[Reader-list] Deadline Extended- Call for Abstracts-Video Workshop
The Sarai Programme
dak at sarai.net
Sat Jan 3 02:50:55 CST 2015
Dear all,
Kindly find the call for Abstracts for the Video Workshop to be held at
Sarai-CSDS on Feb 21, 2015 below-
Deadline Extended- Call for Abstracts-Video Workshop
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 January 15, 2015, with the subject heading of ‘Proposal for Video
Workshop.’
Authors of the selected abstracts will be notified by January 20th, 2015.
The Video Workshop will be held on February 21, 2015, at the Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
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