From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sarai Newsletter 05 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 00:05:37 +0530 Contents 1.South Delhi Polytechnic Workshop: Report 2.Cybermohalla workshop report: New team 3.Sarai Team at HAL and Tech_2 Conferences 4.New @ Sarai website 5.Asian Film Cultures: Iranian Films Dear All Let me begin this newsletter with a potential newspaper headline which never got into print: "Record rainfall in Delhi floods Sarai". For many of you who have not been to the our premises, Sarai is located in the basement of the Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies, and like many basements, ours too was no match for the deluge. However, after hours of pumping out water and cleaning, we did manage to put the place back on rails, though all this did delay the newsletter. My apologies. 1. Workshop at the South Delhi Polytechnic for Women on the Sarai Reader 01 July 24th and 25th , 2001 The South Delhi Polytechnic for Women chooses a book each year for its faculty as 'Summer Reading'. This year they chose the Sarai Reader 01: The Public Domain. A hundred copies of the book were bought and distributed. The principal also sent out a questionnaire on the basis of which the faculty members were expected to submit a book report. A binder with responses to the book from the faculty had also been prepared by the workshop participants. The workshop - spread over three hours each on two days - was meant to be the finale of this process, with the faculty getting a chance to interact with some of the people who have contributed to the Reader. The most important discussions ranged on the necessity of a different way of looking at intellectual property and the public domain, the collaborative nature of cultural production, a critical attitude to media messages and the different ways in which media affects and reconfigures notions of power, newness and elitism. The significance of language issues in cyberspace and in the digital domain, anxieties about the replacement of teachers and teaching by new media, about censorship, and about lack of control also made for interesting discussions. 2. Cybermohalla workshop report The Medialab set up at the Community Centre in the LNJP Colony as part of the Sarai Cybermohalla project started on the second series of training programme, with a new team. The first batch of trainees were actively involved in the selection of the new team. The success of the the first workshop was evident from the number of children interested in being part of the project. At present the trainees are writing and designing a beginners media media manual based on their engagement with media tools and everyday. 3. Sarai Team at HAL Conference and Tech_2. Programmers from Sarai participated in the just concluded HAL Conference on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Sarai members are also participating in the Tech_2 Conference on Tactical Media at Bristol, which is going on at the moment. We will provide you with a report on both these event in the next newsletter. 4. New @Sarai website Seecilia: Digital Mapping by Ashok Sukumaran and Manosh De Ashok and Manoj explore the use of multiple dimensions to create a new and graphic language. They map data over time and present an "extended exposure" of an urban experience - hanging out at the cinema. http://www.sarai.net/compositions/images/ashok/ashok0.htm New Compositions by: i) Gas Cylinders: Sampurna Chatterjee http://www.sarai.net/compositions/texts/works/gas.htm ii) In which In-Drawn toes meets Green Chandeliers. Or to try to sketch a stranger? :Hansa Thapliyal http://www.sarai.net/compositions/texts/works/hansa.htm iii)Citizen Zero: by Shuddhabrata Sengupta http://www.sarai.net/compositions/texts/works/zero.htm 5. Asian Film Cultures II: Iranian Films The Sarai weekly film screenings resume with a second series on Asian Film Cultures from August 24th 2001. A series of seven Iranian Films will be screened, as always on every Friday at 4:30 pm. We are grateful to the Iranian Cultural Centre and Vijay Tankha, St. Stephen's College Cine Club for making this series possible. The Films are listed in the order they will be screened. i) August 24th 2001 The White Balloon, 1995, 85 minutes? Director: Jafar Panahi ii) August 31st 2001 The Cyclist, 1989, 75? minutes Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf iii)September 7th 2001 Marriage of the Blessed, 1989, 75 minutes Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf iv) September 14th 2001 Close-up, 1990, 90 minutes Director: Abbas Kiorastami v) September 21st 2001 Where is my friend's home, 1987, 90 minutes Director: Abbas Kiorastami vi)September 28th 2001 And life goes on, 1992, 91 minutes Director: Abbas Kiorastami OR Maybe Some Other Time, 1987 Director: Bahram Bayzai vii) October 5th 2001 Children of Heaven, 1997, 90 minutes Director: Majid Majidi -- Sarai: The New Media Initiative Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 29,Rajpur Road, Delhi - 54 Phone: 91-11-3951190 Fax: 91-11-2943450 www.sarai.net ------------------------------------------------ An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr