quake; Southasian public television; the India-Pakistan Bomb; the poorest of the poor; Nepali Maobaadi holiday; Bihar's modern zamindari; J&K human rights; Where Assam is; the Iranian pipeline and Delhi; melting glaciers and global warming; women and Hindi cinema; Jehadis of Pakistan; Lankan peace; India and the ID card; Tiger conservation; and so on. PLUS, Bangladesh special: The Hope of Dhaka (at SAARC) Bangladesh and Southasia Tata in Bangladesh Dhaka women's wear Please alert persons on your list. From monica at sarai.net Fri Nov 11 12:34:07 2005 From: monica at sarai.net (Monica Narula) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:34:07 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Jama Masjid ki seerhiyon pe dastangoi In-Reply-To: <20051111060444.45264.qmail@web80908.mail.scd.yahoo.com> References: <20051111060444.45264.qmail@web80908.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51B2AD80-020C-47F3-AA6C-00B27212F443@sarai.net> Mahmood, you didnt mention if its in the AM or at night... best M On 11-Nov-05, at 11:34 AM, mahmood farooqui wrote: > At 9.30 on Saturday the 12th I will be doing a brief > performance of Dastangoi at the Southern Gate steps of > the Jama Masjid-all intrepid and indefatigable Dastan > lovers are welcome... > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com > _________________________________________ > 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. > List archive: > Monica Narula Raqs Media Collective Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110 054 From mahmoodfarooqui at yahoo.com Fri Nov 11 12:44:51 2005 From: mahmoodfarooqui at yahoo.com (mahmood farooqui) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:14:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] Jama Masjid ki seerhiyon pe dastangoi In-Reply-To: <51B2AD80-020C-47F3-AA6C-00B27212F443@sarai.net> Message-ID: <20051111071452.36521.qmail@web80906.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Many thanks Monica...it is 9.30 AM, that is why we need some indefatigable and intrepid souls...the others would probably have made it if the performance was at night... --- Monica Narula wrote: > Mahmood, you didnt mention if its in the AM or at > night... > > best > M > > On 11-Nov-05, at 11:34 AM, mahmood farooqui wrote: > > > At 9.30 on Saturday the 12th I will be doing a > brief > > performance of Dastangoi at the Southern Gate > steps of > > the Jama Masjid-all intrepid and indefatigable > Dastan > > lovers are welcome... > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in > one click. > > http://farechase.yahoo.com > > _________________________________________ > > 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. > > List archive: > > > > > Monica Narula > Raqs Media Collective > Sarai-CSDS > 29 Rajpur Road > Delhi 110 054 > > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com From punam.zutshi at gmail.com Fri Nov 11 13:25:13 2005 From: punam.zutshi at gmail.com (punam zutshi) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:25:13 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Talk by Nina Montmann on New Institutionalism In-Reply-To: <1131612988.87c44e60aesthete@mail.jnu.ac.in> References: <1131612988.87c44e60aesthete@mail.jnu.ac.in> Message-ID: <3b7bed850511102355v45aeb004na41c1c7a0e523697@mail.gmail.com> At what hour on the 14th????? On 11/10/05, Dean School of Arts and Aesthetics wrote: > > Lecture on New Institutionalism by Nina Montmann critic and author > Curator Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Helsink (NIFCA) > > VENUE: SCHOOL OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS GALLERY > DATE 14TH NOVEMBER 2005 > JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI 110067 > All are cordially invited > > New Institutionalism > "Neo-Capitalism and the declining Western Welfare State are causing major > changes in the role of the art institution. A director of a museum is > supposed to act as a populist politician as well as a manager. For most > sponsors and politicians the visitor's count is the only measurement for the > success of an institution. Therefore art institutions are becoming a part of > the event and entertainment industry. In this scenario some smaller or mid > –sized and more flexible institutions tried to analyze this situation and > develop alternative strategies. > In my paper I will present the approach of a few institutions (such as the > Rooseum in Malmo with Charles Esche as director, the Kunstverein in Munich > with Maria Lind, The EA-Generali Foundation in Vienna), as well as two > research based exhibition projects I curated, which are dealing with a > variety of international institutional collaborations, and have a > (self-)reflective perspective on institutional processes as their very > topic: the relation of artists and institutions, the societal role of > institutions and the role of institutions for artistic productions." > Nina Montmann > > > > ============================================== > > This Mail was Scanned for Virus and found Virus free > > ============================================== > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > List archive: > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Held at India's IT metropolis Bangalore, World-Information City is a cooperative project of the Institute of New Culture Technologies/t0 (Vienna), Sarai CSDS (Delhi), Waag Society (Amsterdam), ALF (Bangalore), Mahiti (Bangalore) and l ocal partners. The programme brings together researchers, artists and activists from Europe and South Asia. It consists of a conference, workshops, an exhibition, a public campaign, and a series of musical and art events based on electronic media, and has been produced with the financial assistance of the EU's EU-India Cross Cultural Programme. For more details, see http://world-information.org/wio WORLD-INFORMATION CITY CONFERENCE Dates: 17 – 18 November, 2005 Venue: Cubbon Park Auditorium The conference segment of World Information City brings together panels, discursive and research based presentations and conversations on “Information” and the “City” as societal and political realities, with a particular emphasis on their interrelationships. We hope by doing so we are able to speak not only to the broad themes of information, society, politics and history but also to the concrete realities of “World Information Cities” such as Bangalore. Information - by which we mean the gamut of practices and processes of knowing and making known the world - can also be seen as that constellation of embodied intellectual labour, accumulated cultural capital and evolving knowledge systems that play a key part in the maintenance of the fabric of contemporary existence. In particular, the increasing importance of information in all its social expressions is becoming manifest in physical environments, and above all, in the shaping of urban spaces. The power structures that shape information as “intellectual property” are impacting more and more on the design of urban environments, often unhinging notions of social equality and giving rise to practices of disobedience. But while information and its interaction with urban environments are partof everyday experience, it remains a grossly under-theorized category. World-Information City and the conference that is placed at its culmination is an effort on our part to inaugurate a set of discussions that we hope will inform future work in this area as well as contribute to debates within the public domain. The conference aims to initiate reflections on the histories of different information regimes and on the transformations of urban spaces in the emerging global information economy. It looks at the realities of intellectual property, surveillance and censorship and at efforts to counter them, and discusses the founding and sustaining of the “commons” of information, considering ways in which practices of knowledge uphold, transgress or subvert governing protocols of social, cultural and political life. Conference Schedule Thursday, 17 November 10:15 – 11:15 Welcome – Lawrence Liang (Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore) Statement of Partnership – Paul Keller (Waag Society, Amsterdam) World-Information.Org (Introduction) – Konrad Becker (Institute for New Culture Technologies, Vienna) Official Opening – Thetis Tsitidou (EU-India Programme) Faultlines Considering Fissures in Information and Society. Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Researcher-Practitioner, Artist, Writer, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) – Keynote Presentation 11.15 - 11.30 Tea break Global Information Landscapes and Urban Transformations in Asia 11.30 - 13.00 Title. Solly Benjamin (Urbanist, CASSUM, Bangalore) – Presentation 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 - 16.00 Cyborgs and Cyber Cities How City Space and Labouring get inflected by Information in Bangalore and Delhi. Nishanth Shah (Research Scholar, CSCS, Bangalore), Iram Ghufran (Researcher-Practitioner, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) – Panel 16:00 - 16.30 Tea break Implications of IP on Knowledge / Culture Production 16: 30 - 18.00 The Organization of Knowledge and Culture Production. Felix Stalder (Media Theorist, Vienna/Zurich) – Presentation Urban Agents – Hybrid Spaces. Eric Kluitenberg (Media Theorist, De B alie, Amsterdam) –Presentation 18:00 - 19:30 Trouble in the Archives. Shahid Amin (Historian, Delhi University), Shuddabrata Sengupta and Ravikant (Sarai-CSDS) – Conversation Friday, 18 November 10.30 - 12:00 Underground Raids and Multiplex Screenings The Turbulent World of Entertainment, IP, Regulations and Real Estate in Delhi. Jawahar Raja (Legal Practitioner and Researcher, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi), Anand Vivek Taneja (Researcher-Practitioner, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) – Panel 12:00 -12:15 Tea break Technologies of Information Control 12:15 - 13:45 Surveillance, Security and Social Sorting in the City. David Lyon (Historian, International Surveillance Project, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario) – Keynote Speech 13:45 - 14:30 Lunch Break 14:30 - 16:00 News you can use Toward Political and Personal Ecologies of Information in Society. Subramanya Sastry (Software Programmer, Open Sourc e Activist, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi), Taha Mahmoud (Researcher-Practitioner, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) – Panel 16:00 - 16:45 The Scanner at the Border. Florian Schneider (Media Activist, ‘No Borders Campaign’ / ‘No One is Illegal’, Munich), Felix Stalder, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta – Conversation 16:45 - 17:00 Tea break 17:00 - 18:30 The Collateral Damage of Breaking News. Arundhati Roy (Writer, Delhi), Lawrence Liang and Shuddhabrata Sengupta – Closing Conversation Conference Editors: Konrad Becker (t0 – Institute for New Culture Technologies, Vienna), Lawrence Liang (ALF, Bangalore) and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) Conference live streams: Netbase, Vienna http://www.netbase.org/t0) Point Ephémère, Paris (http://e-ngo.org ) World-Information City Exhibitions 1. World-Infostructure Exhibition World-Infostructure Exhibition and Guided Tours World-Infostructure visualizes subject matter linked to various aspects of the information society based on research by World-Information.Org on global communication networks, the global media market, global content channels, global brain ware, global data bodies, global info rights and digital security. Numerous information displays illustrate issues associated with the development of digital media, new communication tools, and sophisticated technical instruments e.g. the increasing use of biometric devices. Special dis plays will be developed relating to local issues of the World-Information City Bangalore. Date: 14 – 19 November Opening hours: 09:00 – 18:00 Venue: Cubbon Park Huts Opening Date: 14 November Time: 17:00 – 21:00 Venue: Cubbon Park Huts 2. World-Information City Exhibition The exhibition is a dispersed show across different sites from Russell Market in Shivajinagar through Tasker Town to Cunningham Road. It is designed in such a way as to facilitate site-specific works, but also to allow for interaction with different publics. The exhibition is also stretched between these three points in the city (Russell Market, Cunningham road, Cubbon Park ) so that the experiences, sights, sounds and smells along the way are part of the show, it is thus simultaneously being informed and broadened by the media and art projects. Guided Tours through the exhibition offered on demand. Date: 15 – 19 November Time: 11:00 – 20:00 Venue: Dispersed between Russell Market in Shivajinagar through Tasker Town to Cunningham Rd. Opening Date:14 November Time: 18:00 Venue: Centre for Film and Drama, 5th Floor, Sona Towers, 71, Millers Road Projects: Centre for film and drama 5th Floor, Sona Towers, 71, Millers Road · Age/Sex/Location - Raqs Media Collective · Now Showing the Cinematograph Act, Alternative Law Forum · No_des, Sarai Med ia Lab · Rhizome(working title), Sarai Media Lab · Why I am so blaise, Rahima Begum · Dancing on Glass, Ram Ganesh (8:00 pm, 18th November) Colab Art and Architecture Gallery, 202, Shah Sultana, Cunningham Road · "Down the road" (Sheela Gowda) · "Melrose, Bangalore" (Christoph Schäfer, sponsored by Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore) Lady Jehangair Kothari Memorial Hall, Queen's Circle (Queens Road and Cunningham Road intersection) · "Makrolab – Electronic Media monitoring" (Marko Peljhan) · “On voice culture and automatisme” (Navin Thomas) Lawyer's Collective, 1st Floor, No. 4A, MAH Road, Off Park Road. Tasker Town, Shivajinagar · "World Info City TV" (Shaina Anand) Elgin Talkies, Shivaji Road · "Electricity as network" (Ashok Sukumaran) Location · "Straigth 8 - Film Tales Part I" (Ayisha Abraham) · “The square and the round god – an idea for a universal trajectory (in the manner of a proposal for 12 German pop songs)" (Hilary Koob-Sassen) · "Untempered – a soundscape installation" (Rajivan Ayyappan) Theatre Play “Dancing On Glass” Date: 18 November Time: 20:00 Venue: Centre for Film and Drama "Melrose, Bangalore" Christoph Schäfer (sponsored by Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore) Exhibition Curators: Ayisha Abraham, Namita Malhotra, Kiran Subbaiah "Revolution Non Stop" (German with English subtitles) Christoph Schäfer (Cinema-room at Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore) World-Information City Campaign Projects Dates: 14 – 20 November Venue: Public Space – Bangalore Streets Billboard Designs, Posters and Stickers in the Public Sphere: Along the lines of the overall topic “What do stricter intellectual property laws mean for the public, for digital ecology, accessibility of knowledge, and also for the future of urban spaces?” World-Information.Org will be presenting the following projects: “Delinquents” by Ullrike Brückner (Berlin): Portraits of “delinquents” accused of digital crimes point at the twofold character of intellectual and cultural property. (Website: http://www.musterfirma.org ) “Good questions” by Sebastian Luetgert (Berlin): 9 Questions central to the problematic character of digital property. (Website: http://www.textz.com ) “Drawings” by Elffriede (Vienna): A series of drawings combined with text questioning the viewers about their point of view or making them conscious about questions referring to the theme. (Website: http://www.elffriede.net ) “You are free” by Paula Roush (London) This project consists of invading the everyday space of advertising, whose production and consumption cycle is dominated by a regime of intellectual property known as ‘copyright’ with an infiltration from the parallel production regime of copyleft. (Website: http://www.msdm.org.uk ) “Who owns your knowledge?” by Dominik Hruza (Vienna): … and who benefits from the information you produce? “United We Stand” by 0100101110101101.ORG: A band of media artists, 0100101110101101.ORG use non-conventional communication tactics to obtain the largest visibility with the minimal effort. Past works include staging a hoax i nvolving a complete made-up artist, ripping off the Holy See, and spreading a computer virus as a work of art. (Website: http://0100101110101101.org ) World-Information City Guided Tours "Community-Radio Project Number 20" with Ashish Sen Date: 15 November Time: 08:30 – 17:30 Location: Villages in Karnataka This radio project started it’s work in Budikote (Kolar district, Karnataka) in 1999 with a needs assessment study, findings of which revealed that the community did want an information centre, which would give them timely and locally relevant information, through audio, a medium which they were comfortable with. With this end in mind began a spate of training sessions for volunteers conducted by experts from All India Radio on programming techniques. As an outcome of these training sessions volunteers began to make programmes on topics such as sericulture, organic farming techniques, child and reproductive health, ins urance etc. In Partnership with VOICES (http://www.voicesforall.org ) Web site: http://www.voicesforall.org/communityradio/namma_dhwani.htm “Cities within Cities: an intellectual turbulence within a global ideal” with Solly Benjamin Date/time: 16 November Time: 08:00 – 15:00 (Departure: Cubbon Park – Mahadevpura) Location: Bangalore A travel through several contested landscapes in Bangalore. Some of these, in Bangalore’s eastern periphery, will be huge territories serviced with high grade infrastructure dedicated to IT companies. Their adjoining areas are both reside ntial and home based manufacturing but contrast in the very low levels of infrastructure and services. Such marginality is only surfacial as deeper lie complex political contestation in the way of day to day “encroachments” as urbanization engulfs. Attendance limited – advance registration at projects at mahiti.org Workshops Economy of the commons With Felix Stalder Date: 19 November Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Venue: Cubbon Park Auditorium This workshop will focus on the heterogeneity of commons-based peer production. Taking software production as a starting point, we will examine the different actors – commercial companies, NGOs, academics and students, as well as individuals – who are able to sustain a common project (the development of a particular code base) despite the diverging, and possibly even conflicting, agendas they pursue by doing so. Participants of this workshop will gain insight into the emerging economy of the commons, helping them to better devise strategies to act within it. Participants are encouraged to contribute their own experiences as actors on open source projects as the empirical reference points for the workshop. Connected-Programme (Presentation, Waag Society) With Floor Van Spaendonck Date: 19 November Time: 15:00 – 16:00 Venue: Cubbon Park Auditorium Website: http://spresearch.waag.org The presentation will focus on the Connected! LiveArt programme wherein Waag Society worked with several artists and communities on networked (connected) art. In the programme the collaboration and communities-building aspect was emphasized and also represent ed part of the research. The programme had four nested components: Projects, Artists-in-Residence, Sentient Creatures Lecture Series and Anatomic, a weekly gathering of young media artists interested in networked composition. Open sound workshops Date: 15 – 18 November Time: 09:00 – 18:00 1. Full disclosure and digital art – why programming matters With Chris Kummerer This workshop will demonstrate and introduce free software programmes. Some of them were designed specially for the demands of musicians and video-artists, whereas others – though highly useful for artistic production – weren't developed with the digital/media artist in mind. The aim of this workshop is to show that in many cases open-source – in contrast to its commercial counterparts – is more useful when it comes to combining the potentialities of different programmes. We will further concentrate on technical skills, working with source code, communicating special demands to programmers, and especially on the implications of licensed software on the creative use of programmes. Participants will be able to gather experience and skills with the introduced tools in a performance during the Closing Event of World-Information City. Additionally, a project developed in the workshop will be presented in the Closing Event. 2. Interactive digital audio workshop With Ralf Traunsteiner In the centre of interest is “Pure Data” (Pd), oriented along the lines of graphics and objects, as means for the production of interactive audiovisuals in real time. Pd is an open-source software and will be provided on different platforms (Linux, OS-X, Win). Pd is a real time signal processing system with many extensions and interfaces thus supporting networking and interaction, which makes it an useful tool for experimental audio, multimedia and installation artists. Participants from India will be provided with a first overview on graphical DSP-Programming with Pd. After a short introduction to the basics of digital audio-signal-processing we will concentrate on the practice-oriented intermediation of production, improvisation and live presentation of electronic music. Participants in the workshop will gather experience and skills in the field of networked multimedia performances during a joint “Pd-Network-Jam” presented in the Closing Event of World-Information City. Additionally a project developed in the workshop will be presented during the Closing Event. 3. FOSS With Par ag Goel, Dinesh, Abhas and Edward Crompton Dates: 14/15 November Time: 9:00 – 18:00 Venue: Mahiti The workshop has four main sessions. a. FOSS for Desktops. Parag Goel who manages the Evolution and OpenOffice projects at Novell, India, will be conducting this session. b. FOSS for Management Information Systems. Dinesh from Servelots (http://servelots.com/ ) will conduct this session. c. FOSS for Servers. Abhas from DeeprootLinux (http://www.deeproot.co.in/ ) will conduct this session. d. FOSS for Open Publishing. Edward Crompton from Mahiti will conduct this session. 