From aarti at sarai.net Thu Feb 1 04:19:32 2007 From: aarti at sarai.net (Aarti Sethi) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 04:19:32 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Film @ Sarai: "Rabindranath Tagore": Directed by Satyajit Ray, introduced by Ramin Jehanbegloo Message-ID: [[FILM]] ===================================== Film @ Sarai: February – March 2007 ===================================== Rabindranath Tagore Satyajit Ray 1961, India. Documentary, 54 min, B/W Producer: Films Division, Govt. of India 4:30 P.M., Friday 2 February 2007 Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS The film will be introduced by Prof. Ramin Jehanbegloo, Rajni Kothari Professor of Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi The documentary details the life and work of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). The documentary was made to celebrate Tagore’s birth centenary in May 1961. Ray was conscious that he was making an official portrait of India’s celebrated poet and hence the film does not include any controversial aspects of Tagore’s life. However, it is far from being a propaganda film. The film comprises dramatized episodes from the poet’s life and archived images and documents. [Ramin Jahanbegloo was born in Tehran and studied at the Sorbonne University, Paris. He is currently the Rajni Kothari Professor of Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi. Prior to this he was a post-doc at Harvard University and then headed the department for contemporary studies at the Cultural Research Bureau, Iran. Among his twenty books in English, French and Persian are Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (Phoenix, 2000), and (as editor) Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity (Lexington Books, 2004). His intellectual work has featured, among other elements, a close engagement with the life and work of Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.] _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From ravig1 at vsnl.com Thu Feb 1 10:36:52 2007 From: ravig1 at vsnl.com (Ravi Agarwal) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:36:52 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Fw: Feb 3rd & 4th: KHOJ 'eco + art' Residency Message-ID: <27051B3A31934222A25D8C61BE97B324@ToxicsLink.local> ++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The KHOJ 'eco+art' Residency +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ with artists Atul Bhalla and Ravi Agarwal culminates with two programs. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Site Visit: Saturday February 3rd ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ a.. To the marigold flower fields on the river near Palla village, the location for Ravi Agarwal's work. b.. Atul Bhalla's installation on the river near Jagatpur village. c.. Boat Ride on the Yamuna around Jagatpur village . A Bus will leave from Triveni, Mandi House at 1:30 pm and return at 6.00 pm. Tea and snacks will be served. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OPEN STUDIO @ KHOJ, Sunday: February 4 th, 6 pm onwards ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The open day at Khoj will showcase photographs, installations and videos produced by the artists during the residency. We look forward to seeing you.... Also see Ravi's blog (www.haveyouseentheriver.blogspot.com) -- KHOJ Studios -17. Khirki Extension. Near Sai Baba Temple) New Delhi-17 Call:91-11-55655874\73 www.khojworkshop.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070201/25fcd5dc/attachment.html From dwaipayanbanerjee at yahoo.co.in Thu Feb 1 11:57:13 2007 From: dwaipayanbanerjee at yahoo.co.in (Dwaipayan Banerjee) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 06:27:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Reader-list] Exploring Masculinities: A South Asian Travelling Seminar Message-ID: <20070201062713.29506.qmail@web8901.mail.in.yahoo.com> Sorry for posting this again, you may already have seen it under the announcements banner. That mail looked slightly unreadable because of the pagination; for those interested this will easier to go through. Thanks for your time. Exploring Masculinities: A South Asian Travelling Seminar Date: 13-14 February 2007 Time: 9:30 to 6:00 Venue: Department Of Sociology, University of Delhi (North Campus) The concept of 'masculinities', informed by recent feminist thought and the women's movement, has emerged as a means of renewing feminist discourse by encouraging a more relational approach to masculinities and femininities. This also allows for the investigation, problematisation and interrogation of masculinity equally with femininity. Not withstanding these enabling possibilities, however, "gender" is still essentially deployed in contemporary social science discourse as a synonym for women, its relational aspect obscured and the invitation to interrogate masculinities largely ignored. This is unfortunate because a textured understanding of the diversity of South Asian men's experiences, attitudes, beliefs, practices, situations, sexualities and institutions is essential to not only challenging the social dominance of men over women but for building a more humane world. The travelling seminar on masculinities has been conceived from the position that the study of masculinities is important in that it is 'simultaneously a place in gender relations, the practices through which men and women engage that place in gender, and the affects of these practices in bodily experiences, personality and culture.' (Connell R.W, 1994:71). The seminar is both an academic exercise in generating interest for further research on masculinities as well as a campaign to form a network of university communities that are willing to take up issues of gender equality. Organised by Aakar (www.southasianmasculinities.org), the seminar, as the title suggests, will travel to ten universities across south Asia. Conceived as a cross disciplinary event, the seminar comprises of academic papers; personal and activist narratives and; films/theatre/art on the theme of masculinities. The seminar at each location is held in collaboration with a university department. In Delhi, the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi is the co-organiser of the seminar. Dr. Deepak Mehta from the Department is co-ordinating the seminar. The speakers and discussants at the seminar to be held on 13/14 Feb 2007 in Delhi include: Dr. Jani De Silva, International Centre For Ethnic Studies, Colombo: Naradha's narrative: constructing subjectivity and masculinity through student politics. Dr. Rubina Saigol, Lahore Pakistan: Nation and Masculinity Superman Imagery in Muslim Nationalist Poetry Imtiaz Saikh, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka: Learning By Doing: Masculinities, Healthy Behaviour and Young Men’s sexual practices in Dhaka Rubina Khilji, Department of Gender Studies, University of Peshawar, Peshawar: Discussant Dr. Patricia Uberoi, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi: Discussant Dr. Mary E John, Centre For Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi: Discussant Dr. Shail Mayaram, CSDS, Delhi: Discussant Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, Deakin University, Melbourne: Pedestrian Desires: ‘Footpath Pornography’, Masculinities cultures, and the Aesthetic of fluid species Dr. Nivedita Menon, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi: Discussant Dr. Radhika Chopra, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi: Title Awaited Dr. Deepak Mehta, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi: Words that wound: Affects publics and the production of Hate in Bombay. Shudhabrata Sengupta, Sarai, Delhi: Discussant Shankar Ramaswamy, University of Chicago: Togethering Contra Othering: Male Hindu-Muslim Inter-Relations In Proletarian Delhi For more information contact: Dr. Deepak Mehta Email: Deepak.em at gmail.com Rahul Roy: khel at vsnl.com www.southasianmasculinities.org 9810395589 __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ From evignesh at gmail.com Thu Feb 1 13:58:34 2007 From: evignesh at gmail.com (P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:58:34 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Vol 43, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <39e1148c0702010028j21621565r35f30b20455ca656@mail.gmail.com> Dear All: I would be grateful to receive your comments on the "Equity Assurance Plan", at: http://dget.nic.in/WorldBank/worlbankassistedprojects.htm This project looks at possible ways of including various disadvantaged groups (SC/ST/Women) in the Indian vocational education and training (ITIs) system. Thanks & Regards, Vignesh. -- P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Humanities & Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016 India Ph: +91-11-2659 1374, 1936 (R); Telefax: +91-11-2659 6509 vignesh at hss.iitd.ac.in http://web.iitd.ac.in/~vignesh From sudeep.ks at gmail.com Thu Feb 1 14:39:39 2007 From: sudeep.ks at gmail.com (Sudeep K S) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:39:39 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Between patriotism and sedition Message-ID: Its funny. Going around killing politicians and ministers is patriotism (RDB style), but showing Lal Salaam is an offence. I know-- Lal Salaam was no Oscar material. This film (that had Nandita Das in the one of the lead roles) was released way back in 2002 if I remember right, and hardly anyone noticed it. But if one can go to jail for showing a film that is cleared by cencors (and was released in cinemas), may be one should see it. (What about a re-release? RDB is supposed to have re-released this Republic day, don't know if it happened). "Exhibiting this picture attracts the offence of "sedition" for which six Kui tribal cultural activists of Adva under Gajpati district of Orissa were sent to jail on 23rd Sept 2006.." [From a mail quoted in G P Ramachandran's blog, SEDITION-ORISSA STYLE]. Later in the mail it says, "It is said by the police that the film is on the maoist activities, which is a banned organisation as declared under the Criminal Law Amendment Act-1908.." Mm.. so no more "criminal activities" in movies.. no killing, no theft, no underworld..? It does not really seem so-- a certain RGV need not worry. [I look up for the meaning of the word sedition, and find this: "1. incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government. 2. any action, esp. in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.."] Well, so is it just that we have no more rebels? Not quite. The message seems to be clear -- if you want to rebel it is fine, do it the apolitical RDB way. I guess even a Yuva would pass, as long as the concerns of the film does not disturb the power brigade that still consists of the feudal lords. Definitely no Lal Salaam! [posted at http://sudeepsdiary.blogspot.com/2007/01/between-patriotism-and-sedition.html ] From cahen.x at levels9.com Thu Feb 1 14:41:42 2007 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:11:42 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] pourinfos Newsletter / 01-31 to 02-07-2007 Message-ID: <45C1AECE.1000407@levels9.com> pourinfos.org l'actualité du monde de l'art / daily Art news ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From Wenesday January 31 to Wenesday February 7 2007 (included) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (mostly in french) @ 001 (31/01/2007) Residency : Residencies Eyebeam, Eyebeam, New York, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/art-34324-tit-Residence-Residencies-Eyebeam-Eyebeam- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 002 (31/01/2007) Residency : Residency opportunity at Access Space, Sheffield, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34325-tit-Residence-Residency-opportunity-at-Access -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 003 (31/01/2007) Residency : call for residencies in beijing, beijing, China. http://pourinfos.org/art-34326-tit-Residence-call-for-residencies-in-beijing- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 004 (31/01/2007) Residency : Studio program, Asterides, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34327-tit-Residence-atelier-d-artiste-Asterides- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 005 (31/01/2007) Meetings : Working in Public: Art, Practice and Policy, The On the Edge (OTE) research programme, Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34328-tit--Working-in-Public-Art-Practice-and -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 006 (31/01/2007) Meetings : Exhibition présentation by the curator Patrice Joly, Emba/galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34333-tit--decouvrir-l-exposition-en-compagnie-de -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 007 (31/01/2007) Publication : new DVD, Abbas Kiarostami, Mk2 editions, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34338-tit--prochaines-sortie-DVD-Abbas-Kiarostami- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 008 (31/01/2007) Publication : n#03, January 2007, Semaines, contemporary art, editions Analogues, Arles, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34339-tit--no-03-janvier-2007-Semaines- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 009 (31/01/2007) Publication : Highschool, Tim Barber, éditions nieves, Zürich, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34340-tit--Highschool-Tim-Barber-editions-nieves- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 010 (31/01/2007) Publication : (art and power, from 1848 in our days) Art et pouvoir. De 1848 à nos jours, Paris, Philippe Poirrier, Cndp, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34342-tit--Art-et-pouvoir-De-1848-a-nos-jours- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 011 (31/01/2007) Publication : (In Sérignan, Against any logic…, 15 years of contemporary art in Sérignan) À Sérignan, Contre toute logique…, 15 ans d’art contemporain à Sérignan, Somogy éditions d’art, Sérignan, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34343-tit--A-Serignan-Contre-toute-logique-15-ans -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 012 (31/01/2007) Divers : Manifesten, rencontres internationales d'interventions poétiques de Limoges, Limoges, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34345-tit-Divers-Manifesten-rencontres -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 013 (31/01/2007) Exhibition : Joëlle Flumet et Thierry Kuntzel au Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34348-tit--Joelle-Flumet-et-Thierry-Kuntzel-au -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 014 (31/01/2007) Call : Re·Use, Films, New Forms Festival 07: Call for Proposals, Vancouver, Canada. http://pourinfos.org/art-34350-tit--Re-Use-Films-New-Forms-Festival-07- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 015 (31/01/2007) Call : La désinvolture de l'art, revue Figures de l'art, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34351-tit--La-desinvolture-de-l-art-revue-Figures -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 016 (31/01/2007) Call : "Select 02 - La Mise à Poil", Miss China Beauty , Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34352-tit--Select-02-La-Mise-a-Poil-Miss-China -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 017 (31/01/2007) Call : painters, photographers, vidéastes, sculptors... Exhibition artatou 2007, Avalon, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34353-tit--peintres-plasticiens-photographes- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 018 (31/01/2007) Call : MPhil Research Studentship, Interaction Design Lab, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, United Kingdom. http://pourinfos.org/art-34354-tit--MPhil-Research-Studentship-Interaction -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 019 (31/01/2007) Call : MAC2007, Espace Champerret, Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34355-tit--MAC2007-Espace-Champerret-Paris- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 020 (31/01/2007) Call : Art Tech Media 07 art call, Tenerife, Spain. http://pourinfos.org/art-34356-tit--Art-Tech-Media-07-art-call-Tenerife- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 021 (31/01/2007) Call : 2007 Margaret Mead Film Festival Call , New York, Usa. http://pourinfos.org/art-34357-tit--2007-Margaret-Mead-Film-Festival-Call- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 022 (31/01/2007) Call : 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland. http://pourinfos.org/art-34358-tit--12th-International-Media-Art-Biennale-WRO -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 023 (31/01/2007) Call : sculpture et installation, A.S.B.L Sites en Ligne, Brussels, Belgium. http://pourinfos.org/art-34359-tit--sculpture-et-installation-A-S-B-L-Sites -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 024 (01/02/2007) Meetings : " Le dernier oeuvre " Francis Bacon and Willem De Kooning, by Herve Vanel, Thursday February 1, 2007, auditorium du Louvre, Louvre Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34337-tit--Le-dernier-oeuvre-Francis-Bacon-et -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 025 (02/02/2007) Exhibiton : Antoine Ronco, CAB - Contemporary Art Box, Association JeL, St Ouen, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34349-tit--Antoine-Ronco-CAB-Contemporary-Art -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 026 (05/02/2007) Meetings : Le seminaire CPM "Cultures, Patrimoines, Medias" du Clerse, Les criteres et les valeurs de la patrimonialisation, Monday February 5, 2007, University of Lille 1, Lille, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34221-tit--Le-seminaire-CPM-Cultures-Patrimoines- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 027 (05/02/2007) Meetings : "La caricature : un patrimoine de la contre-mémoire" Laurent Baridon, February 5, 2007, University of Bourgogne, MSH de Dijon, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34269-tit--La-caricature-un-patrimoine-de-la -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 028 (07/02/2007) Exhibition : Telemetries, artists and television, Gallery Villa des Tourelles, Nanterre, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34238-tit--Telemetries-artistes-et-television- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 029 (07/02/2007) Exhibition : Disappearance (Ben Barka). 41 artists, L'entrepôt , Paris, France. http://pourinfos.org/art-34241-tit--Disparition-Ben-Barka-41-artistes- -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ 030 (07/02/2007) Rencontres : Dan Graham, Performer / Audience / Mirror, Rock My Religion, Vidéo et après, le 5 février 2007, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France http://pourinfos.org/art-34334-tit--Dan-Graham-Performer-Audience- -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From monica at sarai.net Fri Feb 2 10:15:02 2007 From: monica at sarai.net (Monica Narula) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:15:02 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] MediaArtHistories, new book on new media Message-ID: <55731EA3-E709-46F4-B7E3-D19C4AB5C206@sarai.net> MediaArtHistories edited by Oliver Grau - available from MIT Press 2007 Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach collaboration in new media art studies and practice. Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today's media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity to other disciplines - film, cultural and media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images. Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp's inventions and 1960s Kinetic and Op Art. They reexamine and redefine key media art theory terms--machine, media, exhibition--and consider the blurred dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between art images and science images. Finally, MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs the "trained eye" of art history. Overview After-Images Algorithmic Ars Combinatoria Ars Electronica Art and Illusion Art and Technology Art ex Machina Artificial Life Biotelematics Cinematic Apparatus Collage or E-Collage Computer Animation Computer Music Computer Sculpture Consciousness Counterculture Cyberarts Cybernetics Digital Art Digital Creativity Digital Sound Synthesis Dot-Coms Electronic Art Electronic Presence Entwendete Elektrizität Expanded Cinema Filmic Apparatus Fluxus Codex Fraktales Subjekt Gedächtnistheater Genealogy of Morals Gramatologie Hamlet\Maschine Hypertext Illuminations Immateriality Immersive Virtual Space Individuum und Kosmos “Influencing Machine” Information Age Information Arts Information Design Information Society Information Space Interactive Art Internet Art Junggesellenmaschinen Kinetische Kunst/Kinetic Art Markoffsche Ketten Mechanical Reproduction Mediale Emotionen Musique Algorithmique Nanotechnology Neural Darwinism Non-linear History Optische Medien Popular Culture Post-Formalist Art Phantasmagoria Robotopia Semantic Web Primer Simulacra & Simulation Soft Cinema Telematics Telepistemology Transgenic Art Understanding Media Videowelt Virtual Reality Visual Education Visualisations Contents OLIVER GRAU Introduction - MediaArtHistories RUDOLF ARNHEIM The Coming and Going of Images I Origins: Evolution Versus Revolution PETER WEIBEL It is Forbidden Not to Touch: Some Remarks on the (Forgotten Parts of the) History of Interactivity and Virtuality EDWARD SHANKEN Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method and Firing a Canon ERKKI HUHTAMO Twin-Touch-Test-Redux: Media Archeological Approach to Art, Interactivity, and Tactility DIETER DANIELS Duchamp: Interface: Turing: A Hypothetical Encounter Between the Bachelor Machine and the Universal Machine OLIVER GRAU Remember the Phantasmagoria! Illusion Politics of the 18th Century and its Multimedial Afterlife GUNALAN NADARAJAN Islamic Automation: A Reading of Al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206) II Machine-Media-Exhibition EDMOND COUCHOT The Automatization of Figurative Techniques: Towards the Autonomous Image ANDREAS BROECKMANN Image, Process, Performance, Machine: Aspects of an Aesthetics of the Machinic RYSZARD W. KLUSZCZYNSKI From Film to Interactive Art: Transformation in Media Art LOUISE POISSANT The Passage from Material to Interface CHRISTIANE PAUL The Myth of Immateriality: Presenting and Preserving New Media III Pop Meets Science MACHIKO KUSAHARA Device Art: A New Approach in Understanding Japanese Contemporary Media Art RON BURNETT Projecting Minds LEV MANOVICH Abstraction and Complexity TIMOTHY LENOIR Making Studies in New Media Critical IV Image Science FELICE FRANKEL Image, Meaning, and Discovery W. J. T. MITCHEL There are No Visual Media SEAN CUBITT Projection: Vanishing and Becoming DOUGLAS KAHN Between a Bach and a Hard Place: Productive Contraint in Early Computer Arts BARBARA MARIA STAFFORD Picturing Uncertainty: From Representation to Mental Representation Monica Narula Raqs Media Collective Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110054 www.raqsmediacollective.net www.sarai.net _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From turbulence at turbulence.org Thu Feb 1 21:23:38 2007 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:53:38 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] UPGRADE! BOSTON: Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg + Deb Todd Wheeler Message-ID: <000501c74619$33c406c0$6601a8c0@t5x1c0> UPGRADE! BOSTON: Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg + Deb Todd Wheeler http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/ WHEN: February 15, 7 pm WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect Street, Cambridge. Free parking in the lot on the corner or take the T to Central Square and walk 1 block. < Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg> http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/02_15_07JPK.html Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg is a sound artist, composer, and shape note singer whose work explores the intersections of technology and tradition. His output encompasses installation, music for live performance, tunebooks, web design, audio tours, and transmission arts. Jesse's current work investigates the history and practice of Sacred Harp singing and the geological, social, technological, and religious history of upstate New York. Jesse is the cofounder of the "Society for a Subliminal State" and editor-in-chief of the Society's newsletter, "Subliminal Statements." His work has been performed and exhibited at art and historical venues internationally and throughout the Northeast. << Deb Todd Wheeler >> http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/02_15_07DTW.html Deb Todd Wheeler is a sculptor, inventor, and media artist. Using the vernacular of the 19th century, a time when art and science were more closely linked, she investigates alternative avenues for power that reflect our growing concern with sustainability today. She is a recipient of a LEF Contemporary Work Fund Artist grant in inter-media, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Sculpture and Installation, and the Artist Resource Trust Grant. She is on the Graduate Faculty of the Art Institute of Boston, and also teaches in the 3D department at Massachusetts College of Art. UP NEXT <<< Eric Gordon + Show-n-Tell >>> March 22, 2007 at 7 pm. Upgrade! Boston (http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/about.html) is curated by Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org) in partnership with Art Interactive (http://artinteractive.org). It is one of 22 nodes currently active in Upgrade! International (http://theupgrade.net), an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get involved, please email jo at turbulence.org. If you no longer wish to receive these notices, please reply to this email with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line. Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From chiarapassa at gmail.com Thu Feb 1 13:07:12 2007 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:37:12 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] art tech media '07 call for artworks!!! Message-ID: *T h e F i r s t I n t e r n a c i o n a l A r t T e c h M e d i a C o n g r e s s * *www.artechmedia.net * .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. *I n t e r n a t i o n a l A r t i s t C a l l A r t T e c h M e d i a 0 7* *T h e F i r s t I n t e r n a t i o n a l A r t T e c h M e d i a C o n g r e s s * ** *www.artechmedia.net* ** Calling on all creatives of the world to participate. Submissions will be accepted from the following categories: A - Video art - Net-art - 2D & 3D Computer Animation - Blog, videoblog - Creation for mobile platforms - Digital Music B - Digital Communities - Geospatial storytelling - Artificial Life, Software art, Transgenic art, Generative art .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... In a globalised world, dominated by communication technologies, with countless questions concerning a future that affects our everyday life, it is essential to make this analysis and to consider, from different perspectives, how our polyhedral, altered reality is being effected by the widespread use of new technology as a support for new ideas and possibilities that are almost infinite. We need to investigate how this occurs in different societies and cultures and to propose models that may go beyond what has been known until now. *The First International Art Tech Media Congress* has been set up in order to reflect upon and analyse questions currently being raised about art and new technological media within an international context. Within this context, an intensive debate needs to take place on the influence and transformations that new media is producing in art, there needs to be a greater understanding of the foundations for more effective cooperation between the different sectors linked to digital art, and proposals need to be devised for the development of national and international collaborative networks in order to improve production, research, exhibition and promotion. Last year, Art Tech Media 06 encounters had been held at nine Spanish museums, and given the great participation and the opinions collected, its seems clear that this is an ideal time to celebrate the First International Art Tech Media Conference. It represents a great opportunity to hold a transversal debate in order to devise proposals that will lead to greater and better coordination among the different sectors of art, aimed at strengthening its development. www.artechmedia.net/artechmedia06.htm Art Tech Media 06 headquaters: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, Presidencia Gobierno de Canarias, Museo Domus Artium 2002, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo Artium, Fundación BilbaoArte, Centro Párraga, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo EsBaluard, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona. * ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ * *<<< * *GENERAL REGULATIONS Art Tech Media 07 art call* - Works must have been produced after January 1st, 2006. - The number of submissions is not limited. - Works may be presented in any language. However, a transcript of dialogues must be included in either Spanish or English, - The organization reserves the rights to use parts of the works for media broadcasting, within the promotional framework of artechmedia. - Following the process of selection based on abstratcs, all participants will be notified in writing of the result and the required format for the presentationof their work, preferably on DVD. - Authors will be responsible for copyright of their works. - Works selected will be exhibited in artechmedia. - A electronic catalogue will be produced in Spanish and