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) is one of a chain of such events, that are
taking place in different parts of the world (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Cluj,
New York, Delhi and Sydney) as a means of leading up to the fourth Next 5
Minutes Conference in Amsterdam in 2003. For more on the N5M4 and Tactical
Media see www.n5m4.org
What can you do at the TML @ Sarai ?
>> Interact and network with some of the most interesting Tactical Media
>> projects around today - including the Bytes for all South Asian Network,
>> Open Circle, Indymedia Mumbai and 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, Nepali and Persian!
>>
>> Debate on issues of the social implications of creativity and
>> collaboration in digital culture.
>>
>> Participate in a workshop on Innovative Print Strategies for Campaigns.
>>
>> Watch The Code : the film on the making of Gnu/Linux.
>>
>> Get involved with the initiation of an Asian Network for Digital
>> Democracy.
Who should be interested in the TML ?
Free software enthusiasts, activists, media practitioners, students and
anyone interested in using communications technologies for social
interventions.
Invited Speakers and Presentations
ArashZeini, LinuxIran & the Farsi KDE Project
Arun Mehta, Telecom Engineer & Internet Activist, Member, N5M4 Editorial
Board Gaurab Upadhyay, Bytesforall, Kathmandu
Kishore Bhargava, Linux Users Group, Delhi
Leo Fernandes, Linux Users Group, Delhi
Open Circle Artists Collective, Mumbai
Osama Manzar, Founder-Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
Kanti Kumar, One World South Asia
Partha Pratim Sarkar, Bytesforall, Dhaka
Prabhat, Ankur : Society for Alternatives in Education
Pradip Saha, Designer, Managing 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
Shaina Anand, Filmmaker & Artist
Shekhar Krishnan, PUKAR, Mumbai
Sanjay Bhangar, Indymedia, Mumbai
And , from Sarai
Jeebesh Bagchi, Mrityunjoy Chatterjee, Monica Narula, Pankaj Kaushal,
Ranita Chatterjee, Ravikant, Ravi Sundaram, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Supreet
Sethi, Shveta Sharda & Tripta
Register Now
Contact (for registration, information and detailed schedules)
Ranita Chatterjee [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Tripta [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sarai, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
Phone : 3960040
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
Path hi Daesh, [The Path is my Country]
A Photographic/HTML installation on Migrants and Migration
by Syeda Farhana Zaman and Joy Chatterjee, Sarai Media Lab
Weather Report
A Satirical look at the Politics of Climate Change
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
on Friday, November 15, at 6 pm, Seminar Room, Sarai
Panels & Sessions
Day 1 - November 14, Thursday
What is Tactical Media ? 11AM
Short presentations on different approaches to the term - "Tactical Media"
Arun Mehta, Partha Sarkar, Shekhar Krishnan, Pradip Saha, Jeebesh Bagchi
Presentations : 2PM
Bytesforall Network & Sarai/Ankur Cybermohalla Project, Delhi
Indymedia Network, Open Circle & the Aar Paar Project, Tellavision Mumbai
Readings from Divan e Sarai 01 : the Sarai Hindi Reader 6PM
Day 2 - November 15, Friday
Linux Access Project (LAP) Demontration 11AM
Language and Localization:
Key Issues in Free Software for non English languages 2PM
Presentations by Arash Zaini on KDE in Farsi, Ravikant on Free Software in
Hindi, Partha Pratim Sarkar on Computing in Bangla and Gaurab Upadhyay on
Computing in Nepali.
"Collaborations and Contributions": Practitioners and Users in the Free
Software Movement - the making of a creative community 4PM
Open
discussion on issues of Freedom and Programming Culture
Raju Mathur, Leo Fernandes, Kishore Bhargava, Supreet Sethi, Ravikant
Screening of "The Code : Story of Linux" 6PM
Day 3 - November 16, Saturday
Civil Society and Information Technology 2PM
Can We Look Beyond the Development Paradigm? Open discussion
Ravi Sundaram, Arun Mehta, Osama Manzar, Kanti Kumar, Gaurab Upadhyay,
Partha Pratim Sarkar
Presentation of Print & Campaign Workshop 4PM
Towards an Alternative Asian Digital Network 6PM
Open discussion
Arash Zaini, Partha Pratim Sarker, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Gaurab Upadhyay,
Sharad Kukreti, Kanti Kumar
Parallel Workshops:
I Cybermohalla Compughar (mini TML with young people from the LNJP Basti and
Ambedkar Nagar Cybermohalla Projects in the days leading up to the TML @
Sarai)
II Print and Campaigns Workshop - at the Sarai Interface Zone on all 3 days
during the TML with a presentation at 4 pm on the final day.
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