Tag: Archaeology

City as Studio

The City as Studio programme emerged in 2010 to intervene in the shaping of a responsive and engaged milieu of contemporary art and media practices through a cluster of dedicated art and media fellowships tied to a structure of studio situations and processes in Delhi. The fellowship brings together artists, media practitioners, intellectuals, writers, activists,…
What Time Is It? | 14-16 December 2017 – Report

What Time Is It? Technologies of Life in the Contemporary 14th, 15th and 16th December, 2017 Sarai-CSDS, Delhi and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi #whattimeisit A detailed report of the conference is available on this LINK. Conference Programme: http://sarai.net/what-time-is-it-14-16-december-2017/ Concept Have we finally entered the End of the End of History? (E-flux, Journal #57 –…
Objects/Media Practices Collaborative Workshop, ICAS: MP and Sarai-CSDS

‘Objects, Media Practices, Aesthetics and Politics: Material Histories and Cultural Imaginaries, India 1940-1960’ is one of the pilot projects under the History as a Political Category (ICAS TM1) module which has been running for over four months now. This project is undertaken as an inter-modular collaboration between TM1 and TM7, Media and the Constitution of the Political. Ritwika Misra…
What Time Is It? | 14-16 December 2017

What Time Is It? Technologies of Life in the Contemporary 14th, 15th and 16th December, 2017 Sarai-CSDS, Delhi and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi #whattimeisit Have we finally entered the End of the End of History? (E-flux, Journal #57 – Sept 2014). Recent media technological transformations have thrown into confusion many existing political and social…
The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 03

Day 01, January 09, 2014 | Day 02, January 10, 2014 | Day 03, January 11, 2014 Detailing Technology A Difficult Geography: Bombay Cinema’s Move to Colour Ranjani Mazumdar, School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehu University Recording not available. “No Blue”: On the Colour of Sensation in Tamil Cinema Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins…
The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 02

Day 01, January 09, 2014 | Day 02, January 10, 2014 | Day 03, January 11, 2014 Histories: Cities I Early Film-going as Heterotopic Mobility: Urban Journeys, Public Space and Cinema Theatres in Chennai Stephen Putnam Hughes, School of Oriental and African Studies, London Download: OGG and MP3. Cinema in the Colonial City: Early…
The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 01

Day 01, January 09, 2014 | Day 02, January 10, 2014 | Day 03, January 11, 2014 Histories: Connections and Comparisons Intimacy and Industry: Close Encounters Between Hollywood and Bombay Nitin Govil, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Download: OGG and MP3. Asian Cinergy: Chinese Film in the Age of the International Blockbuster and…
The Many Lives of Indian Cinema: Conference Report

This conference was part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies and was organized by The Sarai Programme to commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema. The conference sought to draw on the diverse heritage of Indian cinema to highlight the importance of cinema studies in the wider architecture…
The Many Lives of Indian Cinema: 1913-2013 and beyond

This international conference was hosted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) to celebrate and reflect on a century of Indian cinema. The conference was coordinated by the Sarai programme of CSDS and the CSDS/Sarai-supported South Asian screen studies journal, BioScope. It was part of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Centre…
The Social and Cultural Life of Information Workshop | November 14-16, 2013

The Social and Cultural Life of Information workshop was held in Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, on November 14-16 2013. It brought together a select group of media scholars, historians, anthropologists and geographers for an intensive two day workshop, and aimed at bringing together research on colonial and postcolonial information infrastructures, with…