English, including all the works. - Artists with works selected shall agree to assign a copy to artechmedia, which may be used in the subsequent exhibitions. - The organization is not responsible for the content of works in order to preserve freedom. *Projects:* - Those interested in submitting work in these categories must send a completed entry form. - The net-art @blog, videoblog must include the URL address in the entry form. - A part from the entry form, those interested in taking part in video art and computer animation must also send a DVD with their work. - Digital Music must be sent both in digital format and as a hard copy by post. - All mail is to be sent to the office central art tech media *Art Tech* c/Méndez Nuñez 102, 6ºD. 38001 S/C Tenerife. Canary Island. Spain *DEADLINE:* 30th march 2007 *SELECTION AND JURY* - Works presented will be selected by a committee of the organization. - In each category a jury composed of experts will select the works. - Jury's decision is final, and is not open to appeal. *SELECTED WORKS* must include: - Technical credits. - Technical requirements for its showing. - Two colour photographs of every work sent. - A short biography of author or representative organization. - A transcript of dialogues in spanish or english. - All works must include in their front page: the work's title, the delivery address, and the data of author or representative organization. - In case of not providing a correct delivery address, the organization will not be responsible for the works. - Submission of a work implies the acceptance of these regulations. *>registration form> enter* ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: *1st International Congress Art Tech Media* *www.artechmedia.net* contact inscription newsletter 8-9-10-11 th may . Madrid. Spain -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa at gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070201/a3beb8a8/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From chiarapassa at gmail.com Thu Feb 1 13:04:14 2007 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:34:14 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] T h e F i r s t I n t e r n a c i o n a l A r t T e c h M e d i a C o n g r e s s Message-ID: ** *T h e F i r s t I n t e r n a c i o n a l A r t T e c h M e d i a C o n g r e s s * *www.artechmedia.net * .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. . In a globalised world, dominated by communication technologies, with countless questions concerning a future that affects our everyday life, it is essential to make this analysis and to consider, from different perspectives, how our polyhedral, altered reality is being effected by the widespread use of new technology as a support for new ideas and possibilities that are almost infinite. We need to investigate how this occurs in different societies and cultures and to propose models that may go beyond what has been known until now. The First International Art Tech Media Congress has been set up in order to reflect upon and analyse questions currently being raised about art and new technological media within an international context. Within this context, an intensive debate needs to take place on the influence and transformations that new media is producing in art, there needs to be a greater understanding of the foundations for more effective cooperation between the different sectors linked to digital art, and proposals need to be devised for the development of national and international collaborative networks in order to improve production, research, exhibition and promotion. Last year, Art Tech Media 06 encounters had been held at nine Spanish museums, and given the great participation and the opinions collected, its seems clear that this is an ideal time to celebrate the First International Art Tech Media Conference. It represents a great opportunity to hold a transversal debate in order to devise proposals that will lead to greater and better coordination among the different sectors of art, aimed at strengthening its development. *www.artechmedia.net/artechmedia06.htm* Art Tech Media 06 headquaters: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, Presidencia Gobierno de Canarias, Museo Domus Artium 2002, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo Artium, Fundación BilbaoArte, Centro Párraga, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo EsBaluard, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona. *T h e F i r s t I n t e r n a c i o n a l A r t T e c h M e d i a C o n g r e s s * The Conference will focus on three clearly complementary regions: *national, international and Ibero-American* *Round tables, invitation to send lectures and communiqués.* <<< The Conference will be held at three venues: *Ministerio de Cultura, Instituto Cervantes & Casa de América (Madrid).* *Dates: 8, 9, 10 & 11 th may 2007* *The directors:* Montse Arbelo & Joseba Franco *Main Objectives of the Congress* 1. To reflect, analyse and debate by sectors the current situation in art and new media to gain a better understanding of its different realities and necessities. 2. To present proposals that will energise and improve the relationship between the different sectors in order to stimulate and promote Spanish digital art both nationally and internationally. 3. To favour the presentation of proposals related to the opportunity and need to create an "Institute of Digital Arts", how it may be organised, its functions, objectives and its relationship with other Institutes and international institutions. 4. To optimise the creation of more Centres of Production and Research in collaboration with institutions and the private sector for the development of an innovative industrial and economic infrastructure. 5. The presentation of the book Art Tech Media 06, of selected lectures and communiqués as well as a survey made among various sectors related to digital art. *International call Art Tech Media 07* : Calling on all creatives of the world to participate, from the following categories: *- Video art- Net-art- 2D & 3D Computer Animation- Blog, videoblog - Creation for mobile platforms- Digital Music * - Digital Communities- Geospatial storytelling - Artificial Life, Software art, Transgenic art, Generative art <<< ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: *1st International Congress Art Tech Media* *www.artechmedia.net* contact inscription newsletter 8-9-10-11 th may . Madrid. Spain -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa at gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070201/8a8b67eb/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: logo_artechmedia.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 234029 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070201/8a8b67eb/attachment.jpg -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From pukar at pukar.org.in Thu Feb 1 10:31:36 2007 From: pukar at pukar.org.in (PUKAR) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:31:36 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] [announcements] Feb. 15: The Trams are Coming... Message-ID: <001401c745be$12496090$1166c2cb@freeda> PUKAR and Department of History, St. Xavier's College cordially invite you for a talk titled The Trams are Coming . by Dr. Frank Conlon Date: Thursday, 15th February 2006 Time: 5:00 PM onwards Venue: Multi-Media Room, First Floor, St. Xavier's College, Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai - 400001 Dr. Conlon will analyse the growth of tramways in historical Bombay and their relationship to the urban development of the city. Some issues of both the introduction of tram technology--horse and electric--will be explored, as well as the reception and use (or non-use) of the tramways by the Bombay public. He will look at the ideas of tramway extension as a means to "de-congest" the old island by opening services to new areas for development. Bombay provides a marked contrast to the history of tramways in Europe and America insofar as the tramway operators were unable to speculatively build lines and develop residential property sites or subdivisions. The last trams operated in Mumbai in 1964 and the reasons for their being withdrawn will be discussed in the present context of seeking new urban transport solutions to Mumbai's monumental traffic congestion. Dr. Frank Conlon, professor emeritus of South Asian History at the University of Washington, Seattle, is among the seniormost scholars of modern India. His wide-ranging research interests include consumerism, religion, caste, and community. Among his many publications are his chapter titled "Dining Out in Bombay", in the book Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World, published in 1995 and edited by Carol Breckenridge, and his book A Caste in a Changing World: The Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmans, 1700-1935, published in 1977. Prof. Conlon earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1969, and has taught at the University of Washington since 1968. His service to the academic community is recognized far beyond the field of Indian history, due largely to his founding and editing of the virtual network H-Asia in 1994. This online community of researchers and teachers interested in diverse fields of Asian studies has benefited greatly from his contribution. PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research) Address:: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001 Telephone:: +91 (22) 6574 8152 Fax:: +91 (22) 6664 0561 Email:: pukar at pukar.org.in Website:: www.pukar.org.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070201/aea88ce2/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From turbulence at turbulence.org Thu Feb 1 21:32:10 2007 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:02:10 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Comp_07: MIXED REALITIES :: Call for Proposals Message-ID: <000601c7461a$70e3a690$6601a8c0@t5x1c0> Comp_07: MIXED REALITIES :: Call for Proposals Juried International Networked Art Competition Proposal Deadline: March 31, 2007 http://www.turbulence.org/comp_07/guidelines.htm MIXED REALITIES: (1) a competition and series of simultaneous exhibitions that engage users in three discrete environments: the Internet (Turbulence), an online 3-D rendered environment (Ars Virtua/Second Life), and physical space (Art Interactive); (2) works that evaluate the concepts "virtual," "simulation", and "real"; (3) a series of experiences in which participants connect with one another and contribute to the creation of the work. Five commissions @ $5,000 (US) each. More >> http://www.turbulence.org/comp_07/guidelines.htm NOTE: While collaborative projects are preferred they are not a requirement. We have set up a FORUM for applicants to ask and answer questions and seek collaborators. GO TO FORUM >> http://transition.turbulence.org/forum/index.php JURORS: MICHAEL FRUMIN, Technical Director Emeritus, Eyebeam; NATASHA KHANDEKAR, Director, Art Interactive; JAMES MORGAN, Director, Ars Virtua; TREBOR SCHOLZ, Founder, Institute for Distributed Creativity; HELEN THORINGTON, Co-Director, Turbulence. See bios >> http://www.turbulence.org/comp_07/guidelines.htm#jurors IMPORTANT DATES: Proposal Deadline: March 31, 2007 Notification: Winners will be contacted after May 15, 2007 Delivery: Works must be completed by February 2008 This project is supported by a generous grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From digitaltalkies at rediffmail.com Thu Feb 1 14:57:57 2007 From: digitaltalkies at rediffmail.com (pankaj rishi kumar) Date: 1 Feb 2007 09:27:57 -0000 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Screening of "3 men and a bulb" at kala ghoda festival Message-ID: <20070201092757.20127.qmail@webmail90.rediffmail.com>           3 men and a bulb ( 62 mts with english subtitles) by Pankaj Rishi Kumar at Kala Ghoda Festival Bombay Natural History Society Hall, (BNHS) 7.30 pm 3rd februray' 07 The film was awarded IDPA's Best Documentary prize for "its sensitive construction of a discourses on displacement and infrastructure imbalances, done with meditative aplomb at an extraordinarily restrained pace." The film was in the competition at Mumbai, Munich and Mar Del Plata Documentary Festival (Argentina) The beauty of 3 Men and a Bulb lies in its simple, yet powerful, portrayal of the lives of Rawat, Satya and Harish. The documentary clocks in at 62 minutes and the time is well spent – which can’t be said about very many documentaries. By giving his subjects plenty of room, Kumar confirms the age-old dictum that developmental projects are meaningless if they can’t work for the people for whom they’re meant. “In a goody-goody film, you can tell people about new technology and its advantages,” said Kumar. “Even if you tell them the disadvantages, it’s at a theoretical level. But you don’t get into the day-to-day lives.” ... Nandini Ramnath, Time Out, (www.timeoutmumbai.net/client_flim/film_details.asp) kumartalkies.blogspot.com www.kalaghodaassociation.com SYNOPSIS 3 Men and a Bulb is a story of 3 men who earn a livelihood from their gharat (watermill) in foothills of Himalayas (Uttaranchal), India. The life led by these 3 men is meager, having access neither to electricity nor employment that brings regular income. Farming is very arduous, as supply of water is scarce. The gharat becomes a site, which each character wants to own and sometimes disown, in the quest for a better life. The story documents the 3 men’s personal hopes, anxieties and dreams set against the rustic life in the mountains. The narrative traverses their changing relationship with self and each other, offering exciting insights into human nature. It is a story of Rawat, Satya and young Harish. What happens when a rural economic system with a lot of promise is cracked up by administrative inconsistencies and individual enmity? What happens when 3 men who could have run the gharat and earned a comfortable livelihood, are moved by the inner voice telling them to leave and find a better source of income, a better life. 3 Men and a Bulb is a story about earning a good living, and a story about all the larger forces at work that don’t allow one to do so. Directors Statement This film began as an offshoot of my previous film, Gharat. It was a functional documentary film highlighting the potential of and the need for reviving the Gharats (watermills) as efficient indigenous technology. In strange and curious ways, the more time I spent with Rawat and his Gharat, I was convinced that my previous film could have been treated in a different manner both in form and content. The anger was both a frustration and a release. The frustration reflected in the fact that the issue based documentary form, which I was so used to, was insuffient to capture the essence in 28 minutes dictated by television. On the other hand, the release was accompanied by exploring a different form --a form that allowed me to test the boundaries of Truth, the real and unreal. 