4. Electronic Media Monitoring With Marko Peljhan Date: 15 November Time: 18:00 – 20:00 Venue: Jehangir Kothari Hall Electronic Media Monitoring captures and analyses signals of global communication streams. The basic setup of the electronic media monitoring unit provides an all purpose scanning and electronic interception environment covering various bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Electronic Media Monitoring targets satellite based media on the widest possible geographical basis, satellite based media programming, rx operations in UHF and L-band comsat areas, satellite tracking, VHF satellite rx-tx, video KU-band reception and analysis, experimental satcom project development and other forms of electronic communication. Closing Event Date/time: 19 November, 2005, 18:00 Venue: Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan World-Information City, a week-long transnational programme of events related to issues of the information society, is wound up in this closing event that features various forms of artistic and social engagement with information, including electronic music, open source projects, and the shortfilm showcase "Thought Thieves". ♣ Electronic Music Performance Ish/dbase Chris Kummerer TronStoner ♣ Presentation of Open Sound Workshop Results ♣ Thought Thieves: Presentation of Winner Projects Thought Thieves is a short film showcase about corporate appropriation of knowledge, culture, and creativity. It is a grassroots response to the Micro$oft propaganda competition of the same name. www.thought-thieves.org > ♣ Signal Sever With Marko Peljhan Signal Sever is the sensor array and processing unit conceptualized by pact systems which maps the electromagnetic spectrum, processes, transforms it and sends it back into the ether in many different directions and forms Venues and locations Jawahar Bal Bhavan Auditorium, Cubbon Park, Bangalore 560001 Mahiti, #314/1, 2nd Floor, VijayKiran Building, 7th cross, Domlur Layout, Bangalore 560 071 Alternative Law Forum (ALF), No 4 Ground Floor, 3rd Cross, Vasanthnagar, Bangalore 560052 Jehangir Kothari Hall, Queens Road, Bangalore Centre for Film and Drama, Sona Towers, 71 Millers Road, Bangalore Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, No. 716, C.M.H. Road, Indiranagar 1st Stage, Bangalore 560 038 LOGOS: PARTNERS EU-India Partners: - Waag - Sarai - t0 Local Partners: - ALF - Mahiti - Goethe Institute - Voices SUPPORTERS 1. ECCP 2. EU + disclaimer! 3. 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I had changed it earlier but there was a reboot on the server and now its back to this. its not personally directed. it says that to any mail that it holds for a variety of reasons (including html, attachments, etc) best M At 1:51 AM -0700 10/20/05, rehan ansari wrote: >Dear All, Monica, Shuddha, I sent a piece to the reader-list and >received the following message: 'Your mail to 'reader-list' with >the subject > > Did God make a mistake in Pakistan? > >Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. > >The reason it is being held: > > Message has a suspicious header' > >I was startled by this. What could be suspicious in the header? >'God,' 'Pakistan,' 'mistake,' what? I also thought maybe a 'header' >is not the title of the piece. Maybe I am a stranger to the >reader-list now, I havent been active on it, a mere passive >recipient for some years, and maybe my sudden activity alarms a >gatekeeper I didnt know existed. Perhaps I am paranoid, after all I >am among friends. But I do get upset when I come across the phrases, >'is being held,' and 'review (pending) approval,' especially when >seemingly directed at me. >best, Rehan > > > >Yahoo! >Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. -- Monica Narula [Raqs Media Collective] Sarai:The New Media Initiative 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054 www.sarai.net www.raqsmediacollective.net From jumpshark at gmail.com Sat Nov 12 10:31:21 2005 From: jumpshark at gmail.com (Prashant Pandey) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:31:21 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Trends Spotting , Prashant Pandey Message-ID: Music industry rocks to all new tunes MANOJ NAIR TIMES NEWS NETWORK SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 06, Do you hear that buzz? That soft murmur of an industry that just can't be wished away. Yes, it is music to the ears. And it has been music over the years. Just step back for a moment and think -it has been changing. All of it. The way it made, transmitted and listened to. Last month, a group called Arctic Monkeys grabbed the coveted number one slot in Britain's weekly charts. All it did was create a fan base and allowed music lovers to swap its songs on the Internet for free. In 2002, David Bowie had written in a New York Times article: "The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property are in for such a bashing. Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity." Quite true. In the future, what we know as music will be ubiquitous, mobile, shareable and as pervasive and diverse as human cultures and it will be changing from one form to other. It will include non-musicians who follow no rules. Yes, it will move far away from the single note to embrace samples in wholesale. With the help of electronics, new ideas and mass consumption ambient music will, without doubt, become the classical music of the future. Just the other day, American magazine Wired featured the virtual band Gorillaz on its cover. The band is made up of cartoon characters (2D, Murdoc Niccals, Russel Hobbs and Noodle) who are fictional. The group inhabits Kong Studios, high on a mountain in Essex, northeast of London. There are no mountains in Essex. The band exists enough to make music, produce videos, remix, and to be remixed. And their music is all about loops and samples. The Big-4 major labels of the world - Sony BMG, Universal, EMI and Warner - are all ailing. But if one were to look beyond CD sales, it is clear that overall the market is alive, kicking and vibrant. Legal digital sales tripled in the first half of 2005. It will only go up and much of it is powered by ringtones. 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From jeebesh at sarai.net Sat Nov 12 12:10:11 2005 From: jeebesh at sarai.net (Jeebesh Bagchi) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:10:11 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] PROTEST NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES AND DENIAL OF WORK Message-ID: <43758E4B.80807@sarai.net> PRESS RELEASE WORKERS OF MICHAEL ARAM EXPORTS PRIVATE LIMITED PROTEST NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES AND DENIAL OF WORK Seventeen workers of Michael Aram Exports Private Limited (B-156 DDA Sheds, Okhla Industrial Area Phase I, New Delhi-20) stood with placards in Connaught Place and Janpath Lane Market on Divali, November 1, 2005 to protest against the denial of work in the factory since March 2005, non-payment of wages, and non-payment of their Divali bonus. Michael Aram is an America-based artist and designer whose metal artware products (tableware, cutlery, vases, hardwares, etc.) are marketed in high end retail department stores in America such as Macy’s and Bloomingdales (please see www.michaelaram.com for details). He has been conducting business in India for over fifteen years. Michael Aram Exports Private Limited (India) supplies finished products to Michael Aram Inc. (USA), and operates production units in Okhla Phase I, Lado Sarai, Kishangarh, and Sahibabad (U.P.), and is headquartered at F-61, Ground Floor, Sujan Singh Park, New Delhi (Ph.29523920, 29523095, 29522297-8). The annual turnover of Michael Aram Exports is estimated at Rs.9 crores, while that of Michael Aram Inc. is $4.4 - 6.7 million. Steel polishing is done at B-156 DDA Sheds, Okhla Phase I. The work is extremely difficult, dirty, and dangerous. Workers are blackened in the production process, wear tattered and torn clothes, cough and spit up dark phlegm, and suffer from chronic colds, fever, stomach disorders, chest pains, and tuberculosis. The workers (24 presently) are on the company muster rolls and have been paid minimum wages (Rs.2950-3386), though they have been denied legal overtime rates, timely dearness allowances, clean drinking water, and proper pollution masks. These workers are migrants from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand, and are highly skilled, inventive, and hardworking, and have increased production quantity (by double for many items) and quality since the unit was started in 2001. In March 2005, a dispute broke out between Michael Aram and the company’s Indian Director (and thirty-percent shareholder), Francis Joseph, over alleged siphoning and bungling of funds, amongst other charges, and the case is being carried out in the Company Law Board. Citing this dispute, management stopped giving work to workers in all of the factories of Michael Aram Exports, and workers were made to sit idle. Michael Aram assured workers at the time that the Directors’ dispute would be resolved within two weeks and a new transparency and accessibility would be brought into the company. Instead, water, electricity, tea, and other facilities were cut, and wages were given late and reluctantly every month, only after workers filed complaints in the Labor Department (via the Delhi State Kamgar Union (IFTU)). The exigency of going back and forth to the Labor Department led to the death of one worker, Ramdev, whose cycle was hit by a car on the way back from the South Delhi Labor Office in July 2005. Although Michael Aram promised Ramdev’s wife at the time that she would be given a job on compassionate grounds, the management has yet to act on this promise. Meanwhile, in May 2005, Michael Aram started a new company and production unit at C-109, Okhla Phase I under the name of Michael Aram Design India Private Limited, and has been carrying out the exact same work there through a combination of newly recruited employees, former employees of Michael Aram Exports who have tendered their resignations, and contractors’ workers working on an illegal night shift, now relocated elsewhere. In October 2005, alleging that there was no more money left in their accounts, Michael Aram Exports management stopped paying wages to its workers. On Divali, no bonus was given. B-156 workers have filed a case under the Minimum Wages Act in the Labor Department for non-payment of September wages. Although there have been no official closure or retrenchment notices of any kind, management has offered workers their full and final settlements. But the metal workers of B-156 DDA Sheds desire work, in any of Michael Aram’s units, including C109, and have communicated the same in a letter to Michael Aram, who has not given a response, and is said to be in America at present. Beginning October 27th, B-156 workers have taken their struggle to the streets, standing with placards in and around Okhla Industrial Area, in an effort to generate awareness of the above events and developments as well as engage in conversations and discussions with workers at large about their common experiences and difficulties. On Divali, workers brought their placards to Connaught Place and Janpath Lane Market, in the attempt to reach out to inhabitants of the capital city more generally. They quietly stood, like statues, within the busy, festive market as shoppers walked by and occasionally stopped to read the messages and inquire into their present plight. Should not every worker be allowed to celebrate Divali, even in a modest way? Is this how we wish foreign employers to treat the workers of this country? That too, within the heart of the capital city? Should we be welcoming into this country a set of arrangements which increasingly look upon workers as things to be exploited and discarded at will? Eid and Chhat are now rapidly approaching. Without wages, yet also without the desire to submit to the illegal and inhumane practices of Michael Aram Exports management, B-156 workers will continue to be seen on the streets of Delhi with their placards, with the hope that some festivity might be found in these new conversations and discussions with fellow workers, residents, and co-strugglers of the capital city. The Employees of Michael Aram Exports Private Limited B156 DDA Sheds, Okhla Industrial Area Phase I TEXT OF PLACARDS 1. JULY MEM VETAN RUKA, EK MAZDUR KI JAN GAI AB RUKI HAI TO KITNE KI JAN JAYEGI? Vivad ke calte har mahine mem deri. July ki payment me deri ki vajah se shram-vibhag mem shikayat kar lautte vaqt car ki takkar se cycle savar hamare sathi Ramdev ki jan gai. Ab phir vetan rok hai to kitne mazdur bhaiyom ki jan lemge? WAGES WEREN’T PAID IN JULY, ONE WORKER DIED NOW THEY’VE BEEN STOPPED AGAIN, HOW MANY MORE WILL DIE? Due to a dispute between the Directors, each month our wage payments have been late. In July, we went to file a complaint in the Labor Department, and on the way back, our co-worker Ramdev was hit by a car and died. Now wages again have not been paid. How many more of us will have to die this time? 2. PAHLE ASHVASAN, BAD MEM MUKARNA MAZDUROM KA MANOBAL TODNE KA NAYAB TARIKA Director Michael ka ashvasan March 05 mem do hafte mem kam dene ka, pardarshi company banane ka, parantu aj 6 mah bad bhi kam nahim diya. Hamare sathi Ramdev ki shram vibhag mem shikayat kar lautte vaqt accident mem maut ke bad unki patni ko naukri ka vada kiya, parantu aj 3 mah bad bhi naukri nahim di hai. Pata nahim mritak mazdur ke patni aur baccom ka kya hoga? Abhi management dvara vetan bonus nahim dene ka nirnay. Kya ham ummid kar sakte haim ki management is bar bhi apni bat se mukaremge? FIRST GIVE YOUR WORD, THEN GO BACK ON IT A FINE WAY TO BREAK WORKERS’ SPIRIT In March 2005, the Director, Michael Aram, promised to give us work within two weeks’ time and to bring transparency to the company. But today, six months later, he has yet to give us work. On the way back from filing a complaint on non-payment of wages at the Labor Department, our co-worker Ramdev had a road accident and died. He gave his word that he would give Ramdev’s wife a job but today, three months later, she has yet to be given this job. What will happen to Ramdev’s family now? Now management says that they will not give us our wages or bonus. Can we possibly hope that they will go back on their word this time? 3. DASHAHRA PHIKA, DIPAVALI ANDHKAAR Dashahra to jaise taise bit gaya. Karva Chauth karvi rahi. Dipavali andheri dikh rahi hai. Tankhvah to di nahim, bonus ki aas karem kaise? Baccom ko kaise bahlayemge, patni ko kaise bahkayemge? Khud to bam bane baithe haim, patakha kaham se bajayemge? DASHAHRA WAS LACKLUSTRE, DIPAVALI WILL BE TOTAL DARKNESS We somehow got through Dashahra. Karva Chauth was bitter. Dipavali is looking absolutely black. Our wages have yet to be paid. How can we hope for our bonus? How will we give our children a good time? How will we explain things to our wives? We ourselves have become bombs. Where is the question of exploding firecrackers? 4. DARPAN VAHI, CEHRA BADAL GAYA Pakke mazdurom ko khali bitana, nai factory khol vahi kaam karvana. Sthai karmcariyom ko khali bithana, bahar thekedari ke zariye kam karvana. Ghotala ke nam par factory band karne ka bahana, nai factory mem naye sire se ghotala karna. THE MIRROR’S THE SAME, ONLY THE FACE HAS CHANGED Make your permanent workers sit idle, start a new company and have the very same work done there and through outside contractors. Close the factory on the pretense of the bungling of funds, open a new factory and start bungling anew. 5. DO MALIKOM KE BIC PIS GAYA MAZDUR Do malikom ke bic vivad jhagra ghotala adi ki ladai March 5 se shuru hua aur ham mazdurom ko khali bithaya. Dusra nai company Michael Aram Design ke nam se khol dena, kam vahi karvana, purane logom ka resign lekar naye sire se bharti karna, naya ghotala calu. Sthai mazdurom ko khali bithaya aur bahar thekedarom ke madhyam se kam karvana. Tankhvah to band ho gai to bonus ki ummid kya karem? Vivad, jhagra, ghotala malikom ke bic, bali ka bakra bana mazdur. WORKERS CRUSHED BETWEEN TWO PROPRIETORS A dispute between the two proprietors over alleged bungling of funds began in March 2005 and we workers were made to sit idle. A new company was started under the name Michael Aram Design India Private Limited, and the same work is being carried out there. Resignations were tendered from former workers in exchange for fresh employment and along with this, bungling of funds has started afresh. Permanent workers are made to sit idle while work is done outside by contractors. Wage payments have been stopped. May we hope for our bonus to be paid? The dispute, quarrel, and bungling are between the proprietors, but workers have been made the sacrificial goats. 6. PAHLE HALAL, BAD MEM JHATKA MAZDUROM KO MARNE KA NAYAB TARIKA Directorm ke vivad ke calte ham sabhi ko March 2005 se khali baithaya. Cay pani bijli adi band aur ab tankhvah bhi dena band. Halaal kiya to tankhvah band kiya. Jhatka mara to 60 admi ko acanak hisab kiya. Abhi bhi hamari halaal jari, aujar tez karne ki taiyari. FIRST SLICE THE THROAT, THEN CHOP OFF THE HEAD A FINE WAY TO KILL OFF WORKERS Due to a dispute between the Directors, we have been made to sit idle since March 2005. The company stopped tea, water, electricity, and now they have stopped paying our wages. They sliced the throat, and wages were stopped. Then they chopped the head, and 60 workers were given their final settlements. Our throats are still being sliced. The blade is being sharpened for the chop. 7. TANKHVAH BAND, MALIK FARAAR Company ke donom malikom ke vivad ke calte March 2005 se ham mazdurom ki khali bithaya aur Sitambar se tankhvah bhi band kar di. Jaham ek taraf ham apni rozi-roti ke lie pareshan haim to dusri taraf ek malik Dilli mem chupa hua haim to dusra malik America cala gaya. Ab tak payment nahim mila. Management ka kahna hai ki company ke khate mem paisa nahim hai. ‘Malik se bat karo, shram-vibhag mem shikayat karo, malikom ka putla phumko, jo caho so karo.’ Jab donom malikom faraar haim, to ham mazdur kisse bat karem? Jiske pas paisa hai, vah to kahim bhi bhag sakta hai. Parantu ham mazdurom ko payment nahim milegi to makan-malikom aur dukandarom se ham kahim aur kaise bhag sakte haim? WAGES STOPPED, PROPRIETORS GONE Due to a dispute between the two company proprietors, we workers have been made to sit idle since March 2005. Since September, wages also have been stopped. While we are facing great difficulty for our daily bread, one proprietor is hiding out in Delhi and the other has left for America. We have not been paid our wages, and management says there’s no more money in the company account. ‘Go and talk to the proprietors, file a complaint in the Labor Department, burn effigies of the proprietors, do whatever you feel like.’ When both proprietors are nowhere to be found, whom are we to speak to? Those who have money can run anywhere. But if we don’t get our wages, can we possibly flee from our landlords and shopkeepers? 8. NAUKRI SARKAR KI, SEVA PUNJIPATIYOM KI Malikom ke vivad ke calte har mahine payment mem deri aur phir payment hi band kar di. Har mahine shram-vibhag mem shikayat dalne par shram-adhikari pratyaksh mem hamare paksh mem bol kar hamem ashvasan dete haim, hamara hausla badhate haim. Shram adhikari company mem 6 baje chutti ke bad hi pahumcte haim, derh ghante tak company mem rukte haim. Jab bahar ate haim to cehra khushhaal, magar khabar hamesha badhaal hi dete haim. Shram-adhikari sarkari naukri nahim karte haim, punjipatiyom ki naukri karte haim. Kaham milega nyay? GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT, BUT SERVICE TO CAPITAL Due to a dispute between the two proprietors, every month our wage payments have been late and now they have been stopped altogether. Every month, upon filing complaints with the Labor Department, the labor officers give assurances to us and bolster our spirits. The labor officers show up at the company only after 6 pm, and stay there up to 1½ hours. When they emerge from the factory gate, their faces are always beaming, but the news they bring is always bad. Labor officials don’t do government service, they work for the capitalists. Where will one get justice? 