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Charm of Transitoriness ~ short films at Goethe ~ 30 Sep

Karachi, a city with 18,000,000 inhabitants is facing the same problem that Berlin faced in 1989: a boom in construction work and no preservation for the historical infrastructures. Berlin controlled the problem properly keeping in mind the value of these antiques in the next generation.

The old buildings of Karachi should also be preserved in the same manner. To create awareness amongst the Pakistani public, Goethe-Institut Pakistan is presenting 10 video clips that captures the historical places of Karachi and the interior Sindh.             
~ from the Goethe-Institut events

Goethe-Institut, Karachi presents short films by Amar Mahboob and Nameera Ahmed of Mauj Collective on historic and cultural preservation in Karachi and its surroundings.

The films, made for the Goethe-Institut, will be screened on September 30, 2009 at 7 pm.
at Goethe-Institut, 2 Brunton Road, Civil Lines (lane next to CM House/Sheraton Hotel). Tel. +92 21 5661633-6.
The invitation card is attached. Hope to see you all there!
Nameera

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Support for travel of Rob van Kranenburg & Suzanne Hogendoorn

The Mondriaan Foundation has supported travel of Rob Van Kranenburg and Suzanne Hogendoorn to Karachi, Pakistan in the month of April 2009.

The Asia-Europe Foundation is supporting logistic expenses occurring for events organised during Rob Van Kranenburg and Suzanne Hogendoorn's visit to Karachi, the events include:
  • Evening on Media and Activism, 7 April
  • Shanaakht Festival, 8-12 April
  • Writing Workshop on New Media Art, 10-11 April
The Goethe Institute, Karachi has supported Mauj by allowing their premises to be used for the Evening on Media and Activism on 7 April 2009.

T2F has agreed to share their space with Mauj during the Shanaakht Festival 2009, thus resulting in great ideas being explored by Mauj in the public domain.

Conference on Connecting Civil Societies III: an Asia-Europe Dialogue on Economy and Society, Beijing, 17-18 October 2008

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Media & Activism | Tue 07Apr | Goethe & Mauj


Invitation to an evening on
  media & activism 
07 April 2009
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Goethe Institute
2 Brunton Rd, Civil Lines, Karachi
(Brunton Rd is the lane next to CM House near the Sheraton)
Students, journalists, activists, artists, technologists 
& mediaworkers are especially invited. Please forward.
on facebook

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Programme

Welcome by Goethe Institute
Introduction by Mauj Collective

On the Need of Bureaucracy: slowing things down in the age of acceleration
Rob van Kranenburg

'We will block you'  (documentary film)
Suzanne Hogendoorn & Mark Kulsdom

  [break]

Tracking the Long March
Awab Avi

Journalists will join in
Open discussion 

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An evening on Media and Activism
Do media and activism always go together. How does an activist media fill the gaps. How do the new technologies fit in this picture. What does this increased access to information mean for our complex culture and society.
In a timely note Rob van Kranenburg observes the present age of acceleration. Concerning the role of the artist in an ever more complex world full of radicalism, he dares to ask: what
does this mean for the disruptive qualities of art if disruption becomes the default?
Suzanne Hogendoorn presents her film on European activists at the G8 Summit 2007.
Awab Alvi gives us a behind-the-web look at citizens covering the Long March in March 2009 using internet & cellphones.
We hope to involve journalists in the discussion. Open discussion will follow.
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Rob van Kranenburg graduated cum laude in Literary Theory at Tilburg University (Nl). He went to work with Prof Ronald Soetaert in Ghent, in the Educational Department, developing online learning modules, methods and concepts drawing on the idea of multiliteracies. In 2000 he went to Amsterdam to work as programmer on media education at the centre for culture and politics de Balie and as teacher-coordinator of the new media program in the Film and Television Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Feeling it was to young a field to predominantly historize it, he moved to Doors of Perception and co-programmed with John Thackara Doors 7, Flow, the design challenge of pervasive computing. In 2003 he mentored a postgraduate course in performance, theatre and the arts at APT, Arts Performance Theatrical. He has also been associated with The Virtual Platform (nl), the Waag Society (nl), Transmediale Festival (de) and Sarai (in).

Suzanne Hogendoorn is an international documentary filmmaker from The Netherlands. Her documentaries are usually associated with activism and have aired on channels such as Holland Doc. She is a member of the Mauj Collective and is making a documentary on the same. She made the documentary with Mark Kulsdom 

Awab Alvi is the most well-known blogger in Pakistan. He is also an activist and a practicing dentist. He has broken a number of stories to the media in the past and is an advocate of citizen journalism using the internet in particular. Awab's blog at http://teeth.com.pk/blog/ was selected the Best South Asian Blog for 2008
by the Brass Crescent Society Jury .

The Mauj Collective is engaged in art, technology and empowerment of people. It wants to introduce larger numbers of people in Pakistan to new media art. It wants to explore ways in which the interplay and interstices of art and technology are also socially engaging and empowering.

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Invitation: Mauj @ Transmediale Berlin - Presentation at Goethe Karachi

 Hello,
You are cordially invited to the presentation and discussion on Mauj's participation at Transmediale.
Mauj, a media arts collective in Karachi, just recently attended Transmediale 09, a festival for art and digital culture, Berlin. The theme of this year's festival was 'Deep North', which explored ways in which culture and technology can contribute to possibilities opened up by the metaphorical and real defrosting of the polar ice cap brought on by global climate change.
On March 4, we will be giving a presentation on our participation in the festival and our experiences there.
Programme:
Venue: Goethe Institut Karachi
Date: 4th March 2009
Time: 6 pm
...Please find invitation cards attached...


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Mauj at Transmediale, Berlin, 2009

Watch Yasir Husain and Atteqa Malik at Mauj's presentations at the transmediale 2009, Berlin:

http://www.transmediale.de/en/shift-break-control-south

and at the Salon:

http://www.transmediale.de/en/silent-deep-south-east-asia-en

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