[Reader-list] Video Vortex XI schedule: 23-26 Feb, Kochi - Revised Schedule & venue
Rashmi Sawhney
rashmi.sawhney at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 23:40:36 CST 2017
Sharing the revised Video Vortex XI schedule. The conference & some of the
screenings will now be held at the Cabral Yard, Fort Kochi; the workshops,
video exhibition & performances take place at the Mill Hall.
*Video Vortex XI*
*Video in Flux: Art, Activism & Archives*
23-26 February 2017
Cabral Yard, Fort Kochi & Mill Hall, Mattancherry
As part of the *Srishti Outpost*:
a collateral of the Kochi-Muzeris biennial
*Schedule*
*Thursday, 23 February 2017 @ Cabral Yard, Fort Kochi*
*Registration: 9.00-10.00 am*
*Introduction to Video Vortex XI: 10.00-10.30*
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 – 10.30-11.30*
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 – 11.30-12.30*
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)
*Intervention I: 1**2.30 – 1.30*
*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: 2.30-4.00*
*The video and the crowd: publics and post-publics. *Ravi Sundaram
(Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)
Chair: Geert Lovink
*Video Screenings I: 4.00-6.00 (details to be announced soon)*
*Evening Programmes at The Mill Hall, 23rd February*
*Artist’s Talk & Curated Screening: II – 5.00-6.00*
*Violent Opaque* By Ray Tat (independent artist and curator, Shanghai)
Moderated by Andreas Treske
6.30 pm: *What you Don't see is what you Get (WYDSIWYG) *Artist’s talk by
Sharath Chandra Ram (Transmission Artist & Faculty at Srishti)
&
7.00 pm onwards: *Gyrated**: hula audiovisual interface *by Elena Knox
(Media & Performance artist and Research Fellow in Intermedia Art and
Science at Waseda University, Tokyo)
*Friday, 24th February, 2017 @ Cabral Yard, Fort Kochi*
*Plenary II: 10.00-11.30*
*From Selfie to Mask Design, On the Politics and Aesthetics of the Online
Self*
Geert Lovink (Founder, Institute of Network Cultures)
Chair: Ahmet Gurata
*Panel III: Digital technologies and New Communities: 11.30-12.30*
Chair: Anandana 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)
*Artists’ Talks II:* *12.30-1.30*
Moderated by Rashmi Sawhney
*Deteriorating Memories: Scavenging for Home Movies in an East Bangalore
Neighbourhood *by Ayisha Abraham (Artist & Dean, Centre for Contemporary
Arts Practice, Srishti)
*What Does the Digital Image See?: Noise Reductions, Ontological Deductions
etc.*
by Rahee Punyashloka (Visual Artist & Filmmaker)
*Artist’s Talk III: * *2.30-3.30*
*House of Women** (2016, 14”) and an artist’s talk *
By Michelle Williams Gamaker (Visual artist & filmmaker, and Lecturer at
Goldsmiths College, London)
*Panel IV:* *Video Theory: 4.00 – 5.30*
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)
*Saturday, 25th February @ Cabral Yard, Fort Kochi*
*Film Screening: 10.00-11.15 pm*
Harun Farocki’s* (War at a Distance, 2003) *Introduced by Vasanthi Mariadass
*Curated Screenings III: 11.30-12.30 *
*A Selection of Videos from Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan) *
Curated and introduced by Stefan Rusu
*Curated Screenings IV: 12.45-4.00*
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
Details of the screening programme will be published on the Video vortex
website by 15th Feb.
*Curated Screening V: 4.00-5.00*
CologneOFF* Asia Focus *from the* New Museum of Networked Art*
Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
*Curated Screenings VI: 5.00-6.00*
*Refugee Film Collection *from the* New Museum of Networked Art*
Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
*Saturday, 25th Feb @ Mill Hall*
*Workshop* with Geert Lovink*:* *2.00 – 5.00*
*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.
*Artist’s Talk III & Titchner’s Cage VR installation: 5.30-6.30*
*Poly-Body Visions*
By Nadav Assar (Assistant Professor and an Associate Director of the Center
for Arts & Technology, Connecticut College, USA)
*Sunday, 26th February @ Mill Hall*
*Closing Performance @ 6.00 pm at the Mill Hall*
*Networked Performances and Ubiquitious Webjaying*
By Anne Roquigny and her team of webjays
The performance will emerge from the workshop Anne will conduct from 23-26
Feb from 3.00-7.00 pm daily at the Mill Hall. This workshop is 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)
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Rashmi Sawhney <rashmi.sawhney at gmail.com>
wrote:
> *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
>
>
>
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N5, CA Site No. 21, 5th Phase,
KBH Colony, New Town Yelahanka,
Bangalore 560064
www.srishti.ac.in
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