3 Men and a Bulb shatters the optimistic note plucked by the previous film, and depicts the stark microcosmic reality of one particular gharat, one particular village, and 3 men who are or will be earning their income from the gharat. For a year (6 visits of 10 days each) I documented the life of these 3 men, unaware of what will happen ...what is the drama in store... People do all sorts of unimaginable things to earn one square meal daily. Rawat, Satya and Harish should be thankful that they have a genuine and efficient way of earning a livelihood. But some things clearly might ruin it for them – total lack of government interest in gharats, and as Rawat says, the ignorance of HESCO in periodically supervising the schemes. Add to this the personal insecurities of the 3 men, and a perfectly valid source of income, bulb, could go bust. A fiction film with roots in documentary; a documentary which unravels as fiction. The film is an attempt to construct a fictional narrative capturing the drama of everyday mundane life. The cinema verite style of documentary has been purposefully merged with the dramatic expressive style of fiction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pankaj Rishi Kumar graduated from FTII in 1992 where he specialised in Film Editing. He began his film career in 1993 as an assistant editor on Sekhar kapur's "Bandirt Queen" . He edited documentaries, and TV serials before turning to making films himself. Pankaj Rishi Kumar has movies in his blood. His late father turned an old factory into the town of Kalpi's only cinema, Kumar Talkies. His first documentary, “Kumar Talkies”, offered a cinéma vérité portrait of people of Kalpi’s relationship to their only picture show and an examination of the consciousness-shaping role of local cinema in a globalised and digitised world. Made with support of Hubert Bals fund and India Foundation of The Arts, the film won critical acclaim. (screened at 40 festivals and won Best Film-L'alternative Barcelona, Special Jury at Zanzibar and Indian National awrd for Best Sound. ) The film has been recently been blown up to 35mm and will be released theatrically in 2006. His second film “Pathar Chujaeri” (The Play Is On) was about the survival of folk thetaer in war strife kashmir. (The film was screened at 25 film festivals and won Unesco Prize for Best Film at MITIL, Bronze Remi at Houston and a special Jury at Karachi, and Dallas South Asia festival.) His third film'The Vote" looked at the intricacies of the electoral politics. The film premierecat the Asia society in New York and picked up a special jury prize at Dallas South Asian film festival. Pankaj is currently working on his new project--a documentary on women boxers in India. The film is being made with support from Majlis foundation, Sarai and Jan Vrijman fund. PANKAJ RISHI KUMAR kumartalkies.blogspot.com   PANKAJ RISHI KUMAR; B/103, Gokul Tower, Thakur Complex, Kandivli (E), MUMBAI 400 101 PH: 91-22-2854 7585 59 gautam nagar, new delhi 49 Ph; 91-11- 2651 2019 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070201/a861c3ed/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From peerzadaarshad at gmail.com Thu Feb 1 12:46:45 2007 From: peerzadaarshad at gmail.com (arshad hamid) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:46:45 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Kashmiri Film in Delhi Message-ID: <83db55e00701312316k1786dad5w91bca77d5d0b4002@mail.gmail.com> *Kashmiri Film in Delhi * The first Kashmiri digital feature film, *Akh Daleel Loolech,* was screened at the India Habital centre on Jan 29 . The 80-minute Kashmiri Language flim has been subtitled in English. Directed by young Kashmiri director, Aarshad Mushtaq *Akh Daleel Loolech* is a love story against the backdrop of late 19th century Kashmir when jagirdari (feudal) system and begaar (forced labour) was prevalent in the region. The story weaves into its main plot, which is a story of a boy and a girl trying to cut across the class distinction and follow their dreams, a story of an agricultural village and its inhabitants battling hard realities of their survival. While *Akh Daleel Loolech* is the first Kashmiri digital film, it is also any Kashmiri film to be made in the last two decades. The producers of the film say *Akh Daleel Loolech* is a small attempt "to grab the attention of the people instigating the brains in this field of art to come up with many more such ventures so as to fill the void where there are no artistic impressions burnt on a film roll." -- Peerzada Arshad Hamid +91-9419027486 +91-1932-234488 Address Baba mohalla, Bijbehara-192124 C/o Tak Trading Company, Bijbehara. Anantnag (Jammu & Kashmir) INDIA www.kashmirnewz.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070201/73b59832/attachment.html From t.ray at vsnl.com Sat Feb 3 20:05:43 2007 From: t.ray at vsnl.com (Tapas Ray) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:35:43 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] Climate change References: <148445.29332.qm@web52203.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <002201c747a0$97f9f9f0$7d00a8c0@Tapas> Hello. Most of you have probably read or heard by now that the latest climate change report is out. Here's the link to the summary. http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/docs/WG1AR4_SPM_PlenaryApproved.pdf Happy reading! Tapas From vivek at sarai.net Sun Feb 4 10:06:45 2007 From: vivek at sarai.net (Vivek Narayanan) Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:06:45 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Penguin's Wiki-novel Message-ID: <45C562DD.8030106@sarai.net> My thoughts on the penguin wiki novel project: This is certainly not going to result in a literary masterpiece the first time round, nor is that what we should expect. However, the possibility seems real that if, over the years, we are able to socialize ourselves into this other kind of authorship, we could actually get better at doing it, and understand what it requires of and reveals about us. It would not, and need not, replace the dominant current model where (as I understand it) a single author accepts the final responsibility (and yes, the glory too) for the content of a text; but it would create powerful new possibilities and definitively dissolve the line between reader and writer. These kinds of experiments have been going on, in one fashion or another, at least since the early years of the twentieth century; but this is the first time such a thing has been initiated by a major publishing house. (Granted, it brings them publicity, but at the same time the potential for large-scale involvement is great.) The question is, what are the possible models (structures, protocols) for how it could work, and what would be the results of different models? If the initial attempts will inevitably goofy, how could we approach it with serious literary intent? If the original wikipedia idea finds refuge in "factual accuracy", how would aesthetic conflicts be resolved in the wikinovel? V. Brief article about the project in an Australian newspaper: http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/penguins-novel-wiki-project-kicks-off/2007/02/02/1169919507857.html Ethical guidelines page for wikinovel: http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Ethical_guidelines Blog-- Penguin editors' notes on the novel in progress, thinking about the project as it goes along: http://www.amillionpenguins.com/blog/ From t.ray at vsnl.com Sun Feb 4 20:38:03 2007 From: t.ray at vsnl.com (Tapas Ray) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 10:08:03 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] Soul shampoo References: <148445.29332.qm@web52203.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <009101c7486e$44fa5f50$8200a8c0@Tapas> Could not resist sending this along. Edward Luce is a Financial Times correspondent who has written a book after a five-year tour of duty in India. The excerpt below is from its review in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Macintyre.t.html?8bu&emc=bu Luce, who is married to an Indian woman, treads carefully, most particularly when visiting the cow product research center at Nagpur. He is taken barefoot to inspect the holy cows in their stalls, past the bottles of cow urine promising to cure everything from cancer to obesity, and the cow-dung anti-dandruff shampoo. "All of these recipes are contained in the holy texts," he is told. Luce's amused discomfort - not only because he is standing up to his ankles in bovine effluent - is extreme, but he maintains a politeness that is exquisitely British. When invited to smell the leaves of fruit trees fertilized with the enriched biomass of the sacred cow, he declares: "This seemed very pleasant. And for all the science I know perhaps cow's urine really can cure cancer." From geert at desk.nl Mon Feb 5 11:58:26 2007 From: geert at desk.nl (geert lovink) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 07:28:26 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] [Cleanclothes] Indian garment companies try to silence Clean Clothes Campaign Message-ID: On Thursday January 11 2007, the Clean Clothes Campaign received a letter from Pramila Associates Advocates on behalf of their client Fibres and Fabrics International (FFI) in which they threaten with court proceedings should the Clean Clothes Campaign not refrain from reporting on the labour conditions at FFI. Since August 2006 the CCC together with the India Committee of the Netherlands, publicly urge the Indian garment companies Fibres and Fabrics International Pvt Ltd and Jeans Knit Pvt Ltd (FFI/JKPL) and companies currently sourcing from FFI/JKPL, including Ann Taylor, Armani, G-Star, Gap, Guess, Mexx and Rare, to address workers' rights violations at the FFI/JKPL facilities. Among these violations is the lack of channels for workers to voice their problems at FFI/JKPL without fear of reprisals. Major obstacle to improve working conditions at FFI/JKPL on the long term is the court order silencing local labour organisations that was issued in July 2006 on the basis of a libel complaint filed by FFI/JKPL. [link to update January 2007 and action request] In their letter Pramila Advocates accuse the CCC, the India Committee of the Netherlands and two Dutch internet providers to have "indulged in a systematic, planned conspiracy to malign and cause harm and damage to the business, image and reputation of our clients (i.e. FFI/JKPL) by deliberately publishing false information (...)". Pramila threatens to proceed against the CCC for "offences including cyber crime" should the CCC not remove all articles referring to the denial of workers' rights at FFI/JKPL and should the CCC not cease to urge the companies buying from FFI/JKPL to demand the withdrawal of the FFI/JKPL complaint against the local stakeholder organisations. Even though the letter is framed as a legal notice, our legal advisors call the letter lacking any juridical basis and defamatory in itself. The CCC believes this letter exemplary for the current attitude of FFI/JKPL when faced with criticism about the lack of workers' rights at FFI/JKPL, and regrets that FFI/JKPL is again not willing to enter a local dialogue. In reaction to this letter (see below), the CCC has again called upon FFI/JKPL to accept a mediated dialogue and to start a remediation process with the Bangalore unions and labour organisations involved. Read the FFI letter with accusations to the CCC at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/FFI_Defamation_Notice.pdf Read our reaction to this letter at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/news/07-02-01.htm#re Read our latest appeal in this case from Jan 10, 2007 - Fibres & Fabrics: Indian Labour Organisations still gagged at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/urgent/07-01-10.htm From monica.mody at gmail.com Fri Feb 2 19:22:33 2007 From: monica.mody at gmail.com (Monica Mody) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:22:33 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] =?iso-8859-1?q?=5BAnnouncements=5D_Delhi_=3A_20th_F?= =?iso-8859-1?q?eb_=3A_7=2E30_pm_=3A_Queer_Caf=E9_Returns!?= Message-ID: <4badad3b0702020552m4d910536q3eceb25a935d3761@mail.gmail.com> Nigah www.nigahmedia.com presents Queer Café Open Mic Feb 20, 2007, Tuesday 7.30 pm After the first successful QC last year, we bring another evening for voices that challenge, queer, and subvert the ways in which we imagine/are supposed to imagine our many genders and sexualities. Inviting readings, performances, poetry, songs, video, films, mimes, erotica, rants, raves, elegies, odes, limericks, nazms, what have you. Your audience is waiting. Time slot per reader/performer: 10 mins. Email queercafe at nigahmedia.com to sign up, or show up early to get onto the line-up. Open to all. Entries invited in any language. Venue: The Attic 36 Regal Building (Above The People Tree) Sansad Marg, CP, New Delhi Tel : 2374 6050, 5150 3436 Nearest Metro: Rajiv Chowk : Best Parking: Hanuman Mandir on Baba Kharak Singh Marg Note: No photography, video or audio taping is permitted without prior permission. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070202/913ae239/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From turbulence at turbulence.org Fri Feb 2 21:21:44 2007 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:51:44 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Turbulence Commission: "Gothamberg" by Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak, et al Message-ID: <006701c746e2$0e9e5840$6601a8c0@t5x1c0> February 2, 2007 Turbulence Commission: "Gothamberg" by Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak, with Chuck Crow, Johanna Kindvall, Warren Lehrer, Christiane Paul and Vivian Selbo. http://turbulence.org/works/gothamberg Everyone who has lived in an apartment has a story to tell. "Gothamberg" is a place to read, interact and exchange stories of lives in apartment buildings. Together, these tales of unwanted sounds and smells, lobbies and bathrooms, laundry room gossip and unexpected favors form a single collective building, "Gothamberg". Their experiences form the elliptical threads of inhabitation, a mnemonic quality expressing something of the shared nature of dwelling. "Gothamberg" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. BIOGRAPHIES MARTIN WATTENBERG'S work centers on the theme of making the invisible visible. Past projects include "The Shape of Song," "Thinking Machine," "history flow", the Whitney Artport's "Idea Line," and "Apartment." Wattenberg is a researcher at IBM's Visual Communication Lab where he creates new forms of data visualization. He is also known for the SmartMoney.com "Map of the Market." Wattenberg holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. MAREK WALCZAK is an artist and architect who is interested in how people participate in physical and virtual spaces. This has led to digital tools and interactive projects such as "Apartment" which was shown at the Whitney Museum and many venues worldwide. "Dialog Table" has recently been completed for the Walker Art Center, it is a shared interface that replaces a keyboard and mouse with gesture recognition technology. Current projects bridge physical installations with user interaction, including a one block long facade at "7 World Trade Center" that reacts to pedestrians walking beneath it (for James Carpenter Design) and video installations that activate physical space based on user engagement such as Third Person, recently shown at the ICA, London. CHUCK CROW is a financial engineer who specializes in the theory and implementation of autonomous trading systems. