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[shaina a]

Dear all, You are invited to:

A Preview of PAD.MA <http://pad.ma/>:
the public access digital media archive.

Thursday, 28th february 2008
6:00pm
Jnanapravaha,
3rd floor, Queen's Mansion,
(Opposite Gallery Chemould)
G.Talwatkar Marg,
Fort, Mumbai-1.
For directions, see:
http://camputer.org/images/jnanaMap.jpg


6:00 pm.
Introductions, and the Collaborative Project: Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran.
The Dominant, the Residual and the Emergent in the Imagination of the
Archive:  Lawrence Liang.
Lost/Found/made Public, Images to Narratives:  Madhusree Dutta.
Introduction to a True History of Digital Video: Sebastian Luetgert,
and Unveiling of pad.ma website with Jan Gerber. 30 mins.

7:30 pm. Interval: Browse through the archive over tea and snacks.

Followed by presentations on:
Legal framework: Namita Malhotra
Practical FAQs, and on how you can contribute: Sanjay Bhangar
Q and A session,  moderated by Bishakha Dutta.


Pad.ma is an online archive of densely annotated video material,primarily
footage and not finished films. The entire collection is text-searchable and
viewable online, and is free to download for non-
commercial use.

We see  Pad.ma as a way of opening up a set of images, intentions and
effects present in video footage, resources that conventions of
video-making, editing and spectatorship have tended to suppress, or leave
behind. This expanded treatment then points to other, political potentials
for such material, and leads us into lesser-known territory for video-based
practices... beyond the finite documentary film or the video clip on
youtube.

The design of the archive makes possible various types of "viewing", and
contextualisation: from an overview of themes and timelines to much closer
readings of transcribed dialogue and geographical
locations, to layers of "writing" on top of the image material.
Descriptions, keywords and other annotations have been placed on timelines
by both archive contributors and users. At the moment,
<http://pad.ma/>Pad.ma has approximately 150 "events" on video, mostly from
Mumbai and Bangalore. This adds up to about 100 hours of fully transcribed
video footage, which we expect to grow to more than 400 hours by early 2009.

The PAD.MA <http://pad.ma/> project is initiated by a group consisting
of oil21.org
from Berlin, the Alternative Law Forum <http://www.altlawforum.org/> from
Bangalore, and three organisations from Mumbai:
Majlis,<http://www.majlisbombay.org/>
Point of View <http://www.pointofview.org/> and chitrakarkhana.net
/CAMP<http://camputer.org/>.


<http://chitrakarkhana.net/>