From lise.boyer at canadacouncil.ca Wed Oct 1 20:45:09 2003 From: lise.boyer at canadacouncil.ca (Boyer, Lise) Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:45:09 -0000 Subject: [Announcements] FW: Research/Creation Grants in Fine Arts Message-ID: It is with great pleasure that I am writing to let you know that the program description for SSHRC's new Research/Creation Grants in Fine Arts program has now been posted on the SSHRC Web site: http://www.sshrc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/fine_arts_e.asp . The application deadline for the program is Monday, November 17, 2003. The application forms and instructions will be available in September. If you have any questions, please contact Mr Craig McNaughton at craig.mcnaughton at sshrc.ca (613-943-1149) or Mr ?ric Bastien at eric.bastien at sshrc.ca (613-992-3407). Many thanks! Daryl Rock Director / Directeur Strategic Programs and Joint Initiatives / Programmes strat?giques et initiatives conjointes SSHRC / CRSH From raviv at sarai.net Mon Oct 6 15:23:20 2003 From: raviv at sarai.net (Ravi S. Vasudevan) Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:23:20 -0000 Subject: [Announcements] Fwd: New ICES journal DOMAINS Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20031006105836.00b1e058@mail.sarai.net> >Domains: The Journal of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies > > ICES celebrates the inauguration of Domains - its new, refereed, > internationally published, scholarly journal - with a US$ 1000 prize > competition. Submission deadline for papers is st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />15th Dec. 2003. > Work from any geographical area and orientation within the humanities and > social sciences is welcome. > > For more information on Domains, and the contest visit > www.icesdomains.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Title: New Empire Director: Kurush Canteenwala Date: Friday, 10 October 2003 Time: 6 p.m. Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda VIDEO TABLE: 8 Short Films on Mumbai at the NGMA (available for viewing till 19th October 2003) Occupation Mill Worker (Anand Patwardhan) Crystal (Students of Social Communications Media, Sophia Polytechnic) Circadian Cycle (Mahesh Mathai) I Ranu Gayen (Shyamal Karmarkar) Aur Irani Chai (Wilson College Students) Living With the Dead (Students of Social Communications Media, Sophia Polytechnic) Sambhawami Yuge Yuge (Madhushree Dutta) Phantoms (Tushar Joag) TALKS: 1. Researching Locality. Speaker: Alito Siqueira Date: Thursday, 23 October 2003 Time: 6:30p.m. Venue: PUKAR Office 2. Examining Social Change and the Media in Mumbai. Speakers: Prabir Bose and the "Media Matters" Team Date: Friday 31 October 2003 Time: 6:30p.m. Venue: PUKAR Office Details of the Events: A: Film Screenings: 1. Bombay Our City / Humara Shahar 82 mins. Colour, 16mm, 1985 Director: Anand Patwardhan This moving verite film follows the travails and triumphs in the daily battle for survival of Bombay's slum dwellers, as they face demolitions, monsoons, death and life. It has won the National Award, Best Non-fiction, India, 1986, Filmfare Award, Best Documentary, India, 1986 and Special Jury Prize, Cinema du Reel, France, 1986. Anand Patwardhan is a pioneering documentary filmmaker living and working in Bombay. Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 Time: 6 p.m. Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda 2. New Empire 37 Minutes, 2002 Director: Kurush Canteenwala New Empire is a visually impressionistic, non-fiction film that attempts to chronicle personal encounters with new colonialism and the accompanying loss of an indigenous way of urban being. Kurush Canteenwala is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Production and Film Aesthetics at the Southern Illinois University. Date: Friday, 10 October 2003 Time: 6 p.m. Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda Video Table: The video film table is predicated on a design of interactive viewing. A card provides a brief synopsis of the videos. Visitors can choose which film they want to watch and it will be played for them. The above screenings are part of the ongoing PUKAR-NGMA collaboration, for the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai's annual exhibition, "Ideas and Images" (September 10th to October 19th 2003). PUKAR has organized a screening of several documentary films on Mumbai. The curator for the series is PUKAR Associate, filmmaker and writer Paromita Vohra. B: Discussions/ Talks: 1. Topic: Researching Locality Speaker: Prof. Alito Siqueira Last month we started a monthly series of discussions on research practices and methodologies. Sociologist Manorama Savur provided a historical overview about research practices in Mumbai University's Department of Sociology. This month we have invited Prof. Alito Siqueira - who presently teaches in Goa University - to discuss methodological issues that arise when studying local spaces. Research on urban themes often has to contend with the concept of locality. Drawing on his present work that involves understanding representation and performance and its links to place and community in Goa, Siqueira will lead a discussion on various conceptual challenges that any research on local space produces. Date: Thursday, 23 October 2003 Time: 6:30p.m. Venue: PUKAR Office 2. Topic: Examining Social Change and the Media in Mumbai. Speaker: Prabir Bose and the "Media Matters" Team Every month PUKAR organizes a discussion in Marathi on various urban issues. Last month Bhargavi Davar and Aparna Sathe initiated a vigorous discussion at the Akshara centre in Dadar on the theme, "The City, Mental Health and Women", in which about 40 activists, journalists and students participated. This month we have invited Prabir Bose and his team from the Mumbai based NGO "Media Matters" to initiate a discussion on the changing perceptions of the media - especially in the context of its role in instigating "social change". "Media Matters" is located at Ambernath and seeks to research, study and experiment with media forms and the dynamics of communication. Date: Friday 31 October 2003 Time: 6:30p.m. Venue: PUKAR Office _____ PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) Mumbai. E-Mail Phone +91 (022) 2207 7779, +91 98204 04010 Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information please send an email to Alvaro Barbosa (abarbosa at porto.ucp.pt) Regards, luis http://www.artes.ucp.pt/olhares-outono/2003/EngSite/eng_index.htm schedule workshops 10 to 11 of November "Crash course" PD - G?nter Geiger (10:00h - 12:00h and 14:30h - 17:30h) 12 to 13 of November Composing sound / Composing with sound - Ram?n Gonz?lez Arroyo (10:00h - 12:00h and 14:30h - 17:30h) 14 of November Expressive Gesture - Antonio Camurri (10:00h 12:00h) conferences 14 of November Composing sound/ Composing with sound - Ram?n Gonz?lez Arroyo (14:30h 16:00h) Musical instruments, sound objects, visual instruments - Ant?nio Sousa Dias (16:00h 17:30h) Graphical Instruments in Sound Manipulation - Carlos Caires (17:30h 18:00h) 15 of November Expressive Gesture / Toward New Paradigms for Multimedia and Rich Media - Antonio Camurri (14:30h 16:00h) Sccaned V - Dance and Media Performance - Christian Ziegler (16:00h 17:30h) Digital Arts Lab Overview (Masters) - Michael Klein (17:30h 18:00h) Digital Arts Lab Overview - Lu?s Teixeira (18:00h 19:00h) conferences - FREE ACCESS events 14 of November (21: 30h) de la nuit - Ram?n Arroyo and Ludger Bruemmer d MnStR - Ram?n Arroyo Sccaned V - Christian Ziegler 15 of November (21: 30h) Utopies - Ant?nio Sousa Dias Carlos Caires F?bio Gorodski Jacopo Baboni Shilingi Michele Tadini Ram?n Gonz?lez- Arroyo Horacio Vaggione events - FREE ACCESS introduction Aiming to improve and consolidate, in an effective way, the primary mission of the original summer Workshops in the school of Arts from the Portuguese Catholic University, the new edition of Olhares de Outono brings a vast range of Workshops, Study-Journeys Conferences and Artistic Events, which will serve the purpose of pushing and stimulating the initiative and competence from the young community of Portuguese Researchers and Artist working in the field of Digital Arts. Following up the essence and perspective of previous editions, this year the specific scope of the Olhares de Outono will specifically focus the topic of an instrument, so that conferences, workshops and events will converge in to the discussion of a musical or visual instrument. The notion of an instrument, apparently leading to a perfectly integrated model with a clear role in the mediation different human activities, reveals it self in a perspective of decomposition of its complexity unveiling its unstable nature. The idea of an instrument becomes a synthesized concept based on subtracts of different origins, in the sense that an instrument is also an interface which articulates and correlates perception, representation, cognition, physiology, bionic, etc. In this context, by trying to profound, the conception, implementation and usage of instruments which synthesize different areas of knowledge, we will have the opportunity of getting in touch with perspectives which are the basis for cutting-edge research in the Digital Arts Domain. Besides the workshops, for which we rely on the presence of Professor Antonio Camurri and Ramon Gonzalez-Arroyo, we will also present several conferences from which we stress the presence of two young Portuguese researchers from one of the most prestigious research groups in the field of representation - CICM/ Paris 8 University. A new format of presentation will also be introduced this year, with the Study-Journey, where we will present the work developed over the last two years in the Atelier de Artes Digitais context, which will be introduced this year as a research group on the Citar_Lab. In an attempt to keep revealing to the general public the new tendencies in Digital Arts, we will two major events closing the Olhares de Outono, from which we highlight the event Utupias in collaboration with Orquestra Ut?pica. