Dear all,
this is the schedule for the TML@ sarai from 14th - 16th novemeber. I am
really looking forward to each and everyone's participation. if there are any
queries, please let me know.
it would be really nice if people could confirm by sending me a mail at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for further details call me at 3960040
or mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cheers
tripta
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Tactical Media Lab @ Sarai
An invitation to 3 Days of Creativity, Reflection and Experimentation with
Technology and Communication : 14th - 16th November, 2002
An event in preparation for the "Next 5 Mintues : IV" Conference in
Amsterdam, 2003
"Tactical Media ? Clever Tricks, Cunning Maneouvres & Joyful Discoveries !"
creatively paraphrased from - 'The ABC of Tactical Media"
by David Garcia and Geert Lovink
At Sarai, we see 'Tactical Media" as ways of working with old and new
information technologies, ranging from print to photocopying to free
software and the internet to produce easy, accessible, low cost and low tech
forms of democratic cultural politics, communication practices and social
interventions.
The Tactical Media Lab (TML) i is one of a chain of such events, that are
taking place in different parts of the world as a means of leading up to the
fourth Next 5 Minutes Conference in Amsterdam in 2003
What can you do at the TML @ Sarai ?
Interact and network with some of the most interesting Tactical Media
projects around today - including, the Bytes4All South Asian Network, Open
Circle, Indymedia Mumbai, the Sarai Cybermohalla Project
Learn about Gnu/Linux, Free/Libre Software, and Open Source with the Sarai
Gnu/Linux Access Project and the Linux Users Group, Delhi
Find out what is happening on the localization of computing and free software
in Hindi, Bengali and Persian !
Debate issues of the social implications of creativity and collaboration in
digital culture
Participate in a workshop on Innovative Print Strategies for Campaigns
Watch Code : the Film on the making of Gnu/Linux
Get involved with the initiation of an Asian Network for Digital Democracy
Invited Speakers and Presentations
ArashZeini, LinuxIran & the Farsi KDE Project
Arun Mehta, Telecom Engineer & Internet Activist, Member, N5M4 Editorial
Board Aspi Mistry
Gaurab Upadhyay. Bytes4All, Kathmandu
Kishore Bhagava, Linux Users Group, Delhi
Leo Fernandes, Linux Users Group, Delhi
Osama Manzar, Founder-Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
Partha Pratim Sarkar, Bytes4All, Dhaka
Prabhat, Ankur : Society for Alternatives in Education
Pradip Saha, Designer, Editor - "Down To Earth" Magazine
Raju Mathur, Linux Users Group, Delhi
Sanjay Sharma, co-editor, Divan-e-Sarai
Sharad Kukreti, Sir George Everest Research Society & Software Freedom,
Dehradun
Shekhar Krishnan, Indymedia, Mumbai
Tushar Joag, Open Circle Artists Collective, Mumbai
Trevor warren, Media lab asia
And , from Sarai
Jeebesh Bagchi, Joy Chatterjee, Monica Narula, Pankaj Kaushal, Ranita
Chatterjee, Ravikant, Ravi Sundaram, Shuddhabrata Sengupta,Supreet Sethi,
Shveta Sharda & Tripta Chandola
Posters/Installations/Videos at the Sarai Interface Zone (throughout the
TML)
Mahanagar Telefunk Nigam A/V Archive
(The Metropolitan Telefunk Corporation A/V Archive)
A Video, Audio and Print Installation on Telephony
Dylan Volkhardt, with Renu Iyer and Girija Vohra @ the Sarai Media Lab
Aar Paar 2
A Collaborative Inter City Public Art Project by Arists in Mumbai & Karachi
Open Circle, Mumbai
Selections from Indymedia Videos
Film Screening :
The Code : Story of Linux
A little operating system that showed the world an alternative...
A film by Hannu Puttonen, Featuring, Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman
Produced by Making Movies and ADR Productions
Duration : 59 minutes
To be followed by a discussion at the Interface Zone/Cafe
Panels & Sessions :
Day 1
What is Tactical Media ?
Short Presentations on Different approaches to the term - "Tactical Media"
Arun Mehta, Partha Sarkar, Shekhar Krishnan, Pradip Saha, Jeebesh Bagchi
Presentations : Bytes4All Network & Sarai/Ankur Cybermohalla Project, Delhi
Readings from Divan e Sarai 01 : the Sarai Hindi Reader
Day 2
LAP demo
Language and Localization
Key Issues in Free Software for non English Languages
Ravi Kant (Sarai) moderator, Presentations by Aresh Zaini (KDE, Farsi,
Tehran), Hindi for Free Software, Partha Pratim Sarka on Computing in Bangla
and Gaurab Upadhyay on Computing in Nepali
"Collaborations and Contributions"
Practioners and users in the free software movement, the making of a creative
community (Open Discussion on Issues of Freedom and Programming Culture)
Raju Mathur, Leo Fernandes, Kishore Bhargava, Supreet, Aspi Mistry, Ravikant
Screening of "Code"
Day 3
Civil Society and Information Technology ;
Can we look beyond the Development Paradigm? (an open discussion)
Ravi Sundaram, Arun Mehta, Osama Manzar, Aspi Mistry, Gaurab, Partha Pratim
Sarkar
What Next for Tactical Media in our Neighbourhood
Presentations :
Shelhar Krishnan and the Indymedia Team
Tushar Joag on Open Circle and the Aar Paar Project
Towards an Alternative Asian Digital Network
(open discussion)
Arash Zaini, Partha Pratim Sarker, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Gaurab Upadhyay,
Sharad Kukreti
Parallel Workshops
- at the Cybermohalla Compughar (in the days leading up to the TML)
Print and Campaings Workshop - at the Sarai Interface Zone (during the TML)
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