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science with minors in Mathematics and Business Management from Johns Hopkins University and an M.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University. Chuck uses digitally rendered sound and raw field recordings to create engaging soundscapes intended for controlled listening environments. From lush layering to stark microsound, his compositional techniques include the use of static noise, stochastic processes, and real-time web data. He acquired a private pilot's license during the summer of 2000. JOHANNA KINDVALL is an architect with a background in social work. She grew up in South Sweden and is now living in New York. After her degree in social studies she worked for seven years mostly with drug addicts and the mentally ill. At the same time she also worked with sculpture and art installations. For her architecture is a way to combine art with social issues. Johanna's work is often about the relationship between spaces and people, movement and behavior. In May 2003 Johanna got a grant from the Arts Grants Committee in Sweden to work with Marek Walczak in New York City on spaces and digital interaction. Currently Johanna is working for James Carpenter Design in New York. In her spare time she is also working on the Hudson Park Project. WARREN LEHRER is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, designer, performer, and educator. Over the past 25 years, he has been writing and designing books and theatrical works that explore the music of thought and speech, the complexity of character, the pathos and absurdity of life, and the relationship between social structures and the individual. The form and structure of his books attempt to capture the shape of thought and reunite the oral and pictorial traditions of storytelling with the printed page. Warren has published ten books including "Crossing the BLVD": strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America (written with Judith Sloan). With Dennis Bernstein, he wrote the play Social Security: the basic training of Eugene Solomon, and with Harvey Goldman, he co-wrote and co-composed a contemporary opera, The Search for It and Other Pronouns. He has also produced two audio CDs, and six radio documentaries for Public Radio. His plays and performance pieces have been performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre, the Public Theatre, the Theatre Workshop (Scotland), the Knitting Factory, the Jewish Museum, Independent Art at Here, the Painted Bride, etc. CHRISTIANE PAUL is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of "Intelligent Agent", a service organization dedicated to digital art. She has written extensively on new media arts and her book "Digital Art" (part of the World of Art Series by Thames & Hudson, UK) was published in July 2003. She teaches in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has lectured internationally on art and technology. At the Whitney Museum, she curated the show "Data Dynamics" (2001), the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, as well as the online exhibition "CODeDOC" (2002) for artport, the Whitney Museum's online portal to Internet art for which she is responsible. Other curatorial work includes "The Passam3eege of Mirage" (Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2004); "Evident Traces" (Ciberarts Festival Bilbao, 2004); and "eVolution -- the art of living systems" (Art Interactive, Boston, 2004). VIVIAN SELBO has conceptualized and designed web projects for "PBS/P.O.V.", the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Museum of Modern Art, NY, among others. From 1995 to 1998, Selbo was the interface director of adaweb.com, now part of the Walker Art Center's Digital Arts Study Collection. Selbo is also an adjunct professor at the School of the Visual Arts, and New York University. For more information about Turbulence please visit http://turbulence.org Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From avinashcold at gmail.com Mon Feb 5 14:00:06 2007 From: avinashcold at gmail.com (Avinash Kumar) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:00:06 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] contest: Who Will Decide Whether Gujaratis Want to See Parzania or Not? Message-ID: A mail on behalf of ANHAD *Who Will Decide Whether Gujaratis Want to See Parzania or Not? * ANHAD is announced *today* on February 2, 2007 a SMS and e-mail contest for the Gujarati youth ( 15-25 years). Topic: Let Parzania be Screened Perturbed by the constant censorship by the State government on people's right to freedom of expression , Anhad has decided to announce this competition where young people can freely and creatively express their feelings. Young people are requested to send in their entries as 1. SMS messages and 2. e-mails. The best five entries from each category will get a very special prize : that is they will meet the cast and the director of the film. So 10 young people ( 5 from both categories) will have an exclusive interaction with Naseeruddin Shah, Sarika and Rahul Dholakia . They will also be given certificates of merit. Entries will be judged by a panel of 3 people . Weightage will be given to the content and creativity both. Category 1: sms to be sent to 9212110643 Category 2: e-mails to be sent to *parzania at gmail.com * Last date: 10 February, 2007 Prizes will be announced on February 14, 2007 Shabnam Hashmi ANHAD ( Act Now for Harmony and Democracy) 310, Shanti Sadan Estate Laldarwaza, Opp Dinbai Tower Ahmedabad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070205/898be212/attachment.html From monica at sarai.net Mon Feb 5 19:09:01 2007 From: monica at sarai.net (Monica Narula) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:09:01 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL Message-ID: PARTICIPATE IN THE POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL ! June 8, 9, 10, 2007 in Paris, France The 3rd edition of the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL is opening it’s call for entries worldwide. Shorts and features, fiction, documentaries, clips, experimental films - all types of films, exclusively shot with a cellular telephone, are now being accepted. The selected films will be shown during the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL on June 8, 9, 10, 2007 at the Georges Pompidou Center - the largest center for contemporary arts in Europe. In 2005, the Forum des images launched the first edition of the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL, a major event devoted to films made exclusively with cellular telephones. Our goal was to explore and initiate a better understanding of the impact of this new audio- visual tool, the video camera, included in the latest generation of mobile telephones. The first two editions of the POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL explored the creative uses of this tool and offered the presentation of new works by French video and graphic artists, writers, filmmakers, students of art and film schools and the general public, in major movie theaters. The Festival received more than 1,000 films which were made exclusively for the Festival, 200 of which were selected by a jury and screened at the Forum des images and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. Many films have gone on to be shown in other international films festivals : Locarno, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, Kiev and at the International Critic’s Week, at the Festival de Cannes. The Forum des images is a major cultural institution in Paris, dedicated to the exploration of the relations between cinema, technologies and society through screenings, workshops, and the organisation of films festivals. The Forum des images is also a major French film archive with Paris as its theme. SEND US YOUR FILM SHOT EXCLUSIVELY WITH A CELLULAR TELEPHONE BEFORE MARCH 30, 2007. For more information : www.festivalpocketfilms.fr LE CONTACT: Yves Gaillard programmation internationale / international programmation tel. : +33 1 44 76 63 77 e-mail : yves.gaillard at forumdesimages.fr www.festivalpocketfilms.fr www.forumdesimages.net Lucie Touya Chargée de mission pour les arts visuels, le design et la mode Département Afrique et Caraïbes en créations Visual arts and design for Africa and the Caribbeans tel: 33 (0)1 53 69 35 79 fax: 33 (0)1 53 69 83 98 lucie.touya at culturesfrance.com CULTURESFRANCE 1 bis, avenue de Villars - 75007 Paris www.culturesfrance.com Monica Narula Raqs Media Collective Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110054 www.raqsmediacollective.net www.sarai.net _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From isouweine at gmail.com Mon Feb 5 03:44:26 2007 From: isouweine at gmail.com (Isaac souweine) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:14:26 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Fwd: New Fellowships Available: Asia Pacific Leadership Program In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <34bf33330702041414p4dd0608cn7d7f6f5f7f9ea981@mail.gmail.com> Forwarding with a strong recommendation - this is a great program in a wonderful location. -Isaac ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nick Barker Date: Jan 7, 2007 9:22 PM Subject: New Fellowships Available: Asia Pacific Leadership Program To: Nick Barker The Asia Pacific Leadership Program East West Center, Hawaii http://www.eastwestcenter.org/aplp NEW FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE Entering its sixth year, the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) is the center of excellence for leadership education in the Asia Pacific region. The APLP is a graduate certificate program combining the development of regional expertise with the enhancement of individual leadership capacity. Based at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, the program is creating a network of dynamic leaders from around the world who are familiar with the critical issues and cultures of the Asia Pacific region and trained to work collaboratively. The program involves intensive coursework and field studies. All participants receive an APLP Entry Fellowship valued at approximately $10,000. Participants The Asia Pacific Leadership Program seeks outstanding individuals with high leadership potential from across the Asia Pacific region, North America and beyond. All participants have at least a Bachelors degree with the majority having graduate degrees as well. At least 20 countries are represented in each cohort. APLP Fellows come together from all walks of life, including areas as diverse as government, business, NGOs, health sciences, media, monastic orders, and the academe. Participants will gain a broad regional perspective, become knowledgeable about the critical challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region, and be trained to exercise collaborative leadership and promote cooperation toward the well-being of the countries and peoples of the region. The APLP empowers future leaders with the knowledge, skills, experiences and supportive community needed to successfully navigate personal and regional change in the 21st century. The program was established through generous funding support from the Freeman Foundation. Application Forms and Fellowships For more information about the Asia Pacific Leadership Program, as well as application forms and fellowship opportunities, please visit our website at: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/aplp Recruitment for 2007-08 is open. Places are limited. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. The deadline is February 15, 2007. East-West Center The East-West Center is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. The Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub for cooperative research, education, and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States. Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. government, with additional support provided by private agencies, individuals, foundations, corporations, and the governments of the region. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070204/98ba85fb/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From pukar at pukar.org.in Mon Feb 5 14:17:49 2007 From: pukar at pukar.org.in (PUKAR) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:17:49 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] [announcements] Archiving PUKAR: October-December 2006 Message-ID: <003701c74902$5230f190$2c66c2cb@freeda> archiving0104 YOUTH FELLOWSHIP PUKAR has selected 26 groups under the Youth Fellowship Programme to carry out research projects in 2006-2007. Many of the Fellows are new to the field of participatory research. The PUKAR team organises workshops for the groups on different aspects of research, to facilitate their progress in their new endeavour. 