9. HISAB NAHIM, KAAM VETAN CAHIE Ham kushal karigar haim. Hamne jugadom ke zariya bhi utpadan badhaya haim, quality sudhara hai. Iski saza yah hai ki donom malikom ke vivad mem ham 6 mah se khali bithaya gaya. Nai company mem utpadan karvana, thekedarom dwara bahar se kaam karvana aur hamara vetan bhi nahim diya. Hamne kaam manga to management dwara hamem koi javab nahim. Hamem hisab nahim, kaam aur tankhvah cahie, sath hi Dipavali ka bonus. WE DON’T WANT FINAL SETTLEMENTS, WE WANT WORK AND WAGES We are skilled workers. Through our own efforts and ideas we have brought about increases in production and quality. The punishment for this is that thanks to a dispute between the proprietors we have been made to sit idle for six months. The company now gets production done in a new factory, and also via outside contractors. We have asked for work but we have yet to get an answer from management. We don’t want our final settlements. We want work, wages, and our Divali bonus. From punam.zutshi at gmail.com Sat Nov 12 13:08:24 2005 From: punam.zutshi at gmail.com (punam zutshi) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:08:24 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Re :Talk by Nina Montmann on New Institutionalism In-Reply-To: <3b7bed850511102355v45aeb004na41c1c7a0e523697@mail.gmail.com> References: <1131612988.87c44e60aesthete@mail.jnu.ac.in> <3b7bed850511102355v45aeb004na41c1c7a0e523697@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <3b7bed850511112338k1514390td8376532b662b48d@mail.gmail.com> At what hour on the 14th????? On 11/10/05, Dean School of Arts and Aesthetics wrote: > Lecture on New Institutionalism by Nina Montmann critic and author > Curator Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Helsink (NIFCA) > > VENUE: SCHOOL OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS GALLERY > DATE 14TH NOVEMBER 2005 > JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI 110067 > All are cordially invited > > New Institutionalism > "Neo-Capitalism and the declining Western Welfare State are causing major changes in the role of the art institution. A director of a museum is supposed to act as a populist politician as well as a manager. For most sponsors and politicians the visitor's count is the only measurement for the success of an institution. Therefore art institutions are becoming a part of the event and entertainment industry. In this scenario some smaller or mid –sized and more flexible institutions tried to analyze this situation and develop alternative strategies. > In my paper I will present the approach of a few institutions (such as the Rooseum in Malmo with Charles Esche as director, the Kunstverein in Munich with Maria Lind, The EA-Generali Foundation in Vienna), as well as two research based exhibition projects I curated, which are dealing with a variety of international institutional collaborations, and have a (self-)reflective perspective on institutional processes as their very topic: the relation of artists and institutions, the societal role of institutions and the role of institutions for artistic productions." > Nina Montmann > > > > ============================================== > > This Mail was Scanned for Virus and found Virus free > > ============================================== > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > List archive: > From jeebesh at sarai.net Sun Nov 13 17:48:51 2005 From: jeebesh at sarai.net (Jeebesh Bagchi) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:48:51 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Paris : 12th Night Message-ID: <43772F2B.2040508@sarai.net> A nice text on Paris in October, 2005. l,j -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 12th night Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:51:51 +0100 From: Brian Holmes Reply-To: Brian Holmes To: nettime-l at bbs.thing.net It's a strange experience, but I'm sure quite familiar to many: a hidden war, one you constantly hear about without seeing. Today I felt compelled to go where I never do, across the canal, then across the ring road, then across the suburban towns by foot and by tramway. First the city, the warm afternoon, people smiling - glad to be inside. Then beyond the ring road, through the low, gray, poverty-struck constructions of the 1940s and 50s, surging with people of all origins; across the no-man's lands between huge tower blocks; to the incredible modernist housing projects around Bobigny, so tall and forbidding and clean. But the shoddy decaying estates where the cars burn and the stones fly and the kids stand off against the police are further out, you have to go specially by bus, people look at you and wonder what you're there for, that was not my intention. Instead, just the need to remember what's beyond the ring road, at walking distance, the other world of the class-divide inscribed in the urban geography. Now that the children and grandchildren of the immigrants who built the postwar prosperity of France have spoken the only language that the elites can hear - the language of fire and bricks - what's gonna happen next? Tonight is the 12th night of this collective speech. For years I thought something like Watts was coming to this country. This is it, but without all the guns. Maybe they'll appear next time, when it's organized. For now, the wild improvisation of stones and molotov cocktails and roving confrontations with the cops is the only thing these young people could do. The cars and buses and schools are still burning as I write. Bagdad is the word on everyone's lips. In a wierd way, many of them - to judge from the interviews - still seem to believe some change for the better is possible. But the situation has been the same for at least 15 years, just getting worse as long as I've lived here. The socialists made feeble attempts to reverse the trends in the late nineties; it was always cosmetic, then the right came and exchanged its own ineffective programs for the earlier ones. But its programs mostly wore uniforms, and the sight of Africans and Arabs (as those of North African or Middle Eastern origins are called here) getting IDed for no other reason but the color of their skin has been the typical panorama on the street for years now. Sometimes kids get killed in the scuffle. And even if you didn't hear about it, there's always a riot. It was common knowledge that areas of certain estates had become off limits to outsiders, especially at night; if you listened, you found out that isolated eruptions were longer, more intense than the media let us imagine. Some said that any attempt to disturb the patterns of drug traffic was worth an explosion, then a retreat. And everyone knew that official unemployment levels were above 20, sometimes up to 40 percent in the poorest areas. Now it's better to go all the way, to push the violence as far as your body can stand it, to rival with your neighboring towns and with the distant urban regions to see who can destroy more, who can shock more, who can burn more, who can have more crazy dangerous fun - it's the last chance to pierce through the scorn and oblivion. I am sure this is the way the rioters feel and I sure don't blame them. Now we've heard what the response will be. The right-wing government has announced four points, or that's what I got out of Villepin's grotesque chat on the television: 1. Repression, a curfew, the restoring of order at all costs. 2. The resumption of the budgets that they cut for associations and schools. 3. The pursuit of their longer-term project of destroying the old, decayed 1950s and 60s housing, and replacing it with more livable construction. And finally, 4. An attempt to apply their fancy new workfare programs (contracts, training sessions, or internships for some 50 thousand people within 3 months were the promises). No one will miss the historical irony: the emergency powers on which the curfew is based come from a 1955 law that was drafted for application in the colony of Algeria. What the state needs to do is rebuild the housing, to add on the sporting, cultural and leisure facilities that never existed for the poor quarters, to double the education budgets, to institute affirmative action laws and ensure the employment of an entire generation, to set up co-development programs that can follow the remittance money back to all the places that the contemporary European labor force comes from in Africa and the Middle East, and above all, to open the ranks of society - positions in business, civil service and political representation - to all those French people whose ancestors aren't the Gauls. But for 30 years the state has claimed it can't do these things, because of the crisis, because of Maastricht, because of neoliberalism. What's happening in France is a powerful and shocking event because it has extended spontaneously across the country and no one yet knows when it will stop. What's more, it's so obviously justified, even if people in the suburbs are in agony for the loss of their peace of mind, their vehicles, their markets and schools. But the right and the neofascists can turn these events into an excuse for a deeply repressive society, they can play the clash of civilizations to the hilt. A lot depends on what happens in the next few nights, whether a paroxysm results in more deaths. Whatever happens, the shock will be inscribed in the future of this country. It's a turning point. So far I've heard no one mention that the transformer where the two kids from Clichy-sous-Bois got electrocuted while trying to hide from the police has just been privatized, along with the entire public electricity system. You see an idiotic ad with a brainless young middle-class couple gushing over the beauty of a stainless-steel windmill, a dam or a nuclear reactor that they're about to own shares in. When just yesterday everyone owned it - it was a public service. As if that did us a lot of good. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo at bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime at bbs.thing.net From aesthete at mail.jnu.ac.in Sun Nov 13 08:58:08 2005 From: aesthete at mail.jnu.ac.in (Dean School of Arts and Aesthetics) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:58:08 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] JNU SAA 4 pm lecture: New Institutionalism by Nina Montmann Message-ID: <1131852488.cd75ef40aesthete@mail.jnu.ac.in> Sorry for the double posting folks but forgot to mention the time in the last e-mail. For queries please write to the aesthete at mail.jnu.ac.in address or call 26704061 / 26717576 Lecture on New Institutionalism by Nina Montmann critic and author Curator Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Helsink (NIFCA) TIME: 4PM VENUE: SCHOOL OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS GALLERY DATE: 14TH NOVEMBER 2005 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI 110067 All are cordially invited New Institutionalism “Neo-Capitalism and the declining Western Welfare State are causing major changes in the role of the art institution. A director of a museum is supposed to act as a populist politician as well as a manager. For most sponsors and politicians the visitors count is the only measurement for the success of an institution. Therefore art institutions are becoming a part of the event and entertainment industry. In this scenario some smaller or mid sized and more flexible institutions tried to analyze this situation and develop alternative strategies. In my paper I will present the approach of a few institutions (such as the Rooseum in Malmo with Charles Esche as director, the Kunstverein in Munich with Maria Lind, The EA-Generali Foundation in Vienna), as well as two research based exhibition projects I curated, which are dealing with a variety of international institutional collaborations, and have a (self-)reflective perspective on institutional processes as their very topic: the relation of artists and institutions, the societal role of institutions and the role of institutions for artistic productions.” Nina Montmann ============================================== This Mail was Scanned for Virus and found Virus free ============================================== _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From vivek at sarai.net Mon Nov 14 13:47:48 2005 From: vivek at sarai.net (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:47:48 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Mexican new media art lecture at JNU Message-ID: <4378482C.8050600@sarai.net> *"In the absence of recombination"* *Lecture by Ruben Gutierrez * on new media art in Mexico and the management of private cultural spaces * Time: *16:00hrs * Date: *Friday 18^ th November 2005 * Venue: *School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium *Jawaharlal** **Nehru** ** University*** * New Delhi** * ** ** * Ruben Gutierrez (1972)* is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist and founder and director of /Object Not Found project room/, an independent non-profit organization in Monterrey, a city close to the border of México and United States of America, whose mission is to promote the knowledge and appreciation of contemporary art through the RESEARCH, PRODUCTION, and EXHIBITION of intertextual objects. *In the absence of recombination, * Ruben Gutierrez will present a selection of videos by Mexican artists; these groups represent a new up and coming generation, product of many crises during the seventies and eighties in México. They are characterized by their cynicism towards the establishment and sardonic sense of humor, which pervades in many of their works. These talents create their artwork engulfed in an environment permeated by foreign influences, notions of "globalization" and the request of years under economic and political crisis in México mass media and new technologies ad new flavor and raise up new problems in the work they present. /3er1/5 colectivo/, a group of artists from Monterrey, Mexico, embody their aesthetic, politic and philosophical qualms through the intervention of architectonic sites. Most of their works are hard to classify or document, since they are related to the alteration of public and private spaces. Most of their "interventions" deal with notions of space, mass organization, perception and solitude, appealing to the collective soul. /Gustavo Artigas/ deals with concepts like game and disaster, his videos are registers of much elaborated actions and performances that intend to create rarefied atmospheres to the audience. The program also includes a selection of international artists that had shows at Object Not Found project room. A selection of six artists, which had expressed their concerns about today's world in a Mexican context: In "The scenes from next week" /Andrew Demirjian/ shows simple daily things, such as doing the dishes, and bringing the garbage outside, under a upbeat melody mimicking the soap opera announcements and questioning the impact of such on our lives. / Mariam Ghani/, in her "How do you see the disappeared?", critiques US Immigration policy. In this work, she addresses several cases of people who for an unclear reason have been detained, and making the often randomness used by the IRS even more clear by pointing out her personal situation: born in America from a Pakistan mother and an Afghanistan father, she carriers an US passport, but isn't be able to re-enter the US without being questioned. The work of /Mathieu Borysevicz/ shows a little hope in a country that has been terrorized by wars: Rwanda. Showing young children singing and laughing, welcoming a group of 'red-cross-workers'. Sadly enough, this hope is just for a short moment, as the war continues and the end isn't nearby. After September 11 /Tony Cokes/ made a series of videos that related to the articles appearing in the New York Times about terrorism and the information on the current situation in Afghanistan. He compares the pieces with articles from early dates. It is surprising to see the similarities in wording of the issues concerning the Middle East. "Feast. Homage a Marcel Broodthaers" is a work by /Lislelot van der Heijden/. She thinks that in a time when people have to watch what they say, it is more interesting to watch what is said by what is not said. The work juxtaposes a series of statements – "this has nothing to do with oil," "a vulture is not an eagle" and "this is not political" – with a continuous video loop showing a close-up of a group of vultures ferociously fighting to seize a bite. "Patriot Act" by /Robert Boyd/ takes a global sampling of iconic leaders of the Left and Right since World War II. The work is about the men who lead and the people who adore them – without question, without fall, time and again throughout the course of history. _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From vivek at sarai.net Mon Nov 14 17:41:22 2005 From: vivek at sarai.net (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:41:22 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Fwd: You are invited to contribute to 'decade' - a trAce online writing project Message-ID: <43787EEA.9020505@sarai.net> Dear All, I am writing to invite you to make a contribution to ‘decade’ (http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/decade/); an online writing project being launched this week to celebrate ten years of innovative digital activity at trAce Online Writing Centre, NTU. The completed project will take the shape of a writing 'quilt' of what I hope will be many different responses to technology and change. The introduction to the project notes:- “In the last ten years there has been an explosion of new technology, especially related to computers and the internet, and for some of us it has changed forever the way we live and write. As the trAce Online Writing Centre reaches its tenth anniversary, we invite you to reflect on your own personal decade of living and writing with technology.” You are invited to contribute a brief statement of a 100 words to the project about the technology you love, hate or anticipate; and the ways in which technology has changed your life. At the beginning of the project the quilt will be empty, awaiting contributions. But as time passes, it will gradually expand; weaving together the differing perspectives of authors from across the globe. I look forward to your participation in this exciting project. Gavin Stewart Artistic Project Manager -trAce Online Writing Centre http://trace.ntu.ac.uk the trAce Online Writing Centre trace at ntu.ac.uk http://trace.ntu.ac.uk The Nottingham Trent University Clifton, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK Tel: + 44 (0) 115 848 6360 Fax: + 44 (0) 115 848 6364 _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From vivek at sarai.net Tue Nov 15 13:52:09 2005 From: vivek at sarai.net (vivek at sarai.net) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:22:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Reader-list] CORRECTION: MEXICAN NEW MEDIA ART ON THE 17th Message-ID: <1576.202.138.112.252.1132042929.squirrel@mail.sarai.net> PLEASE NOTE THE LECTURE HAS BEEN CHANGED: 17TH OF NOVEMBER AND NOT ON THE 18TH. Lecture by Rubén Gutiérrez on new media art in México and the management of private cultural spaces “In the absence of recombination” Time: 16:00hrs Date: THURSDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2005 Venue: School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium Jawaharlal Nehru University Ruben Gutierrez is a multidisciplinary artist and founder and director of Object Not Found project room, an independent non-profit organization in the Monterrey a city close to the border of México and United States of America, whose mission is to promote the knowledge and appreciation of contemporary art through the RESEARCH, PRODUCTION, and EXHIBITION of intertextual objects. In the absence of recombination, Ruben Gutierrez will present a selection of videos by Mexican artists; these groups represent a new up and coming generation, product of many crises during the seventies and eighties in México. They are characterized by their cynicism towards the establishment and sardonic sense of humor, which pervades in many of their works. These talents create their artwork engulfed in an environment permeated by foreign influences, notions of “globalization” and the request of years under economic and political crisis in México mass media and new technologies ad new flavor and raise up new problems in the work they present. 3er1/5 colectivo, a group of artists from Monterrey, Mexico, embody their aesthetic, politic and philosophical qualms through the intervention of architectonic sites. most of their works are hard to classify or document, since they are related to the alteration of public and private spaces. Most of their “interventions” deal with notions of space, mass organization, perception and solitude, appealing to the collective soul. Gustavo Artigas deal with concepts like game and disaster, his videos are registers of much elaborated actions and performances that intend to create rarefied atmospheres to the audience. Also the program include a selection of international artists that had shows at Object Not Found project room. .A selection of six artists, which had expressed their concerns about today’s world in a Mexican context.. In “The scenes from next week” Andrew Demirjian shows simple daily things, such as doing the dishes, and bringing the garbage outside, under a upbeat melody mimicking the soap opera announcements and questioning the impact of such on our lives. Mariam Ghani critics in her “How do you see the disappeared?” the US Immigration policy. In this work, she addresses several cases of people who for an unclear reason have been detained, and making the often randomness used by the IRS even more clear by pointing out her personal situation: born in America from a Pakistan mother and an Afghanistan father, she carriers an US passport, but isn’t be able to re-enter the US without being questioned. The work of Mathieu Borysevicz shows a little hope in a country that has been terrorized by wars: Rwanda. Showing young children singing and laughing, welcoming a group of ‘red-cross-workers’. Sadly enough, this hope is just for a short moment, as the war continues and the end isn’t nearby. After September 11 Tony Cokes made a series of videos that related to the articles appearing in the New York Times about terrorism and the information on the current situation in Afghanistan. He compares the pieces with articles from early dates. It is surprising to see the similarities in wording of the issues concerning the Middle East. “Feast. Homage a Marcel Broodthaers” is a work by Lislelot van der Heijden. She thinks that in a time when people have to watch what they say, it is more interesting to watch what is said by what is not said. The work juxtaposes a series of statements – “this has nothing to do with oil,” “a vulture is not an eagle” and “this is not political” – with a continuous video loop showing a close-up of a group of vultures ferociously fighting to seize a bite. “Patriot Act” by Robert Boyd takes a global sampling of iconic leaders of the Left and Right since World War II. The work is about the men who lead and the people who adore them – without question, without fall, time and again throughout the course of history. Artist List Gustavo Artigas Gonzalo Lebrija Mauricio Alejo Colectivo 3er 1/5 Isaac Muñoz Maria Alos Mathieu Borysevicz Robert Boyd Tony Cokes Andrew Demirjian Mariam Ghani Liselot van der Heijden This lecture is brought to you in collaboration with the Embassy of Mexico ============================================ This Mail was Scanned for Virus and found Virus free ============================================ From singhgurminder2000 at hotmail.com Tue Nov 15 15:08:42 2005 From: singhgurminder2000 at hotmail.com (gurminder singh) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:08:42 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Guru Nanak Dev ji's Gurpurab Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20051115/bb022a83/attachment.html From iram at sarai.net Tue Nov 15 23:08:03 2005 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:08:03 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Ectropy Index Message-ID: <437A1CFB.8040302@sarai.net> Ectropy Index Produced at the Sarai Media Lab A hyperlinked, multimedia CD to be exhibited and distributed at World - Information City event, Bangalore. 14th - 19th November, 2005 The word "ectropy" means a general increase in organization. It appears to have been developed by Willard V. Quine, a philosopher and mathematician in the course of a series of discussions about information in 1969. It is now understood as an antonym of "entropy", If entropy is the net increase in the tendency towards chaos within a system, then ectropy being its opposite, suggests a congealing and thickening of information from a mass of things known, half known and unknown. While imagining ectropy it helps to think of a circle, that denotes a neutral state. Any inward collapse of the circle in a cardioid fashion denotes the loss of the order. or entropy, and the outward radiation of the circle, leading to an increase in it's circumferential arc , is ectropy. An ectropic index then would be the measure of the increase of information, or of order, in a given system. 