[Reader-list] Launch on Friday 2 November

[CAMP]

Announcing the Launch Event of CAMP, Mumbai

FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2007 at 6:00 P.M. 

at

Jnanapravaha
3rd Floor, Queens Mansion
(opposite New Chemould)
G. Talwatkar Marg
Fort, Mumbai 400001

for directions
http://camputer.org/?rocket=launch


CAMP is a new city-based initiative around art, media and technology
practices, in collaboration with the Khoj International Artists
Association. 

http://www.camputer.org

CAMP's founding members are:

Shaina Anand, filmmaker, artist and media activist, founder of
http://www.chitrakarkhana.net

Sanjay Bhangar, who trained in indymedia and urban studies, now works as
an independent web developer and technology writer. 

Ashok Sukumaran, who trained as an architect and artist, and now
develops speculative technical and conceptual projects. http://0ut.in

The evening consists of an extended screening-cum-talk by the CAMP
initiators, as an introduction to the context, politics and practices
that CAMP will promote. This includes a discussion of Chitrakarkhana's
ongoing work with alternative cable TV and CCTV systems, a social
history of the internet in Bombay as told by Sanjay Bhangar, and Ashok
Sukumaran's recent projects around electrical redistribution. They will
also discuss the CAMP program for this year, and invite participation in
various forms. The program will be interrupted by refreshments. 

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About CAMP:

CAMP is a platform to organise, and then to do, such artistic and media
practices that build interfaces between themselves and urban activities,
at various scales. The project is being undertaken with a broad shared
experience (among CAMP members, its advisors and peers) of questioning
the "digital", in the past decade. CAMP promises bold interpretations of
current technology contexts, and their various micro-political
implications. 

CAMP will begin its relationship with various Mumbai publics through
'weekends', fortnightly events that look intensively at specific
histories, futures, and areas of multi-disciplinary collaboration. For
example there are planned weekends around the history of broadcast as an
artistic medium, on the art market, on censorship, on building
technological "confidence", on various kinds of maps, rooftop
"real-estate" surveys and so on, mostly with an orientation towards
practitioners and projects. 

While CAMP is beginning with such small-scale activities, it also seeds
two long term projects:

a) New Documentary: On the future of the documentary image, in times of
video's material abundance.To test the boundaries of production,
reception and redistribution of video by adopting a range of
existing technigues and technologies. This is related to
chitrakarkhana's ongoing work, and will address artistic, ethical and
pragmatic questions around video. 

b) On Design: on what "making things for others" means now, when you-
and i- can both seemingly contribute.  The project will engage with
questions of "participation" in design, and of how knowledge moves
across its different forms. It will take the form of  institutional and
pedagogic interventions into the broad field of activity presently known
as Design. 

And finally, on its name: CAMP has various possible "backronyms", a
large number in fact. This came from our inability to claim a singular
identity within a field of ideas, to say that this and not that, is what
will actually happen with CAMP. For more see
www.camputer.org/?acronyms=many


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chitrakarkhana.net
camputer.org




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