'Interviewing as a Research Method' Participants: All Senior Fellows and a few Youth Fellows Resource Person: Nilu Damle, Journalist Venue: Lecture Hall, P L Deshpande Academy, Prabhadevi Date: 5th November 2006 'Early Steps in Analysis' Participants: Senior Fellows Resource Person: Vandana Khare, Project Coordinator, PUKAR Venue: CVOD Jain School, Char Nal Dongri Date: 19th December 2006 'Research Methodology' Participants: All Senior Fellows and a few Youth Fellows Resource Person: Dr. Mala Pandurang, Professor, SNDT Venue: Lecture Hall, P L Deshpande Academy, Prabhadevi Date: 11th November 2006 'Mapping as a Research Method' Participants: Senior Fellows and Youth Fellows working on projects which require the use of mapping as a research method. Resource Person: Shilpa Ranade, Architect, PUKAR Associate Date: 19th November 2006 INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE India Residency for the ICI fellows November - December 2006 New Delhi, November 24 - November 27, 2006 Mumbai, November 28 - December 3, 2006 Clockwise from top left: Chinese Ambassador His Excellency Sun Yuxi; Nachiket Mor of ICICI Bank; Pratap Bhanu Mehta of the Centre for Policy Research; the ICI fellows. PUKAR is the Indian partner of the India China Institute (ICI), based in The New School, New York. The first cohort of Fellows - five Chinese and five Indian - of ICI's India China Fellows Program participated in a 10-day residency spread across Agra, Delhi, and Mumbai. The India Residency, which focused on urbanization and globalization, was a significant opportunity to develop the collaborative research projects conceived at the New York Residency in April 2006. During this residency, discussions focused on changing India-China relations, capital markets and regulation, and industrialization and renewal. Site visits included Parivartan (a people's movement for accountable governance and the right to information), the Parel mill lands in Mumbai, and informal housing in Dharavi. The Fellows interacted with the most eminent experts in India, such as Sanjaya Baru (media advisor to the Prime Minister), Chinese ambassador Sun Yuxi, and Sandeep Parekh (executive director, Securities and Exchange Board of India). The Fellows will participate in their third and last residency in China, in June 2007. ANNOUNCEMENT PUKAR & Department of History, St. Xavier's College cordially invite you for a talk The Trams are Coming . by Dr. Frank Conlon Professor Emeritus of History, South Asian Studies and Comparative Religion, University of Washington, Seattle Date: Thursday 15th February 2007 Time: 5:00 PM onwards Venue: Multi-Media Room, First Floor, St. Xavier's College, Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai - 400001 PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research) Address :: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir PM Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001 Telephone :: +91 (22) 65748152 Fax :: +91 (22) 66640561 Email :: pukar at pukar.org.in Website :: http://www.pukar.org.in If you cannot view the page click on the link below: http://pukar.org.in/pukar/ezine/archiving0104/ezine04.html PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research) Address:: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001 Telephone:: +91 (22) 6574 8152 Fax:: +91 (22) 6664 0561 Email:: pukar at pukar.org.in Website:: www.pukar.org.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070205/c9808a94/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From brodypaetau at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Tue Feb 6 01:01:43 2007 From: brodypaetau at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (O.Brody & K.Paetau) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 20:31:43 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] Frustrated artists smash laptop at opening lecture in Bern, Switzerland Message-ID: Frustrated artists smash laptop at opening lecture in Bern, Switzerland: View HTML documentation: http://www.brodypaetau.com/downloads/G4PBpresentation/G4PBpresentation.html Download PDF (300 KB): http://www.brodypaetau.com/downloads/G4PBpresentation/G4PBpresentation.pdf View Quicktime Movie (36 min. DSL required): http://www.brodypaetau.com/downloads/videos/G4PBpresentation.mov View Windows Media Movie (36 min. DSL required): http://www.brodypaetau.com/downloads/videos/G4PBpresentation.wmv (If you can not click on a link, please copy & paste it directly into your browser) Best wishes, Ondrej Brody & 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 any old or alternative e-mail addresses you might have, in order to help us unsubscribe you. Thank you and apologizes for the trouble! -- http://www.brodypaetau.com . From delhi.yunus at gmail.com Tue Feb 6 15:14:12 2007 From: delhi.yunus at gmail.com (Syed Yunus) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 01:44:12 -0800 Subject: [Reader-list] Encounter MAID In INDIA Message-ID: Yesterday New delhi 25 faced a major crises. most of the house maids in the area were on leave and the housewives a little angry. complaining that 'these maids always do this.. there is so much to do and all my work has been delayed'..blah..blah. Apparantly it is a very common phenomanon, which can be easily ignored but i was forced to think about it when my mother,sister in law and a neighbour aunty repeated the same anguish. I thought may be the scheduled demolition drive on the bank of yamuna is the reason for it and people might be worried for their shelters, the Urdu News papers also displayed full page features on the demolition . Most of these Maids are bangla speaking and live along the banks of yamuna in the so called 'unathorised' illegal colonies or settlement . Our maid also lives in the same settlement and she didn't come yesterday for washing. Today when my mom enquired about her 'Bunk' she said that she was picked up by the Police on the charges of being a bangladeshi, she was kept in the PS Chitranjan park for almost five hours and released only when her husband brought the 'evidence' of her being indian. she said "More than 50 people were picked from her area at 3.am last night and only those who carried some 'proof' were 'released free'," others were beaten and their freedom cost them around 2000-2500 rupees per head. There was no news coverage of it. Day before yesterday our delhi polices performed an encounter in which four people were killed for allegedly being terrosist. the event might and might not have something to do with raids in my 'maids' area but raids in bangla speeking ghetto of low income group people are common and it appear more ' Normal' whenevr there is any threat to our national security. Around five years back I heard similar stories in seema puri from bangla speaking people. no body came to help them as it was a political issue. so now I have some disturbing pictures with me .whenever encounter happens in the city, muslim ghetto area is raided,bangla speaking people are charged as infilteraters and locked up, freedom is purchased and Maids go on a mass bunk. Have you ever encountered maids in India ? -- Change is the only constant in life ! From aarti at sarai.net Tue Feb 6 13:51:21 2007 From: aarti at sarai.net (Aarti Sethi) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:51:21 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Presentation at Sarai: The Scalable City Message-ID: <3727F4AF-9CE5-4565-8FC8-BC0FF8503A4D@sarai.net> The Scalable City An artist's Presentation by Sheldon Brown 4:30 P.M., Wednesday, 7 February 2007 Seminar-Room, Sarai-CSDS 29, Rajpur Road, Civil Lines. Sheldon Brown, Director of the Center of Research in Computing and the Arts and Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego, will discuss and demonstrate his current project - The Scalable City. The Scalable City is an interactive extrapolation of the cultural condition arising from the interaction of users, data and algorithms. As our world becomes increasingly characterized by this equation, we find ourselves inhabiting the artifacts of these relationships. The Scalable City generates its urban environment via the choreography of these artifacts. Brown's work in general examines the relationships between mediated and physical experiences. This work often exists across a range of public realms. _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From arshad.mcrc at gmail.com Wed Feb 7 11:04:24 2007 From: arshad.mcrc at gmail.com (arshad amanullah) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:04:24 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] Suicide Intellect Message-ID: <2076f31d0702062134n594f133dr2675dda5bac89649@mail.gmail.com> Suicide Intellect Ali Eteraz dissects the work of Ali Shiarati, the intellectual force behind the Iranian Revolution (c) Ali Eteraz Print A thinker, when unmoored from humanity, can become like those Death-Eaters in the world of Harry Potter: a black force; mysterious; hooded; shrouded; face-less; shooting his influence into your mind; blurring the distinction between you and him -- and as you flicker and shimmer, an epileptic to his suggestion, he takes your soul upon retreat. Ali Shariati, long described as the intellectual force behind the Iranian Revolution, one of the top three thinkers of twentieth century Islam, and with his affiliation with the Sorbonne, Marxism, Sartre and Frantz Fanon, naturally associated with the oppressed, was one of those people about whom it was hard to suggest that he had anything but the good of mankind in his heart. I know nothing of his heart, but his work I know quite well. Oh, his work! His work is an extended adulation of misanthropy and suicide. In the Muslim world no one man has done more to render death more acceptable than Ali Shariati. Much of the recent discussion about the Muslim proclivity towards militancy looks to Syed Qutb, the Muslim Brother from Egypt. Perhaps Qutb is the forerunner of Islamist institutional angst. But individual suicide? Have we asked what prompted it? If the answer to that is oppression, fine. But then we must ask, what legitimized it? Who legitimized it? Is the will to commit suicide a latent underlying force in a people? Does it percolate like water waiting to be drawn upon? If it does, who draws it out? Who has gone down to Hades and suckled at the Styx? Who has lapped up the abyssal depths to taste the dark water? Who has come running, with tongue flopping right to left, to share with his brethren the darkened water of suicide? Who has brought Cereberus the three-headed dog of death? Cerebral Ali Shariati, has. Alas. Who turned out to be, not the greatest voice of humanism in Islam as his followers contend, but the misapplication of continental nihilism. A man who in his desire to have us love the rebel, instead fell in love with the murderer. Ali Shariati came out of Shi'a Islam. One underlying element of Shi'a Islam is the recognition of the murder of Hussein at the Battle of Kerbala at the hands of Yazid who was the first true despot of the Muslim world. Since that fateful day, the murder of Hussein has made for the biggest culture of mourning a dead man this side of Christianity. In Iran, during the month of Muharram, death-plays are rampant -- where the mutilation of Hussein's entire clan of 72 is lamented and wept over. In Pakistan, men beat themselves with chains to feel a small iota of the pain that Hussein suffered when speared. Ali Shariati knew the mourning of Shi'a Islam quite well. What set Shariati apart was that he turned the mourning into rebellion. In "Red Shi'ism v. Black Shi'ism" he openly disavows "Black Shi'ism" which he considers to be rampantly pessimistic and argues in favor of "Red Shi'ism" which arises out of the primordial "No." He says: "Shi'ism begins with a "No"; a "No" which opposes the path chosen by history, and rebels against history." He redescribes Shi'a Islam to have emerged from a negation. There shouldn't be a more clearer proof of nihilism. But it gets worse. Due to his access to Hussein, Shariati had at his disposable a popular template upon which to impress his terrible philosophy. This is where more than anywhere else Shariati is at his most insidious, because more than making Hussein appear as a sort of hot-blooded warrior of the William Wallace variety, he makes Hussein into a cold, calculating, and most importantly, rational, practitioner of suicide. In Shariati's view, martyrdom is not something imposed upon you. It is chosen. Not just chosen, but rationally arrived at. Shariati says that martyrdom "is a death which is desired by our warrior, selected with all of the awareness, logic, reasoning, intelligence, understanding, consciousness and alertness that a human being has." Such are the words Shariati uses when describing Hussein, Son of Ali, Grandson of Muhammad, the founder of Islam. With Shariati, Hussein seems no more the bright-eyed idealist of early Islamic history; no more the young man who used to clamber upon his grandfather's back during prostrations. The pen, or should it be wand, in Shariati's claws turns Hussain into Bakunin, Kaliayev, Lenin, Mao, Bin Laden -- who do not unleash themselves against the forces of their oppression, rather, plot against them. The former is, at its worst, passion unchecked and might be reasoned against; the latter is reason unchecked and has no feeling. But Shariati is never fully able to let go of the mythical lore that undergird his childhood in a Shi'a culture. He grew up in a world of God. Everything must be for the sake of God. Even suicide. So he resorts to legitimizing his Hussein by positing that all of Hussein's rationality is sanctified by God. After all, every exercise of rationality requires it to be in the service of a higher principle. The higher principle for Shariati, in a fit of perverted irony, becomes the unity the martyr achieves by nearing God. In "Arise and Bear Witness" Shariati reminds us that on the Day of Judgment a martyr will not be wearing a shroud. Presumably this is because with his suicide a martyr has already sacrificed "the being of error and sin prior to death and now has arisen to bear witness." Think of it: a martyr, then, is a man who, on the day of judgment, when all humanity is being taken to account by God, on the great equalizing plains of justice, is simply not accountable. It turns out that the man who has consciously, rationally, hurled himself against a greater force and found himself extinguished like a moth in a flame -- for him there is no judgment. While the man who reformed, resolved, worked and advocated will be amidst the huddled mass. For the rebel, exemption; for the rational, judgment. The rebel, free; the rational, a slave. Shariati thus gives to Islamic theology the legitimacy of Hussein and Muhammad, packaged with the neurotic freedom of Sade and the murder of the Russian Anarchists. It should come as no surprise then that during the 1980's and early 1990's while traveling through the Muslim world one would encounter romanticized tales of Iranian boys, strapping bombs to themselves against Iraqi tanks. Whether these stories were based in fact or not became irrelevant because the lore of the suicide began to spread. Very soon Muslim people were reading suicide ack into their own national histories. All of a sudden all tank battles involving Pakistan were all about the young men who strapped themselves with grenades and met the Indian tanks. Shariati's conflation of voluntary death with the tragic and the mythic made such romanticizing very easy. It should also not be a great surprise that the man who has best come to represent the Shariati ideal is Osama Bin Laden who, because he is so rich, is presumed to be calculating; and because he lives as an ascetic is presumed to be a rebel. It would be fascinating to sit and trace the intellectual landmines which Shariati hit on his way to his proposals. He obviously had Fanon's idea of violence as a cleansing in mind; he also had in mind the Marxist notions of a revolution. He probably also had in his head the idea of the communist utopia, as well as the Shi'a utopia which will exist at the end of time when the Mahdi has returned. Such ideas, set into conversation with Islamic history, made Shariati a great expositor of