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6th KaraFilm Festival


Organized under the aegis of the KaraFilm Society, a grouping of
committed young filmmakers, the KaraFilm Festival is a celebration of
the moving image and of storytelling. Our goal is to promote an
appreciation of the art and craft of filmmaking among a wide
population as well as to encourage creativity and high standards among
filmmakers. We hope that this will have a salutary effect on the
development of the motion picture industry in Pakistan and elsewhere.

Many years ago, international film festivals in Karachi attracted
large audiences and some of the best filmmakers in the world. Satyajit
Ray, for example, was one of a host of world renowned directors
screening films in Karachi in the 1960s.

With this festival we hope to create, once again, a space for
alternative and independent cinema in Pakistan, where both experienced
and new filmmakers can exhibit their creative endeavours and where
work is recognized on the basis of merit. In addition, the festival
also provides an excellent opportunity for filmmakers to meet and
learn from each other.

http://www.karafilmfest.com/currentkara_2006.htm


http://www.karafilmfest.com/KaraFilm2006/schedules_01.htm

Via: NAEEM MOHAIEMEN

The panel discussion is tonight, but the show will be
up until January 6th.

- Naeem


http://www.whw.hr/
http://www.kulturnikapital.org/OrganisationsEn/WhatHowAndForWhom

How to do things with data
a dataesthetics discussion forum


Nov 30 2006.

7 pm- 10 pm

Cinema Mosor, Zvonimirova 63, Zagreb

Participants: Léonore Bonaccini i Xavier Fourt/
Bureau d’études, Aaron Gach/ Center for Tactical
Magic, Miran Mohar i Borut Vogelnik / IRWIN, Trevor
Paglen, Naeem Mohaiemen




Dataesthetics

A group show @ Gallery Nova

Teslina 7, Zagreb, Croatia

Dec 12 2006-Jan 6 2007



Opening

Friday, 1.12.2006, 8 PM



The Atlas Group, Jean - Pierre Aubé, Martha Rosler,
Bureau d’études, Mark Lombardi, Center for Tactical
Magic, IRWIN, Trevor Paglen, Marko Peljhan/I-TASC,
Bálint Szombathy, Mladen Stilinovi, Visible Collective
(Mohaiemen, Roy, Huq, Lin, Nimoy, et al)


Curated by: Stephen Wright




Data has become the most pervasive – and intangibly
invasive – feature of contemporary life; of life
become data. Life systems have been the object of
sustained data gathering since the time of the
Enlightenment, and cartography, flow charts, graphs
and statistica; databases have played a preponderant
role in the shift from a society based on discipline
to contemporary regimes of biopolitical control, where
information is inseparable from the exercise of power.
Though it is still commonly held that “the map is not
the territory” – that is, that life can neither be
confused with nor certainly reduced to its
informational content – the vast expansion in data
gathering facilitated by digital nano-technologies and
integrated networks suggests that a qualitative
transformation in governance may become possible
through the sheer quantity of available data. Is the
dream of total management on the verge of becoming a
reality, whereby action on the map is at the same time
action on the territory? “You have nothing to fear if
you have nothing to hide” has become the chorus of
real-information ideologues; yet to be an individual
is to have something to hide…

Artists have only comparatively recently come to take
a sustained interest in the phenomenon of information
display, classification, compiling – in short, in what
might be referred to as dataesthetics. This exhibition
brings together twelve artists and artist collectives
who use data as their artistic material. Working with
cognitive mapping, discursive form, or envisaging
knowledge production and research as a full-fledged
artistic practice (rather than a prelude to producing
artwork), these artists seek to foreground the
heuristic and socially critical potential of data use.

Plainly, such practices have precedents in the
conceptual art producers of an earlier generation,
sharing with them a broad critique of administered
lives, bureaucratised minds and instrumental
rationality. Of course, the aesthetics of data is not
merely about ordering facts and figures; it is equally
about disorganising and subverting the rational
arrangement of information and our reliance on
databases. Dataesthetics seeks to foreground some of
the most cutting-edge practices in the field of
research-based art while at the same time anchoring
them in an art-historical framework. From this
perspective, it can be argued that the data-based
practices of many contemporary artists give conceptual
art the opportunity to potentially reinvent itself,
giving it an unforeseen use value, by injecting
artistic competence into collaborative initiatives
beyond the confines of the artworld.

Dataesthetics is a three-phrase project, comprising an
exhibition, a discussion forum with the artists and
the publication of a bilingual reader, featuring
critical writings by theorists and artists working in
the field of dataesthetics.

Stephen Wright


***

30.11.2006.

