[Reader-list] Call for Abstracts-Video Workshop

[The Sarai Programme]

The arrival of video ushered in a new logistics of access, circulation and
production of audio-visual forms. Analog video introduced new
infrastructures and legal contests for film circulation and viewing
cultures, set new terms for amateur and professional practices in home
videos, documentary and commercial works, pedagogical practices and civil
society activism, and has been a key dimension of the history of
surveillance. This workshop seeks to track this history and also to
consider the shifts engendered with the arrival of digital video. Video is
now experienced and consumed on television screens, mobile phones, laptops,
tablets, substantially shifting the nature of viewing cultures and media
practice. Video circulation has had extraordinary currency through MMS
circulation, `sting’ and citizen journalism, and YouTube uploads,
engendering new senses of velocity and impact in the social and political
effects of video forms, and new questions about the boundary between the
public and the private, about morality and obscenity. Research into video
is as yet incipient in the Indian context, and we hope to encourage
multiple lines of analysis to engage this complex and urgent field of media
research.

Workshop themes include-

Media Archaeologies

Legal Histories of Video regulation and contest

Film industry and video technology

Analog and digital video

Video in documentary and activist filmmaking

Production, distribution and circulation of video technology

Obscenity and Morality debates around video

Video circulation, social and political mobilization

Video surveillance

Video and Aesthetics

Social Media and Video

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words, and should be sent to dak at sarai.net
by December 31, 2014, with the subject heading of ‘Proposal for Video
Workshop.’

Authors of the selected abstracts will be notified by January 15th, 2014.

The Video Workshop will be held on February 21, 2015, at the Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

http://sarai.net/call-for-abstracts-video-workshop/