[Reader-list] Call for Abstracts-Video Workshop

[The Sarai Programme]

Apologies but we made one small mistake in the call

The Authors of the selected abstracts will be notified by January 15th,
2015 and not January 15th, 2014 as was mistakenly written in the call.

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:09 PM, The Sarai Programme <dak at sarai.net> wrote:

> 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/
>