19 h

cinema Mosor, Zvonimirova 63, Zagreb



How to do things with data

a dataesthetics discussion forum

participants: Léonore Bonaccini i Xavier Fourt/
Bureau d’études, Aaron Gach/ Center for Tactical
Magic, Miran Mohar i Borut Vogelnik / IRWIN, Trevor
Paglen, Naeem Mohaiemen /Visible Collective



moderated by : Stephen Wright



Art production long sought to protect the relatively
autonomous sphere it had eked out for itself from any
incursion by the potentially deadening logic of
knowledge production and data gathering and display.
In the face of the sheer glut and facile allure of
purpose-driven information and rationality, art’s
self-assigned role was to affirm its radical
uselessness. Yet as knowledge has become inseparable
from power, many practitioners have come to see art
and art-related activity as an extradisciplinary and
even potentially subversive field of inquiry. Though
such practices are often described as content-driven,
it is perhaps more accurate to consider them in terms
of their discursive form. Critical cartography,
tactical magic and database use have become integral
components of artistic competence, which refuses to
leave social critique to the social sciences. Bringing
together Aaron Gach of the Center for Tactical Magic,
Naeem Mohaiemen of the Visible Collective, Trevor
Paglen, Léonore Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt of Bureau
d’études and Stephen Wright, the discussion forum will
focus on the performative dimension of data-based
research and its display – that is, on how to do
things, socially critical things, with dataesthetics.




discussion forum participants



Bureau d’etudes

Bureau d’études is a Paris-based media collective
founded in 1998, comprised of the artist-duo Léonore
Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt. Using complex graphic
tables conceived for the Internet, they map various
hidden global structures of finance and world
governance, formalising patterns and connections
through scientific and informational exactitude. Their
work can be viewed online at bureaudetudes.free.fr or
http://utangente.free.fr/



Aaron Gach is Visiting Faculty in the
Design+Technology department at San Francisco Art
Institute. He was inspired by studies with a private
investigator, a magician, and a ninja to form the
Center for Tactical Magic—an organization dedicated to
the amalgamation of art, technology, magic, and
activism. Working across disciplines—art, design,
architecture, and community service—Gach’s
collaborations have involved members of the Black
Panthers, Earth First!, and the American Red Cross to
name a few.

www.tacticalmagic.org



IRWIN

IRWIN was founded in 1983 as the visual-arts component
of the Slovenian art collective NSK, based in
Ljubljana. Together with many collaborators they
started a project East Art Map intended to serve as an
orientation tool in the still-undefined field of the
art of the East. The aim of the East Art Map is to
show the art of the entire space of Eastern Europe, to
take artists out of their national frameworks and
present them in a unified scheme.

www.eastartmap.org



Naeem Mohaiemen is a filmmaker and media artist
working in New York and Dhaka. His projects include
Visible Collective (disappearedinamerica.org), "The
Young Man Was No Longer A Terrorist" (Dictionary of
War, Mufathalle), and "Muslims or Heretics: My Camera
Can Lie?" (UK House of Lords). Essays include "Islamic
Roots of Hip-Hop" (Sound Unbound, MIT Press, DJ Spooky
ed.), "Terrorists or Guerillas in the Mist" (Sarai 06,
part of Documenta 12 journal project) and "Why Mahmud
Can't Be a Pilot") (Nobody Passes, Matt Bernstein
ed.).

disappearedinamerica.org



Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental
geographer working out of the Department of Geography
at the University of California, Berkeley. His work
involves deliberately blurring the lines between
social science, contemporary art, and a host of even
more obscure disciplines in order to construct
unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to
interpret the world around us. His most recent
projects take up secret military bases, the California
prison system, and the CIA’s practice of
“extraordinary rendition.”

www.paglen.com



curator and moderator

Stephen Wright is an art writer and programme director
at the Collège international de philosophie (Paris).
"Dataesthetics" follows “Rumour as Media” (Aksanat,
Istanbul), following “In Absentia” (Passerelle, Brest)
and “The Future of the Reciprocal Readymade” (Apexart,
NYC), as part of a series of exhibitions examining art
practices with low coefficients of artistic
visibility, which raise the prospect of art without
artworks, authorship or spectatorship.


Dataesthetics is part of the project Zagreb – Cultural
Kapital of Europe 3000

http://www.kulturnikapital.org




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Via: "Karen Coelho"

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Subject: {Youth for Social Ch Cycle tour update



Since the launch and their cycle tour in Cuddalore the participants have
witnessed the beauty and the exploitation of this beautiful coastal land.
Simultaneously there have been massive awareness activities launched in
Chennai to inform the citizens about the “1000 Bhopals”, as we call it, in
our own backyards. We bring to you the latest updates from the cycle tour
and Chennai.