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20031014/97111187/attachment.htm From info at nmartproject.net Tue Oct 14 09:36:08 2003 From: info at nmartproject.net (NewMediaArtProjectNetwork) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:36:08 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] Perspectives'03 and JavaArtist of the Year Award Message-ID: <011001c39225$d80a6130$0200a8c0@meuvchen> JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art (Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs) www.javamuseum.org launches with great pleasure online on 14 October 2003 and on Computer Space Festival 2003 Sofia/Bulgaria www.computerspace.org 16-18 October 2003 >Perspectives'03< - competition and showcase of net based art 2003 - in co-operation with Compter Space Festival 2003 Sofia Bulgaria and Goethe Institut Sofia/Bulgaria. "Perspectives'03" focusses on the net based art production of the years 2002/2003. During the prize ceremony on 16 October 2003, the "JavaArtist of the Year Award 2003 " will be given to these three artists: Annie Abrahams (France) David Crawford (USA) Tsunamii.net (Singapore). They form the basis of "Perspectives'03" - the show - together with these 9 artists, which are also honoured as "Perspectives of Excellence" Thomson & Craighead (UK), Gregory Chatonsky (France) Jillian McDonald (Canada), Gair Dunlop & Dan Norton (K) Babel (Canada), Bruno Samper (France), David Clark (Canada) Sashiko Hayashi (France), Agence Topo (Canada) and these featured artists: Jonah Brucker-Cohen (Irland), Jody Zellen (USA), Marcello Mercado (Germany), Nicolas Economos (USA) Julian Alvarez (Spain ), Per Pegelow (Germany) Adele Prince/Edward Hill (UK), Marcus Neustetter (South Africa) Dimitre Lima (Brazil), Enrique Radigales (UK), Jurgen Trautwein (USA), Roxanne Wolanczyk (USA) , Redcaiman?(Venezuela/USA) Ardevol (Spain), Michael Szpakowski (UK) Nathan Martin, Todd Willey & Tyler Jacobsen (USA) ***************************************** JavaMuseum is proud to launch on 14 October 2003 also the Feature: >I - rivers< - Netart from German speaking countries! which will be presented during Computer Space Festival 2003 Sofia in co-operation the Goethe Institut Sofia including these artists: Reiner Strasser, Sascha Buettner, Bernhard Reuss Jens Sundheim, Martin Mittelmeier, kyon, Nadja Kutz & Tim Nikolai Hoffmann, Per Pegelow , Stephan Hager Malte Steiner, J?rgen Trautwein, Franz Alken Ralf Hellmann, Roman Minaev, Jorn Ebner AmbientTV (Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel), Johannes Auer Isabel Saij, Thomas Tirel, Marcello Mercado Agricola de Cologne +++++++++++++++++++++++ "Perspectives'03" - - competition and showcase - is organized and created for JavaMuseum by Agricola de Cologne The show can be accessed via www.javamuseum.org and www.javamuseum.org/2003/perspectives03/index.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++ The feature: >I - rivers< - Netart from German speaking countries is organized and curated for JavaMuseum by Agricola de Cologne and can be acessed via www.javamuseum.org and www.javamuseum.org/2003/germanfeature/index.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ !!JavaArtist of the Year Award!! JavaMuseum gives this Award once a year to outstanding artists who use net based media for their art creations, who combine artistic expression and statements with substantial power technological activity and excellence in sustained work. www.javamuseum.org In 2001 this Award was given to MEZ (Australia), Jody Zellen (USA) and Tiia Johannson (Estonia) and in 2002 to Calin Man, media artist from Romania. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Special thanks to Rosen Petkov, Chairman of the Organisation Committee of Computer Space Festival Sofia/Bulgaria and Goethe Institut Sofia/Bulgaria +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art (Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs) www.javamuseum.org is corporate member of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne - the experimental platform for netbased art - operating from Cologne/Germany. Contacts: info at javamuseum.org press at javamuseum.org From kanti.kumar at oneworld.net Wed Oct 15 14:17:29 2003 From: kanti.kumar at oneworld.net (Kanti Kumar) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:47:29 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] What's New at Digital Opportunity Channel Message-ID: What's New at Digital Opportunity Channel http://www.digitalopportunity.org + ---------------------------------------------------- + For all the news and analysis about the WSIS summit from a civil society perspective, please visit our Special Coverage section at: http://www.digitalopportunity.org/section/dochannel/wsis + ---------------------------------------------------- + ********************************* Latest News http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1138 ********************************* NEW WEBSITE TO GIVE WIDER ACCESS TO AGRICULTURE, SCIENCE DATA ------------------------------------------------------------- The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is creating a new computer-based system to give students and researchers in some of the world's poorest countries access to scientific literature on agriculture, nutrition and related biological and environmental sciences. The public-private initiative will provide the research and data from 400 scientific journals at little or no cost. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70448/1138/525 CELLPHONE SOLUTION FOR INTERNET IN AFRICA ----------------------------------------- Although cellular access to the Internet is nothing new, it has not caught on in Africa. That is largely because it has been sold as a way for users to display Internet content on a cellphone itself, with its tiny screen making very unappealing viewing. Now a trio of firms is touting a new technology as a way to connect computers to the Internet by using cellphone as a modem. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70342/1138/525 ?WIDER-FI? GAINING GROUND IN RURAL AREAS ---------------------------------------- High-speed Internet users in the rural Midwest of the United States are finding a faster and less expensive connection to the Web than some of their more urban neighbours. Wireless carriers are able to offer services at speeds faster than a T-1 line at a fraction of the cost of DSL or cable modems. The technology enables users to connect to a wide area network from as far away as 10 miles or more. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70255/1138/525 CHINESE COURT UPHOLDS 5-YEAR SENTENCE AGAINST WEBMASTER ------------------------------------------------------- A five-year jail sentence for "subversion" has been upheld on appeal at a secret hearing against Chinese Webmaster Huang Qi, Reporters Without Borders has managed to confirm. Huang, who created the Website www.6-4tianwang.com, had been held in detention since June 2000 for "attempting to overthrow the state". http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70202/1138/525 CHINA LAUNCHES ONLINE OFFENSIVE AGAINST TIBETAN GROUPS ------------------------------------------------------ A new report by a Tibetan group says the Chinese government has built up a network of portals portraying Tibet as a backward but integral part of China, sparking a counter-offensive by independent Tibetan groups for whom the Internet is the only battleground. The report, China's Tibet Online: Tibet and Tibetans in People's Republic China (PRC) Government Websites, has been released at a time when global human rights groups have accused China of imposing restrictions on the use of the Internet in the Asian nation. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70174/1138/525 WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY FOR HEALTHCARE IN UGANDA -------------------------------------------- A nationwide, wireless network is being put in place to improve Uganda's ability to treat patients and combat the spread of disease. The technology allows health care workers to access and share critical information in remote facilities without fixed telephone lines or regular access to electricity. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70016/1138/525 ********************************* Analysis http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1134 ********************************* RUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH INTERNET CENSORSHIP ----------------------------------------- An Internet discussion group created by a militant outfit of the Khasi tribe in India's Meghalaya state invited government censorship, which in turn triggered a ban on thousands of Yahoo! Groups. But the Internet is really too vast for governments to stifle voices of dissent like it can in the real world. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70257/1134/525 ********************************* Success Stories http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1136 ********************************* WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WIRES UP ISOLATED COMMUNITIES ----------------------------------------------------- In the latest of our BDO ICT Case Studies series, read how an Indian NGO has used a wireless communication system to improve the exchange of information and communication between isolated tribal communities and to increase their self-worth and confidence level. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70353/1136/525 ********************************* Get Involved http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1112 ********************************* NEW DISCUSSIONS ABOUT ICT CONNECTIVITY FOR THE POOR --------------------------------------------------- The DOT-COM Alliance and, InterAction and the Global Knowledge for Development List (GKD) are hosting a month-long discussion on the list, starting October 14, examining the practical approaches to bringing ICT connectivity to poor, rural and other un and under-served communities. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70256/1112/525 ********************************* Partner News http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/4678 ********************************* APC'S NEW ANNUAL REPORT: STRATEGIC USE OF ICTS BY CIVIL SOCIETY --------------------------------------------------------------- The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has published its latest annual report for 2002. Highlights include: APC in the run-up to the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS); the APC ICT policy monitors in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean; a new training course to help civil society organisations understand how ICT policy decisions affect their work; a free software content management system; and the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) for ICT initiatives which was piloted in four continents. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70343/4678/525 UNESCO LAUNCHES NEW ICT FOR EDUCATION WEBSITE --------------------------------------------- The Unesco office in Bangkok has launched a new version of its ICT for Education Website, replacing the old site with more user-friendly, easier to search databases and Web-pages, up-to-date and comprehensive content; and a more attractive look and design. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70015/4678/525 Digital Opportunity Channel http://www.digitalopportunity.org Promoting Digital Opportunities for All Editor: Kanti Kumar Email: kanti.kumar at oneworld.net You can manage your email digest subscriptions with Digital Opportunity Channel and OneWorld by visiting: http://www.digitalopportunity.org/bulkmail/subscriptionlist/ You will need to log in with your nickname and password, or register for (free) OneWorld/Digital Opportunity Channel membership. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We are planning an exhibition of anti-war art, campaign materials and documentation produced during the worldwide protests and demonstration against the attack on Iraq. All the materials collected would be curated for a show by the committee on culture at the World Social Forum 2004. We can even work with jpeg images and reproduce them in India to avoid physical transportation. Any necessary transportation costs can be reimbursed. Write to wsf04 at hotmail.com or wsf_mamtamurthy at rediffmail..com with a description of the material you possess (item/ creative idea/ size or duration/ weight etc.) Display and other terms will be detailed out in each case. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20031019/1205b03f/attachment.htm From jens at redirected-series.net Tue Oct 21 17:27:00 2003 From: jens at redirected-series.net (Jens Heitjohann) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:27:00 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] 10/ 23 - 10/ 26 2003 =?iso-8859-1?q?=AD?= Four days to expose your visions! // redirected-PING at plateaux-Festival, Mousonturm/ Frankfurt/ Germany Message-ID: www.redirected-series.net // okt. 23rd ? okt. 26th, starting at 18.00 h (GMT +2h) If you communicate in the net - in a chat, via email, on a newsboard, in an online roleplaying game or by any other possiblilities -, you get an idea about the person beyond the interface. This vision often will be lost because it cannot find a space for discussions and pronounciation. redirected #1 : PING collects and publishes these visions! *************************************************************************** The elements: The chat We have a chat , in wich everbody can participate. It discusses four main net-related subjects ? sex, knowledge, force and violence. We have gathered lots of material according to these subjects in our web-forum over the period from september 19th to oktober 17th. You can log-in into the chat at our website. The main characters Everyday one character, controlled by the audience in the Mousonturm in Frankfurt/Germany, will be the center of interest. He shall become a specialist of that days topic. Task of the chat is to outline the characters as concrete as possible. Every question about the topic of the day can be asked ? no detail should be left out! The Schedule 10/23 - Th - Force - AgentP 10/24 - Fr - Therapy - Biest24w 10/25 - Sa - Sex - drDONGLE 10/26 - Su - Knowledge - javajane The Collection/ The Server You can send us your visions, ideas, stories about the main character of the day! We have prepared a fileserver, on which you can upload your visions through an interface on our website. There you can also get an overview of the other participants visions. All the material on the server will immediatly after upload be printed out, burned on CD, etc. and be arrangend in the plot (see below) of the corresponding character. The position in the room will be determined by your choice when you upload your material. There is an image on our webiste, representing the human senses. The categories are divided into perceptions (_in) and expressions (_out) of the character. The plots The plots represent the identity of the characters, compounded by your visions. The plots are situated at the Mousonturm in Frankfurt/Germany. The webcams Four webcams allow you to observe the creation of the plots. The first project of the redirected-series, the "birth" of the four avatars, is followed by others - further steps in the characters` developments... (Newsletter at http://www.redirected-series.net/english/news_e.htm) You can find uns at // http://www.redirected-series.net and in the //K?nstlerhaus Mousonturm / plateaux - Internationale Plattform f?r junge Theaterregie (http://www.plateaux.info) Station / oktober 23rd - 26th from 18.00 on up into the night Free entry If you are interested in our project, please be so kind to forward this email to everybody you know and link our webpage if possible Please excuse any cross-posting. Jentzsch / Heitjohann / Popp From kanti.kumar at oneworld.net Wed Oct 22 12:36:40 2003 From: kanti.kumar at oneworld.net (Kanti Kumar) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:36:40 +0500 Subject: [Announcements] What's New at Digital Opportunity Channel Message-ID: <66080-2200310322106409@oneworld.net> What's New at Digital Opportunity Channel http://www.digitalopportunity.org + ---------------------------------------------------- + For all the news and analysis about the WSIS summit from a civil society perspective, please visit our Special Coverage section at: http://www.digitalopportunity.org/section/dochannel/wsis + ---------------------------------------------------- + ********************************* Latest News http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1138 ********************************* INDIA PLANS MASSIVE CYBER PROJECT IN KASHMIR, SANS POWER & CONNECTIVITY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Indian government has announced an ambitious US $8.2 million plan to set up 139 Community Information Centres connecting all villages across the state of Kashmir, alongside call centres and other schemes to boost information technology, even though both power and connectivity remain elusive in the state. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70973/1138/557 UK COUNCIL PUTS CITIZEN BENEFITS CLAIMS ON EXPRESSWAY ----------------------------------------------------- In an innovative e-government initiative, the Halton Borough Council in UK is driving its housing and other benefits straight to the citizenry, literally. Equipped with laptops connected to the council's benefits-management system, its Benefits Express bus helps local people navigate the bureaucratic maze of applying for housing benefits and council tax relief. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70972/1138/557 AS ONE COMPANY TAKES OVER US AIRWAVES, DIVERSITY DISAPPEARS ------------------------------------------------------------ Before the deregulation of radio in the US in 1996, no company could own more than 40 radio stations. Now one - Clear Channel - owns over 1,200, as well as hundreds of thousands of billboards, concert halls, and other entertainment products. All this means most of what we hear is only what they want us to hear, explains Free Speech Radio's Dante Toza. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70894/1138/557 MEDIA, COMMUNICATORS CONCERNED AT WSIS MEASURES ----------------------------------------------- The Bellagio Symposium on Media, Freedom and Poverty, which came together recently, has expressed concern that in the World Summit on the Information Society some of the measures being considered run counter to freedom of expression and that there is inadequate mapping of development objectives against the proposed actions. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70782/1138/557 ACCESS TO INFORMATION ESSENTIAL TO KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES: MINISTERS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting in Paris in preparation of the World Summit on the Information Society in December 2003, ministers from all over the world have agreed that universal access to information and press freedom must guide the ICT use to maximize its effectiveness for individual, community and national development. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70780/1138/557 BOLIVIA ACTIVISTS PROTEST FORCED CLOSURE OF RADIO STATION --------------------------------------------------------- Communication rights activists in Bolivia have denounced the forced closure of Radio Pio XII, one of the affiliates of the Association for Wireless Education in Bolivia. The closure was a direct result of the radio station's role in providing information on the crisis that is developing in the country. Latin American and Caribbean communicators have also expressed their solidarity with the Bolivian people. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70682/1138/557 RADIO PROJECT IN WEST AFRICA GIVES VOICES TO COMMUNITIES -------------------------------------------------------- The Panos Institute West Africa has set up, in Ghana and Sierra Leone, a pilot radio project using ?Oral Testimonies?, or interviews that are long and extensive discussions on specific topics. Using the oral testimonies of the local population in their original languages, it aims to bring about a concept of a more listener-friendly radio format that facilitates integration and synthesis and encourages creativity. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70675/1138/557 FINALISTS NAMED FOR APC BETINHO COMMUNICATIONS PRIZE 2003 --------------------------------------------------------- APC has announced the 12 finalists for the Betinho Communications Prize 2003. Three of the projects will be awarded US$ 7,500 in prize in recognition of their outstanding people-centred technology initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70540/1138/557 SOUTH AFRICA GETS ITS OWN 'GRAZING LAND' FOR OPEN SOURCE -------------------------------------------------------- South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has launched an Open Source Centre as an attempt to stimulate the adoption of Open Source software technologies in Africa. The centre has adopted as its theme the concept of 'Meraka', a SeSotho term meaning common grazing land. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70537/1138/557 ********************************* Analysis http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1134 ********************************* MAKING TECHNOLOGY WORK FOR THE POOR ----------------------------------- At the upcoming WSIS conference on technology and development, delegates should consider not just how to improve Internet access in the developing world, but how to overcome the other half of the "digital divide" - making the new technologies work in poorer, less literate societies, argues David Dickson. OneWorld's Open Knowledge Network is already doing just that. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70900/1134/557 ********************************* Get Involved http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1112 ********************************* WRITE A VIDEO SCRIPT AND WIN A DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA! ---------------------------------------------------- The UK Department for International Development, Gamos and Big World invite you to compete for a digital video camera, plus accessories, to enhance your information and communication for development. Develop a script for a short video that you will use the digital video camera to make and its project planning and send by email or post. Closing date: 30 October 2003 http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70784/1112/557 TALK TO HER: DIALOGUE AMONG YOUNG WOMEN IN ICT ---------------------------------------------- From October 24 to November 21, 2003, young women from across the globe will connect in an electronic forum to discuss strategies for the integration of gender dimensions and empowerment of young women and girls at all levels of the ICT for development field. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70783/1112/557 ********************************* Partner News http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/4678 ********************************* 'MAKING THE LINKS' OF DIVERSE VOICES IN CANADA'S HEARTLAND ---------------------------------------------------------- Making the Links is an independent, alternative radio from the heartland of Canada, now in its sixth year of broadcasting. Airing on community stations in Saskatoon and Regina, it features the voices of many communities fighting for social and economic change at home and globally. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70901/4678/557 AMARC LAUNCHES RADIO NEWS AGENCY FOR AFRICA'S RURAL AREAS --------------------------------------------------------- The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) has set up a news agency on development issues. Simbani [1] Africa News Agency will make use of technical information from various organizations, editing it into radio format, thus making it accessible to a wide audience, including to people in the most remote rural areas. Read more in French http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70570/4678/557 ********************************* Current Funding Opportunity http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/4889 ********************************* OSISA INVITES ICT4D PROPOSALS FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA ------------------------------------------------- The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) has formally launched its new ICT Programme Guidelines and has invited organisations to engage with OSISA on developing effective proposals for ICT s and development in Southern Africa. OSISA will support programmes where ICT policy, technologies, networking, literacy and development awareness are not an end in themselves, but where the emphasis is on social action for change. Contact Ashraf Patel at ashrafp at osiafrica.org for more information. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70905/4889/557 Digital Opportunity Channel http://www.digitalopportunity.org Promoting Digital Opportunities for All Editor: Kanti Kumar Email: kanti.kumar at oneworld.net You can manage your email digest subscriptions with Digital Opportunity Channel and OneWorld by visiting: http://www.digitalopportunity.org/bulkmail/subscriptionlist/ You will need to log in with your nickname and password, or register for (free) OneWorld/Digital Opportunity Channel membership. From =?iso-8859-1?Q?Edith=2DRu=DF=2DHaus?= Wed Oct 22 14:38:25 2003 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Edith=2DRu=DF=2DHaus?= (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Edith=2DRu=DF=2DHaus?=) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:08:25 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Stipend Announcement Message-ID: The Edith Russ Site for Media Art will award 3, six-month stipends for 2004, aimed at artists working with new media. Each stipend is 10.225,84 Euro (20.000 DM) dotiert. There are no residency requirements. The stipends were made possible by the Foundation of Lower Saxony. Deadline for the completed, signed application, which includes a project description: 31 January, 2004 (post date). For moreinformation on the edith Russ Site for Media Art please consult our website www.edith-russ-haus.de The artists who received stipends in 2003 were Dave Allen (GB/D), Bernadette Corporation (USA/F), Naomi Ben-Shahar (USA/ISR). The artists who received stipends in 2002 were Johan Grimonprez (B), Dagmar Keller/Martin Wittwer (D/CH) und Florian Zeyfang (D). Send appliations to: Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst Edith Russ Site for Media Art Peterstra?e 23 26121 Oldenburg Germany t. +49 (0)441 235 32 08 f. +49 (0)441 235 21 61 info at edith-russ-haus.de www.edith-russ-haus.de From info at nmartproject.net Fri Oct 24 12:53:25 2003 From: info at nmartproject.net (NewMediaArtProjectNetwork) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:53:25 +0200 Subject: [Announcements] Violence - Version 9.0 Message-ID: <005d01c39a1d$0cd7e370$0200a8c0@meuvchen> Violence Online Festival www.newmediafest.org/violence/ is happy to launch its latest version online, eg Version 9.0 on 24 October 2003 on occasion of the opening and the participation in MAD'03 - Festival for Electronic Art Madrid /Spain 24 October - 14 November 2003 www.mad03.net !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Violence really goes round - and now already for the second year - join and celebrate together 300 participating artists virtually!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Violence Online Festival is an ongoing New Media art project in form of an online festival based on participatory and networking components, created, curated and organised by Agricola de Cologne, media artist and New Media curator operating from Cologne (Germany). Meanwhile more than 300 artists from 42 countries reflect the phenomenon of violence from all its aspects. The project was initiated for and formed the online part of Violence Festival 2002 Tabor (Czech Republic) and was launched online on 10 August 2002. Now, more than one year later Violence Online Festival is proud to launch Version 9.0, including a new department of "Violence Media Incorporated" ----> Violence Library which will be collecting papers, articles etc of authors who deal with the multi-facets of violence. And these are the first authors included ---> Joseph Nechvatal, Andy Deck, Sergej Jakovlev, Klaus Schrefler and Jeremy Newman and these are the new artists featured on "Violence Magazine" Isabel Aranda Yto, Nikki Johnson, Stephen Lawler, Rober Praxmarer Find all further information on the administrative and artistic body of Violence Online Festival! Have a fantastic time with violence!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Violence Online Festival www.newmediafest.org violence at newmediafest.org copyright ? 2002-2003 by Agricola de Cologne All rights reserved. All included artworks: copyright ? by the artists or owners Violence Online Festival is affiliated with A Virtual Memorial Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity www.a-virtual-memorial.org and represents a corporate member of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the experimental platform for net based art <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< operating from Cologne/Germany >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From siriyavan at outlookindia.com Sat Oct 25 08:46:30 2003 From: siriyavan at outlookindia.com (Anand) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:16:30 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Navayana: Publishing for Social Change References: <20031025100008.001AC28E392@mail.sarai.net> Message-ID: <008701c39ac3$b921b4c0$1704a8c0@anand> Dear moderator, could you lease make this announcement that would interest the Sarai group. Anand Navayana: Publishing for Social Change Dear friend, My friend Ravikumar and I are launching a new, little publishing house, to be called 'Navayana'. Please find enclosed a note on ourselves; and a special offer for those who wish to buy books directly from us. Navayana literally means 'new vehicle', a term given to Dr. B.R.Ambedkar's socially and morally concerned, rationalistic, anti-metaphysical interpretation of Buddhism. This 'liberation theology' of Buddhism is also called 'engaged Buddhism'. As a publishing venture, Navayana will be a 'new vehicle' to take forward debates on issues neglected by mainstream publishers. To start with, Navayana will feature short tracts on a range of issues related to society, culture, literature, history and politics. The focus will be on caste, identity politics and religious fundamentalism. In the tradition of Siddharth Gautama, perhaps the first to introduce the culture of dialogue and debate with people who held diverse views in the subcontinent, these books will encourage dialogue and debate on issues the mainstream does not wish to address. The first Navayana book, TOUCHABLE TALES (Rs 45), will debate the publishing and reading of dalit literature in English, which has, of late, witnessed a spurt. Those on board the debate are: 1. Ravikumar, activist-theoretician of the Dalit movement whose nonfiction is being translated for Samya 2. Mini Krishnan, translations editor with Oxford University Press 3. Gail Omvedt, historian of the Dalit movement; translator of Vasant Moon's Vasti 4. K. Satyanarayana who teaches at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad 5. Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things 6. Alok Mukherjee and Arun Prabha Mukherjee, who teach at York University, Toronto 7. Sivakami, Tamil dalit author whose translated work is forthcoming from Orient Longman 8. K.P. Singh who teaches South Asian Studies and Sociology at the Univ. of Washington 9. Mandira Sen of Samya-Stree, Kolkata 10. Narendra Jadhav, author of Outcaste: A Memoir (Aamcha Baap Aan Mahi) 11. Anand Teltumbde, chronicler of the dalit movement, based in Mumbai These tracts of 40 to 60 pages will be printed in demy-octavo size with four-color covers. The production values-design, editorial content-will be first-rate. Initially, we are planning to bring out 12 books in one year; that is, a set of four, every four months. The books will be priced in the range of Rs.40 to Rs.60 in India, depending on the pages (USD 6 per book for the international market). Initially, Ravikumar and I are putting in our money... Eventually, we plan to raise some money from interested, committed individuals; and of course through sales. We welcome suggestions on how we could make this a sustainable enterprise. We request people with good contacts/ networking to buy copies in bulk at discount and retail them in their areas. The three other books in the first set are: 'POSTMODERNISM AND RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM: A SCIENTIFIC REBUTTAL TO HINDU SCIENCE'-An essay by Meera Nanda, author of 'Breaking the Spell of Dharma and Other Essays' (Three Essays Collective, New Delhi); a review of the book; plus an interview with Nanda. (Rs 55) 'AMBEDKAR: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES'-A series of six autobiographical sketches written by B.R.Ambedkar in 1935 under the title 'Waiting for a Visa' recounting his experiences of untouchability in his childhood, youth and adulthood. (Rs 40) 'BRAHMANS AND CRICKET: LAGAAN'S MILLENNIAL PURANA AND OTHER MYTHS'-Two articles written by S. Anand on the theme of 'cricket and caste': one on Lagaan, cricket nationalism and dalit exclusion published in Himal in March 2002; the responses by Sudhanva Deshpande, Luban Mariam and others; plus 'The Retreat of the Brahmin' featured in Outlook's cricket world cup special issue. (Rs 60) These books will be released on the evening of 5 November 2003 in Chennai at Landmark, (at Spencer Plaza), by Narendra Jadhav. Jadhav's book Outcaste: A Memoir, will in turn be released by N.Ram, editor-in-chief of The Hindu. A panel discussion will follow in which Sivakami, writer, and Kanimozhi, poet, will participate. Narendra Jadhav will read from his work. Seeking your support and cooperation to launch this new vehicle, Ravikumar and Anand for Navayana navayana at ambedkar.org SPECIAL OFFER Navayana offers you a special price on the set of four books. The cover price of this set of four is going to be Rs.200. For those placing orders directly with Navayana, we are offering the set for Rs.170 -15 per cent less. This will include postage. (For outstation cheques, please add Rs.30 as collection charges.) Delivery time: One week (starting November 5). Those placing bulk orders of more than 20 books (that is, five sets of the four books) can avail a set of four at Rs.150 - 25 cent less. (Those who do not wish to avail the discount, can send us cheques for Rs.200.) For overseas buyers, a set of four books will cost USD 20. For overseas orders, add USD 10 for postage. Drafts/ cheques should be marked for "NAVAYANA" and addressed to: Ravikumar 28, Veerabhadrasamy Koil Street Lawspet, Pondicherry - 605008 Ph: 