[Reader-list] Contemporary Conference, Delhi (Thursday Highlights)

[The Sarai Programme]

*What Time Is It?*
*Technologies of Life in the Contemporary*
*14th December, Thursday*
*@Sarai-CSDS*

*HIGHLIGHTS...*

*12 noon*

We open the conference with Orit Halpern (author of *Beautiful Data*)
talking about: *The "Smart" Mandate: Infrastructure, Responsive
Environments, and “Preemptive Hope”. *This talk will interrogate the
different forms of futurity and life that are currently emerging from this
complex contemporary relationship between technology and design by engaging
in a genealogy of “smartness” ranging from cybernetic ideas of machine
learning in the late 1950's to early efforts to integrate computing into
design at MIT in the Architecture Machine Group in the 1970's to
contemporary greenfield “smart” developments in South Korea and Abu Dhabi.

*2:00 PM*

*A panel on Video and Post-Cinema*

Speakers:
Mochu, Artist, Chennai
*Rendering Chthonic Flares: Notes on Planetary Special Effects *
Pallavi Paul, Artist, Delhi
*Documentary Proof That Leaves No Reason for Doubt*
Lantian Xie, Artist, Dubai
*Credits*

*4:00 PM*

Lara Khaldi's talk, *The Missing Pistol: Notes on Impossible Museological
Objects in Palestine*, shall frame the museums of Palestine within
contradictory traditions of the modernist and the revolutionary museum and
address questions such as--"...[H]ow the museum changes certain objects
once they enter into it? Is the museum an a-historical space? Could one
re-use objects at the museum? What would this reuse indicate? What does a
museum of the revolution look like in Palestine?"

*5:00 PM*

Mohammad Salemy will speak on *AI Is Full of Love: Human-Machine Libidinal
Transference and the Automation of Love*. He shall speculate about the
psychological and political implications of human-machine libidinal
transference to show that at the heart of it lies the question of
embodiment and its emergent possibilities.

*6:30 PM*

A special screening of Charles Heller's and Lorenzo Pezzani's* Liquid
Traces: The Left-to-Die Boat Case (17 Min, 2014).* This film "reconstructs
the “left-to-die boat” case, in which 72 migrants were left to drift for 14
days in NATO’s maritime surveillance area at the height of the 2011 war on
Libya" and demonstrates "how different actors operating in the Central
Mediterranean Sea used the complex and overlapping jurisdictions at sea to
evade their responsibility for rescuing people in distress".


*The Sarai Programme*
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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