'Ectropic Index' takes these meanings to create its own tension between entropic and ectropic impulses, between forces that tend to increase and decrease the levels of order and systematization (as opposed to randomness) within a system. Interestingly, ectropy is also a disease of the eyelid, which especially afflicts hyper-thoroughbred (or inbred) hunting dogs and people who have artificial eyes. In this disease, the eyelids do not close satisfactorily, leading especially to a slackening of the muscles of the lower eyelid, so that the orbit of the eye comes loose, and portrudes, ectropically, from its socket. Eyes that do not blink, or sleep, or never shut to occasionally 'not see' something, tend towards ectropy. The eye that wants to be all seeing, that wants everything in order, all the time, better beware of ectropy. It is said that we live today in a social realm increasingly marked by activities that have to do with information. Identity cards and identity theft, fingerprints and forgeries, surveillance cameras and shadows , data bodies and data crashes, biometrics and body sculpting seem to define significant features of the topography of contemporaneity. Here, in this zone falls the glare of the searchlight, surrounded by the thickening fog of the unknowable. A host of everyday practices, ways of make do and make believe provoke the anxieties of agencies deeply invested in knowing all that can be known. And all that can be known takes recourse and refuge in the unknowable. This is the ground that this work walks through. Here you can find logs of ongoing research at Sarai on information and society, and a random harvest of images and fragments of information, from the world wide web, from the street nearby, from far away shores, and from right under our noses. Welcome, enter, and take your own measure of the ectropy index. Ectropy Index is the third part of an 'Infoface' which also includes, 'The Global Village Health Manual' (2000) and 'The Network of No_Des' (2004). Credits: Produced at the Sarai Media Lab, Sarai-CSDS by Mrityunjay Chatterjee, Raqs Media Collective and Iram Ghufran with research notes by Taha Mahmood. (November, 2005) With support from the European Union- India Economic Cross Cultural Programme From maryashakil at hotmail.com Wed Nov 16 15:08:12 2005 From: maryashakil at hotmail.com (marya shakil) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:08:12 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] In the Space of the Dead Message-ID: In the Space of the Dead Continuing with where we had left�(in August 2005) Sakina is still a member of the living community, her two friends �moti� and �budhiya� have stopped frequenting the graveyard (they have gone back to their respective villages for Eid and haven't returned)�a new addition to the family is another woman and her seven year old daughter� the woman has lost her husband who was the sole earning member of the family�with nothing to look forward to they have started visiting the dead in hope that despite of his physical absence his abstract presence in the graveyard would give them some money�yes that�s right the visitors of the dead pity her state and give her enough for their survival� that makes all the sense�... And what do we say of the new allegations that our favourite woman Sakina is confronted with�she has been alleged of stealing a shroud�.. this is a new face of the woman who had become more than just another subject for us�...amidst the blame game Sakina had a blank look... she was trying to get to terms with the allegations but the man said he had proofs? He said he had placed a green velvet piece on his mother�s grave with her name stitched on it with wool and had found the same piece being sold outside the Nizamuddin Dargah, a 5 minute walk away from the graveyard. Sakina is lost for words.... She has stayed here longer than the mother of this man, how can a newcomer make such allegations on her? But for the people of Bihar and U.P. such a phenomenon was not unheard of...a common spectacle that�s what the resident of Bhagalpur in Bihar Sayeeda Khanam had to say. She went ahead and said that "these women" only claim to be present there for minimal earnings but their main earning comes from the shrouds.......an allegation levelled with confidence......... We hope to renew our acquaintance with the people on the other side of the wall. Somewhere the link has got broken, we need to start working on it again. But first we want this mystery of the missing shroud sorted out, our beloved Sakina, we cant see her in this state. We have promised her a sari, so we hope to go back very soon with one. marya,Tasneem From shivam at zestgroups.net Wed Nov 16 19:12:28 2005 From: shivam at zestgroups.net (Shivam) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:12:28 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] so it goes, so it goes... Message-ID: For the apologists of ragging, here's more to contend with. Ragging led to the rape of a girls student in Kerala on 21 October: http://www.keralaonline.com/keralanews.asp?folder=Keralanews&file=7_7303.xml Excerpt: Gangrape of nursing student; KSU demands action KOTTAYAM, Nov 16 2005 KSU leaders today demanded stern action against those involved in the alleged gang rape of a nursing student of the School of Medical Education (SME) under the M G University in Kottayam. KSU leaders also demanded the ouster of School of Medical Education Principal and M G University Registrar KSU leaders alleged that the rape of a junior student by seniors was the first such atrocity in the State. A first year nursing student of the SME was allegedly raped by a gang of senior students on October 21 under cover of ragging. * * * * * And in Lucknow on 14 November: Over six students were injured when two students groups clashed on the campus. Rival groups hurled crude bombs and pelted stones at each other, which was said to be the fallout of a ragging incident. Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1295267.cms * * * * * If preventing such incidents means that 'interaction' and 'socialisation' between batches is hurt (though this theory too is bunkum), it would be a small price to pay. If preventing such incidents means that some freshers who claim to 'enjoy' ragging will not be able to do so, it would be a small price to pay. Apologies once again for wasting webspace and your time! From punam.zutshi at gmail.com Fri Nov 18 01:03:31 2005 From: punam.zutshi at gmail.com (punam zutshi) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:03:31 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Access to writings from Asia, Africa and South America Message-ID: <3b7bed850511171133y58f281camdef9ae4f7e785ccb@mail.gmail.com> Dear All, Here's something that may be valuable for those who wish to read the work of scholars from Asia, Africa and South America. http://multiversitylibrary.com/index.jsp I hope I am not duplicating something that has been posted on this list earlier. Punam From tray at cal2.vsnl.net.in Fri Nov 18 07:19:05 2005 From: tray at cal2.vsnl.net.in (Tapas Ray) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:19:05 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Access to writings from Asia, Africa and South America References: <3b7bed850511171133y58f281camdef9ae4f7e785ccb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <017401c5ebe2$4356deb0$0400a8c0@tapas> Very good resource. Thank you! Tapas > Dear All, > Here's something that may be valuable for those who wish to read the > work of scholars from Asia, Africa and South America. > http://multiversitylibrary.com/index.jsp > I hope I am not duplicating something that has been posted on this > list earlier. > Punam From punam.zutshi at gmail.com Fri Nov 18 11:34:42 2005 From: punam.zutshi at gmail.com (punam zutshi) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:34:42 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Access to writings from Asia, Africa and South America In-Reply-To: <017401c5ebe2$4356deb0$0400a8c0@tapas> References: <3b7bed850511171133y58f281camdef9ae4f7e785ccb@mail.gmail.com> <017401c5ebe2$4356deb0$0400a8c0@tapas> Message-ID: <3b7bed850511172204s7d513b51i7ae5f4d67a568e93@mail.gmail.com> Most welcome! I should add for the benefit of all that the website in its Asia segment at any rate, is broad spectrum social thought and analysis. Punam On 11/18/05, Tapas Ray wrote: > Very good resource. Thank you! > > Tapas > > > > Dear All, > > > Here's something that may be valuable for those who wish to read the > > work of scholars from Asia, Africa and South America. > > > http://multiversitylibrary.com/index.jsp > > > I hope I am not duplicating something that has been posted on this > > list earlier. > > > Punam > > > From cahen.x at levels9.com Fri Nov 18 22:31:26 2005 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:01:26 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] pourinfos Newsletter / 11-11 to 11-17-2005 Message-ID: <437E08E6.7070002@levels9.com> pourinfos.org l'actualite du monde de l'art / daily Art news ----------------------------------------------------------------------- infos from November 11, 2005 to November 17, 2005 (included) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (mostly in french) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 Call : Call for entries ArtExpo 2006 Exhibitions, Capurso (Bari), Italiy. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2326 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 Call : Project mkyoto, La Société des arts technologiques [SAT] Montreal, Canada. lien http://pourinfos.org/participation/item.php?id=2325 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 Call : exhibition space, association "ici / here", Poitiers, France. http://pourinfos.org/participation/item.php?id=2324 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 04 Call : Bord d'elle, mer d'alors! Jean-François Aillet , Amfreville, Normandy, France.. http://pourinfos.org/participation/item.php?id=2323 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 05 Call : OnScreen, one night video, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/participation/item.php?id=2322 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 06 Meetings : Symposium audio/space/network, Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2321 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 07 Meetings : the advent of the TVHD in Europe, Conference in Ensad on November 23 2005, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2320 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 08 Meetings : Conference World-Information City, Point Ephemère, Paris, France. lien http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2319 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 Meetings : signatures, Saturday November 19, editions Filigranes, Caroussel du Louvre, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2318 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Meetings : Pixel Night, vFriday November 25, 2005, Salle d'animation de la Médiathèque, pôle de Meudon-la-Forêt, Meudon-la-Forêt, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2317 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Publication : Fibreculture Journal 6 - Mobility, New Social, Intensities, and the Coordinates of Digital Networks, Sydney, Australia. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2316 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Workshop : Call For application, Curiatorial training programme de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands. http://pourinfos.org/emploi/item.php?id=2315 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Exhibition : Thank You For The Music at Spruth Magers, Munich, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2313 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Screening : Demain dès l'aube, they are old, Monday November 21, 2005, Centre Pompidou , Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2312 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Screening : concert, Friday November 25, 2005, Pschiit & Diligence, La Sous-Station Lebon, Nice, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2311 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 Screening : Jane Crawford, Tacita Dean, Friday November 18, 2005, Etablissement d'en face, Brussels, Belgium. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2310 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 Exhibition : STRAIGHT, Galerie Artem, Quimper, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2309 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 Program : The 10th Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2308 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Program : screening video of artists, est-ce une bonne nouvelle, Rés do Chão, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2307 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Program : "Discovery Movies","teachers meeting", december 2005, Centre Pompidou, Paris,France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2306 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 Program : Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'île de Vassivière, Vassivière, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2305 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 Exhibition : Collective work of the students of the typographical courses bases 2004-2005, directed by Félix Müller, Paris 8, Saint Denis, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2314 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 Performance : WJs, Agnès de Cayeux, Anne Laforet et KRN, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2304 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 Performance : evening Vibro, Thurday Novembre 17 9H00 PM, Project 101, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2303 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 Exhibition : RESIS-TANCES, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2302 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 Exhibition : PRYSM, Hervé Trioreau, association Entre-deux, Nantes, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2301 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 Exhibition : Inherent discrepancy, Daniel Kurjakovic, Public, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2300 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 Exhibition : Beauty By, Images Magazine, Beauty By et numeriscausa, Biche de Bere Gallery, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2299 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 Exhibition : battle photographique, Ensam, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Montpellier, Montpellier, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2298 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 Exhibition : “Poster Collection”, Catherine Zask, Museum of design, Zurich, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2297 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 31 Call : new logotype, University Paris 7 - Denis-Diderot, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2296 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 32 Call : ArtskoolGozSouth, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2295 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 33 Call : Museums and the Web 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2294 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 34 Call : ..wherever you go.., in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Berlin, Germany. http://pourinfos.org/participation/item.php?id=2293 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 35 Residence : Open Call for Two-month Residencies in Prague for 2006, Czech Republic. http://pourinfos.org/residences/item.php?id=2292 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 36 Residences : The HMC International Artists' Residencies, Csopak, Hungary 2006, Hungary. lien http://pourinfos.org/residences/item.php?id=2291 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 37 Publication : A marriage in winter, Annie Saumont, Vincent Bizien, éditions du Chemin de fer, Nolay, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2290 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 Publication : number 10-11 de la revue L’Arbre à la Maison de l’Amérique Latine, 2 décembre 2005, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2289 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 39 Publication : JHON n°12, Portfolio bimestriel & artbook, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2288 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 40 Publication : Issue 163, November 2005, The art Newspaper, London, United Kigdom. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2287 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 41 Publication : " SEB JARNOT" , Seb Jarnot, published at éditions philippe pannetier, Nimes, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2286 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 42 Publication : Contemporary art, instructions, Editions Filipacchi, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2285 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 43 Publication : Signature on November 16, 2005: DVD Felice Varini, éditions Lowave, librairie Flammarion du Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2284 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 44 Meetings : 1st Forum of the reviews of research in Arts, November 17, 2005, Saint Denis University, Paris 8, Saint Denis, Paris. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2283 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 45 Meetings :To democratize the contemporary art? ", December 10, and 11 2005, association Signé Lauris, Lauris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2282 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 46 Meetings : "Revival and Innovation", Seminar inter doctorants, 19 and 26 Novembre 2005, Lieu d’art À Suivre, Bordeaux, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2281 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 47 Meetings : what about storie ? meeting art and news media, Friday November 18 16h30, Instants Video, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2280 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 48 Meetings : the autofiction, Les lundis de la Brigade, Ciné club du film d’art, Monday December 5, 2005, cinéma le Barbizon, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2279 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 49 Screening : Fabien Giraud, The Straight Edge, festival Paris-Berlin 2005, November 16, 2005, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2278 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 50 Performance : impromptu music and choreographic improvisation around works of Biennial, le 25 novembre 2005, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2277 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 51 Exhibition : Guillaume Leblon, Galerie Jocelyn Wolf, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2276 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 52 Exhibition: opening of a new museum, the MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2275 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 53 Exhibition : Laurent Montaron, La Galerie, Centers contemporary art of Noisy-le-Sec, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2274 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 54 Exhibition : Kiss me long and hard, Priska Juschka Fine Art, New-York city, New York, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2273 From mahmoodfarooqui at yahoo.com Sat Nov 19 11:38:19 2005 From: mahmoodfarooqui at yahoo.com (mahmood farooqui) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:08:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] painter Ram Kumar Message-ID: <20051119060819.67004.qmail@web80909.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Would anyone have any contacts for the Artist Ram Kumar, who also happens to be Nirmal Verma's brother.... __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com From monica at sarai.net Sun Nov 20 07:42:55 2005 From: monica at sarai.net (Monica Narula) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:42:55 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] RSS feed + blog of reader-list Message-ID: dear all, for those of you (or friends of yours) who would like to read the reader-list postings as a blog, or subscribe to its rss feed, please go to: http://readerlist.freeflux.net This is thanks to silvan zurbruegg, based in Zurich. best M Monica Narula Raqs Media Collective Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110 054 www.raqsmediacollective.net www.sarai.net From eye at ranadasgupta.com Sun Nov 20 12:36:06 2005 From: eye at ranadasgupta.com (Rana Dasgupta) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:36:06 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it Message-ID: <4380205E.1020800@ranadasgupta.com> The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it Now we know napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis, why have the hawks failed to speak out? George Monbiot Tuesday November 15, 2005 The Guardian Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian TV last week, which has generated gigabytes of hype on the internet. It's a turkey, whose evidence that white phosphorus was fired at Iraqi troops is flimsy and circumstantial. But the bloggers debating it found the smoking gun. The first account they unearthed in a magazine published by the US army. In the March 2005 edition of Field Artillery, officers from the 2nd Infantry's fire support element boast about their role in the attack on Falluja in November last year: "White Phosphorous. WP proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE [high explosive]. We fired 'shake and bake' missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out." Article continues The second, in California's North County Times, was by a reporter embedded with the marines in the April 2004 siege of Falluja. "'Gun up!' Millikin yelled ... grabbing a white phosphorus round from a nearby ammo can and holding it over the tube. 