Sarai Newsletter 09

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Table of Contents

Talks @Sarai
Installations @Sarai 
Workshop @Sarai: Introduction to Cyberculture
New Discussion Lists: Community Radio and Solaris
Films @Sarai: Remembering Subrata Mitra
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Sarai wishes all of you a very happy new year.

I. Talks @ Sarai

We start the New Year with a series of lectures and presentations  - grouped
thematically under our three Occasional Seminar Series. All talks and paper
presentations will take place at 3:30 pm, in the Seminar Room, Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 110054

1.Media Publics and Practices Seminar 

i.    January 2, 2002, Wednesday
Politics of Information in Bio-technology 
Mike Fischer 
MIT Program on Science, Technology, and Society    

ii.   January 8,  2002, Tuesday
Technology, the Turing Test & Artificial Intelligence 
Sanmay Das, 
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Boston

iii. January 16,  2002, Wednesday
Politics of Global Circulation of Human Genetic Materials 
Kaushik Sunderajan 
MIT Program on Science, Technology and Society, USA



2. Language beyond Literature Seminar  
January 10, 2002,  Thursday

Hindi Commercial Press & the Urban Publics: The Case of Late Colonial 
U.P.     
Charu Gupta 
Department of History, Motilal Nehru College (E), University of Delhi 



3. Urban Cultures and Politics Seminar  
January 30, 2002, Wednesday

The Idea of Bombay 
Gyan Prakash 
Department of History, Princeton University, USA 
     





II.Installations @ Sarai
The Sarai Interface Zone will host three installations by artists and media
practitioners through the month of January. Unless otherwise specified, the
artists will be available for discussions.
All installations and exhibitions will be located in the Interface Zone at
Sarai.
i). January 2nd  - 4th 2002

Dilliwale Kaun? Baharwale Kaun? 
A photographic exhibition on a digital platform by Syeda Farhana  

Dilliwale Kaun? Baharwale Kaun? is an exhibition of Syeda Farhana's
photographic
& textual narratives on the theme of "The Outsider". Focussing on Bangladeshi
migrants, the exhibition is a product of her part - residency at the Interface
Zone at Sarai. This residency is a 
collaboration between Sarai and the Khoj International Artists Residency
Programme. 

Syeda Farhana is a photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She will be
present
through the exhibition at the Interface Zone.

ii)January 11th - 18th  2002

The Wrong City : Paris at Delhi 
An Installation by Olga Kisseleva 

This Installation explores what happens when the reality of one city enters
the
imagination of another. The installation is paired with another Wrong City
Installation - Delhi at Paris that will occur concurrently in Paris. The url for
the Paris event is www.mainsdoeuvres.org

Olga Kisseleva is a digital artist with special interest in cities - Some of
her earlier work has been on New York, St Petersburg and Paris.

iii. January 24 and 25, 2002

Initializing History  
An Exhibition of the Video Art of Peter Callas

Peter Callas will present his work in the form of an illustrated lecture on
January 25, 2002. The Screening-Lecture will be followed by a discussion. (A
version of) This work is also available at
http://www.anu.edu.au/ITA/CSA/callas/CAN_+main_I.html

Peter Callas, based in Sydney, Australia, is one of the internationally
recognised exponents of Video Art. He is currently visiting India on an
Asialink Artists Fellowship. 


III. Workshop @ Sarai
January 31 - February 1, 2002 
10:30 am - 4:30 pm, Interface Zone, Sarai 
Introduction to Cyberculture  
with Patrice Riemens

The workshop on Cyberculture will focus on:

i.Digital Divide and how to address it
ii.Hackers & 'Hackerism'
iii.From Proprietary Knowledge to Intellectual Property
iv.Networked Communities

Patrice Riemens is an independent theorist and cyber activist , and a
geographer at the University of Amsterdam. He is in India as a part of the
exchange programme between Sarai and the Society for Old and New Media,
Amsterdam - www.waag.org


IV.New Discussion Lists