Cybermohalla”, a network of dispersed labs for experimentation and exploration among young working class people in different neighbourhoods of the city, that was initiated by Ankur: Society for Alternatives in Education, Delhi and Sarai-CSDS, Delhi in the year 2001. Over the years, the collective produced a wide range of materials, practices, works and structures. Cybermohalla generated regular materials—books, broadsheets, installations, radio programmes, and writings about the city. There were conversations with software programmers, architects, writers, scholars, new media practitioners, designers, legal researchers, urban researchers, translators and sound artists from across the world.
Work by Cybermohalla circulated and been shown in online journals, radio broadcasts, publications, neighbourhood gatherings, contemporary and new media art exhibitions. Their significant publication includes Bahurupiya Shehr (Rajkamal, Delhi 2007) and Trickster City (Penguin India, 2010).
Events and Publications related to this project:
Law at Large: The News Event in Public Mediations of Community – Lecture by Francis Cody
Book discussion ‘Media and the Constitution of the Political: South Asia and Beyond’
Proximate Exposures: Media and Radiance Lecture by Rahul Mukherjee
Book Discussion on ‘Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Culture from India’
Pirate Modernity & Hypersocial Networks: Ravi Sundaram + Tiziana Terranova: Dialogue
The Wager on Cinema: Screening 12 – Gender, Sexuality, and Desire
The Mediatized Protest: Hong Kong, Cinema, Telegram, and The Lennon Wall