Submidialogy (submidialogia) - The sublogy of the means (a sublogia dos meios)
01.Sep.05 The conference Submidialogy to be held in Campinas, Brazil form 28 to 31 october 2005 is part the Waag Sarai Exchange Platform, which exists since 2001 and had included brazilian researchers and artists as fellows in 2004, when a project was developed and presented in Bangalore, India. In 2005 the collaboration focusses on the exchange of knowledge and practices between the member of the platform in India, Brazil and the Netherlands. Apart from the Conference there has been a research residency of Brazilian practitioners at Sarai/Cybermohalla in Delhi and a publication on new media practices in Brazil is currently edited in Sao Paulo. read more >>>
incommunicado Work Conference - Amsterdam, June 16-17, 2005
01.May.05 (Amsterdam) Long considered a marginal policy field dominated by technology experts, info-development is embroiled in a full-fledged info-politics, negotiated in terms of corporate accountability, state transformation, and the role of an international civil society in the creation of a new world information order. Emerging from the 'incommunicado' internet forum, the work conference will start mapping some of the faultlines of such a politics, and it will do so by engaging people from different info-political backgrounds in a collaborative exploration of concepts and strategies.
Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam) together with Waag Society (Amsterdam) and the New Media Centre Sarai (Delhi), with support from HIVOS, IICD, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. read more >>>
Out now: Reader05 - bare acts
30.Mar.05 (Delhi) This is the fifth book in the Sarai Reader Series. The book is a collection of articles, photo-essays, and image collages that take a critical and reflexive look at the law, and practices, codes, norms and customs within which the bare act of the law is located. Unlike conventional books of legal theory/history which speak only to the law as encoded/enshrined within court judgments etc, the Reader seeks a dialogue between the law, and the practices of a social world within which the law is nested. read more >>>
Law and Media - Emerging experiments
01.Jan.05 Starting in January 2004, Clifton D'Rozario was the recipient on behalf of Alternative Law Forum (ALF) of a fellowship as a part of the Waag/Sarai Exchange. The fellowship was intended to support some of the media activities of ALF, and to enable ALF to use new media technologies to expand the dissemination of its work, to engage with newer forms of communication and also to experiment with new ways of thinking of the relationship between law, culture and technology.
This report outlines some of the activities that have taken place in ALF in the past year, and what some of our future plans are. We would alsolike to take the opportunity to thank Waag/ Sarai for enabling this fellowship. read more >>>
Networks and collaborations workshop, 26th to 28th November 2004, Bangalore
15.Dec.04 In November 2004, at the end of the first phase of being part of the Sarai- Waag platform, ALF organized a workshop calling other participants in the platform including two organizations from Brazil, Sarai, Waag for a workshop on networks and collaborations. The second and third day of the workshop included many organizations and individuals that ALF works with. read more >>>
Out now: Reader04 - crisis/media
30.Mar.04 (Delhi) 'Crisis/Media', the fourth publication in the Sarai Reader series, examines issues of global crises - (war, civil conflict, terrorism and state terror, the deep instabilities of everyday life, technologies of surveillance and political life, threats to the freedom of expression) - and critically analyses the representation of these crises in the media. Are the crises in the media also instances of crises of the media? Have current forms of media practice lost the ability to articulate questions of conflict and contention, other than in terms of crises ? Can media practitioners evolve forms of practice that are not beholden to the idea of Crisis? The Sarai brings together several distinguished critical voices, as well as new, emerging writers from all over the world (and especially from South Asia) to attend to ideas, situations, contexts and dillemmas related to crises and the media. read more >>>
Sarai Waag Exchange in the news: Global Activism, WWW-style
04.Mar.04 In the quest for global peace and social justice, the Internet and other emerging network technologies provide powerful tools to support our work. But most organizations have not moved beyond e-mail and basic websites--they haven't yet learned truly strategic uses of these technologies. Put simply, the tools are in our hands, but most of us have not yet decided what to build. Below, we present a glimpse of what the future might hold based on our research on organizations that are out front in their innovative use of these emerging technologies. read more >>>
