[Reader-list] [Announcements] CAMP Mumbai on FRIDAY

[shaina a]

Dear readers, The usual apologies for cross-posting.

Announcing the launch of CAMP

Friday, November 2, 2007. 6:00 pm.
at Jnanapravaha, 3rd floor Queens mansion, (opp. new Chemould),
G. Talwatkar Marg
Fort, Mumbai.-1

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

www.camputer.org

CAMP's founding members are:

Shaina Anand, filmmaker, artist and media activist, founder of
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, and
design. 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, things that are
critical, egalitarian and inspirational, within the city. It seeks to
promote such artistic and media practices that build interfaces
between themselves and urban activities at various scales. This
project is being undertaken with a broad shared experience (among CAMP
members, its advisors and peers) of the "digital moment" of the past
decade.  CAMP promises bold interpretations of current socio-economic
and 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 building technological
"confidence", on censorship, on local-area networks, 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 produce, receive and redistribute
video by adopting a range of existing technigues and technologies.
This is related to chitrakarkhana's ongoing work, and will address a
range of 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" and of how knowledge moves across
different forms, through 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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