HYBRID CURATORIAL MODELS, Sarai 23 MarFor those of you in Delhi,
passing by Delhi, or travelling around India for work or pleasure, we are very
pleased to announce a new CRUMB Professional Development Workshop, HYBRID
CURATORIAL MODELS: PRODUCING AND PUBLISHING IN-BETWEEN OFFLINE AND ONLINE
DIMENSIONS, in collaboration with Sarai-CSDS, Delhi.

Do attend if you are here,
or please pass this on to researchers, curators, artists, practitioners in
India who you think might be interested in attending.

Please find more information and how to book your place below.

Marialaura and CRUMB Team

HYBRID CURATORIAL MODELS:
PRODUCING AND PUBLISHING IN-BETWEEN OFFLINE AND ONLINE DIMENSIONS

CRUMB Professional
Development Workshop in collaboration with Sarai-CSDS

Saturday, 23 March 2013,
11am - 5pm

WHERE:

CSDS Seminar Room

29, Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054

http://www.sarai.net/

This workshop is set
within the activities of the research unit CRUMB at the University of
Sunderland, UK, which has investigated the curating of new media art since 1993
through research, exhibition projects, publishing, networking and professional
development for curators.

For this occasion the
event will focus on curatorial and artistic practices operating within the
realm of digital technology and culture in India. The aim is to disclose some
of the curatorial and artistic work that has dealt with issues related to what
might be termed inter-media publishing, bridging online and offline sites of
production, display and distribution. The goal is to investigate the practice
of curating across online and offline distributive platforms.

Through three
presentations by practitioners based in India – Prayas Abhinav (Director,
Museum of Vestigial Desire), Shankar Barua (Managing Trustee, The Academy of
Electronic Arts and Curator, Carnival of e-Creativity) and Revue (collaborative
ensemble by Mrityunjay Chatterjee and Sreejata Roy) - along with Sarah Cook
(co-funder, CRUMB), the workshop will take the form of group discussions
looking at the speaker's practices, critical perspectives and working
methodologies within the framework of contemporary curatorial practices and
digital technology. Discussions will touch upon forms and formats of
presentation, the structural organisation and arrangement of artistic material,
modes of production and display, audience engagement and reception and means of
distribution in relation to inter-media publishing.

How does producing and
publishing in-between the offline and online dimensions affect curatorial and
artistic work?

What are the means of
distribution adopted in this context and how has the spread and simplification
of digital technology had impact on artistic and curatorial production?

What is the kind of audience interaction that such practices generates? How does the audience
navigate through different sites of display?

Speakers/workshop leaders
details:

Prayas Abhinav, is awriter, occasional artist and teacher based in Bangalore. He is the initiator and the co-Director of the Museum of Vestigial Desire.

Abhinav has worked on numerous pieces of speculative fiction, software, games, interactive installations, public interventions and curatorial projects. He is interested in politics,
pedagogy and the interaction of the humanities and the digital. He contributes
to research and projects at northeastwestsouth (n.e.w.s) (Amsterdam, NL) and
has led workshops at Center for Environmental Planning Technology (CEPT)
(Ahmedabad) and Dutch Art Institute (Arnhem, NL). In the past he lead the
Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA) at the Srishti School of Art, Design
and Technology in Bangalore; style='color:#124297'>http://prayas.in/

Shankar Barua, is Managing
Trustee of The Academy of Electronic Arts and Curator of the annual Carnival of
e-Creativity (2006 – ongoing).

His curatorial record includes, ‘Open Stage’ (1980), ‘In Search of the Avant Garde’ (1992), and
‘Edgelogue’ (2010). He is now focused upon developing 'Research & Innovation Ashram #002' in Guwahati, Assam. Barua has also worked as an
adventure-travel writer & photographer, illustrator, photographer,tea-taster, musician, film-maker, and public speaker; href="http://www.theaea.org/">http://www.theaea.org Revue, is an ensemble of
artist/media practitioner duo Sreejata Roy and Mrityunjay Chatterjee, who have
been collaborating on various art projects in India and abroad. The area of
work involves largely the city, politics of space and lived conditions. Revue
works in collaboration with communities for the realisation of projects. Along
with their art practices, they are involved in art and design pedagogy and media-focused
research; http://www.revuenet.net/Sarah Cook, is a curator
and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and co-author (with BerylGraham) of
the book 'Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media' (MIT Press, 2010) and
co-editor (with Sara Diamond) of 'Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media
Institute Dialogues'. She is currently a Reader at the University of Sunderland
where she co-founded and co-edits CRUMB, the online resource for curators of
new media art and teaches on the MA Curating course. She is a member of the
advisory board of the 'Journal of Curatorial Studies' and co-chaired 'Rewire',
the Fourth International Conference on the histories of media art, science and
technology with FACT in Liverpool (2011); href="http://crumb.sunderland.ac.uk/~sarah/">http://crumb.sunderland.ac.uk/~sarah/

WHO IS IT FOR?

Workshop is open to all researchers, artists, curators and practitioners interested in this field of

Workshop is free but
places are limited and booking is required.

HOW TO BOOK?

Please send an email to
Marialaura Ghidini at href="mailto:marialaura.ghidini@research.sunderland.ac.uk"> style='color:#124297'>marialaura.ghidini@research.sunderland.ac.uk
by Tuesday 19th March including the following information:

1. Contact details

2. Up to 50 words on your
particular area of practice in relation to this workshop, and what you hope to
get from attending. Please include a URL.

3. Any special needs

This workshop has been
organised by Marialaura Ghidini, doctoral researcher with CRUMB, as part of her
fellowship with Sarai-CSDS which has been made possible by the AHRC
International Placement Scheme, UK, the financial support of CRUMB and the
University of Sunderland and the assistance of Sarai-CSDS, href="http://marialaura-ghidini.hotglue.me/">http://marialaura-ghidini.hotglue.me/

For more information
please visit; http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/,
http://www.crumbweb.org/
and http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/