91-413-2253666 In Chennai contact: S. Anand Ph: 91-44-24422199/ 24662316 From monica at sarai.net Mon Oct 27 07:18:27 2003 From: monica at sarai.net (Monica Narula) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:48:27 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Looking for Submissions - Signs: Gender beyond Sexual Difference Message-ID: Signs Special Issue: Gender beyond "Sexual Difference": Rethinking Feminisms and Visual Culture Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society seeks submissions for a special issue titled "Gender beyond 'Sexual Difference': Rethinking Feminisms and Visual Culture," slated for publication in spring 2006. The editors of this special issue seek manuscripts that offer new feminist strategies for examining visual culture, convincing critiques of earlier approaches to feminist visual analysis, and/or new models of feminist visual theory that accommodate the multivalence of women's identities and experiences. We are interested in essays that revise binary models of sexual difference by considering the coextensivity of gender and the myriad other aspects of identity (sexuality, race, ethnicity, etc.) defining contemporary experience. This special issue of Signs will explore the powerful political conflicts that inform the work of feminist visual theorists and practitioners today and will place a particular emphasis on the burdens and conflicts that fall on those whose work is simultaneously feminist, antiracist, queer, postcolonial, Marxist, and so on. This issue will include works that attempt to rethink the nexus of feminisms (in the plural) and visual culture beyond the dualisms generally posed by "sexual difference" theory, as important as this theory was in developing critical models for analyzing the patriarchal structures of visual representation in Euro-American cultures. Located at a moment of intense shifts in conceptions and experiences of identity (national, international, class, ethnic, racial, sexual, gender, and otherwise), this issue intends to provide multiple points of view on the intersection of feminism and visual culture, to pose new critical models of reading imagery and/or interrogating how feminist visual theories and practices from the so-called fine arts to television, performance art, and the Internet might productively negotiate the increasingly complex pressures of global capitalism. Possible topics could include: essays analyzing the productive or destructive conflicts between specific feminist visual theories and particular queer, antiracist, Marxist, postcolonial, and/or other theories of identity; articles addressing key feminist works of art (e.g., Adrian Piper's performances) through models of analysis acknowledging the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, and so on; papers examining visual images or objects that articulate complex formulations of gendered identity as multiple and unfixed; or essays offering new feminist models of visual theory that accommodate the interdependence of gender and other aspects of identity. The special issue editors are Amelia Jones (history of art, School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester) and Jennifer Doyle (English, University of California, Riverside). Please send submissions (three copies) no later than August 1, 2004, to Signs, "Rethinking Feminisms and Visual Culture," University of California, Los Angeles, 1400H Public Policy Building, Box 957122, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7122. Please observe the guidelines in the most recent issues of the journal or at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/instruct.html. -- Monica Narula Sarai:The New Media Initiative 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054 www.sarai.net From aesthete at mail.jnu.ac.in Tue Oct 28 05:07:24 2003 From: aesthete at mail.jnu.ac.in (Dean, School of Arts & Aesthetics) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:57:24 +0550 Subject: [Announcements] school of arts and aesthetics j.n.u music appreciation lectures Message-ID: <1067315244.c8027980aesthete@mail.jnu.ac.in> SCHOOLL OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY Outreach Lectures on >Hindustani Music, November,2003 TO REGISTER e-mail aesthete at mail.jnu.ac.in or call 26704061, 26180476 Venue: Auditorium, School of Arts and . ; Aesthetics, JNU ; Time:3 p.m In case of vacancies late registration from 2 p.m. onwards on 1st November at the venue on >first-cum-first serve basis ; Fee : There is no registration fee ; >WEEKEND 1 >1st November:Urmila Bhirdikar,Pune, "The spread of North Indian music in >Maharashtra: socio cultural conditions of production and reception >2nd November: S.Kalidas,Delhi, "Tradition and the Individual Talent: >Mallikarjun Mansur's journey across Gwalior,Agra and Jaipur.". > >WEEKEND 2 >8th November: Vidya Rao,Delhi, "Singing the Body: Exploration of Sohar and >Thumri". >9th November: Amlan Dasgupta,Calcutta, "Women and the history of early >recording". > >WEEKEND 3 >15th November:Sandeep Bagchee,Delhi, "Khyal gayaki in the late 20th >century - a comparative study of two prominent artists". >16th November: Preeti Bahadur,Delhi,"Representations of Music: Ragamala >Paintings", to be followed by short film based on Ragamala "Rasikan Rey" by >Pooja Kaul, Delhi. > >WEEKEND 4 >22nd November: Ashok Ranade, Bombay, "Categories of Music in >India:Adima[primitive], Loka [folk], Dharma/Bhakti [religious/devotional]". >23rd November: Ashok Ranade, Bombay, "Categories of Music in India: Kala >[art/classical], Jana [popular], Sangam [confluence]". ============================================== This Mail was Scanned for Virus and found Virus free ============================================== From geobodies at smile.ch Tue Oct 28 11:19:04 2003 From: geobodies at smile.ch (Ursula Biemann) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:49:04 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] video essay in the digital age Message-ID: Stuff it: The Video Essay in the Digital Age edited by Ursula Biemann for the Institute for Theory of Art and Design, Zurich ISBN 3-211-20318-4 With the entry of documentarisms into the arts, the video essay, as a visual reflection on reality, has gained much attention in recent art debates. Moreover, due to its subjective, dissociative, and highly self-reflexive characteristics, this video genre has become a preferred visual medium for theoretical considerations regarding the major shifts taking place in visual culture. Stuff it maps a wide range of contemporary essayist video practice. Following the discussions on post-structuralist cinematographic experiments in the 80s, the publication seeks a deeper understanding of how essayism relates to the digital cultural developments today. On the one hand, the discursive and compressed video genre is presently situated in the context of new media, hypertext and digital image production. This raises the question of how these technologies emphasize or mutate the characteristics of the essay and potentially open up new possibilities for a critical engagement with them. On the other hand, the video essay faces an increasingly complex society. The great geographic and cultural diversity of recent video making redirects the theoretical discussion from a eurocentric literary tradition towards a postcolonial cultural studies perspective where a new set of issues including diaspora, migration and the ambivalent experience of nation, borders and belonging are being addressed. Stuff it is a profusely color illustrated collection of texts by video artists and cultural theorists who illuminate the video essay in its role as crossover and communicator between art, theory and critical practice in all its variations: from monologues of disembodyment to cartographies of the transitional, from the essay as organization of complex social shifts to transnational positionality and non-linear memory structures. With contributions by Nora Alter, Ursula Biemann, Christa Bl?mlinger, Eric Cazdyn, Steve Fagin, J?rg Huber, Angela Melitopoulos/Maurizio Lazzarato, Walid Ra'ad, Steve Reinke, Hito Steyerl, Alan James Thomas, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Jan Verwoert, Rinaldo Walcott, Paul Willemsen, and a video archive. The publication is in English and is a continuation of the Stuff it symposium, organized in collaboration with the Migros Museum Zurich in June 2002. published by Edition Voldemeer Z?rich / Springer Wien New York, 2003 168 pages, color ill., (= T:G series, vol. 02), CHF 43.50 / EUR 27 ISBN 3-211-20318-4 -- From kanti.kumar at oneworld.net Wed Oct 29 14:12:04 2003 From: kanti.kumar at oneworld.net (Kanti Kumar) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:12:04 +0500 Subject: [Announcements] What's New at Digital Opportunity Channel Message-ID: <271100-22003103291242463@oneworld.net> What's New at Digital Opportunity Channel http://www.digitalopportunity.org ********************************* Latest News http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1138 ********************************* CONCERN ABOUT UKRAINE'S BID TO CONTROL THE INTERNET --------------------------------------------------- Reporters Without Borders has expressed alarm at attempts by the Ukrainian secret police to take control of Internet operations in the country and intercept e-mail messages. The government's bid to take over management of the national domain name ".ua" and its proposal that parliament legalise e-mail monitoring, will allow it to effectively gag online activity, says the media rights group. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/71490/1138/592 WIRELESS COMPUTERS EXPAND THE WORLD IN US CLASSROOMS ---------------------------------------------------- Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey in the United States began this fall to establish virtual classrooms by providing all full-time undergraduate students with laptops connected to a campus-wide wireless network. Students now have the option of attending class, group meetings, or exchanging notes while sitting under trees on the quad, on park benches, in the library, or even in the cafeteria. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/71489/1138/592 WEAVERS IN BHUTAN GET READY TO BUY AND SELL ONLINE -------------------------------------------------- Women weaving colourful traditional clothing in remote Himalayan areas of Bhutan will soon be able to use the power of the Internet to buy raw material from India online and advertise their products with a click of the mouse. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/71383/1138/592 PAKISTAN SET TO LAUNCH DIGITAL LIBRARY -------------------------------------- Pakistan is all set to launch in January 2004 its first digital library that will give universities and research institutes in the country access to about 5,000 international journals. Ahmad Naeem Khan of OneWorld South Asia reports. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/71117/1138/592 TESTIMONIES FROM WEST BANK IN AUDIO AND VIDEO --------------------------------------------- Amnesty International delegates visited the West Bank earlier this year. OneWorld TV has collected the evidence and testimonies from civilian Palestinians and posted them to its Website. You can also listen to related audio clips on the OneWorld Radio site. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/71115/1138/592 ********************************* Special Coverage: Information Society & WSIS http://www.digitalopportunity.org/section/dochannel/wsis ********************************* ASIA-PACIFIC LEADERS EMPHASISE ON SPECIFIC ICT POLICIES -------------------------------------------------------- The Kuala Lumpur Declaration on ICT Policies and e-Strategies in Asia and the Pacific has laid emphasis on specific policies on poverty reduction and the Millennium Development Goals, governance, gender, infrastructure and access, human capacity, content and applications, enterprises and entrepreneurs, and regional co-operation. The declaration was endorsed by high-level Asian delegates at the recently concluded Asian Forum on ICT Policies and e-Strategies, as Asia-Pacific input to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/71384/4732/592 INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM TO SHOWCASE ICT APPLICATIONS AT WSIS ------------------------------------------------------------ Two hundred organisations and businesses from 80 countries will participate in the ICT for Development Platform to be held concurrently with the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva. Digital Opportunity Channel will also be present at the event, which will show how ICTs - from simple transistor radios to high-tech computer systems - can be used innovatively to reduce poverty and promote development. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/71308/4732/592 ********************************* Analysis http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1134 ********************************* UNIVERSAL ACCESS: THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND THE CREDIBILITY GAP ------------------------------------------------------------ The issues of affordable access to the Internet, telephony and other telecom services is greatly exercising the minds of many at the World Summit on the Information Society and other arenas. There are many genuine efforts afoot to deploy ICTs more effectively for development, calling for us all to 'think outside the box'. Finding the right solution(s) to move forward, however, is not easy and demands the concentrated effort, especially, of civil society. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/71390/1134/592 ********************************* Get Involved http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1112 ********************************* CREATE AN INFORMATION SOCIETY THROUGH YOUR IMAGES! -------------------------------------------------- What does it mean to live in an ?information society?" What are the images of this revolution? What are the seen and unseen roles that ICTs have in your life? Have your voice heard in the discussion around this topic by entering the Global Gallery's special contest, "Window on the Information Society," through the power of the image! The contest closes 18 November 2003. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/71491/1112/592 ********************************* Partner News http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/4678 ********************************* HIVOS THROWS ITS HOUSE OPEN TO EVERYONE --------------------------------------- Everyone can get to know Hivos, our donor and partner, and its employees on this day in an informal way. Films will be shown, Hivos policies explained and its campaigns highlighted. And, of course, everybody will get the chance to ask questions and converse with each other. Please feel free to visit Hivos on 22 November 2003 in The Hague (Netherlands). You can register for this day by sending an e-mail to: g.schaars at hivos.nl. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/71494/4678/592 'MAKING THE LINKS' OF DIVERSE VOICES IN CANADA'S HEARTLAND ---------------------------------------------------------- Making the Links is an independent, alternative radio from the heartland of Canada, now in its sixth year of broadcasting. Airing on community stations in Saskatoon and Regina, it features the voices of many communities fighting for social and economic change at home and globally. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70901/4678/592 ********************************* Current Funding Opportunity http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/4889 ********************************* OSISA INVITES ICT4D PROPOSALS FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA ------------------------------------------------- The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) has formally launched its new ICT Programme Guidelines and has invited organisations to engage with OSISA on developing effective proposals for ICT s and development in Southern Africa. OSISA will support programmes where ICT policy, technologies, networking, literacy and development awareness are not an end in themselves, but where the emphasis is on social action for change. Contact Ashraf Patel at ashrafp at osiafrica.orgfor more information. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotoarticle/addhit/70905/4889/592 Digital Opportunity Channel http://www.digitalopportunity.org Promoting Digital Opportunities for All Editor: Kanti Kumar Email: kanti.kumar at oneworld.net You can manage your email digest subscriptions with Digital Opportunity Channel and OneWorld by visiting: http://www.digitalopportunity.org/bulkmail/subscriptionlist/ You will need to log in with your nickname and password, or register for (free) OneWorld/Digital Opportunity Channel membership. From marnoldm at du.edu Thu Oct 30 18:56:07 2003 From: marnoldm at du.edu (Michael Arnold Mages) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:56:07 -0700 (MST) Subject: [Announcements] Neural Skeins and Digital Skins -- November on -empyre- Message-ID: The parallels between the internet and a biological system are many. Growth and decay, circulation and disease are symptoms of these living systems. In our bodies, cells, neurons, bacteria and on-line, words, memes and code-structures are vital elements of ordered, yet chaotic process. For the month of November -empyre- delights in presenting Neural Skeins and Digital Skins: code, writing, and the net as a central nervous system, with four prominent artists and theorists. *** In a pastiche of imagery and French and English text, Tamara Lai (Belgium) spins her intimate, visceral cyber-poems from her base in Liege. Lai's oeuvre includes exploration of performance, ephemerality and virtual relations. Alan Sondheim (US), New York based net artist and poet, conducts a continuous meditation on cyberspace, emphasizing issues of interiority, subjectivity, body, and language. http://www.asondheim.org/ Alessandro Ludovico (IT) publishes the critical journal neural.it in Italian and