revolution. He is, therefore, rightly called the intellectual force behind the Iranian Revolution. But merely suggesting a social revolution is one thing. Shariati went much further. He even re-read "reform" as revolution. In his essay, "Muhammad Iqbal" which is purportedly a eulogy to the Cambridge educated lawyer and Indo-Pakistani poet and philosopher, Shariati manages to transform even the legalistic and methodical Iqbal into a revolutionary. Shariati says, "When we say Iqbal was a reformer or that the great thinkers after Sayyid Jamal are known for being the greatest reformers of the century in the world, it is not in the sense that they supported gradual and external change in society. No! They were supporters of a deep-seated revolution, a revolution in thought, in views, in feelings; an ideological and cultural revolution." Ascribing such views of Iqbal, whose most famous work is a nine-part lecture on how Islamic Law needs to be gradually tackled and reformed, would be laughable, if Shariati's views on Iqbal had not already become the authority on what Iqbal stood for. By linking Iqbal to himself, and then subsequently to the Iranian revolution, Shariati has, at least in the hearts of Pakistani thinker, the idea that maybe Iqbal really was a revolutionary. There is very little that satisfactorily explains Shariati's nihilism. But in his poem "'One' in front of it, 'Zeroes' till Eternity" there is perhaps the clearest indication of the psychological proclivity of the man. The essential thrust of the poem is that God is the "One" and besides him there is nothing. There is no "1", Except God, There is nothing, There is nobody, One, In front of It, Till Eternity, Zeros. There is a tendency amidst practitioners of Islamic mysticism to argue that since the highest ideal is to love God, the greatest expression of this love can only be manifested if they minimize their personal ego. Most practitioners of Sufism take this to mean that one must be pious, humble, compassionate, and avoid arrogance. However, there are those who have tended to take the minimization of the personal ego to unprecedented levels. They have argued that if we show our love to God by way of negating our personality, then it means that upon successful negation we have become merged into God. Shariati expresses this idea by way of "till eternity, zeroes." There is God and there is no me. But by implication that means that I am within God. Whether this is anthropomorphism or a form of self-deification is a long standing debate in Islam. For our purposes that debate is really irrelevant. What matters is that we are able to find a root for Shariati's attraction to negation. Contrast this with Iqbal's views on Sufism, who argued that the highest good was not to make it to the mountaintop of self-negation and then ascend into the bosom of God; rather, cognizant that one could have found unity with God, the highest good is to return down from the mountain and join your fellow man. The fact that Shariati missed this lesson, despite the fact that it is discussed in Iqbal's nine lectures series, is alarming. At worst it shows arrogance; at best, irresponsibility. Such traits would be alarming if found in any major thinker; they are downright frightening in the hands of one Ali Shariati. In 1977, Shariati was murdered in London under mysterious circumstances. Whether he approved of his own killing we will never know. What we do know is that were he around still he would approve of the murder in the name of God. Ali Eteraz is a writer in NYC. He recently finished a novel about Muslim immigrants and is now working on a play which borrows heavily from the Quran. He also maintains the popular blog Unwilling Self-Negation . His work has previously appeared on The Revealer and Killing the Buddha. On Identity Theory: "Suicide Intellect" arshad amanullah new delhi-25. From sumit at tarshi.net Tue Feb 6 14:14:04 2007 From: sumit at tarshi.net (Sumit Baudh) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:14:04 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] =?iso-8859-1?q?=5BAnnouncements=5D_Invitation_/20_F?= =?iso-8859-1?q?eb_/4-7pm_/Human_Rights_Challenging_the_Penalizatio?= =?iso-8859-1?q?n_of_Same-Sex_Sexual_Activity_/Alliance_Fran=E7aise?= Message-ID: <20070206084408.7D23D28D716@mail.sarai.net> The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality is hosting a discussion on Human Rights Challenging the Penalization of Same-Sex Sexual Activity 20 February 2007 (Tuesday), 4:00 – 7:00 pm Alliance Française, 72, Lodi Estate, New Delhi No Passes Required. ENTRY on first-come-first-served basis Section 377 of Indian Penal Code 1860, makes illegal ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature’ thus: “377. Unnatural Offences. Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.” The law penalizes certain sexual acts equally. For example oral sex, regardless of whether it is heterosexual or homosexual; even penile-masturbation of one person by another, is considered criminal. Although facially neutral, the law has effectively stigmatized and criminalized a section more than others, namely the same-sex desiring people, including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), hijra, kothi and other Queer people. This discussion will focus on some of the streams and segments of human rights that challenge the penalization of same-sex sexual activity. Details about the exact programme, speakers and the chief discussant – to be announced. For now, please block the date in your diary. Updated information will be posted on the website http://www.asiasrc.org/ Information, available at this stage, follows: One of the speakers, Prof. Robert Wintemute, is Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, King’s College, University of London, where he teaches European Union Law, Human Rights Law, and Anti-Discrimination Law. He is the author of Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: The United States Constitution, the European Convention, and the Canadian Charter (Oxford University Press, 1995/1997), and the editor (with honorary co-editor Mads Andenæs) of Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Study of National, European and International Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2001). He has drafted interventions by LGBT and other NGOs in the European Court of Human Rights (adoption of children by lesbian and gay individuals, and recognition of unmarried same-sex couples), and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (equal access to legal marriage for same-sex couples), and served as Co-President of the largest-ever International Conference on LGBT Human Rights, 1st World Outgames, Montreal, 26-29 July 2006. Prof. Wintemute will speak about international and comparative law on penalization of same-sex sexual activity, and the importance of interventions by LGBT and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in human rights cases before the courts. He assisted with Yale Law School's intervention in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which the US Supreme Court cited in its decision to strike down the "sodomy" laws that remained in around 13 states. Arvind Narrain is a lawyer with and founder member of the Alternative Law Forum, based in Bangalore, India. He was part of two fact finding reports on sexual minorities in India. The People’s Union of Civil Liberties – Karnataka (PUCL-K) Report of 2001 highlighted human rights violations against sexuality minorities, and, the 2003 report specifically looked at human rights violations against the transgender community. He is also the author of Queer: Despised Sexualities and Social Change and co-editor of Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India. Narrain will speak about the on-going litigation in the Delhi High Court challenging the Constitutionality of Section 377 and placing it in a historical context, particularly focusing on the recent intervention made by the Voices Against 377; further connecting it to international experiences; and reflecting on where we are and what we can potentially achieve from this effort. Advocate Vrinda Grover will be the chief discussant, commenting briefly on Wintemute and Narrain, and posing some issues for clarification and discussion. RSVP: Sumit Baudh Senior Programme Associate The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality 11 Mathura Road, 1st Floor, Jangpura B, New Delhi-110014, INDIA tel: +91 11 2437 9070, +91 11 2437 9071 fax: +91 11 2437 4022 eml: sumit at tarshi.net web: www.asiasrc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070206/78b261ae/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Feb 6 14:39:56 2007 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (media/art/cologne) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:09:56 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] =?iso-8859-1?q?=5BAnnouncements=5D_events=3A_9_Febr?= =?iso-8859-1?q?uary_2007_in_New_Dehli_and_Rosario?= Message-ID: <20070206100956.6DDA1476.F387C253@192.168.0.4> Media/Art/Cologne http://www.mediaartcologne.org is happy to present media art productions from Cologne 1. 9 February 2007 the opening of the media art show ://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace http://self.engad.org - at MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario/Argentina http://www.macromuseo.org.ar More than 200 artists from 40 countries are messengers of Peace through this media art exhibition, which was shown first in Bethlehem/Palestine in July 2006. More info on http://self.engad.org 2. 9-11 February 2007 VideoChannel presentation and screening of the CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival selections http://coff.newmediafest.org --> CologneOFF I - Genderscapes & --> CologneOFF II - Image vs Music on CeC & CaC Carnival of E-Creativity & Change-Agents Conclave http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/ at India International Centre New Dehli/India organised by The Academy of Electronic Arts New Dehli/India General info on http://videochannel.newmediafest.org Detailled info about the selected films & artists CologneOFF I - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=57 CologneOFF II - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=64 ----------------------------------------- These info are released by NetEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net and Media/Art/Cologne http://www.mediaartcologne.org the global window to media art from Cologne powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne www.nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------ info & contact info (at) nmartproject.net _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From aman.am at gmail.com Wed Feb 7 11:52:58 2007 From: aman.am at gmail.com (Aman Sethi) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:52:58 +0530 Subject: [Reader-list] We're in jail dude; transcripts from Iraq Message-ID: <995a19920702062222i91365e1t4141def6caa905cf@mail.gmail.com> A bit of background - Lance Corporal Matty Hull was killed a few weeks short of his 26th birthday while on patrol with the British contingent in Iraq when US aircraft mistakenly opened fire on British ground patrols. The transcripts follow: A. I'm going to be sick' The transcript of the conversation between two US pilots whose planes attacked a British convoy in southern Iraq in March 2003 Tuesday February 6, 2007 Guardian Unlimited According to The Sun, which printed the transcript from a cockpit video taken from one of the planes and obtained by the newspaper, this was the attack in which Lance Corporal Matty Hull was killed. The transcript identifies the pilots of the A-10 planes only as POPOV36 - who fired at the convoy, and who the Sun said was a lieutenant colonel -- and POPOV35, a major. Also speaking are Manila Hotel, Manila34 and Lightning34, US Marine Corps forward air controllers on the ground and attached to British units. Later, Sky Chief, a US AWAC jet controlling the air battle and COSTA58, a British pilot nearby, also speak. The times given, from the digital clock on the pilot's display, are in GMT. Transcript starts: 1336.30 MANILA HOTEL: POPOV from MANILA HOTEL. Can you confirm you engaged that tube and those vehicles? 1336.36 POPOV35: Affirm Sir. Looks like I've got multiple vehicles in reverts at about 800 metres to the north of your arty (artillery) rounds. Can you switch fire, and shift fire, and get some arty rounds on those? 1336.47 MANILA HOTEL: Roger, I understand that those are the impacts you observed earlier on my timing? 1336.51 POPOV35: Affirmative. 1336.52 MANILA HOTEL: Roger, standby. Let me make sure they're not on another mission. 1336.57 POPOV36: Hey, I got a four ship. Looks like we got orange panels on them though. Do we have any friendlies up in this area? 1337.03 MANILA HOTEL: I understand that was north 800 metres. 1337.12 MANILA HOTEL: POPOV, understand that was north 800 metres? 1337.16 POPOV35: Confirm, north 800 metres. Confirm there are no friendlies this far north on the ground. 1337.21 MANILA HOTEL: That is an affirm. You are well clear of friendlies. 1337.25 POPOV35: Copy. I see multiple riveted vehicles. Some look like flatbed trucks and others are green vehicles. Can't quite make out the type. Look like may be ZIL157s [Russian made trucks used by Iraqi army]. 1337.36 MANILA HOTEL: Roger. That matches our intel up there. And understand you also have the other fixed wing up this push? For terminal control, if you can. 1337.44 POPOV35: I'd love to. I didn't talk to him yet. 1337.46 MANILA HOTEL: Roger, I believe CASPER is up this push too. Two Super Tomcats. 1337.54 POPOV35: Hey dude. 1337.56 POPOV36: I got a four ship of vehicles that are evenly spaced along a road going north. 1338.04 POPOV36: Look down at your right, 2 o'clock, at 10 o'clock low, there is a, left 10 o'clock low, look down there north along that canal, right there. Coming up just south of the village. 1338.21 POPOV35: Evenly spaced? Where we strafed? 1338.23 POPOV36: No. No. Further east, further west, right now. And there's four or five of them right now heading up there. 1338.29 POPOV35: No, I don't have you visual. 1338.30 POPOV36: I'm back at your 6 - no factor. 1338.31 POPOV35: OK, now where's this canal? 1338.35 POPOV35: Don't hit those F18s that are out there. 1338.38 POPOV36: OK. Right underneath you. Right now, there's a canal that runs north/south. There's a small village, and there are vehicles that are spaced evenly there. 1338.49 POPOV36: They look like they have orange panels on though. 1338.51 POPOV35: He told me, he told me there's nobody north of here. 1338.52 POPOV36: I know. There, right on the river. 1338.53 POPOV35: I see vehicles though, might be our original dudes. 1339.09 POPOV36: They've got something orange on top of them. 1339.10 POPOV35: POPOV for MANILA 3, is MANILA 34 in this area? 1339.14 MANILA HOTEL: Say again? 