Pad.ma, and the possible

July 28, 2011 - July 29, 2011


New Museum Theater
235 Bowery, NYC
7:00 pm Thursday, 28 July, 2011

Presented by Shaina A. and Ashok S.
Three years ago, CAMP co-initiated the online footage archive PAD.MA. This was a specific proposal for how video material could exist and be “thrown forth” beyond the limits of the filmmaking economy, and differently from YouTube. Now containing several hundred hours of densely annotated, transcribed, and open-access footage, PAD.MA poses many questions for digital archiving, film, and online video. It also seeds a set of possibilities and practices around footage, distribution, screening, referencing, and writing through video. Its implications for the contexts of art, documentary, and theory will be the subject of this presentation.

Pad.ma, and the possible

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is an ongoing public-access media archival project, centered around video as a medium of documentation, collection, argumentation and exchange. Its objective is to consolidate, densely annotate, and make available online several scattered collections of video material, to begin with in Mumbai and Bangalore. Pad.ma is a collaboration between oil21.org, CAMP, Majlis, Point of View, the Alternative Law Forum, and other future contributors.

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A video a day, on the site.
sign up!

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