'Fire!' Bogert yelled, as Millikin dropped it. The boom kicked dust around the pit as they ran through the drill again and again, sending a mixture of burning white phosphorus and high explosives they call 'shake'n'bake' into... buildings where insurgents have been spotted all week." White phosphorus is not listed in the schedules of the Chemical Weapons Convention. It can be legally used as a flare to illuminate the battlefield, or to produce smoke to hide troop movements from the enemy. Like other unlisted substances, it may be deployed for "Military purposes... not dependent on the use of the toxic properties of chemicals as a method of warfare". But it becomes a chemical weapon as soon as it is used directly against people. A chemical weapon can be "any chemical which through its chemical action on life processes can cause death, temporary incapacitation or permanent harm". White phosphorus is fat-soluble and burns spontaneously on contact with the air. According to globalsecurity.org: "The burns usually are multiple, deep, and variable in size. The solid in the eye produces severe injury. The particles continue to burn unless deprived of atmospheric oxygen... If service members are hit by pieces of white phosphorus, it could burn right down to the bone." As it oxidises, it produces smoke composed of phosphorus pentoxide. According to the standard US industrial safety sheet, the smoke "releases heat on contact with moisture and will burn mucous surfaces... Contact... can cause severe eye burns and permanent damage." Until last week, the US state department maintained that US forces used white phosphorus shells "very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes". They were fired "to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters". Confronted with the new evidence, on Thursday it changed its position. "We have learned that some of the information we were provided ... is incorrect. White phosphorous shells, which produce smoke, were used in Fallujah not for illumination but for screening purposes, ie obscuring troop movements and, according to... Field Artillery magazine, 'as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes...' The article states that US forces used white phosphorus rounds to flush out enemy fighters so that they could then be killed with high explosive rounds." The US government, in other words, appears to admit that white phosphorus was used in Falluja as a chemical weapon. The invaders have been forced into a similar climbdown over the use of napalm in Iraq. In December 2004, the Labour MP Alice Mahon asked the British armed forces minister Adam Ingram "whether napalm or a similar substance has been used by the coalition in Iraq (a) during and (b) since the war". "No napalm," the minister replied, "has been used by coalition forces in Iraq either during the war-fighting phase or since." This seemed odd to those who had been paying attention. There were widespread reports that in March 2003 US marines had dropped incendiary bombs around the bridges over the Tigris and the Saddam Canal on the way to Baghdad. The commander of Marine Air Group 11 admitted that "We napalmed both those approaches". Embedded journalists reported that napalm was dropped at Safwan Hill on the border with Kuwait. In August 2003 the Pentagon confirmed that the marines had dropped "mark 77 firebombs". Though the substance these contained was not napalm, its function, the Pentagon's information sheet said, was "remarkably similar". While napalm is made from petrol and polystyrene, the gel in the mark 77 is made from kerosene and polystyrene. I doubt it makes much difference to the people it lands on. So in January this year, the MP Harry Cohen refined Mahon's question. He asked "whether mark 77 firebombs have been used by coalition forces". The US, the minister replied, has "confirmed to us that they have not used mark 77 firebombs, which are essentially napalm canisters, in Iraq at any time". The US government had lied to him. Mr Ingram had to retract his statements in a private letter to the MPs in June. We were told that the war with Iraq was necessary for two reasons. Saddam Hussein possessed biological and chemical weapons and might one day use them against another nation. And the Iraqi people needed to be liberated from his oppressive regime, which had, among its other crimes, used chemical weapons to kill them. Tony Blair, Colin Powell, William Shawcross, David Aaronovitch, Nick Cohen, Ann Clwyd and many others referred, in making their case, to Saddam's gassing of the Kurds in Halabja in 1988. They accused those who opposed the war of caring nothing for the welfare of the Iraqis. Given that they care so much, why has none of these hawks spoken out against the use of unconventional weapons by coalition forces? Ann Clwyd, the Labour MP who turned from peace campaigner to chief apologist for an illegal war, is, as far as I can discover, the only one of these armchair warriors to engage with the issue. In May this year, she wrote to the Guardian to assure us that reports that a "modern form of napalm" has been used by US forces "are completely without foundation. Coalition forces have not used napalm - either during operations in Falluja, or at any other time". How did she know? The foreign office minister told her. Before the invasion, Clwyd travelled through Iraq to investigate Saddam's crimes against his people. She told the Commons that what she found moved her to tears. After the invasion, she took the minister's word at face value, when a 30-second search on the internet could have told her it was bunkum. It makes you wonder whether she really gave a damn about the people for whom she claimed to be campaigning. Saddam, facing a possible death sentence, is accused of mass murder, torture, false imprisonment and the use of chemical weapons. He is certainly guilty on all counts. So, it now seems, are those who overthrew him. From eye at ranadasgupta.com Sun Nov 20 14:19:41 2005 From: eye at ranadasgupta.com (Rana Dasgupta) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:19:41 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Hindi fiction writing in Delhi Message-ID: <438038A5.6090608@ranadasgupta.com> Perhaps some of you saw this in the Guardian this week... R Writer, publisher and tea-seller caters to a readership thirsting for Hindi Literary and media audiences are increasingly choosing their native tongue over English Randeep Ramesh in New Delhi Wednesday November 16, 2005 The Guardian For two decades, evening commuters have come to sip coppery brown tea at Laxman Rao's roadside stall on a busy South Delhi main road, to the sound of the blaring horns of passing traffic. But in recent years, customers come not for sugary chai but for a taste of Rao's bittersweet words. Rao is the author of 18 novels, plays and political essays in Hindi, India's national language which is thought to vie with Spanish to be the world's third most-spoken mother tongue. Like most Hindi novelists he considers writing stories a calling, one he supports with the 4,000 rupees (£50) a month he makes from selling tea. "For 20 years I have made no money from my books." But Rao's luck appears to be changing. His novel Ramdas, about a wayward village boy who mends his ways only to drown suddenly, earned him 10 times as much money as he made from selling tea. He has handed over the running of his stall to his eldest son while he cycles around Delhi's libraries hawking his work. "I am the writer, the publisher, the salesman now," says Rao, 51. "There is a change coming even if I am too old to enjoy it." In the last few years English, which bound together a nation of 800 tongues and dialects and connected India to the outside world, has faced a challenge from native languages. As literacy levels rise in India, there is a palpable shift to a more subcontinental lingua franca and Hindi's reach is lengthening. Although it is spoken by half of India's 1 billion people, its writing is absent in the literary canon of India, which is dominated by exiles such as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. "I do not read these books. They do not talk about the India I know," says Rao. "The stories do not mean anything to me or people like me. India lives in villages, small towns, on streets. The authors do not." Factual information, as well as fiction is increasingly sold in Hindi. The biggest-selling newspapers in the country are no longer English-language broadsheets but those printed in Hindi. Nearly 70% of all news broadcasts are transmitted in Hindi, less than a decade after Rupert Murdoch presciently chose the language for his Indian TV network. Publishing houses now hope to mirror that success. Penguin India, one of the country's largest English-language publishers, this year began printing novels in Hindi. In six months it has put out 15 such books, of which four are original titles. Ravi Singh, publisher of Penguin India, says that margins are lower but the market in India is much bigger. "It's in hundreds of millions of potential readers and we have watched advertising trends slope upwards, so we know people out there are getting richer." Mr Singh says there have always been big-selling "Hindi classics". "Take Sara Akash, a novel written in the early 20th century about small-town India. It has sold 120,000 copies," he says. "But there has been a more recent change which is a confidence about using Hindi, about not being embarrassed about using it rather than English. People are hungry for Hindi." The deference to English has long been part of India's cultural make-up. The language is perceived to bestow intelligence and sophistication on a speaker, but remains the preserve of an elite whose opinions often seem far removed from the concerns of ordinary Indians. The language debate is ignited periodically in the literary world. In 1997 Rushdie, who was born in Mumbai, declared that Indian writing in English was "proving to be a stronger and more important body of work" than writing in home-grown languages. "It was typical from someone who does not read and write Hindi," said Harish Trivedi, professor of English at Delhi University. What is important about Hindi's rise, says Prof Trivedi, is producing stories that Indians can identify with. "Are you interested in Indian indentured labour in Africa? Then read Pahla Girmitiya by Giriraj Kishore. If you want stories of Indian Sikhs in Slough in Enoch Powell's Britain then read Mahendra Bhalla ... Novelists who are located in places they write about." Pavan Verma, the director general of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, says he is "condemned by privilege". "People like me are really cultural orphans. Linguistically I was brought up in the British system, albeit one based here. So I was completely educated in English and spoke it while growing up. Although I can read and write Hindi it comes as a learnt language." Mr Verma yearns for the day "when Hindi literature has the same popularity as Russian works or Latin American authors". From bakwaas_das at yahoo.com Fri Nov 18 00:48:39 2005 From: bakwaas_das at yahoo.com (Bakwaas Das) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:18:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] Somebody added a phrase to my posting Message-ID: <20051117191839.97373.qmail@web36402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear All, On 7/11/2005 I posted an item to the List. It was called ‘Turbulence is cliche, isn't it?’. It is an account of how, even as bombs burst at 3 locations in Delhi, a young man discovers, to his horror, that the fairness cream he has been applying to his face has indeed been effective: it has rendered his face fair, but his face is now fairer than the rest of his body. As the explosions occur, he begins applying the cream to his body. When the posting appeared, to the heading was added a phrase in Arial Bold: ‘A Story’. I do not know how it came over there. But it jarred. What I wrote was a very short narrative that tied a bomb blast to a (equally horrific for the young man) discovery. Was it ‘A Story’? I am confused, for since then I have read the following text: “October 29 will go down in history as the day Delhi was ripped apart by serial bomb blasts. An aside, though: some five million luxury consumers in India will remember it as the day the House of Chanel came to India. The Imperial lawns were swathed in white as Parisian models sashayed around in signature black and white evening dresses. Other highlights included jewellery lines displayed on large busts and Andy Warhol reproductions of Chanel No. 5” — p 80, ‘regulars’, Outlook, Vol XLV, No. 45, dated November 14, 2005. Is it possible to present this text as part 2 of “Turbulence is cliché, isn’t it?” I await the decision of the symbolic violator who added, in Arial Bold, ‘A Story’ to the November 7, 2005 posting, thus reducing it to “mere” fiction. Yours, B Das __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20051117/72599b56/attachment.html From ken at ccom.edu.cn Sun Nov 20 16:43:41 2005 From: ken at ccom.edu.cn (Kenneth Fields) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:13:41 +0800 Subject: [Reader-list] MusicAcoustica 2006: Language In-Reply-To: <20051120110009.27E8828DA8E@mail.sarai.net> References: <20051120110009.27E8828DA8E@mail.sarai.net> Message-ID: The Electroacoustic Music Association of China (EMAC) and the China Electronic Music Center (CEMC) based at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in a special cooperation with the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network's (EMS) International Conference Series are pleased to announce their annual festival: Musicacoustica 2006: Language October 22nd through 29th Beijing, China The week-long MusicAcoustica 2006 festival (22–29 October) will be focused on the broad theme of Language. EMS06 papers, in more focused paper sessions (from the 23rd to 26th), will concentrate on a crucial aspect of language, namely terminology - see the full call for papers here: http://www.ems.dmu.ac.uk/ems06/. We consider this historical joint meeting in Beijing as essentially an international summit on the coherence of electroacoustic music terminology subject to the twisting and bending of the field in its emerging global context. Music, sound installations and workshops will further reflect on the theme in all its breadth and depth. Chinese composers and academics come together once a year to plan future directions for the development of computer music in China and to learn/exchange with their international guests. This year the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS) "an international team which aims to encourage reflection on the better understanding of electroacoustic music" will be our special guests at the festival. At the same time, we invite a broad reflection on the theme from experts in linguistics and music, ontology specification, semantic web, music knowledge modeling and translation issues related to expert domain knowledges. A local motivation for the conference relates to problems in translation of new terms (such as microsound or phonography) into Chinese. However, we invite submissions from various perspectives derived from projects posing new approaches to coherent structuring of specialized domain knowledges (such as new media - translate smartmob into Chinese!) which have faced problems with translation issues. The objective of this ‘summit’ is to create a forum of sustained co-operation; an international effort towards situating and translating electronic music concepts and terms within the emerging semantic global village. Workshops and extended residencies are invited in the days surrounding the conference. Deadline for music proposals is May 1, 2006 - to be notified by June 1st. Contact Kenneth Fields, below for more information. Register for conference updates at: http://lists.ccom.edu.cn/mailman/listinfo/ musicacoustica2006. Detailed registration information to follow in February of 2006. Deadline for the EMS papers proposals (abstracts and CV's) is February 26th, 2006. (see paper call for details - above link). Musicacoustica Organizing committee: Zhang Xiaofu President of EMAC; Director of CEMC at China's Central Conservatory of Music Beijing cemc at ccom.edu.cn Kenneth Fields Professor CEMC at China's Central Conservatory of Music Also: Dept of Digital Art and Design, Peking University ken at ccom.edu.cn Send materials (DVD, CD's) regarding festival to: MusicAcoustic 2006 C/O Zhang Xiaofu and Kenneth Fields CEMC - China Electronic Music Center Central Conservatory of Music 43 BaoJia Street Beijing 100031 China, Tel: 6642-5742 Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Organizers: MTI (Leigh Landy, EARS ElectroAcoustic Resource Site, MTI Research Centre, De Montfort University) INA/GRM (Daniel Teruggi) MINT (Marc Battier, Musicologie, informatique et nouvelles technologies, OMF, Université de Paris-Sorbonne) Kenneth Fields, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor Media Arts Dept. of Digital Art and Design School of Software Peking University Beijing 102600 China http://tiki.ss.pku.edu.cn Tel PKU: (8610) 6127-3642 Professor / Computer Music CEMC - China Electronic Music Center Central Conservatory of Music Beijing 100031 China URL: http://cemc.ccom.edu.cn Tel: 6642-5742 Powered by MessageSoft SMG SPAM, virus-free and secure email. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20051120/62082322/attachment.html From rgdj12 at yahoo.com Mon Nov 21 14:45:10 2005 From: rgdj12 at yahoo.com (roger das) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:15:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Reader-list] In the Space of the Dead Message-ID: <20051121091510.5294.qmail@web42404.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Marya, Is this peice of writing of yours a part of the monthly research submission? But the research period is over in aug then why you are posting this so late? You didnt mention the number of your postings...4th or 6th. Anyway I must congratulate you people for wisely cheated the ealier topic of research and just did a trasnlation form hindi to english....you must be misguide by your friends who were helping you in this research. Hope you dont follow this trend in future. Honestly speaking i really don tlike the topic and writings of yours. There was lack of good writing style. It was all very monotonous. Are you literature graduate? Hope you dont mind this. It is only a peice of advice to you and your friends. thanks roger --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Just log in and be informed what's going on today or in the next days in Lahore - from cinema, theatre, dance performances, poetry readings, talks, conferences, festivals, etc. DANKA also exclusively hosts the complete program of the Rafi Peer World Performing Arts Festival 2005. DANKA has also a stand at the Gaddafi stadium - so if you have time, please drop by every day from 4:30 pm to 10pm! Please forward this email to all friends and come to enjoy Lahori culture! All the best Andreas DANKA - Lahore's First Cultural Events Guide Live Your Culture! www.danka.com.pk andreas.matt at danka.com.pk __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com From viyyer at sarai.net Mon Nov 21 19:57:46 2005 From: viyyer at sarai.net (V Vivek) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:57:46 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Announcing Sandhiprogram project Message-ID: <4381D962.8090509@sarai.net> SandhiProgram for simulating Varadaraja's Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi Sanskrit Sandhi system. http://sarovar.org/projects/sandhiprogram Sandhi program. Sandhi Program Software simulates the rules of Sandhi as discussed by Varadaraja in the Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi. Effort has been taken to incorporate all rules even those which are applicable to only one unique pair of words amongst the innumberable forms possible. Word Processor program. This phonetic Word Processor is the perfect solution for my Devanagari Typing Needs and I am releasing it to the public under the generous auspices of Sarai and sourceforge.net in the hope that millions of Hindi and Sanskrit lovers who want to type in Devanagari but cannot will now be able to type using their knowledge of the Regular Roman Keyboards. Cheers Vivek From viyyer at sarai.net Mon Nov 21 20:31:09 2005 From: viyyer at sarai.net (V Vivek) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:31:09 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Floss fellowship announcement deadline extended to December 15 Message-ID: <4381E135.6060801@sarai.net> CALL FOR PROPOSAL Sarai/CSDS Short Term FLOSS Fellowship, 2005 - 2006. The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (www.sarai.net) invites applications for fellowship to projects in the area of Free Software, Open Source Software and Social Usage of Software. Sarai invites developers/researchers/ programmers (practitioners as well as students) to propose projects in the area of free and open source software applications relevant to educational, social and community needs. We are looking for original ideas, as well as proposals to localize and adapt existing software and applications to South Asian conditions. We are also looking for ideas around technical manuscripts,beginners manuals, review manuscripts etc. Some of the focus areas are: - Indic Computing - Developing/Distributing/Supporting a standalone / addon localized Linux distribution - Printing support (i.e. ability to print in Indian Languages) - Multimedia / Publishing Tools Research - Developing / Enhancing Tools like GIMP, Scribus for publishing quality work - Enhancing current audio/video tools available under Linux - Fixing/Supporting Cinelerra, LiVES etc - P2P - Researching on feasibility and implementation of P2P news distribution network - Researching and developing - Collaboration Tools/Frameworks (Apnaopus, CreativeDot ) - Developing extensions for the project newsrack( http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack ). - Low Resource Computing - Devising solutions for networked computing in Low Resource Spaces (Define the parameters of the "low resource space" and work on it) - Generic - Developing Linux drivers/software for easily available hardware (usually the cheapest hardware available on the market is not supported under Linux (scanners, webcams etc)) [ This would include writing a howto on how to get it to work under popular distributions (redhat, pcqlinux etc) and all.. ] - Review papers on emerging technologies - Indic Computing - IPV6 - Wireless Networks - Manuscripts for beginners What is Sarai: _____________ Sarai is a public initiative of media practitioners and scholars looking at media cultures and urban life. Sarai's interests are in the field of old and new media, information and communication technologies, free software, cinema, and urban space - its politics, built form, ecology, culture and history, with a strong commitment to making knowledge available in the public domain. It is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. For more information visit www.sarai.net . Sarai is committed to promoting the free software and open source vision. Conditions: __________ Applicants should be resident in India, and should have a bank account in any bank operating in India. These are support grants and grantees will be free to pursue their primary occupations, if any. Mail your project proposal, workplan and CV to both the following addresses: > Please mark your subject line 'FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Initiative'. Also point out what you see as the relevance of your work, and how you plan to share the resultant software once finalized. Enquires: > Last date for submission: December 15th, 2005 Note: Proposals from teams, partnerships, collectives, faculty are welcome, so long as the grant amount is administered by a single individual, and the funds are deposited in a single bank account in the name of an individual. From joel at well.com Mon Nov 21 22:11:04 2005 From: joel at well.com (Joel Slayton) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:41:04 -0800 Subject: [Reader-list] ISEA2006 Call for Papers and Presentations Message-ID: <724328e5f548f86a6287585e6e4b8d6c@well.com> ISEA2006 SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS. ISEA2006 seeks paper and presentation proposals responding to the Symposium themes of Transvergence, Interactive City, Community Domain or Pacific Rim. This is the only call for papers and presentations that there will be for ISEA2006. What tactics, issues and conceptual practices expose or inform the distinctions of these subject terrains relating to contemporary art practice? What theoretical analyses illuminate art practice engaged with new technical and conceptual forms, functions and disciplines; provide for innovative strategies involving urbanity, mobility, community and locality; examine the role of corporations, civic cultural organizations and their relationship to strategic planning; serve to expose new portals of production and experience; and provide for provocative analysis of contemporary political and economic conditions? The ISEA2006 Symposium is discussion and conversation based. This orientation is intended as a break from the tradition of reading academic papers and the formalities of panels and is the result of a month-long online discussion with 21 international participants (see list below). All sessions are moderated, include respondents and are designed to encourage audience participation. Session formats will emphasize questioning, debate and provocation. Papers, abstracts and poster texts will be pre-published on the web and in print. There will be a pre-symposium online public forum designed to encourage interaction between symposium presenters and the public to provide for discussion and debate. We are seeking proposals for papers, artist and poster sessions.   