[Reader-list] Video Vortex XI schedule: 23-26 Feb, Kochi

Thu Feb 9 02:18:50 CST 2017

*Hello, sharing the schedule for Video Vortex XI. This is free and open to
public but please register via email to help us plan the logistics. The
full programme can be downloaded at *videovortex11.net

*Video Vortex XI*

*Video in Flux: Art, Activism & Archives*

23-26 February 2017

Hotel 18, Fort Kochi & Mill Hall, Mattancherry

As part of the Sristi Outpost:

a collateral of the Kochi-Muzeris biennial

*Schedule*

*Thursday, 23 February 2017 @ Hotel 18, Fort Kochi*

*Registration: 10.00-11.00 am*

*Introduction to Video Vortex XI: 11.00-11.30*

Geetha Narayanan (Founder-director, Srishti Institute of Art, Design &
Technology); Geert Lovink (Founder, Institute of Network Cultures,
Amsterdam), Rashmi Sawhney (Programme Director, Video Vortex XI)

*Panel I: Software and the Politics of Collaboration – 11.30-12.30*

Chair: Sharath Chandra Ram

*Software and its Structuring of Interactive Documentary: *Fabiola Hanna
(Ph.D. Candidate in Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa
Cruz)

*Co-creating with my viewing public: *Anandana Kapur (Ph.D. Candidate, AJKMCRC,
Jamia Millia Islamia)

*Panel II: Samosa Breaks and Item Numbers – 12.30-1.30*

Chair: Madhuja Mukherjee

*Tactical VR: Representing the Intermission in Indian Cinema: *Karl
Mendonca (Ph.D. Candidate in Film and Digital Media, University of
California, Santa Cruz)

*YouTube Sleaze: Viral Mutations of Item Numbers: *Silpa Mukherjee (Ph.D.
Candidate in Cinema Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

*
Artist’s Talk & Curated Screening: I – 2.30-3.30*

*Violent Opaque* By Ray Tat (independent artist and curator, Shanghai)

Moderated by Andreas Treske

*Intervention I: **3.30 – 4.30*

*Underbelly of a City: The toing and froing between amateur and art-house
films*

Madhuja Mukherjee (Associate Professor, Film Studies, Jadhavpur University,
Calcutta)

Moderated by Ahmet Gurata

*Plenary I: 5.00-6.30:*

*The video and the crowd: publics and post-publics. *Ravi Sundaram
(Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)

Chair: Geert Lovink

*Evening Programmes at The Mill Hall, 23rd February*

6.30 pm: *What you Don't see is what you Get (WYDSIWYG) - *Artist’s talk by
Sharath Chandra Ram

&

7.00 pm onwards: *Gyrated**: hula audiovisual interface *by Elena Knox

*Friday, 24th February, 2017 @ Hotel 18, Fort Kochi*

*Plenary II: 10.00-11.45*

*From Selfie to Mask Design, On the Politics and Aesthetics of the Online
Self*

Geert Lovink (Founder, Institute of Network Cultures)

Chair: Ahmet Gurata

*Artists’ Talks II:* *12.00-1.00*

Moderated by Rashmi Sawhney

*Deteriorating Memories: Scavenging for Home Movies in an East Bangalore
Neighbourhood *by Ayisha Abraham

*                                      What Does the Digital Image See?:
Noise Reductions, Ontological Deductions etc.*

by Rahee Punyashloka

*Panel III: Digital technologies and New Communities: 2.00-3.00*

Chair: Andana Kapur

*The DIY Filmmaker in the Digital Age*

Akriti Rastogi (Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi)

*Mapping Cultural Histories of Asian Ethnic Enclaves in the Global City*

Kristy Kang (Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

*Curated Screenings II: 3.00-4.00 *

*Films from Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan) *

Curated and introduced by Stefan Ruso

*Artist’s Talk III & Titchner’s Cage VR installation: 4.00-5.00*

*Poly-Body Visions*

By Nadov Assar (Assistant Professor and an Associate Director of the Center
for Arts & Technology, Connecticut College, USA)

*Panel IV:* *Video Theory: 4.30 – 6.00*

Chair: Andreas Treske

*The Autobiography of Video. A Technocentric Approach to Early Video Art.*

Ina Blom (Professor, University of Oslo)

*<VideoTheoryII> Shiny things so bright*

Andreas Treske (Professor, University of Bilkent, Ankara)

*Artist’s Talk IV: * *6.00-7.00*

*House of Women** (2016, 14”) and an artist’s talk *

By Michelle Williams Gamaker

*Saturday, 25th February @ Hotel 18, Fort Kochi*

*Intervention II: 11.00-12.00*

*Once within a Time *By Soudhamini V.

*Curated Screening III: 12.00-1.00*

CologneOFF *Asia Focus *from the* New Museum of Networked Art*

Curated by Wilfried Acgricola de Cologne.

*Workshop I* with Geert Lovink*:* *2.00 – 5.30*

*Beyond the State of Internet Criticism: Lessons to be learnt for
Contemporary Art Criticism*

Limited to 20 participants. To register for the workshop write to
Rashmi.sawhney at srishti.ac.in by 15 Feb.

*Film Screening: 5.30-6.45pm*

Harun Farocki’s* (War at a Distance, 2003) *Introduced by Vasanthi Mariadass

*Sunday, 26th  February @ Hotel 18, Fort Kochi*

*Curated Screening IV:* *1.00-2.00 pm*

*Refugee Film Collection *from the* New Museum of Networked Art*

Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.

*Curated Screenings I, II, III, IV: 2.00-6.00 pm*

A programme of films on various themes related to Video Vortex XI’s focus
on technology, art, activism & archives

Curated by the Video Vortex XI team

*Closing Performance @ 7pm at the Mill Hall*

*Networked Performances and Ubiquitious Webjaying*

By Anne Roqigny and her team of webjays

The performance will emerge from the workshop Anne will conduce from 23-26
Feb from 3.00-7.00 pm daily at the Mill Hall. This workshop I limited to 6
participants. To register for the workshop send your bio and statement of
interest to Rashmi.sawhney at srishti.ac.in before 15 February.

For more information on the VV XI & the workshops download the Video Vortex
XI programme at videovortex11.net

*Acknowledgements:* Video Vortex XI has been organized by the Srishti
Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, with the support of: The
University of Bilkent, Ankara; The Institute of Network Cultures,
Amsterdam; The Max Muller Bhavan, Bangalore; and Goldsmiths College
(London)

-- 
Dr. Rashmi Sawhney
Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology
N5, CA Site No. 21, 5th Phase,
KBH Colony, New Town Yelahanka,
Bangalore 560064
www.srishti.ac.in