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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.
- 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.
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.
T2F at Shanaakht | 8-12 April
|||| ___ Thank you T2F for sharing your space with Mauj ! ___ ||||
Schedule of T2F Events at the Shanaakht Festival 2009
Join us at Karachi Arts Council from 8 - 12 April 2009.
Wednesday April 8
7:00 pm
The Elephant in the Subcontinent: Conversations in India and Pakistan featuring Ethan Casey
Thursday April 9
7:00 pm
Sheereenié Guftar: A selection of prose and poetry that highlights the sweetness of the Urdu language, presented by Irfan Sattar
7:45 pm
Unforgettable Cricket Memories: A slideshow of rare images presented by Iqbal Munir and Saad Shafqat
Friday April 10
7:00 pm
Pakistani Poetry Over the Years, curated and presented by Asif Farrukhi and Zaheer Kidvai
Saturday April 11
7:00 pm
One Man Theater Performance of Necropolis by Indian Theater Activist, Parnab Mukherjee
About Necropolis
Necropolis is a riveting photo-performance that provokes, angers, saddens and mesmerises ...
Two men meet on the street. They have to make a deal. Or rather they want to make a deal. One has something to sell and the other needs something to buy. The Dealer is unsure what to peddle or whether he wants to peddle anything in the first place. The Client knows what he has to buy but does not know exactly how to. A cat and mouse game begins between these nameless, faceless, shapeshifters who have to make a transaction which they are not sure why they would make.
8:00 pm
Readings and Conversation with Nadeem Aslam, Author of Maps for Lost Lovers
Sunday April 12
12:00 Noon
Personal Histories: Mrs Zeerak Raziuddin and Prof Manzoor Zaidi
Mrs Zeerak Raziuddin
Daughter of the fabled Dr Ashraf ul Haq of Hyderabad, she was the niece of Shahid Ahmad Dehlavi and played in the lap of Josh as a child. She was one of the first women to drive a car in Karachi, open a boutique, run a business and make a film.
Professor Manzoor Zaidi
One of the leading physicians in the city, Dr. Zaidi headed the Radiotherapy unit at the JPMC. As a young medical student, he vividly recalls the September 47 riots in Karachi and the transition from Delhi.
6:00 pm
Mushaera featuring leading Urdu poets from Karachi
On All Days
Mauj, a collective that uses open technology for art, culture and empowerment, will interpret the theme of identity in different projects using helium balloons, a collaborative cellphone photo project with Amsterdam called City Ragas, sounds of Karachi bus conductors and more ...
Art Activities for School Children
Thank you CAP for providing T2F with a space at the Karachi Arts Council.
Writing New Media Art | 10-11 Apr | Nukta & Mauj
Nukta Art Magazine and Mauj Collective
present a
Writing Workshop on
New Media Art
New Media Art
by Rob Van Kranenburg
10 & 11 April 2009, Karachi
identity, interactivity, networks. future trends, co-creation, resonance, the blurring of arts and design in the Internet of Things, the role of the artist in an ever more complex world full of radicalism - what does this mean for the disruptive qualities of art if disruption becomes the default?
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+ + + +
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: whatdoes 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.
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.
Laal in Karachi
Laal will be performing in Karachi outside the Geo TV offices on 22 March 2009.
They recently launched their Album and song Umeed e Sahar.
Mauj played their video 'Mein ne uss se ye kaha' at the Transmediale in Berlin to a warm response.
Laal's 'Hope of Dawn' sets the tone for Restoration of Judiciary
Group: Laal
Poetry: Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Pakistanis have come out on the street revolted by undue privilege
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