Day 2 – First milestone, Pondycherry
– As reported by Nityanand Jayaraman
The day stated as usual, two cycles broke down and had to be loaded onto the
car and sent to Semankuppam for repairs. The trip to Semankuppam was
excellent we were in the right time for pamphleteering, it was morning time
and people were either at bus stops leaving for work or having their morning
tea.
http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com/updates_291106c.html

Renowned Tamil poetess Kanimozhi inaugurates 1000 Bhopals photo exhibition
The inauguration of the 1000 Bhopals exhibition at Lalit Kala Akademy was a
great success. We had Ms. K. Kanimozhi, renowned poetess and daughter of
Tamilnadu Chief Minister Mr. K. Karunanidhi inaugurate the exhibition.
http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com/updates_291106b.html

Cyclist discover the beauty of Puduchatram, the proposed location for the
SIMA textile park
Update Day2: 29 November 2006, morning from Puduchatram
From Nity: We set off for our next destination to Cuddalore New Town at 7:30
am half hour past the scheduled time. Some of us were up at 4 am to fulfil
the morning duties while others not so keen on attending the call woke up at
6.
http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com/updates_291106.html

Cycle tour flagged off successfully by local leader Kolathur Mani
Report From Nity: DAY 1, 11:00 pm
We set off on schedule at 11.00 am and the first cycle crisis occurred
within 20 meters of the start. We got cycle fixed at Old Town, Cuddalore and
carried on. Earlier the flag off was good with a decent media response.
http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com/updates_281106.html

For more details and photographs visit www.sipcotcuddalore.com

Audio clips direct from the cycle tour will be soon uploaded on the website.


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Via: "Karen Coelho"

Remember Bhopal;
Fight for Cuddalore

Youth on Cycles for Cuddalore – 28 November to 2 December

Appeal for Support: Those interested in supporting the campaign are
requested to make contributions by cheque in the name of Samarthan Trust.
Please write (For CEM) on the reverse. Only Indian Rupee contributions can
be accepted. The cheque may be sent to:
Nityanand Jayaraman, 42A, 1st Floor, Besant Nagar, Chennai 600 090. Tel: +91
44 24465461

Cuddalore is another Bhopal in the making. Youth from Chennai, Cuddalore and
Mettur will cycle from Cuddalore to Chennai to raise awareness about the
environmental issues confronting residents of SIPCOT, Cuddalore, and
highlight the threats of pollution-intensive industrialization facing
Cuddalore. The cycle tour will travel through the coastal areas of
Cuddalore, Pondicherry and parts of Kanchipuram and Chennai districts, and
through the inland areas along GST Road. Kindly extend your support to the
cycle tour by organizing solidarity activities en route.

Distance to be covered - 280 km
Route and Schedule
28 November: Flag Off from Cuddalore Town.

29 November: Periyapattu to Sonnanchavadi, Semmankuppam, Sangolikuppam,
Eachangadu, Kudikadu, Devanampattinam, Thazhanguda, Pondicherry. Film
screening/Night Halt: Pondicherry

30 November: Pondy to Marakkanam, Tindivanam. Film screening/Night halt:
Tindivanam

1 December: Tindivanam to Madurantakam, Chengalpattu. Film screening/Night
halt: Chengalpattu

2 December: Chengalpattu to Kovalam, Besant Nagar. Film screening: Besant
Nagar

Background: December 3 is the 22nd anniversary of the 1984 Union Carbide
disaster in Bhopal. In the lead-up to the anniversary of the world's worst
industrial disaster, the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
(Chennai) and its supporters wish to highlight Cuddalore as a Bhopal in our
own backyard.

The Tamilnadu Government has earmarked coastal Cuddalore for locating the
dirtiest, most hazardous industries in Tamilnadu. Already, an 8 km stretch
of the district – the SIPCOT industrial estate -- is seriously affected by
pollution from more than 19 chemical industries. The State Human Rights
Commission and the Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights
have observed that SIPCOT residents are already overburdened with pollution.
They have recommended against setting up any more chemical industries in the
area.

Despite massive public protest and the recommendations of various expert
agencies, the Tamilnadu Government is planning to intensify pollution in and
around SIPCOT. In the pipeline, are the following proposals:
1.Chemplast PVC factory and marine terminal, and desalination plant,
Semmankuppam and Chitrapettai
2.4000MW coal-fired thermal power plant, Naduthittu
3.A mega textile park, Periyapattu
4.A 6 million tones per annum petrochemical refinery by Nagarjuna,
Thyagavelli
5.Effluents pumped into sea from Tiruppur textile dyeing units
6.Effluents pumped into sea from Ambur-Vaniyambadi leather tanneries
7.A shipbuilding yard

For more information on Bhopal and Cuddalore,
Email: nopvcever@gmail.com
OR
Visit:
www.sipcotcuddalore.com
cuddaloreonline.blogspot.com
www.bhopal.net

Via: Aarti Sethi

Via: Aarti Sethi

Dear Friends,

This is to announce a three day International Colloquium on
Information, Society, History and Politics, titled - 'Sensor-Census-
Censor : Investigating Regimes of Information, Registering Changes of
State' at Sarai-CSDS (29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054) on 30th November,
1 & 2 December.

A detailed programme of the three days is given below. Participation
by registration at the venue. Limited seats available.

Via: divya sachar

Via: "yengkhom jilangamba"

Via: kj

Via: "Sanjay Bhangar"