CAMP Monsoon of Code

Over the next 4 months, CAMP will begin working on a number of coding / website projects. For all of these, we invite collaborations, and programmers looking for challenging contexts.
The projects include, but are not limited to:

  1> India Theatre Forum: Working with Prithvi Theatre and the India Theatre Forum, the endeavour is to create a network / platform for theatre professionals across the country. Alongwith aiming to re-evaluate a number of 'web 2.0', and 'social networking' features, the challenge is to translate these concepts into practical and usable frame-works. This will include experimenting with SMS and phone-based communication. Technologies we we will use are Python, Django - Pinax, jQuery / Javascript, and SMS.

  2> Edgware Road.  A website that organises ongoing research via its backend, and then publishes quarterly a set of "documents", which are produced and edited by people on the Edgware Road, a mixed arab/iranian/kurdish/asian/other neighbourhood in london. The website also is an experiment with online layouting/ design, and "print from web" technologies for things like posters, printed placemats and a magazine.

  3> Working with architects and researchers from CRIT (http://crit.org.in), this project will put online, in its first phase, detailed data collected by CRIT for the Vasai-Virar region in Mumbai - heritage structures, ecological zones, village boundaries, roads, etc. In it's second phase, if all goes well, the interface would be extended to be a public interface for all of Mumbai. Technologies we would be working with include Python, Geodjango, PostGIS and OpenLayers.

  4> Inventory: Over the years, CAMPers have accumulated a lot of stuff- kilometres of cable, tiny connectors of all sorts, microcontrollers, audio, video and projection equipment, bookshelves about art, programming, film, hundreds of DV tapes, terabytes of data on hard-drives... This project is, first, to index this range of 'things' into a common searchable database, so we don't spend half our lives looking for things :-). Second, it is to explore ways in which this index and its material can be presented as a public "library", in which a number of forms of distribution may be possible: exchange, lending, copying, buying, etc.  Further, to explore similar possibilities for other people / groups with collections of material, of any type. The Internet of Things, revisited.


 

Code

We are using bzr (bazaar) as our versioning tool.

You can get the code at http://code.camputer.org

(more details and random notes soon ... )

Reading Listening Seeing, Bombay Tilts Down

A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.

CAMP Study Day

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CAMP Study Day, brings together leading scholars of media, law, cinema, and visual art on the occasion CAMP's exhibition Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP. With Erika Balsom, Lawrence Liang, Debashree Mukherjee, Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Laura U. Marks.

An Internet Movie about Housing in Bombay/Mumbai

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Light Industry
7:00 pm
The first and last sections from a 6-hour-long video essay, presented live by CAMP.

TIME FLICKERS

Priyank Gothwal presents a series of 8 works as a physical exhibition and accompanying lecture-performance, on the experiences and abstractions of time.

first draft gathering

"film objects"
A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.

Video After Video : The Critical Media of CAMP

Phantas.ma Season - II

Phantas.ma is running a season dedicated to CAMP as part of Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP at MoMA.
A video a day, on the site.
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The (Reshuffled) Year of the Everlasting Storm

Sunday, 7:00 pm
100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.

A Terrible Beauty

by Iram Ghufran
50 mins, 2023
7:00 pm

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Iram Ghufran.
A science-fiction fable set in the "miracle city" of Yiwu, in one of the world's largest wholesale markets for small commodities.

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