[Reader-list] New CRUMB Professional Development Workshop at Sarai >> Saturday 23rd March 2013 at Sarai-CSDS

Wed Mar 13 00:48:43 CDT 2013

Dear Reader List,

CRUMB research unit at the University of Sunderland, UK, is very  
pleased to announce a new Professional Development Workshop in  
collaboration with Sarai-CSDS, HYBRID CURATORIAL MODELS: PRODUCING AND  
PUBLISHING IN-BETWEEN OFFLINE AND ONLINE DIMENSIONS.

We are looking forward to seeing you there and please pass this on to  
researchers, curators, artists, practitioners in India who you think  
might be interested in attending.

More information and how to book your place can be found below.

Very best,
Marialaura and CRUMB Team

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HYBRID CURATORIAL MODELS: PRODUCING AND PUBLISHING IN-BETWEEN OFFLINE  
AND ONLINE DIMENSIONS
CRUMB Professional Development Workshop in collaboration with Sarai-CSDS

WHEN:
Saturday, 23 March 2013, 11am - 5pm
WHERE:
Sarai-CSDS,
CSDS Seminar Room
29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
http://www.sarai.net/

This workshop is set within the activities of the research unit CRUMB  
at the University of Sunderland, UK, which has investigated the  
curating of new media art since 1993 through research, exhibition  
projects, publishing, networking and professional development for  
curators.
For this occasion the event will focus on curatorial and artistic  
practices operating within the realm of digital technology and culture  
in India. The aim is to disclose some of the curatorial and artistic  
work that has dealt with issues related to what might be termed inter- 
media publishing, bridging online and offline sites of production,  
display and distribution. The goal is to investigate the practice of  
curating across online and offline distributive platforms.

Through three presentations by practitioners based in India – Prayas  
Abhinav (Director, Museum of Vestigial Desire), Shankar Barua  
(Managing Trustee, The Academy of Electronic Arts and Curator,  
Carnival of e-Creativity) and Revue (collaborative ensemble by  
Mrityunjay Chatterjee and
Sreejata Roy) - along with Sarah Cook (co-funder, CRUMB), the workshop  
will take the form of group discussions looking at the speaker's  
practices, critical perspectives and working methodologies within the  
framework of contemporary curatorial practices and digital technology.
Discussions will touch upon forms and formats of presentation, the  
structural organisation and arrangement of artistic material, modes of  
production and display, audience engagement and reception and means of  
distribution in relation to inter-media publishing.

How does producing and publishing in-between the offline and online  
dimensions affect curatorial and artistic work?

What are the means of distribution adopted in this context and how has  
the spread and simplification of digital technology had impact on  
artistic and curatorial production?

What is the kind of audience interaction that such practices  
generates? How does the audience navigate through different sites of  
display?

Speakers/workshop leaders details:

Prayas Abhinav, is a writer, occasional artist and teacher based in  
Bangalore. He is the initiator
and the co-Director of the Museum of Vestigial Desire.
Abhinav has worked on numerous pieces of speculative fiction,  
software, games, interactive installations, public interventions and  
curatorial projects. He is interested in politics, pedagogy and the  
interaction of the humanities and the digital. He contributes to  
research and projects at
northeastwestsouth (n.e.w.s) (Amsterdam, NL) and has led workshops at  
Center for Environmental Planning Technology (CEPT) (Ahmedabad) and  
Dutch Art Institute (Arnhem, NL). In the past he lead the Center for  
Experimental Media Arts (CEMA) at the Srishti School of Art, Design and
Technology in Bangalore; http://prayas.in/

Shankar Barua, is Managing Trustee of The Academy of Electronic Arts  
and Curator of the annual Carnival of e-Creativity (2006 – ongoing).
His curatorial record includes, ‘Open Stage’ (1980), ‘In Search of the  
Avant Garde’ (1992), and ‘Edgelogue’ (2010). He is now focused upon  
developing 'Research & Innovation Ashram #002' in Guwahati, Assam.  
Barua has also worked as an adventure-travel writer & photographer,  
illustrator,
photographer, tea-taster, musician, film-maker, and public speaker; http://www.theaea.org

Revue, is an ensemble of artist/media practitioner duo Sreejata Roy  
and Mrityunjay Chatterjee, who have been collaborating on various art  
projects in India and abroad. The area of work involves largely the  
city, politics of space and lived conditions. Revue works in  
collaboration with
communities for the realisation of projects. Along with their art  
practices, they are involved in art and design pedagogy and media- 
focused research; http://www.revuenet.net/

Sarah Cook, is a curator and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK  
and co-author (with BerylGraham) of the book 'Rethinking Curating: Art  
After New Media' (MIT Press, 2010) and co-editor (with Sara Diamond)  
of 'Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues'. She  
is
currently a Reader at the University of Sunderland where she co- 
founded and co-edits CRUMB, the online resource for curators of new  
media art and teaches on the MA Curating course. She is a member of  
the advisory board of the 'Journal of Curatorial Studies' and co- 
chaired 'Rewire', the
Fourth International Conference on the histories of media art, science  
and technology with FACT in Liverpool (2011); http://crumb.sunderland.ac.uk/~sarah/

WHO IS IT FOR?
Workshop is open to all researchers, artists, curators and  
practitioners interested in this field of
work.
Workshop is free but places are limited and booking is required.

HOW TO BOOK?
Please send an email to Marialaura Ghidini at marialaura.ghidini at research.sunderland.ac.uk 
  by Tuesday 19th March including the following information:
1. Contact details
2. Up to 50 words on your particular area of practice in relation to  
this workshop, and what you hope to get from attending. Please include  
a URL.
3. Any special needs

This workshop has been organised by Marialaura Ghidini, doctoral  
researcher with CRUMB, as part of her fellowship with Sarai-CSDS which  
has been made possible by the AHRC International Placement Scheme, UK,  
the financial support of CRUMB and the University of Sunderland and
the assistance of Sarai-CSDS, http://marialaura-ghidini.hotglue.me/
For more information please visit; http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/, http://www.crumbweb.org/ 
  and http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/ or call +91 8377887587