SUBMISSION PROCEDURE FOR OPEN CALLS You must login and create a submission using the official ISEA2006 submission tool. http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/register/submission.php Open: November 15th, 2005 Closed: January 15th, 2006 Submissions will be evaluated by the ISEA International Program Committee. On the Submissions Call Page be sure to: Select "Symposium" from the CALL pull down menu Select the theme your are responding to from THEME pull down menu   SYMPOSIUM THEMES INTERACTIVE CITY: http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#interactive http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ISEA2006/ There is an invisible city growing among the growth of the megacity, and it is the electromagnetic, hertzian spectrum that flows ceaselessly with data about and from and between us, but which is always activated by the interfaces of commerce and government-cell phones, surveillance cameras, marketing databases, navigation systems that will alert us to a nearby sale. We imagine the city itself as an interface, which accesses the future, the past, the distant, the present, the communal, the individual in marvelous ways that allow us to enjoy the 'opaque and fictitious thickness' of an invisible city made visible. PACIFIC RIM: http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#pacific http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/prnmscall2/ The political and economic space of the Pacific Rim represents a dynamic context for innovation and creativity framed by issues of economic globalization, isolationist nationalism, regional integrations and environmental change. The concept of a Pacific Rim is that of a complex geo-political-economic framework that necessarily includes a vast network of city-states, regions and their associative relationships that exist beyond the mere geographic location or assignment of populations. Artists, designers, theorists, cultural producers, researchers, urban planners and creative strategist responsive to the rapidly transforming cultural ecology of Pacific-Asia conditions are invited to submit proposals that serve as platforms for discussion and debate. TRANSVERGENCE: http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#trans http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/transvergence/index.html Transvergence goes beyond the disciplinary. Creative interplay of disciplines to catalyze artistic, scientific, and social innovation is evidenced by decades of multi-/ pluri-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary discourse and practice. The models of the think-tank, media lab and research centre have shown their limits since the 80s and 90s, as have tactical media activism tied to the logic of events, and NGOs facing the donor system's arduous accountability requirements; university research is often encumbered by best-practice driven managerial culture, and 'creative industries' clusters are subject to economies of scale and uneven divisions of labour. ISEA seeks new visions of organizational and participatory models as structures of possibility for transvergent practice. COMMUNITY DOMAIN: http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/thematic.html#community http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/communitydomain1 The Community Domain theme stands in relation to contemporary debate about 'Public Domain 2.0' (Kluitenberg, 2003), but emphasizes the idea of domain from a grass roots perspective and the idea of community starting with the individual rather than the demographic. In other words, the goal is not to train people to become artists but to use digital and networked technologies to allow people to participate in the creation of their own stories - to become producers rather than only consumers.   SYMPOSIUM STRUCTURES AND CALLS There are three types of Calls for Participation: Papers Posters Artist Presentations There will be a limited number of Panel presentations shaped in relation to the Symposium themes. Panels may be proposed or the organizers may curate these based upon Paper, Poster and Artist Presentation proposals. CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers submitted will be pre-published on-line with presentations limited to 10 minutes. Paper presenters will be grouped thematically to encourage discourse that presents divergent perspectives and views that serve as a catalyst for conversation. Submission of proposal abstracts: January 15th, 2006 Notification: February 28th, 2006 Final manuscripts: June 10th 2006 Accepted abstracts will be posted online. Final manuscripts will be pre-published online beginning July 1st. A one month online pre-symposium public discussion forum will feature accepted Papers in one week sessions dedicated to each symposium theme. Authors must commit to having papers available for publication by June 10, 2006. CALL FOR POSTERS: Poster Sessions are scheduled throughout the Symposium to provide opportunity for the presentation of individual or group projects or research. Poster Sessions represent a significant opportunity for the presentation of creative, scholarly or community based initiatives. Sessions are moderated. Posters will be on display continuously with scheduled author attendance. Submission for Posters: January 15th, 2006 Notification of acceptance: March 15th 2006 Posters submissions must be presented in a standardized format. Posters are 4 x 5 ft. and must be in a form that can be attached to presentation boards at the Symposium. A limited number of standard, networked computer stations will be available to complement the posters. CALL FOR ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS: Artists Open Mic sessions provide an opportunity for explication of artistic achievement responsive to the Symposium themes. Presentations are limited to 5 minutes and will be grouped together by the organizers as appropriate to subject matter. An assigned moderator will coordinate presentations and audience questions. We recognize, of course, that the Artist Presentations are inadequate to fully present one's work, and we encourage artists to present paper and poster proposals as well as work (see http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/calls.html). We especially encourage artists whose work has been accepted to the Symposium and Festival to submit a presentation proposal. Artists submissions should include a brief description of the proposed work to be presented along with appropriate documentation. Submission of proposals for artist presentations: January 15th, 2006 Notification: March 15th, 2006 All Panels and Artist Presentations will be Webcast live and also available as podcasts immediately following presentation. OTHER CATEGORIES OF PARTICIPATION There are five additional categories of Symposium presentations that contribute to the overall scope of Symposium proceedings: Keynotes, Emergent Topics, Summit Presentations, Organizational Meetings, Chat Rooms. These are described below. Presenters in these categories will be determined by the IPC. They may be selected from submissions for Papers, Artist Presentations, and Poster Sessions, but please it is not possible to submit directly in these categories: Keynotes: Keynote presentations are invited featured speakers. Sessions include a respondent/moderator and have extended opportunities for audience interaction. Emergent Topics: Dedicated sessions on day 3-4 of the Symposium that are a direct response to the discourses, topics and interactions stemming from days 1-2. Speakers and topics will be identified through a ballet system involving all Symposium participants and audiences. Summit Presentations: There are four pre-symposium Summits focused on special topics: The Pacific Rim New Media Summit hosted by San Jose State University; Interactive City hosted by Intel Berkeley Lab; Creative Communities Forum hosted by the City of San Jose; Artists, Corporation and Policy hosted by Montalvo Arts Center; and Technology Ethics and Environment hosted by Santa Clara University. Each will have a dedicated session for presentation of research, projects and analysis outcomes. Organizational Meetings: Provision for meeting times and spaces for international cultural organizations, institutes and programs to host meetings specific to their constituency. Chat Rooms: Chat Rooms are for break out discussions and emergent conversations stemming from Symposium interactions. These are self-organizing sessions based on Symposium interactions and trajectories. Other Calls: Please note that there are several calls for art projects still open. Also, there will be a separate call for workshops. See http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/calls.html. SYMPOSIUM DISCUSSION FORUM Joel Slayton Steve Dietz Alex Adriaansens Peter Anders Andreas Broeckmann Danny Butt Steve Cisler Nina Czegledy Sara Diamond Ken Goldberg Honor Harger Doug Kahn Patrick Lichty Kim Machan Amanda McDonald Crowley Gunalan Nadarajan Marisa Olson Christiane Paul Julianne Pierce Trebor Scholz Ana Serano Rejane Spitz Carol Stekenas Mark Tribe SYMPOSIUM LOCAL HOST COMMITTEE Joel Slayton Steve Dietz Jonathan Berger Natalie Bookchin Geoffrey C. Bowker Danny Butt Laura Esparza Peter Lunen Feld Ken Goldberg John Kreideler Margaret Morse Gunalan Nadarajan Sally Jane Norman Marisa Olson Narendra Pachkhede Christiane Paul Eric Paulos Huan Sauss Trebor Scholz Carol Stakenas Eddo Stern Mark Tribe Rob van Kranenburg Victoria Vesna Steve Wilson INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Symposium Committee and members to be added. Co-Chairs: Steve Dietz and Joel Slayton IMPORTANT DATES Submissions Due January 15 Notification of Papers February 28 Notification of Posters + Artist Session March 15 Abstracts April 1 Online Forum April 15 - May 15, 2006 Papers due June 15 Papers published August 1 Summit August 7 - 8 Symposium August 9 - 13 For help or questions: iseahelp at cadre.sjsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Convert your hobby into an abiding passion or even a career option. _________________________________________ Date: Over 4 Saturdays, 3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th Dec , 2005 Time: 11am- 4pm Venue: Comet Media Foundation, Topiwala Municipal School, 1st Floor, opp Lamington Road Police Station (Grant Road Station), Mumbai: 400007 Fee: Rs 1500. Early bird offer: Rs. 1000 (if registered on or before Nov. 26) Limited seats. So hurry please. For queries and registration: Call Sonia at Comet Office- 23821893/ 9819939820 or Ayesha – 9820657586 or email : soniaofnazareth at gmail.com . Visit us at www.cometmedia.org ____________________________________________ Resource person David de Souza (www.daviddsouza.com) started life as a biochemist. After he postgraduated, he was sick to his back teeth with academia and took a sabbatical, living with adivasis for a year helping with agricultural and water resource development. He bought his first camera while in the village and did not know that that event might change his career options forever. He got to be the field director of ‘Picture Mumbai - Landmarks of a New Generation’. This was part of an international series sponsored by the Getty Conservation Institute. His book of photographs are ‘Dhurrie - Flatwoven Rugs of India’ (1999) and ‘St. Thomas’ Cathedral – a witness to History’ (2005). Being the quick learner that he is, he discovered women only in the year 2000 and has been catching up since. David has been a professional photographer for the last 14 years. Now he calls himself an anti-fashion, fashion photographer and is trying to articulate for himself what constitutes an 'Indian aesthetic'. Zainab Bawa Mumbai www.xanga.com/citybytes --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To refresh your memory about this project please go to: *www.expressmedia.org.au * Then send your submissions to: *editor at expressmedia.org.au * Sincerely, Romy Ash and Tom Doig Editors /Incommunicado/ From vivek at sarai.net Wed Nov 23 14:54:17 2005 From: vivek at sarai.net (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:54:17 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] 'Pratyaksh': Become a sting journo in 3 months Message-ID: <43843541.2090400@sarai.net> The new money-spinning motto seems to be, "Everybody must get stung". --V. 'Pratyaksh' on sting operations (Monday, Nov 21, 2005 - 06:00 pm) Televisionpoint.com Team http://www.televisionpoint.com/news/newsfullstory.php?id=1132578476 Eminent media personalities like Prannoy Roy, head of NDTV, Tarun Tejpal, CEO, Tehelka.com, Q W Naqvi of Aaj Tak, Sidharth Basu, brain behind 'Kaun Banega Crorepati', Laxmi Goel and Alka Saxena of Zee News, Vikram Chandra, head of NDTV Profit, Satinder Bindra of CNN and Vinod Dua, senior anchorperson - in all 50 best media brains have come together to train the first batch of sting operators at 'Pratyaksh' Media Academy. 'Pratyaksh' provides a formal three-month training in sting operations with the help of hidden cameras. The institute aims at producing daring reporters, tough interviewers and charismatic presenters. The reason behind such a rigorous training is that in a cut-throat competitive world, only the best and the fittest can survive. Says Manoj Raghuvanshi, Director, Pratyaksh, "The traditional guru-shishya bond at Pratyaksh forms the foundation of the institute. We believe that if you're taught by the best, you learn the best. Hence, each media don here will share his guru mantras with the students. They will specialise in the art of exposing in order to become the Black Cat Commandos of the Indian television industry." Pratyaksh also provides regular one-month courses in television anchoring, news reading, radio jockeying, voicing and effective speaking for students, business ¦ men and professionals. "The students are being trained here to become black cat commandos of the Indian television industry - specialising in the art of expose," adds Raghuvanshi. From viyyer at sarai.net Wed Nov 23 15:33:34 2005 From: viyyer at sarai.net (V Vivek) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:33:34 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [PRC] Announcing Sandhiprogram project [clarification] In-Reply-To: <4381D962.8090509@sarai.net> References: <4381D962.8090509@sarai.net> Message-ID: <43843E76.1060300@sarai.net> V Vivek wrote: > SandhiProgram for simulating Varadaraja's Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi > Sanskrit Sandhi system. > > http://sarovar.org/projects/sandhiprogram > > Sandhi program. > > Sandhi Program Software simulates the rules of Sandhi as discussed by > Varadaraja in the Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi. Effort has been taken to > incorporate all rules even those which are applicable to only one > unique pair of words amongst the innumberable forms possible. > > > > Word Processor program. > > This phonetic Word Processor is the perfect solution for my Devanagari > Typing Needs and I am releasing it to the public under the generous > auspices of Sarai and sourceforge.net in the hope that millions of > Hindi and Sanskrit lovers who want to type in Devanagari but cannot > will now be able to type using their knowledge of the Regular Roman > Keyboards. > Clarification that these softwares were developed by Chetan Pandey and can be contacted on *taddhita_priya at yahoo.com* cheers Vivek From shivam at zestgroups.net Wed Nov 23 21:04:52 2005 From: shivam at zestgroups.net (Shivam) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:04:52 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] 'Pratyaksh': Become a sting journo in 3 months In-Reply-To: <43843541.2090400@sarai.net> References: <43843541.2090400@sarai.net> Message-ID: Don't worry Vivek, politicians are doing their best to quietly 'ban' sting operations this winter: Now 'Privacy' gets IT definition K YATISH RAJAWAT TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2005 12:58:16 AM] MUMBAI: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211133.cms Shakti Kapoor should have waited for the amendment to the Information Technology Act to become law, before allegedly making passes at journalists on a sting operation . He may then have been able to sue TV channels for violating his right to privacy. One consequence of the proposed amendments may be that sting operations will become difficult. On the positive side, sleazy hotels recording unsuspecting couples in intimate moments will face a stronger deterrent if the amendments are approved by the Parliament. The amendments to the IT Act, which have been submitted to the law ministry for approval, address issues never explored before in Indian legal history. The issues of privacy, including the definition of what constitutes a private moment and which are the private parts of a human body, have all been dealt with in the version of the Act submitted to the law ministry. According to legal experts, there is strict legislation governing privacy in all developed countries, but this is the first time these issues have been addressed in India. The law on privacy in India, as it stands today, is limited to the right enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution and case law on the subject. However, like other fundamental rights, it is not absolute, and is subject to reasonable restrictions imposed by the state. The proposed amendment adds a paragraph to the IT Act which states, "Whoever intentionally captures or broadcasts an image of an individual without consent, and knowingly does so under circumstances violating the privacy of that individual, shall be held liable." This is the first time that a right to privacy has so expressly found its way into the statute books in India. Vivek Kathpalia, lawyer with Nishith Desai Associates, says, "Section 72 (3) of the draft of the IT Act, once finalised and brought onto the statute books, will not only help in tackling this particular type of invasion of privacy, but will help the courts in reaching broader interpretations on privacy in general as the case law build up on the subject." According to Akil Hirani of legal firm Majmudar & Co, the wording has loopholes. "The repetition of 'intention' and 'knowingly' dilutes this statute as criminal intent should be reason enough for prosecution." The Act also recommends a compensation of Rs 25 lakh to the person whose privacy has been infringed. The offender can also be jailed for one year with a fine of Rs 2 lakh. This means that even television channels which carry images of MMS clips can be held liable even though they may not have originally captured it. 'Private area' has also been defined in the Act in detail to prevent any misinterpretation. But according to lawyers here, while defining this in detail narrows its misuse, the impact of the legislation is reduced. "Infringement of privacy may not just involve images of a person disrobed or their private parts. Even the law on obscenity does not define privacy, but leaves it to interpretation to capture it in entirety as it may vary from person to person and may even be affected by religious leanings," Akil Hirani, says. Some lawyers feel that by defining the private parts and infringement of privacy, the purpose of the legislation has been lost. "For instance, acts like sexual intercourse with the private parts covered may destroy somebody's privacy, but are not covered by the Act," lawyers feel. Violation of privacy has been much more widely defined as "circumstances in which a reasonable person would believe he or she could disrobe in privacy without being concerned that an image or a private area of the individual is being captured." Some lawyers feel that the Act has limited the definition of privacy by limiting it to just disrobing. The definition also covers public places. It says, "Circumstances in which a reasonable person would believe that a private area of the individual would not be visible to the public, regardless of whether that person is in a public or a private place." On the issue of child pornography, which has again not been expressly covered under the Indian statute, the Act takes a fairly conservative view. For the purpose of child pornography, the Act defines it as material that features a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct. According to lawyers, famous cases in the West like those involving Michael Jackson's have shown that it need not be "sexually explicit conduct". On 11/23/05, Vivek Narayanan wrote: > The new money-spinning motto seems to be, "Everybody must get stung". > --V. > > > 'Pratyaksh' on sting operations > > (Monday, Nov 21, 2005 - 06:00 pm) > Televisionpoint.com Team > http://www.televisionpoint.com/news/newsfullstory.php?id=1132578476 From mamtam at aptech.ac.in Thu Nov 24 16:53:52 2005 From: mamtam at aptech.ac.in (Mamta M) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:53:52 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] RE: reader-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 29 In-Reply-To: <20051124110005.BBD9528DAAD@mail.sarai.net> Message-ID: <20051124112031.85B7228DA92@mail.sarai.net> Now this amendment seems like a loophole that will cause problems for those of us who love photography. What if I wish to click a picture of the flowing Ganges and happened to also include inadvertently a few devotees dipping in the river, without meaning to infringe on their privacy (since they were anyway in public view and happened to fall in the camera's view)? Would I be guilty as per the new law? This was just an instance I cited, there can be hazaar such instances. I guess no more photographing the public in that case for u never know whose right u may end up violating! Regards, Mamta -----Original Message----- From: reader-list-bounces at sarai.net [mailto:reader-list-bounces at sarai.net] On Behalf Of reader-list-request at sarai.net Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 4:30 PM To: reader-list at sarai.net Subject: reader-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 29 Send reader-list mailing list submissions to reader-list at sarai.