[Reader-list] Cybermohalla Publication, 2003

[shveta]

Dear All,

Cybermohalla/Sarai is happy to announce the release of the Cybermohalla [1] 
Publication, 2003 - A Book Box with ten booklets, a CD and postcards.

Booklets (Bilingual - Hindi/English):

The booklets -
1. What is it that everything needs?
2. Before coming here, had you thought of a place like this?
3. What does every word carry with it?
4. If we were to stand in front of a crowd, what would the eyes of the crowd 
say to us?
5. To think I am alone would be gross injustice.
6. What is it that flows between us?
7. Conversations in questions and answers & conversations without questions 
and answers
8. Method is that heavy thing which makes everything light?
9. Sometimes some questions betray us.
10.What is in this? The everyday? Thought? And...?

http://www.sarai.net/community/cybermohalla/book02/booklets.htm 
[2]

CD:
Animations, Video+Text Film, Software

Animations:
Surfaces are friendly, hospitable to narratives. They invite, cajole, contain, 
hold. Walls as you walk along the streets, table tops in classrooms and 
cafes, the insides of buses and trams, margins of pages in books, palms of 
your hand. They contain markings of location, of experiences, gestures, 
practices. Surfaces don't have insides and outsides, but textures and edges. 
Stories travel to surfaces and rest, waiting to be picked up and be carried 
to different destinations, to find themselves in different biographies, to be 
in circulation.  

Inscribe a surface with a scratch, a scribble, a sketch, a snippet, a phrase, 
a snatch of reality. And watch as strangers are drawn to stop by, to add 
their stories to yours. These acts of inscription are centrifugal acts - a 
play of unravelling and revealing, that is accretive. Surfaces are such 
palimpsests of meanings and signs, layered over time. Peel off the layers one 
by one, and be connected with a map of co-travellers. 

This tapestry of animations is one such surface of the enigmatic inner worlds 
of stories and rhythms. Within it, each individual animation an overlapping 
of layers of meaning that are held together through movement over time. What 
does the surface reveal? Before coming here, had you thought of a place like 
this?

Film:
The Zoo
Text+Sound Video
05:48 min

A whimsical soundrack introduces what could be an equally whimsical 
conversation during a visit to a zoo. Almost immediately, however, the 
conversation (an almost socratic dialogue on the nature of 'insult') 
transforms whimsy into a brief, evocative look at social relations, 
interactions and the construction and perception of self.

Credits:
Texts, Photographs, Recordings, Drawings, Animations by:
Media Lab @ Lok Mayak Jai Prakash Colony:
Azra Tabassum, Babli Rai, Bobby Khan, Shahana Qureshi, Shamsher Ali, Sultana, 
Suraj Rai, Manoj Kumar, Masooma Ansari, Mehrunnisa, Naseem Bano, Neelofar, 
Rabiya, Yashoda
Media Lab @ Dakshinpuri:
Dhirender Pratap Singh, Kiran Verma, Kulvinder Kor, Lakhmi Chand Kohli, Love 
Anand, Nisha Kaushal, Polina, Raju Singh Malyal, Rakesh Kumar, Sangeeta 
Kumari.
Designed and produced at the Sarai Media Lab, Sara, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, 
Delhi -110054, www.sarai.net

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[1] The Cybermohalla (Cyber Neighbourhood) Project is a community of young 
practitioners who share each others' thoughts, ideas and creative energies in 
media labs located in  working class areas of  Delhi. The young people who 
come to these media labs are between the ages of 15 to 23. At the lab, they 
work with media forms (photography, animation, sound recordings, online 
discussion lists and text) to create cross media works, texts, collages, 
posters and wall magazines. Their writings and images can be seen as a rich 
database of narrative, comment, observation, imaginative play and reflection 
on the contested circumstances of life in the sprawling urban metropolis of 
Delhi.

The project has been developed collaboratively by  Sarai, a programme of the 
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Ankur - Society for 
Alternatives in Education. The Cybermohalla Project addresses the interface 
between information technology and creativity in the lives of young people 
who live in a highly unequal society.

http://www.sarai.net/community/saraincomm.htm
cybermohalla at sarai.net

[2] For Cybermohalla Publication, 2002, Galiyon se / by lanes, please see 
http://www.sarai.net/community/cybermohalla/book01/bylanes.htm 
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best
Shveta