1339.15 POPOV35: MANILA HOTEL, is MANILA 34 in this area? 1339.19 MANILA HOTEL: Negative. Understand they are well clear of that now. 1339.23 POPOV35: OK, copy. Like I said, multiple riveted vehicles. They look like flatbed trucks. Are those your targets? 1339.30 MANILA HOTEL: That's affirm. 1339.31 POPOV35: OK. 1339.34 POPOV36: Let me ask you one question. 1339.35 POPOV35: What's that? 1339.45 POPO36: (to MANILA HOTEL) Hey, tell me what type of rocket launchers you got up here. 1339.50 POPOV36: I think they're rocket launchers. 1339.52 MANILA HOTEL: . . . (garbled) You were stepped on, say again. 1339.54 POPOV35: MANILA HOTEL, fire your arty up that 800 metres north, and see how we do. 1340.01 MANILA HOTEL: Roger, standby for shot. They are getting adjustments to the guns now. 1340.34 POPOV35: Copy. 1340.09 POPOV36: Roll up your right wing and look right underneath you. 1340.12 POPOV35: (angry) I know what you're talking about. 1340.13 POPOV36: OK, well they got orange rockets on them. 1340.17 POPOV35: Orange rockets? 1340.17 POPOV36: Yeah, I think so. 1340.18 POPOV35: Let me look. 1340.26 POPOV35: We need to think about getting home. 1340.29 POPOV36: 3.6 is what it says (a fuel measurement). 1340.31 POPOV35: Yeah, I know. I'm talking time wise. 1340.35 POPOV36: I think killing these damn rocket launchers, it would be great. (The tape then becomes garbled) 1340.52 MANILA HOTEL: Yeah, POPOV36, MANILA HOTEL. I've got other aircraft up this push. Not sure they're coming to me. Someone else might be working this freak. 1341.00 POPOV35: Yeah, MANILA34 is working them, break, break. 1340.12 POPOV36: Yeah, I see that, you see I'm going to roll down. 1340.15 MANILA 34: Break, be advised MANILA34 is not working the F18s unless they are trying to check in with me, over. 1341.21 POPOV35: Copy. 1341.24 POPOV36: OK, do you see the orange things on top of them? 1341.32 MANILA HOTEL: POPOV 36 from MANILA HOTEL. Are you able to switch to Crimson? 1341.37 POPOV36: POPOV 36 is rolling in. 1341.40 MANILA HOTEL: Tell you what. 1341.41 POPOV35: I'm coming off west. You roll in. It looks like they are exactly what we're talking about. 1341.49 POPOV36: We got visual. 1341.50 POPOV36: OK. I want to get that first one before he gets into town then. 1341.53 POPOV35: Get him - get him. 1341.55 POPOV36: All right, we got rocket launchers, it looks like. Number 2 is rolling in from the south to the north, and 2's in. 1342.04 POPOV35: Get it. According to The Sun, POPOV36, then puts his A-10 into a dive to strafe the British column, destroying two Scimitar armoured vehicles and killing L/Cpl Hull. 1342.09 - GUNFIRE - 1342.18 POPOV35: I'm off your west. 1342.22 POPOV35: Good hits. 1342.29 POPOV36: Got a visual. 1342.30 POPOV35: I got a visual. You're at your high 10. 1342.31 POPOV36: Gotcha. 1342.30 POPOV36: That's what you think they are, right? 1342.39 POPOV35: It looks like it to me, and I got my goggles on them now. 1342.59 POPOV35: OK, I'm looking at getting down low at this. 1343.13 MANILA HOTEL: POPOV 36 from MANILA HOTEL, guns . . . 1343.17 MANILA HOTEL: To engage those targets in the revetts [slopes]. 1343.24 POPOV36: It looks like he is hauling ass. Ha ha. Is that what you think they are? 1343.34 POPOV36: 1-2 1343.35 POPOV35: It doesn't look friendly. 1343.38 POPOV36: OK, I'm in again from the south. 1343.40 POPOV35: Ok. 1343.47 - GUNFIRE - 1343.54 LIGHTNING 34: POPOV 34, LIGHTNING 34. 1344.09 POPOV35: POPOV 35, LIGHTNING 34 GO. 1344.12 LIGHTNING 34: Roger, POPOV. Be advised that in the 3122 and 3222 group box you have friendly armour in the area. Yellow, small armoured tanks. Just be advised. 1344.16 POPOV35: Ahh shit. 1344.19 P0POV35: Got a - got a smoke. 1344.21 LIGHTNING 34: Hey, POPOV34, abort your mission. You got a, looks we might have a blue on blue situation. 1344.25 POPOV35: Fuck. God bless it. 1344.29 POPOV35: POPOV 34. 1344.35 POPOV35: Fuck, fuck, fuck. 1344.36 MANILA 34: POPOV34, this is MANILA 34. Did you copy my last, over? 1344.39 POPOV35: I did. 1344.47 POPOV35: Confirm those are friendlies on that side of the canal. 1344.51 POPOV35: Shit. 1344.58 MANILA 34: Standby POPOV. 1345.04 POPOV36: God dammit. 1344.14 MANILA HOTEL: Hey POPOV 36, from MANILA HOTEL. 1344.25 MANILA 34: OK POPOV. Just west of the 3-4 easting. On the berm up there, the 3422 area is where we have our friendlies, over. 1344.39 POPOV35: All right, POPOV 35 has smoke. Let me know how those friendlies are right now, please. 1344.45 MANILA 34: Roger, standby. 1344.49 POPOV35: Gotta go home dude. 1344.50 POPOV36: Yeah, I know. We're fucked. 1345.54 POPOV35: Shit. 1346.01 POPOV36: As you cross the circle, you are 3 o'clock low. 1346.03 POPOV35: Roger. 1346.12 POPOV35: POPOV 35 is bingo. Let us know what's happening. 13446.15 MANILA HOTEL: Roger. We are getting that information for you right now. Standby. 1346.20 POPOV36: Fuck. 1346.47 MANILA 34: POPOV, this is MANILA 34 over. 1346.51 POPOV35: Go. 1346.55 MANILA 34: POPOV 4, MANILA 34 over. 1347.01 POPOV35: Go. 1347.02 MANILA 34: We are getting an initial brief that there was one killed and one wounded, over. 1347.09 POPOV35: Copy. RTB (return to base). 1347.18 POPOV35: I'm going to be sick. 1347.24 POPOV36: Ah fuck. 1347.48 POPOV35: Did you hear? 1347.51 POPOV36: Yeah, this sucks. 1347.52 POPOV35: We're in jail, dude. 1347.59 POPOV36: Aaaahhhh. 1348.12 SKY CHIEF: MANILA this is SKY CHIEF over. 1348.18 MANILA34: This is MANILA 34, send SKY CHIEF. 1348.22 COSTA58: SKY CHIEF, SKY CHIEF. COSTA 58. 1348.25 MANILA HOTEL: SKY CHIEF, this is MANILA HOTEL. 1348.30 COSTA58: SKY CHIEF, SKY CHIEF. COSTA 58. 1348.41 SKY CHIEF: Relaying for TWINACT, the A-10s are running against friendlies. 1348.47 COSTA58: POPOV 35, this is COSTA58. Relaying message for TWINACT. Abort, abort. 1348.54 SKY CHIEF: MANILA how copy A-10s are running against friendlies. Abort. Over. 1349.07 COSTA58: From TWINACT, abort, abort. 1349. 11 POPOV35: POPOV 35 aborting. 1349.14 COSTA58: We will relay that back to TWINACT. 1349.18 POPOV36: Fuck. God fucking shit. 1350.21 POPOV36: Dammit. Fucking damn it. 1351.17 P0POV36: God dammit. Fuck me dead (weeping). 1351.25 POPOV35: You with me? 1351.27 POPOV36: Yeah. 1351.30 POPOV35: They did say there were no friendlies. 1351.33 POPOV36: Yeah, I know that thing with the orange panels is going to screw us. They look like orange rockets on top. 1351.48 POPOV35: Your tape still on? 1351.49 POPOV36: Yeah. 1351.54 POPOV35: Mine is end of tape. Transcript ends. From info at kitabmahal.org Wed Feb 7 15:15:04 2007 From: info at kitabmahal.org (Kitabmahal, The Fourth Floor) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:45:04 +0100 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Unmesh Dhage painting exhibition at Kitab Mahal, Fort Message-ID: <1bc3dc5e8cdfa297318474927b5bbc02@tioga.ymlpcom.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/attachments/20070207/95bd071c/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements From turbulence at turbulence.org Thu Feb 8 03:32:55 2007 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:02:55 -0500 Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Programmable Media: Open Platforms for Creativity and Collaboration Message-ID: <000401c74b03$cea9ad40$6601a8c0@t5x1c0> Programmable Media: Open Platforms for Creativity and Collaboration A symposium organized and presented by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., hosted by Pace Digital Gallery, New York City. PARTICIPANTS: John (Craig) Freeman, Tom Igoe, Cary Peppermint, Amit Pitaru, Michelle Riel, Helen Thorington, and Mushon Zer-Aviv and Dan Phiffer. Date: March 2, 2007 Time: 10 am to 3:30 pm Venue: Multipurpose Room, 1 Pace Plaza, Pace University Free and open to all Registration: send an email to turbulence at turbulence.org Contact: Helen Thorington (newradio at turbulence.org); Jillian McDonald (jmcdonald2 at pace.edu) In July 2004 the not-for-profit media organization New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. began the networked_performance blog to chronicle observations that internet based creative practice is expanding due to the ready availability of wireless, mobile, and GPS computational devices and the emergence of the programmable web. We observe that artists, designers and researchers working in digitally networked and programmable environments are increasingly making projects that are media platforms, tools and services which are open and contingent upon participation and the contribution of content to realize them. The March 2nd Symposium, Programmable Media: Open Platforms for Creativity and Collaboration, hosted by Pace University, will explore two forms of current practice. First, the creation of original software to create tools and services for creative and social use, such as a freely available 3-D drawing tool and musical instrument, or a public commons meta layer conceived as a continuous public space for collaboration. Second, the creation of original work using the tools available within open platforms such as Second Life and MySpace to build community and raise awareness. SCHEDULE 10:00 - 10:45 am Introduction: Social Coding: Tools, Platforms, Systems Helen Thorington: Turbulence.org, networked_performance blog Michelle Riel: Siting this Symposium in current practice Q&A (audience) 10:45 - 11:00 am Transition 11:00 am - 12.20 pm Roundtable 1: Mushon Zer-Aviv + Dan Phiffer: The Social Space of the Net: ShiftSpace Amit Pitaru: Sonic Wire Sculptor Tom Igoe: Networked Objects: Email Clock & Air Quality Meter & others Discussion (with moderators) Q&A (audience) 12.20 - 2:00 pm lunch break 2:00 - 3:20 pm Roundtable 2: Cary Peppermint: The Performative Space of the Net John (Craig) Freeman: Participatory Installation Art in Second Life Michelle Riel: Responsive Soft-Biological Systems Discussion (with moderators) Q&A (audience) Participant Biographies: John (Craig) Freeman is an artist and educator who uses digital technologies to produce place-based virtual reality and site-specific public art. The virtual reality work is made up of projected interactive environments that lead the audience from global satellite images to immersive, user navigated scenes on the ground. As one explores these virtual spaces, the story of the place unfolds in a montage of nonlinear media. Freeman's work has been exhibited internationally. He has recently introduced it into the 3-D graphical world of Second Life. Freeman is currently an Associate Professor of New Media at Emerson College in Boston. Tom Igoe teaches courses in physical computing and networking, exploring ways to allow digital technologies to sense and respond to a wider range of human physical expression. Coming from a background in theatre, his work has centered on physical interaction related to live performance and public space. His current research focuses on ecologically sustainable practices in technology development. Along with Dan O'Sullivan, he co-authored the book "Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers," which has been adopted by numerous digital art and design programs around the world. He is working on another book on networked objects, for O'Reilly Media, due out in 2007. Projects include a series of networked banquet table centerpieces and musical instruments; an email clock; and a series of interactive dioramas, created in collaboration with M.R. Petit. He has consulted for The American Museum of the Moving Image, EAR Studio, Diller + Scofidio Architects, Eos Orchestra, and others. He is a contributor to MAKE magazine and a collaborator on the Arduino open source microcontroller project. He hopes someday to work with monkeys, as well. Cary Peppermint is a conceptual artist who works with digital technologies and performance art. He is assistant professor of art at Colgate University where he teaches courses in the theory and practice of digital art. Peppermint distributes his ongoing network performances through an independent website of information-art called "Restlessculture.net." (http://www.restlessculture.net) The focus of Cary's work is the creative inquiry into the cultural effects of an increasingly interconnected, information-based global culture and the setting of information free through accessible, searchable, database-driven new media objects and performances. His net.art includes some of the first real-time, interactive performances realized via CU-SEEME and early internet browser technologies. Cary's latest works engage the concepts of wilderness, space, the American frontier, and environmental ethics and explore how new media technologies both limit and expand our conceptions of nature and the environment, questioning how we live and make art with and in nature. He has curated two international exhibitions of digitally infused eco-art, "Technorganic" and "Wilderness Information Network." Cary exhibits internationally and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Franklin Furnace Performance Grant, Experimental Television Workshop Grant, and NYSCA's Decentralization Grant. His work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Computer Fine Arts. Dan Phiffer is a new media hacker from California, interested in exploring cultural dimensions of inexpensive communications networks such as voice telephony and the Internet. Drawing on his computer science background, Dan's software projects seek to provide meaningful creative opportunities through intuitive user interfaces. Dan now lives in Brooklyn, New York and is pursuing a Masters from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Amit Pitaru is an artist, designer and researcher of Human Machine Interaction (HCI). Amit cross-palliates his work between a wide range of fields; As an artist, he develops custom-made musical and animation instruments, and has recently exhibited/performed at the London Design Museum, Paris Pompidou Center, Sundance Film festival and ICC Museum in Tokyo. Amit is also a designer with particular interest in Assistive Technologies and Universal Design. He is currently commissioned by the MacArthur Foundation to write a chapter for an upcoming book on his recent work - creating toys and software that are inclusively accessible to people with various disabilities. As an educator, Amit develops curriculums that focus on the coupling of technology and the creative thought process. He regularly teaches at New York University's ITP and Cooper Union's Arts department. Michelle Riel is associate professor of new media and chair of the Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department at California State University Monterey Bay. Riel collaborates with turbulence.org on the networked_performance blog, documenting and presenting on emerging work that is both networked and live. She is an award winning designer and NEA commissioned net artist. Her current work, antSongs, is a responsive music system collaborating with ants to explore issues of sustainability, community, and globalism. Helen Thorington is an award winning writer, sound composer and media artist. Th