Problems of Translation

Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lutgert (0x2620.org) and Ashok Sukumaran (CAMP), co-founders of the Pad.ma video archive, initiate "Problems of Translation" a public discussion on the nature of translations between art and art's archive, technology and art history, software and painting, and digital and analog artifacts, at the

Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong.
Thursday December 16, 2010


Problems of Translation


A public discussion with Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lütgert (both 0x2620, Berlin) and Ashok Sukumaran (CAMP, Bombay).

Problems of translation occur not only between written or spoken languages (such as Cantonese or English), but also are a much more common phenomenon.

Translation is a challenge for all "gaps between disciplines" (such as between art and technology). But a closer look at the practices of programmers and painters for example, might reveal that principles and techniques they apply in their respective fields, have much more in common than it is usually assumed.  Problems of translation may not lie where most expected.

In the art archive, the verb "archiving" already implies many kinds of translation, of the qualities and potentials of artworks and related materials. In digital art archives, such translation is present in many everyday acts of scanning, tagging and uploading. The transformation of analog art works into digital items not only changes their storage medium and handling qualities, but also makes them enter completely new relations, exchanges and equations. Digital materials tend to multiply and to leak, to both create great wealth and provide great distraction.  "Digital labour" or changed work habits is another consequence of this, which in turn changes how we think about the production and growth of such archives.

To realise the digital archive's full potential means to take the idea of translation quite seriously, as a basic unit for all kinds of distributive and transformative forces, indirect effects, and creative misunderstandings.


Fwd: Re: Archive

The central event of a month-long gathering organised around the 10th anniversary of Pad.ma the footage archive, and the 5th anniversary of Indiancine.ma.



Broken Cameras

featuring
The Neighbour Before the House
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
الجار قبل الدار

What the Cameras Saw and Remembered

Two films by CAMP
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour before the House)
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

To See is To Change

with Bombay Tilts Down (2022) and A Photogenic Line, (2019) as part of Photo 24, Melbourne.
In this pair of large-scale works, CAMP explore two sides of their practice; one that produces experimental film and video, often with unusual equipment and angles of participation, and another that creates and animates archives of moving images, documents and photography.

Closing Party! BOMBAY TILTS DOWN

Low-End Therapy
By Swadesi crew Kaali Duniya (Bamboy/Tushar Adhav) with guest MC's Kranti Naari, Pratika, MC Mawali, Khabardar Revolt.
BassBrahma and RaakShas Sound
Equality on the dance floor.

Bombay Tilts Down in Mumbai!

7-channel environment. 13 mins, on loop with two alternating soundtracks

A vertical landscape movie in facets. Filmed remotely by one CCTV camera from a single-point location atop a 35-floor building on E. Moses Road during the pandemic.

READING LISTENING SEEING Bombay Tilts Down

A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.
12 January 7 pm, ft. Bamboy
13 January 6 pm
14 January 7:30 pm
20 January 7 pm

Concave Room

CheMoulding Part II - FUTURING
60 years of Chemould Gallery
+ CAMP invites:
Mohit Shelare, Curve in the Desire.
++
himanshu S and aqui T, Parallel Universe.

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