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to reader-list-request at sarai.net You can reach the person managing the list at reader-list-owner at sarai.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of reader-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: 'Pratyaksh': Become a sting journo in 3 months (Shivam) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:04:52 +0530 From: Shivam Subject: Re: [Reader-list] 'Pratyaksh': Become a sting journo in 3 months To: Vivek Narayanan Cc: reader-list at sarai.net Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Don't worry Vivek, politicians are doing their best to quietly 'ban' sting operations this winter: Now 'Privacy' gets IT definition K YATISH RAJAWAT TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2005 12:58:16 AM] MUMBAI: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211133.cms Shakti Kapoor should have waited for the amendment to the Information Technology Act to become law, before allegedly making passes at journalists on a sting operation . He may then have been able to sue TV channels for violating his right to privacy. One consequence of the proposed amendments may be that sting operations will become difficult. On the positive side, sleazy hotels recording unsuspecting couples in intimate moments will face a stronger deterrent if the amendments are approved by the Parliament. The amendments to the IT Act, which have been submitted to the law ministry for approval, address issues never explored before in Indian legal history. The issues of privacy, including the definition of what constitutes a private moment and which are the private parts of a human body, have all been dealt with in the version of the Act submitted to the law ministry. According to legal experts, there is strict legislation governing privacy in all developed countries, but this is the first time these issues have been addressed in India. The law on privacy in India, as it stands today, is limited to the right enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution and case law on the subject. However, like other fundamental rights, it is not absolute, and is subject to reasonable restrictions imposed by the state. The proposed amendment adds a paragraph to the IT Act which states, "Whoever intentionally captures or broadcasts an image of an individual without consent, and knowingly does so under circumstances violating the privacy of that individual, shall be held liable." This is the first time that a right to privacy has so expressly found its way into the statute books in India. Vivek Kathpalia, lawyer with Nishith Desai Associates, says, "Section 72 (3) of the draft of the IT Act, once finalised and brought onto the statute books, will not only help in tackling this particular type of invasion of privacy, but will help the courts in reaching broader interpretations on privacy in general as the case law build up on the subject." According to Akil Hirani of legal firm Majmudar & Co, the wording has loopholes. "The repetition of 'intention' and 'knowingly' dilutes this statute as criminal intent should be reason enough for prosecution." The Act also recommends a compensation of Rs 25 lakh to the person whose privacy has been infringed. The offender can also be jailed for one year with a fine of Rs 2 lakh. This means that even television channels which carry images of MMS clips can be held liable even though they may not have originally captured it. 'Private area' has also been defined in the Act in detail to prevent any misinterpretation. But according to lawyers here, while defining this in detail narrows its misuse, the impact of the legislation is reduced. "Infringement of privacy may not just involve images of a person disrobed or their private parts. Even the law on obscenity does not define privacy, but leaves it to interpretation to capture it in entirety as it may vary from person to person and may even be affected by religious leanings," Akil Hirani, says. Some lawyers feel that by defining the private parts and infringement of privacy, the purpose of the legislation has been lost. "For instance, acts like sexual intercourse with the private parts covered may destroy somebody's privacy, but are not covered by the Act," lawyers feel. Violation of privacy has been much more widely defined as "circumstances in which a reasonable person would believe he or she could disrobe in privacy without being concerned that an image or a private area of the individual is being captured." Some lawyers feel that the Act has limited the definition of privacy by limiting it to just disrobing. The definition also covers public places. It says, "Circumstances in which a reasonable person would believe that a private area of the individual would not be visible to the public, regardless of whether that person is in a public or a private place." On the issue of child pornography, which has again not been expressly covered under the Indian statute, the Act takes a fairly conservative view. For the purpose of child pornography, the Act defines it as material that features a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct. According to lawyers, famous cases in the West like those involving Michael Jackson's have shown that it need not be "sexually explicit conduct". On 11/23/05, Vivek Narayanan wrote: > The new money-spinning motto seems to be, "Everybody must get stung". > --V. > > > 'Pratyaksh' on sting operations > > (Monday, Nov 21, 2005 - 06:00 pm) > Televisionpoint.com Team > http://www.televisionpoint.com/news/newsfullstory.php?id=1132578476 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ reader-list mailing list reader-list at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list End of reader-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 29 ******************************************* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Aptech MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Aptech MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From kristoferpaetau at GMAIL.COM Thu Nov 24 16:32:22 2005 From: kristoferpaetau at GMAIL.COM (Kristofer Paetau) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:02:22 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] VIKINGS ATTACK CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBIT! Message-ID: <80bd928c0511240302v51751174h236f50cec3112cc5@mail.gmail.com> Vikings attack contemporary art exhibit! Ename is a small town in Flanders in Belgium, with an archaeological site and an archaeological museum. Each year a different curator is invited to make a group show of contemporary art on the ancient ground. Moreover, the shows are supposed to re-actualize the site, creating new relationships between the history and the present. This year each artist could present a work in one of the green pavilions that were constructed especially for this purpose. Nevertheless I wanted to realize my work outdoors… You are welcome to have a look at: A web documentation: http://www.paetau.com/downloads/VikingBattle/VikingBattle.html A PDF documentation (0,5 MB): http://www.paetau.com/downloads/VikingBattle/VikingBattle.pdf A Quicktime Video (DSL required): http://www.paetau.com/downloads/VikingBattle/VikingBattle.mov Best wishes, Kristofer Paetau -- If you do not want mails anymore, you can unsubscribe automatically by sending an empty e-mail from your e-mail account to: ARTINFO-L-unsubscribe-request at listserv.dfn.de If this doesn't work, you probably got this e-mail re-routed through another address: Please reply to this mail and write UNSUBSCRIBE in the mail subject and please indicate some old or alternative e-mail addresses in order to help us unsubscribe you. Thank you and apologizes for the trouble! -- Kristofer Paetau http://www.paetau.com/exhibitions -- From sbreitsameter at snafu.de Thu Nov 24 05:37:57 2005 From: sbreitsameter at snafu.de (Sabine Breitsameter) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:07:57 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] Independent Radio Workshops and Symposium: Wroclaw/Poland 6.-11.Dec, 2005 Message-ID: Please, distribute, circulate and join us: Radio_Copernicus at Wroclaw/Poland Workshops and Symposium now open for registration! 7.12.-10.12.2005 http://www.radio-copernicus.org/de/workshop.html >From the 1st - 31st December, Radio_Copernicus will be the guest at Wroclaw University and broadcast on the local frequency UKW 91,3, and well as an Internet stream. >From Dec 6-11, Radio_Copernicus will present "Talking Back to Radio - Radio als Zuhörer - Artysci zmieniaja radio" (06 - 11 December 2005) with workshops, radio interventions, radio art, Internet-radio performances and a symposium. Workshops: Dec 7-10,2005 Workshop 1: Free Radio; A media simulation in three days, with Thomas Kupfer and Lukasz Smigiel Workshop 2: Soundwalking - Klangspaziergänge; From the ear to the radio broadcast, with Hildegard Westerkamp and Lukasz Szalankiewicz Workshop 3: LIGNA - Radio Art as Intervention and ‘Counter-Public’; Uncontrollable Situations, Unpredictable Productions with Ole Frahm and Torsten Michaelsen Workshop 4: What is Radio Art? Artistic Approaches in International Comparison with Sabine Breitsameter and Robert Gawlowski (working language will be English) Registration for the workshops and the symposium at birgit at radio-copernicus.org There is no fee. Further information: http://www.radio-copernicus.org/de/workshop.html >From 10.12.2005 to 11.12.20005, the international symposium „Talking Back to Radio - Radio als Zuhörer - Artysci zmieniaja radio" will be taking place at Wroclaw University. A series of highly respected speakers will be appearing at this event, e.g. Woicjech Bruszewski, Sabine Breitsameter, Robert Gawlowski, Robert Piotrowicz, Johannes Wilms and Krzysztof Siemak, Pawel Sito (tbc). The whole event will be accompanied by a series of publicly presented radio art pieces by LIGNA/Hamburg, Lukasz Szalankiewicz/Krakow, Hildegard Westerkamp/Vancouver, Johannes Auer/Stuttgart, Pawel Janicki, ElletroVoce/Wroclaw, Stefano Giannotti/Lucca, Tomasz Gwincinski/Gdansk. Further information about the symposium is available at: http://www.radio-copernicus.org/de/Symposium.html and via E-Mail at birgit at radio-copernicus.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20051124/a6389a01/attachment.html From cahen.x at levels9.com Fri Nov 25 18:39:48 2005 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:09:48 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] pourinfos Newsletter / 11-18 to 11-14-2005 Message-ID: <43870D1C.3000409@levels9.com> pourinfos.org l'actualite du monde de l'art / daily Art news ----------------------------------------------------------------------- infos from November 18, 2005 to November 24, 2005 (included) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (mostly in french) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 Call : Microcinema International - NEW 2006 Call for Works, Houston, Texas, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2368 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 Call : AAPC production of the artistic accompaniment of the boulevard of Magenta, Town of Paris, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2367 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 Residence : Hangar In Barcelona, Astérides, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/residences/item.php?id=2366 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 04 Residence : Studio FKSE in Budapest, Astérides, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/residences/item.php?id=2365 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 05 Residences : Stuttgart, Francfort, Germany ; Seoul, Korea, CEAAC , Strasbourg, France. http://pourinfos.org/residences/item.php?id=2364 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 06 Residence : PACT Zollverein, Essen, Allemagne. http://pourinfos.org/residences/item.php?id=2363 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 07 Job : a teacher color, a teacher in drawing, L'Ecole supérieure d'art et de design d'Amiens, Amiens, France. http://pourinfos.org/emploi/item.php?id=2362 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 08 Call : to proposals, Traverse Vidéo 200, Toulouse, France. http://pourinfos.org/participation/item.php?id=2369 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 Meetings : Conference : Around Helsinki and of Sénart, Tuesday November 29, 2005 Maison de l'architecture en Île-de-France, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2361 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Meetings : The Upgrade, Istambul, NOMAD, November 24, 2005, Istambul, Turkey. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2360 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Meetings : Signature Claude Rutault Saturday November 26, 2005, florence loewy, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2359 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Meetingss : Conference of Philippe Piguet, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2358 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Various : Call with the gifts or the loans, screening of short films, movie theater le Barbizon, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/divers/item.php?id=2357 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Various : conference online on new media art, science, technology, Refresh, Banff New Media Institute, Alberta, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/divers/item.php?id=2356 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Screening : Mariko Okomata, Thursday November 24, 2005, Tours, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2355 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 Screening : ‘Final Fantasy VII Advent Children’, Thursday December 1, 2005, cinémas de demain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2354 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 Exhibition : Ofri Cnaani, The Blind Scenario, Marina Paris, Transiti, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2353 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 Screening : Entre-Deux - experimental Program, November 24, 2005, École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, association Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2352 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Exhibitions : Common place, Seven Palestinian and Israeli artists are invited to take place in four spaces in Ile-de-France, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2351 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Exhibition : The year of Tong, la Briqueterie, Amiens, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2350 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 Exhibition : Borderline, Paul McKinley, Robert Carr and Sufjan Stephens, Four, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2349 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 Call : 6th program artists in context, European Seedbeds for young artists,, Marly le Roi, France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2348 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 Call : New Forms Festival 2006, Vancouver, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2347 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 Call : video and young artists, program mapXXL, 19th FIPA, Marly le Roi , France. http://pourinfos.org/candidature/item.php?id=2346 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 Call : Terminology and translation, international Conference EMS06, Bejine, China. http://pourinfos.org/participation/item.php?id=2345 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 Call: Next Festival 2006, Vilnius, Lithuania. http://pourinfos.org/participation/item.php?id=2344 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 Residence : Art Omi International Artists Residency, New York, New York, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/residences/item.php?id=2343 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 Mettings : Presentation of study IFOP by Frederic Dabi, Friday November 25 with at 19h, Maison de l'architecture en Île-de-France, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2342 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 Meetings : techno-performance Fred Forest, Paulin Nikolli, Thursday November 24 Eglise de l'Annonciation, Nice, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2341 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 Meetings : The use of art or the antispectacle, Andrea Blum and Jacinto Lageira, Tuesday November 22 at 19h30, Les Entretiens sur l’art, Catherine Francblin, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2340 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 31 Meetings : Dror Endeweld, Jean Nouvel, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Thursday November 24, 2005, in Serignan, Gustave Fayet, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2339 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 32 Rencontres : conference Annie Abrahams, Friday December 2 and December 7, panoplie.org ECM Carré d'Art, Nîmes, France. http://pourinfos.org/rencontres/item.php?id=2338 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 33 Publication : Rabbit and Turtle, Yukari Miyagi, Nieves editions , Zürich, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2337 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 34 Publication : Number 1, re-examined "What?", Thursday November 24, bookstore La Hune, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 35 Publication : Haciendocine, Número Especial Aniversario, Buenos Aires, Argentina. http://pourinfos.org/publications/item.php?id=2335 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 36 Progam : workshops of triangle November 2005, Marseille, France. lien http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2334 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 37 Exhibition : Up and Down, Erik Moskowitz et Amanda Trager, le Sous-salon, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2333 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 Exhibition : Olivier Leroi, Le Parvis centre d'art contemporain, Ibos, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2332 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 39 Exhibition : Images To be rented, Confluences, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2331 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 40 Exhibition : 20th Photobis festival of November 2005, espace Saint-Martin, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2330 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 41 Exhibition : "Quarti d artist presents the arealism", La Briqueterie, Amiens, France. http://pourinfos.org/expositions/item.php?id=2329 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 42 Various : Wishes of artists, To promote the contemporary art and to help the children, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, France. http://pourinfos.org/divers/item.php?id=2328 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 43 Various : Internet ethics report of the meetings, cultural Service, Embassy of France in Italy, Italy. http://pourinfos.org/divers/item.php?id=2327 From epk at xs4all.nl Mon Nov 28 05:01:56 2005 From: epk at xs4all.nl (Eric Kluitenberg) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:31:56 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] Fwd: Nepal: Govt closes down Radio Sagarmatha, arrests journalists Message-ID: <438A41EC.3000403@xs4all.nl> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Nepal: Govt closes down Radio Sagarmatha, arrests journalists Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:23:41 -0500 From: partha http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=58346 KOL Report KATHMANDU, Nov 27 - In what looks like yet another brazen assault on the free press, the government closed down Radio Sagarmatha, the first community radio in South Asia, Sunday night, arresting five employees including journalists and technicians A police team led by Inspector Bishwa Khadka stormed into the Master Control Room of the radio station at around 8:55 p.m. today, forcefully seizing transmission equipment and detaining Durga Karki, Rajendra Rijal, Dipak Babu Aryal, Deepak Raj Pandey and Punya Bhandari. They were taken to the District Police Office, Lalitpur. Police, however, released Durga Karki at around 10:30 p.m. It is learnt that the government raided Radio Sagarmatha for "attempting to carry a BBC Nepali service relay broadcast that included the interview of Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda." The interview with Prachanda dealt with the recent understanding between the political parties and the Maoist rebels to work towards the resolution of the conflict in the country. Radio Sagarmatha, however, did not carry the interview. The police team left two separate letters from the Ministry of Information and Communications at the radio station, one asking the radio station to stop operation until further notice and the other asking to hand over transmission equipment. In one of the letters, the government has accused the radio station of "airing programmes that encourage