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January 2002
Newsletter- January 2002
Table of Contents:
Talks @Sarai
Installations @Sarai
Workshop @Sarai: Introduction to Cyberculture
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Sarai wishes all of you a very happy new year.
I. Talks @ Sarai
We start the New Year with a series of lectures and presentations - grouped
thematically under our three Occasional Seminar Series. All talks and paper
presentations will take place at 3:30 pm, in the Seminar Room, Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 110054
1.Media Publics and Practices Seminar
i. January 2, 2002, Wednesday
Politics of Information in Bio-technology
Mike Fischer
MIT Program on Science, Technology, and Society
ii. January 8, 2002, Tuesday
Technology, the Turing Test & Artificial Intelligence
Sanmay Das,
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Boston
iii. January 16, 2002, Wednesday
Politics of Global Circulation of Human Genetic Materials
Kaushik Sunderajan
MIT Program on Science, Technology and Society, USA
2. Language beyond Literature Seminar
January 10, 2002, Thursday
Hindi Commercial Press & the Urban Publics: The Case of Late Colonial
U.P.
Charu Gupta
Department of History, Motilal Nehru College (E), University of Delhi
3. Urban Cultures and Politics Seminar
January 30, 2002, Wednesday
The Idea of Bombay
Gyan Prakash
Department of History, Princeton University, USA
Talk @ Sarai
The Idea of Bombay -
Urban Cultures and Politics Series Presents:
“The Idea of Bombay” by Gyan Prakash,
Wednesday, 30th January, 3.30 pm
@
Seminar Room, CSDS
Gyan Prakash is Professor of History, Princeton University. He is the
author of Bonded Histories, (1990) and the editor of After Colonialism:
Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (1995). and a member of
the Subaltern Studies Collective. His recent book was Another Reason:
Science and the Imagination of Modern India, (2000)
II.Installations @ Sarai
The Sarai Interface Zone will host three installations by artists and media
practitioners through the month of January. Unless otherwise specified, the
artists will be available for discussions.
All installations and exhibitions will be located in the Interface Zone at
Sarai.
i). January 2nd - 4th 2002
Dilliwale Kaun? Baharwale Kaun?
A photographic exhibition on a digital platform by Syeda Farhana
Dilliwale Kaun? Baharwale Kaun? is an exhibition of Syeda Farhana's
photographic
& textual narratives on the theme of "The Outsider". Focussing on Bangladeshi
migrants, the exhibition is a product of her part - residency at the Interface
Zone at Sarai. This residency is a
collaboration between Sarai and the Khoj International Artists Residency
Programme.
Syeda Farhana is a photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She will be
present
through the exhibition at the Interface Zone.
ii)January 11th - 18th 2002
The Wrong City : Paris at Delhi
An Installation by Olga Kisseleva
This Installation explores what happens when the reality of one city enters
the
imagination of another. The installation is paired with another Wrong City
Installation - Delhi at Paris that will occur concurrently in Paris. The url for
the Paris event is www.mainsdoeuvres.org
Olga Kisseleva is a digital artist with special interest in cities - Some of
her earlier work has been on New York, St Petersburg and Paris.
iii. January 24 and 25, 2002
Initializing History
An Exhibition of the Video Art of Peter Callas
Peter Callas will present his work in the form of an illustrated lecture on
January 25, 2002. The Screening-Lecture will be followed by a discussion. (A
version of) This work is also available at
http://www.anu.edu.au/ITA/CSA/callas/CAN_+main_I.html
Peter Callas, based in Sydney, Australia, is one of the internationally
recognised exponents of Video Art. He is currently visiting India on an
Asialink Artists Fellowship.
III. Workshop @ Sarai
January 31 - February 1, 2002
10:30 am - 4:30 pm, Interface Zone, Sarai
Introduction to Cyberculture
with Patrice Riemens
The workshop on Cyberculture will focus on:
i.Digital Divide and how to address it
ii.Hackers & 'Hackerism'
iii.From Proprietary Knowledge to Intellectual Property
iv.Networked Communities
Patrice Riemens is an independent theorist and cyber activist , and a
geographer at the University of Amsterdam. He is in India as a part of the
exchange programme between Sarai and the Society for Old and New Media,
Amsterdam - www.waag.org
Cheers,
Ranita
Sarai, CSDS
29, Rajpur Road
Civil Lines
Delhi-110 054
Table of Contents:
Talks @Sarai
Installations @Sarai
Workshop @Sarai: Introduction to Cyberculture
---------------------------------
Sarai wishes all of you a very happy new year.