English online. and Florian Cramer (Germany), is a theorist on comparative net aesthetics and literature, and lectures at the Free University Berlin. *** As Alan writes, We collude between death and sex, to the limits of distortion - space-time burns around configurations of terror and the body. The skin is always a skein of communication. Words are performative only to the extent they can persuade physical reality beyond the sememe - propaganda or persuasion of language. How, as Florian asks, does 'codework' fit notions of text that were crafted without digital code - most importantly: machine-executable digital code - in mind, and vice versa. Is it a coincidence that, in their poetical appropriation of low-level Internet codes, codeworks ended up aesthetically resembling concrete poetry? And, apart from aesthetic resemblances, how do computer programs relate to literature? Join us in discussion to examine these questions and more on -empyre-. Subscribe at: http://www.subtle.net/empyre ------------- -- Michael Arnold Mages mailto:marnoldm at du.edu -- From jeebesh at sarai.net Fri Oct 31 14:37:28 2003 From: jeebesh at sarai.net (Jeebesh Bagchi) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:07:28 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Why a Documentary Festival in Gurgaon? Documela Message-ID: <200310311907.28497.jeebesh@sarai.net> Why a Documentary Festival in Gurgaon? Asheesh Pandya How and where do you see good documentaries? This was the question that repeatedly confronted me while I was spreading the word about plans to hold a documentary festival in Gurgaon. Almost everyone I met associated documentaries with the Discovery or the National Geographic channels and it took some amount of speaking from my part to convince people that there exists the world of the independent Indian documentary which is seldom seen on TV channels. Screened often in the rarefied atmosphere of the India International Centre or the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, these films often do not get the audience they deserve. It might come as a surprise to most of us but the Indian documentary is making a mark for itself in international festivals and probably it might not be wrong to state that more documentaries get screened in festivals than feature films. What is the independent Indian documentary all about? Boring, pedantic and commentary heavy? Hardly. The documentaries being produced here in the last several years have finally shattered the image created by the ?official?, ?news-reel? documentary that served as propaganda for the government. There is no subject which is taboo for the new documentary and there are as many different ways of telling the stories as there are filmmakers. Diversity in form and content marks the emergence of this brave new world of the Indian documentary. They are entertaining, engrossing and rigorous; and reveal worlds and truths the way only a documentary is capable of doing. Why is it important to see a documentary? There is probably no other creative form of expression that gets you as close to life, reality, and worlds that surround us but are often inaccessible. The documentary allows you to see life up close, witness events in a new light and reflect upon the many realities which make our world. Documela-2003 will provide an opportunity for us, the residents of Gurgaon to see for ourselves some of the best work to come out of the Indian documentary scene. And I am deeply grateful to the filmmakers who have made this dream possible. They have sent the best of their films for us and have also agreed to be here in person, so that they can have a direct conversation with the audiences here. I am thankful to the MDU National Law College, Gurgaon for providing us the venue, the most basic requirement for a festival to take place. And I?m thrilled by the enthusiastic response and support I have received from the students here. The MDU National Law College falls under the purview of the Maharishi Dayanand University (M.D.U.), Rohtak. During a telephonic conversation with the Vice Chancellor Maj. Gen. (Retd.) B. S. Suhag, the VC said, ?It is a wonderful idea to hold a Documentary Film Festival in Gurgaon. So far the focus in this area has been on the industry. There is a general lack of information about various other aspects of social development. I am sure these films would be able to fill this vacuum and generate awareness amongst the people of Gurgaon. MDU Law College is proud to be the venue for such an event. I wish this festival a great success.? No such event is possible without adequate funds. I am thankful to PSBT (the Public Service Broadcasting Trust) and Fabindia, who have come forward to support Documela with generous contributions. Not the least important is the help and support provided to me by certain very special individuals. I am extremely thankful to each one of them. I also value the encouragement given to me by my friends in the media by covering this event right from its planning stage. Lastly, I wish, Documela-2003 is only the first in the series of Gurgaon Documentary Festivals and hope that the Documela will become a permanent part of the cultural landscape of Gurgaon. Like Diwali, Eid or Christmas we will celebrate the Festival of Documentaries at regular intervals. And this will only be made possible by the collective support of more and more people who believe, ?Documentary has to be seen, and I will make it happen?. Happy Viewing Asheesh Pandya Facilitator, Gurgaon Documentary Festival. -------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMELA~2003 The First Gurgaon Documentary Festival In partnership with the Public Service Broadcasting Trust Venue: MDU National Law College, Sector 40, Gurgaon Screening Schedule: Day 1 Saturday, November 1st 2003 After each film, there will be a 15 minute interactive session between the filmmaker and the audience. Feel free to ask questions. Please take your seats five minutes before the beginning of a screening. In order not to disturb others, please silence your mobile phones. 11:00-11:30 I N A U G U R A T I O N 11:35-13:00 Words on water/85min./Sanjay Kak/An urgent journey through the Narmada valley and a struggle that has exposed the deceptive heart of India?s development politics 13:15-13:45 Paradise on the river of hell/30min./Abir Bazaz, Meenu Gaur On the catastrophic desolation of Kashmir 14:00-14:45 L U N C H 14:45-15:45 Dharma Dollies/60min./Aruna Har Prasad /A portrait of young successful Indian women in search of a belief 16:00-16:55 Some Roots Grow Upwards/55min/Kavita Joshi/Seeking insights into the art of Ratan Thiyam, and his folk theatre 17:10-18:04 Barf (Snow)/54min./Saba Dewan/Trekking with a group of girls from slums going out from their city for the first time 18:20-19:00 C H A I P A A N I 19:00-19:28 Backstage Boys/28min./Meera Dewan/About brave and adventurous Punjabi boys willing to take chances through illegal immigration by the human traffickers 19:45-20:15 Portraits of belonging-Bhai Mian/30min. 20:15-20:45 Portraits of belonging-Sagira Begum/30min./Sameera Jain Sensitive sketches of two people who practice their skills in the context of belonging to an old city 21:00-21:43 When four friends meet/43min./Rahul Roy They share their secrets? sex and girls; youthful dreams and failures; frustrations and triumphs. DOCUMELA~2003 The First Gurgaon Documentary Festival In partnership with the Public Service Broadcasting Trust Venue: MDU National Law College, Sector 40, Gurgaon Screening Schedule: Day 2 Sunday, November 2nd 2003 11:00-13:30 STUDENTS? FILMS ?- a) From MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi That?s what my dad used to say/40min./Sharat Kataria, Laalit Lobo, Vikram Rohella/Filmmakers? journeys of discovery into their gender and sexual identities Let me speak/35min./Sukrit, Manish and Sushil/A musical portrait of the music band ?Indian Ocean? Tedhi lakeer~the crooked line/26min./Aparna Sanyal, Amrit Sharma, Arunima Shankar/A tale about two men and their not so ?straight? life b) From the School of Convergence, New Delhi And it lives/5min./Deeya Prakash, Amanpreet Singh and Aien Longkumer/ About "Zafar Mahal", the summer retreat of Bahadur Shah Zafar Knock-Knock/22min./2nd batch of students/A feature magazine 13:30-14:30 L U N C H 14:30-15:00 Into the Abyss/28min/Vandana Kohli A film on major depression 15:00-16:00 Tracing the arc/38min.& A million steps/22min./Pankaj Butalia Two films about the lost history of the mapping of Asia 16:15-16:45 Ramlila/30min./Subhash Kapoor/ About how people interpret legends 17:00-18:00 Three Women & A Camera/60min./Sabeena Gadihoke/A film on three women still photographers, including Homai Vyarawalla, India?s first woman photo-journalist 18:15-18:45 C H A I P A A N I 18:45-20:00 Tales of the Night Fairies/74min./Shohini Ghosh/ A movement of sex-workers in Calcutta 20:15-21:00 Kamlabai/45min./Reena Mohan/A portrait of the first actress of the Indian screen 21:00-21:30 A Season Outside/30min./Amar Kanwar/Examining the scars of violence and the dreams of hope