[Reader-list] [Announcements] CORRECTION: DORKBOT on WEDNESDAY 30 APRIL

[PUKAR @ Kitab Mahal]

Dear Friends:

NOTE: THE LAST E-MAIL SENT HAD THE WRONG DATE. THE CORRECT DATE FOR 
"DORKBOT" IS THIS COMING WEDNESDAY 30 APRIL 2003. PLEASE EXCUSE THE 
ERROR!

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) and Aragon 
Services invite you to "DORKBOT: People Doing Strange Things with 
Electricity", an irregular meeting of artists, technicians, students 
and other interested people to discuss the production of electronic 
art, new and alternative media.   See http://www.dorkbot.org and 
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotmumbai.

In this meeting, two media presentations will be followed by a live/DJ set.

BEATRICE GIBSON is a new media artist and researcher based in Mumbai. 
She has received commissions from Rhizome.org and the Daniel Langlois 
Foundation, and has worked with the Media Lab at SARAI, Centre for 
the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. Her work has featured 
in exhibitions and festivals in New York, London, Sao Paolo and 
Berlin. She founded the web-site http://www.nungu.com/ with Vishal 
Rawlley and Vishwas Kulkarni. She has also developed 
http://www.gaisecurity.com/ in collaboration with Sheifali Chad and 
Vivek Sasikumar, and http://www.humancapitalsoftwaresolutions.com/ 
with Sejal Chad and Adrian Ward.

SHAINA ANAND has been working independently in film, video and other 
media for the past four years. She has worked with Saeed Mirza on 
screenplays and a documentary series, with the Indian Peoples Media 
Collective (IPMC) on anti-nuclear campaigns and the Concert for 
Peace. She is currently working on the video and web documentary 
Tellavision Mumbai: *Infinite Justice - Ensuring Freedom* on the 
changing landscapes of Mumbai between September 11th and the Gujarat 
violence. For more information, see http://www.chitrakarkhana.net/.

MUKUL DEORA is an electronic musician, and with Qusai Kathawala is 
part of the sonic duo Transmit Audio Lab, which is pushing new and 
hybrid forms of electronic sound/music. Mukul and Qusai have been 
DJ-ing since 1996, and have held experimental audio-visual sound art 
events across Mumbai. Transmit Audio Lab had a Saturday night 
experimental radio show on 93.5 RED FM. For more information, see 
http://www.transmitaudio.com/.


Date:
WEDNESDAY 30 APRIL 2003
7.00 p.m. onwards


At:
PUKAR
c/o Aragon Services
4th Floor, Kitab Mahal
Dr Dadabhai Naoroji Road
Mumbai 400001

Kitab Mahal is next to New Excelsior Cinema, and is near VT Station. 
Entrance to Kitab Mahal is from the New Book Company on Dadabhai 
Naoroji Road. Lift is available to the third floor.


About PUKAR @ Kitab Mahal:

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) is a 
cross-sectoral research collective based in Mumbai. For more 
information, contact <mailto:secretariat at pukar.org.in>.

Aragon Services is a space for curated activities in the arts, 
culture and education. For more information, contact Niloufer Kapadia 
at <mailto:eapl at vsnl.net>.

For more information about DORKBOT, contact Beatrice Gibson at 
<mailto:dorkbotmumbai at dorkbot.org>.

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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
P.O. Box 5627, Dadar, Mumbai 400014, INDIA

E-Mail <mailto:secretariat at pukar.org.in>
Phone +91 (022) 2207 7779, +91 98200 45529, +91 98204 04010
Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in
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