I. Talks @ Sarai
We start the New Year with a series of lectures and presentations - grouped
thematically under our three Occasional Seminar Series. All talks and paper
presentations will take place at 3:30 pm, in the Seminar Room, Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 110054
1.Media Publics and Practices Seminar
i. January 2, 2002, Wednesday
Politics of Information in Bio-technology
Mike Fischer
MIT Program on Science, Technology, and Society
ii. January 8, 2002, Tuesday
Technology, the Turing Test & Artificial Intelligence
Sanmay Das,
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Boston
iii. January 16, 2002, Wednesday
Politics of Global Circulation of Human Genetic Materials
Kaushik Sunderajan
MIT Program on Science, Technology and Society, USA
2. Language beyond Literature Seminar
January 10, 2002, Thursday
Hindi Commercial Press & the Urban Publics: The Case of Late Colonial
U.P.
Charu Gupta
Department of History, Motilal Nehru College (E), University of Delhi
3. Urban Cultures and Politics Seminar
January 30, 2002, Wednesday
The Idea of Bombay
Gyan Prakash
Department of History, Princeton University, USA
Talk @ Sarai
The Idea of Bombay -
Urban Cultures and Politics Series Presents:
“The Idea of Bombay” by Gyan Prakash,
Wednesday, 30th January, 3.30 pm
@
Seminar Room, CSDS
Gyan Prakash is Professor of History, Princeton University. He is the
author of Bonded Histories, (1990) and the editor of After Colonialism:
Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (1995). and a member of
the Subaltern Studies Collective. His recent book was Another Reason:
Science and the Imagination of Modern India, (2000)
II.Installations @ Sarai
The Sarai Interface Zone will host three installations by artists and media
practitioners through the month of January. Unless otherwise specified, the
artists will be available for discussions.
All installations and exhibitions will be located in the Interface Zone at
Sarai.
i). January 2nd - 4th 2002
Dilliwale Kaun? Baharwale Kaun?
A photographic exhibition on a digital platform by Syeda Farhana
Dilliwale Kaun? Baharwale Kaun? is an exhibition of Syeda Farhana's
photographic
& textual narratives on the theme of "The Outsider". Focussing on Bangladeshi
migrants, the exhibition is a product of her part - residency at the Interface
Zone at Sarai. This residency is a
collaboration between Sarai and the Khoj International Artists Residency
Programme.
Syeda Farhana is a photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She will be
present
through the exhibition at the Interface Zone.
ii)January 11th - 18th 2002
The Wrong City : Paris at Delhi
An Installation by Olga Kisseleva
This Installation explores what happens when the reality of one city enters
the
imagination of another. The installation is paired with another Wrong City
Installation - Delhi at Paris that will occur concurrently in Paris. The url for
the Paris event is www.mainsdoeuvres.org
Olga Kisseleva is a digital artist with special interest in cities - Some of
her earlier work has been on New York, St Petersburg and Paris.
iii. January 24 and 25, 2002
Initializing History
An Exhibition of the Video Art of Peter Callas
Peter Callas will present his work in the form of an illustrated lecture on
January 25, 2002. The Screening-Lecture will be followed by a discussion. (A
version of) This work is also available at
http://www.anu.edu.au/ITA/CSA/callas/CAN_+main_I.html
Peter Callas, based in Sydney, Australia, is one of the internationally
recognised exponents of Video Art. He is currently visiting India on an
Asialink Artists Fellowship.
III. Workshop @ Sarai
January 31 - February 1, 2002
10:30 am - 4:30 pm, Interface Zone, Sarai
Introduction to Cyberculture
with Patrice Riemens
The workshop on Cyberculture will focus on:
i.Digital Divide and how to address it
ii.Hackers & 'Hackerism'
iii.From Proprietary Knowledge to Intellectual Property
iv.Networked Communities
Patrice Riemens is an independent theorist and cyber activist , and a
geographer at the University of Amsterdam. He is in India as a part of the
exchange programme between Sarai and the Society for Old and New Media,
Amsterdam - www.waag.org
Cheers,
Ranita
Sarai, CSDS
29, Rajpur Road
Civil Lines
Delhi-110 054