terrorists and terrorism against Section 15 (d) and (i) of the National Broadcasting Act- 2049 BS and the licence provided to the radio station." Chairman of the radio station, Laxman Upreti has termed the government action as "a dagger to the heart of the radio revolution in Nepal." "Nepal has been the South Asian country pioneering the role of FM radio in informing the public and Radio Sagarmatha has been the vanguard of this movement. The action by the government is a dagger to the heart of our radio revolution," he said in a statement issued by the radio station. "At this point, we are on the lookout for our staff taken in by the authorities. At this hour of crisis, we seek the support of all who value freedom of speech and expression in Nepal," the statement further quoted Upreti as saying. BBC relay transmission suspended on Radio Nepal Meanwhile, the government has also stopped airing the relay transmission of BBC World Service from Radio Nepal. Authorities have furnished no reason for the action. "According to our information, seven other radio stations around the country were also prevented from carrying the BBC Nepali Service feed by the security forces," the statement further said. _______________________________________________ incom-l mailing list incom-l at incommunicado.info http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/incom-l From irabhaskar at vsnl.net Sat Nov 26 08:49:25 2005 From: irabhaskar at vsnl.net (Ira Bhaskar) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:49:25 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Fw: Queer cinema at the Habitat Message-ID: <002901c5f238$355ffa60$efe541db@zxy> ----- Original Message ----- From: Ira Bhaskar To: egroupfilm ; ihc-filmapp-2001 at yahoogroups.com ; IHC Film App 02 Cc: IHC film-disc-group ; theauteurs Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 8:36 AM Subject: Queer cinema at the Habitat Hi Everyone, Just to remind you all about the "Dissendent Desires and Cinema" package that is currently on at the Habitat. There are three films that are yet to be screened on 27th, 28th and 30th evenings at 7 pm at the Gulmohar. All the films will be introduced by Shohini Ghosh who has curated the film package and there will be a discussion on the 30th. For those of you who were not able to be present for the opening, Shohini introduced the entire package and we had a very good discussion after the screening. The programme with a little write up on the films is pasted below. Looking forward to seeing as many of you as can make it, Best, Ira. FILM CLUB SCREENING DISSIDENT DESIRES AND CINEMA - Curated and Introduced by Shohini Ghosh (Faculty, MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia) All the films will be introduced by Shohini Ghosh. Nov 18 � 7:00pm The Celluloid Closet (USA/ 1995/ 1 hr 41 min) Introduction by Filmmaker and Film and Media Scholar, Shohini Ghosh on the special package followed by screening of The Celluloid Closet based on Vito Russo's famous book by the same name The Celluloid Closet is a documentary about the different ways in which queer sexuality got represented in Hollywood cinema. With extensive film clips from over 100 films and interviews with filmmakers, scholars and actors like Tony Curtis, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dyer, Gore Vidal and Shirley McClaine, the documentary explodes many myths and attitudes around homosexuality. Nov 19 � 7:00pm 'Gods and Monsters: (USA/1998/1Hr 46 min) Dir: Bill Condon Contemporary filmmaking has been recovering the suppressed history of queerness within the Film Industry. Bill Condon's Oscar winning film Gods and Monsters is about the filmmaker James Whale (Ian McKellen) who made classic horror films like Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein and the Invisible Man. Contemporary work on the life of James Whale reveal that his illustrious career was cut short because of Hollywood's homophobia. His films were always about social outcasts whose stories could be read as allegories around homosexuality. Nov 27 - 7:00pm 'The Wedding Banquet'(USA / 1993/1hr 43 mins) Dir. Ang Lee Wai Tung (Winston Chao) and Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein) are lovers living the American dream in Manhattan. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in Taiwan, Wai Tung�s parents want him to marry a nice Taiwanese girl who would give them the grandchildren they crave. A marriage of convenience is arranged but when the parents arrive to attend the wedding, events spin out of control till the truth has finally to be told. Nov � 28 � 7:00pm : The Hours: (USA/2003/1 hr 54min) Dir: Stephen Daldry Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham, The Hours employs Virginia Woolf�s classic novel and central character Mrs Dalloway as its foundation and inspiration. Spanning three different eras the film focuses on one day in the lives of three women joined in their depression, alienation and search for love. The film features the stellar cast of Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. Nov � 30 � 7:00 pm : Bad Education: Pedro Almodovar Bad Education shot in rich, vibrant color by Jos�uis Alcaine and accompanied by Alberto Iglesias's elegant and heartfelt score is a film about two abused boys and their subsequent lives. A dense, audacious film in which layers of cinematic artifice lovingly camouflage the characters' dark, damaged hearts. A Hitchcock/film noir homage, it is also a magnificent melodrama . . ."Almodovar's tactic, as always, is to put extraordinary creatures in extreme situations while lavishing sympathy on every character, including the evil ones." The film has a spectacular performance by Gael Garcia Bernal. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Respeto-Total From info at respeto-total.com Sat Nov 26 01:14:28 2005 From: info at respeto-total.com (Respeto Total) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:44:28 GMT Subject: [Reader-list] 2nd ONE SECOND VIDEO FESTIVAL Message-ID: <20051125194433.9983AE616D@backup01.cdmon.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20051125/10346604/attachment.html From iram at sarai.net Mon Nov 28 22:49:19 2005 From: iram at sarai.net (Iram Ghufran) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:49:19 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Lecture by professor Francis W Pritchett Message-ID: <438B3C17.2020105@sarai.net> Lecture by Professor Francis W Pritchett + + + Academy of Third World Studies Jamia Millia Islamia invites you to the Fourth Ravinder Kumar Memorial Lecture by Professor Francis W Pritchett on Interpreting Ghalib: Poetry, History and Commentary November 30th, 2005 at 11: 00 am Edward W. Said Hall (Khayaban - i - Ajmal) Jamia Millia Islamia Professor Aijaz Ahmad will preside _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From eye at ranadasgupta.com Wed Nov 30 01:26:46 2005 From: eye at ranadasgupta.com (Rana Dasgupta) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:26:46 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] "Tokyo Cancelled" readings in Chennai and Bangalore Message-ID: <438CB27E.3040707@ranadasgupta.com> Dear All I'll be doing readings from my book "Tokyo Cancelled" in Chennai and Bangalore at the end of this week. Details as follows: CHENNAI Landmark bookstore, 6.30pm, Thursday 1 December Apex House 3 Nungambakkam High Road Chennai 600 034 BANGALORE Landmark bookstore, 6.30pm, Friday 2 December Prestige Forum 21 Hosur Road Koramangala Bangalore 560 029 I'd be honoured to see any Reader-List comrades there. Yours R Rana Dasgupta www.ranadasgupta.com From arisen.silently at gmail.com Wed Nov 30 09:27:09 2005 From: arisen.silently at gmail.com (arisen silently) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:57:09 +0000 Subject: [Reader-list] worth a watch/ kate bush army of dreamers Message-ID: <1925b33d0511291957jbee8a6ek5b733de7de349015@mail.gmail.com> http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/HM/Kate_Bush_-_Army_Dreamers.mpg From shail at csdsdelhi.org Wed Nov 30 12:56:04 2005 From: shail at csdsdelhi.org (Shail Mayaram) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:56:04 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Dipesh Chakrabart's talk Message-ID: <092a01c5f57f$6c541a70$0601a8c0@shailmayaram> Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites you for an adda with Dipesh Chakrabarty Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, South Asian History, and the College University of Chicago On Genealogies of Mass Politics On December 2, 2005 At CSDS, 3 pm Shail Mayaram (pl note change of home address and tel no) Shail Mayaram Senior Fellow Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110054 Ph.: 91-11-23951190/ 23971151, 23942199 (extn. 338) Fax: 91-11-23943450 Residence: DI/38 Bharti Nagar New Delhi 110003 91-11-24628282 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20051130/f1cc47b9/attachment.html From mamtam at aptech.ac.in Wed Nov 30 16:43:32 2005 From: mamtam at aptech.ac.in (Mamta M) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:43:32 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] RE: reader-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 33 In-Reply-To: <20051130110008.C955528DAD5@mail.sarai.net> Message-ID: <20051130111010.E9D1428DAD2@mail.sarai.net> Rana, Any chance of doing a reading in Mumbai? Do let us know if you have any plans for readings scheduled here. Would look forward to it. Regards, Mamta -----Original Message----- From: reader-list-bounces at sarai.net [mailto:reader-list-bounces at sarai.net] On Behalf Of reader-list-request at sarai.net Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:30 PM To: reader-list at sarai.net Subject: reader-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 33 Send reader-list mailing list submissions to reader-list at sarai.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to reader-list-request at sarai.net You can reach the person managing the list at reader-list-owner at sarai.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of reader-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. "Tokyo Cancelled" readings in Chennai and Bangalore (Rana Dasgupta) 2. worth a watch/ kate bush army of dreamers (arisen silently) 3. Dipesh Chakrabart's talk (Shail Mayaram) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:26:46 +0530 From: Rana Dasgupta Subject: [Reader-list] "Tokyo Cancelled" readings in Chennai and Bangalore To: reader-list at sarai.net Message-ID: <438CB27E.3040707 at ranadasgupta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Dear All I'll be doing readings from my book "Tokyo Cancelled" in Chennai and Bangalore at the end of this week. Details as follows: CHENNAI Landmark bookstore, 6.30pm, Thursday 1 December Apex House 3 Nungambakkam High Road Chennai 600 034 BANGALORE Landmark bookstore, 6.30pm, Friday 2 December Prestige Forum 21 Hosur Road Koramangala Bangalore 560 029 I'd be honoured to see any Reader-List comrades there. Yours R Rana Dasgupta www.ranadasgupta.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:57:09 +0000 From: arisen silently Subject: [Reader-list] worth a watch/ kate bush army of dreamers To: reader-list at sarai.net Cc: cnmia at nus.edu.sg Message-ID: <1925b33d0511291957jbee8a6ek5b733de7de349015 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/HM/Kate_Bush_-_Army_Dreamers.mpg ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:56:04 +0530 From: "Shail Mayaram" Subject: [Reader-list] Dipesh Chakrabart's talk To: "Bimol Aakoijam" , "yasmeen arif" , "yasmeen2" , "rajeev bhargava" , "Rajeev Bhargawa" , "bela" , "Peter deSouza" , "abhay dube" , "Madhu Kishwar" , , "Douglas Lummis" , , "aditya" , "A.B. Sharan" , "suresh" , "D L Sheth" , "arvinder singh" , "r.k.srivastava" , "Ravi Sundaram" , "Priyadarshini" , "Yogendara Yadav" , , Message-ID: <092a01c5f57f$6c541a70$0601a8c0 at shailmayaram> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites you for an adda with Dipesh Chakrabarty Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, South Asian History, and the College University of Chicago On Genealogies of Mass Politics On December 2, 2005 At CSDS, 3 pm Shail Mayaram (pl note change of home address and tel no) Shail Mayaram Senior Fellow Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110054 Ph.: 91-11-23951190/ 23971151, 23942199 (extn. 338) Fax: 91-11-23943450 Residence: DI/38 Bharti Nagar New Delhi 110003 91-11-24628282 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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College is organizing a one-day UGC- sponsored National Seminar “Media, Market and the Masses: Emerging Issues in Human Rights” on Saturday, 10th December 2005 as a part of its Human Rights’ Day celebrations. The seminar aims at addressing a range of pertinent issues related to the role of media in civil societies: market economy and the media, role of media in moulding public opinion, public right to information and concerns of national security, the politics of representation, media ethics and investigative journalism, sting operations, etc. as well as the changing dynamics of media representation in the global context, the tensions between the global and the local, how meaning is negotiated in different contexts, sensationalizing ‘breaking’ stories, allegations of ‘dumbing down’ and issues of privacy among others. The Keynote address at the seminar will be delivered by Prof. Aijaz Ahmad, Senior Editorial Consultant, FRONTLINE. Speakers at the seminar include Mr. Sriram Panchu (consumer rights’ activist and lawyer), Mr. Shobhan Saxena (Times International), Prof. Anjali Monteiro and Dr. K.P. Jayasankar ( TISS) among others. The seminar is open to teachers of Foundation Course/ Political Science/ Sociology/History/ Mass Media and representatives of non-governmental organizations. We request you to send us by 3rd December, 2005 the names of two teachers/members who will represent your college/organization at the seminar. Outstation participants are requested to make their own accommodation and travel arrangements. We look forward to your participation in making the seminar successful. (Dr. Sandhya Iyer) Coordinator Registration fees: Rs. 150/- per participant (to be paid at the venue) Venue: S.H. Mansukhani Multipurpose Hall, Ground Floor Registration: 9.00 am - 9.30 am RSVP: Email: fcseminar_sand at rediffmail.com Tel. No.:9833575355(Saradha G.) _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Nov 30 17:14:14 2005 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (NetEx) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:44:14 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Call for submissions - World Aids Day Message-ID: <438D908E.1010303@netcologne.de> Call for submissions Deadline 31 December 2005 - afterwards ongoing 1 December - WORLD AIDS Day 1 December is every day all over the year. Every day people become infected by the HIV virus. The number of infected people is rapidly increasing. Although AIDS became meanwhile a desease of the poor with millions of infections and people who died of AIDS in Africa, Asia and South America, the number of HIV infections in the Western countries started increasing again, as well, and the young generations are mostly not aware of the security risks of unprotected sexual contacts. Dear artists, show your solidarity with the HIV infected people, by making a submission to the "Memorial for the Victims of AIDS" http://aids.a-virtual-memorial.org , and by supporting in one or the other way one the numerous local humanitarian organisations dealing with AIDS and HIV infected people. Send an image (.jpg), text (plain email, .txt), movie (Quicktime, Flash) or URL related to AIDS together with your name and email address to aids at a-virtual-memorial.org All serious submissions will be included and posted immediately. **************************************** This call is also released on NetEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54 _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From vivek at sarai.net Wed Nov 30 12:54:03 2005 From: vivek at sarai.net (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:54:03 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] In the Absence of Recombination 2: Delhi Message-ID: <438D5393.5080302@sarai.net> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: new posting Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:02:39 +0530 From: Cultural Embamex To: vivek at sarai.net ONF.org in collaboration with The Embassy of Mexico presents: In the absence of recombination 2 A video screening and semiosis in progress by Mexican artist Rubén Gutiérrez at VOLGA RESTAURANT Friday, December 2, 2005 from 20:00 to 23:00 hrs 129-B, N-19, Connaught Place, New Delhi VIDEO PROGRAMME MIYAGUI ROBOT, 2004 VIDEO BY GERARDO GARCIA DVD 11:11 CRITICAL PARADIGMS, 2004 VIDEOINSTALLATION BY RUBEN GUTIERREZ DVD 10: 11 ARTMEDIA FC VS USA, 2005 INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION AND VIDEO GAME (VIDEO DOCUMENT) BY LEONARDO MARZ DVD 15:00 VANITY, 2005 VIDEOINSTALLATION BY RUBEN GUTIERREZ DVD 04:45 SCENES FROM NEXT WEEK, 2005 VIDEO BY ANDREW DEMIRJIAN DVD 3:50 HOW DO YOU SEE THE DISAPPEARED?, 2004. VIDEO BY MARIAM GHANI, DVD, 9:00 EVIL 8, 2004 VIDEO BY TONY COKES DVD 5:00 RWANDAREMIX, 2005. VIDEO BY MATHIEW BORYSEVICZ DVD 7:00 FEAST, 2004 VIDEO BY LISELOT VAN DER HEDDEN DVD,2:00. PROGRAMME Robot Miyagui is a project developed by Gerardo Garcia; it consists in videos, digital prints and sound pieces. It recreates the way a didactic game works. Some kind of encyclopedic "ouija" that make relationships between questions and answers. Objective robots, which were given (although fake) by man, are expected to support man in tasks which seem difficult and hard for man. In turn, man will create more robots and provide them with energy. Man and robots should keep a good partnership with each other. Aiming to realize such a future society, in this video the artists propose and wish to demonstrate an ideal relationship between man and robot in visual forms. Artmedia FC vs USA is an interactive video game and the first of a series of relational pieces made by ONF.org curator Leonardo Marz. In this piece a virtual soccer team made up with mainstream dead or alive artists confront in the field with the USA soccer national team. From Duchamp to Parreno and Hirst and also including the ONF staff (Leonardo Marz, Ruben Gutierrez and David Guzman) this team is based in a series of semiotic relationships and it reflects what the art world is in terms of competition, spectacle, cult figures and business. Critical Paradigms, 2004 and Vanity, 2005, a couple of videos by Ruben Gutierrez, where several conceptual and formal worries that disturb him since time ago are reflected: the awareness of history as a file of information, the capacity of the artist to be a DJ that selects from among everything that exists and was previously produced that that interests and intrigue him, and finally, the capacity of "fiction" to represent what happens in that which we call reality or everyday life. These images build a non-lineal fiction and a metaphor of the presence and absence of reflections on our idea of reality, language and conscience. In "The scenes from next week" Andrew Demirjian shows simple daily things, such as doing the dishes, and bringing the garbage outside, under a upbeat melody mimicking the soap opera announcements and questioning the impact of such on our lives. Mariam Ghani critics in her "How do you see the disappeared?" the US Immigration policy. In this work, she addresses several cases of people who for an unclear reason have been detained, and making the often randomness used by the IRS even more clear by pointing out her personal situation: born in America from a Pakistan mother and an Afghanistan father, she carriers an US passport, but isn't be able to re-enter the US without being questioned. The work of Mathieu Borysevicz shows a little hope in a country that has been terrorized by wars: Rwanda. Showing young children singing and laughing, welcoming a group of ' red- crass-workers'. Sadly enough, this hope is just for a short moment, as the war continues and the end isn't nearby. After September 11 Tony Cokes made a series of videos that related to the articles appearing in the New York Times about terrorism and the information on the current situation in Afghanistan. He compares the pieces with articles from early dates. It is surprising to see the similarities in wording of the issues concerning the Middle East. "Feast. Hommage a Marchel Broodthaers" is a work by Lislelot van der Heijden. She thinks that in a time when people have to watch what they are say, it is more interesting to watch what is said by what is not said. The work juxtaposes a series of statements - "this has nothing to do with oil," "a vulture is not an eagle" and "this is not political" - with a continuous video loop showing a close-up of a group of vultures ferociously fighting to seize a bite. "Patriot Act" by Robert Boyd takes a global sampling of iconic leaders of the Left and Right since World War II. The work is about the men who lead and the people who adore them - without question, without fall, time and again throughout the course of history. -- CULTURAL SECTION EMBASSY OF MEXICO 26-D Sardar Patel Marg, Chanakya puri New Delhi-110021,India Tel. 24107182, 83, 84 Ext. 104 _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From do_not_reply at kitabmahal.org Wed Nov 30 18:37:53 2005 From: do_not_reply at kitabmahal.org (Kitabmahal) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:37:53 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] [4thfloorevents] Kalpa:vraksha an exhibition at Kitab Mahal, Fourth Floor Message-ID: <003601c5f5af$82ef7420$0401000a@tapan1f46bf00d> Kitab Mahal, Fourth Floor, Fort presents Kalpa:vraksha, who brings to Mumbai its first Indian modern and contemporary art exhibition and sale. This is the beginning of what promises to become an annual event, bringing together a repertoire of works from selected Indian artists. The current show brings works that have been painstakingly acquired over many years from artists and galleries across India and overseas. Highlights of the show are works from Paritosh Sen, K.H. Ara, Sakti Burman, Laxman Shreshta, Satish Gujral, Baiju Parthan, T. Vaikuntham, Manish Pushkale and over 20 other prominent artists. The exhibition starts on the 8th of December and concludes on the 9th December 2005 at the Fourth Floor, Kitab Mahal 192 D.N. Road, Fort Mumbai. Phone : 22079119 / 22071771. _______________________________________________ 4thfloorevents mailing list 4thfloorevents at kitabmahal.org http://lists.kitabmahal.org/mailman/listinfo/4thfloorevents _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements