Landscapes for new media
Date: Friday Sept 12 14:00 - 16:00
Place: Melkweg, MAX
Part of the aim of the TML process was to go “deep-localâ€Â, to those places were the involvement of media makers in a local environment passes beyond a temporary presence and becomes a long-term commitment. In this section we wish to devote attention to initiatives demonstrating how deep local commitment can go hand in hand with translocal connections - in ways that reconfigure modernity in ways that take greater responsibility for local environments and communities. These initiatives generally operate in complicated social environments, most often inhabited by an economically deprived and marginalised constituency, but where surprisingly strong and highly unique centres of media culture have emerged. What is the story behind these initiatives that provide a platform for these voices at the edge? What is their model of success?
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[Participants]
- Monica Narula & .... present Cybermohalla (Cyber Neighbourhood) Project. Setting up
digital media labs using free software in the LNJP squatter settlement and the Ambedkar
Nagar Resettlement Colony in Delhi.
www.sarai.net/community/saraincomm.htm
- Carl Biörsmark of the Culture and information center K@2 in Karosta – in the former Soviet
naval base next to Ljiepala, Latvia, working with the left behind Russian ex-military
population. www.karosta.org
- Emer Beamer, was co-initiator of the Nairobits project, developed the concept, the
website and the vision. In Nairobi she focused on the web design training of the youth.leia mais >>