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On Friday 16th May at 22:45, a programme about Indian cinema will be discussed and commented on Belgian La Deux TV channel, with Elodie De Selys. The synopsis and the schedule are listed hereafter, in French.

Bollywood… le Hollywood indien… nom donné à l’industrie cinématographique de Bombay qui, les dernières années, a emballé et impressionné bien des imaginations dans le monde entier.”Zoom arrière” remonte le temps de l’épopée avec un documentaire de la série Neuf Millions de 1974 intitulé “Cinéma indien, Hollywood de la misère” (réalisation Jérôme Equer). Un temps où l’industrie cinématographique en Inde, quoique la plus importante du monde, n’offrait qu’une production commerciale médiocre. Un temps où un cinéma indien de grande qualité commençait, dans les plus grandes difficultés, à percer. Avec un extrait d’un “Carrousel aux images” de mai 1982 dans lequel Sélim Sasson interroge le cinéaste Mrinal Sen sur son film “Un jour comme un autre”. Invité : Alok b. Nandi, auteur et réalisateur indien qui partage son temps entre installations interactives, modalités de narration qui mêlent technologie et espace, scénario et écriture. Auteur d’une biographie en photos du grand cinéaste indien Satyajit Ray.
Scripte: Nathalie Toosdel
Invité/guest: Alok b. Nandi
Réalisateur: Lilian Cornélis
Assistant(e) de production: Carine Despontin
Journaliste présentateur: Elodie De Selys
Producteur executif: Marianne Sluszny
Prochaine diffusion: : 16/05/2008 22:50 (La Deux)
17/05/2008 03:10 (La Deux)
20/05/2008 20:25 (RTBFSat)
20/05/2008 02:12 (RTBFSat)
21/05/2008 14:10 (RTBFSat)
22/05/2008 10:40 (La Deux)
22/05/2008 00:10 (RTBFSat)
25/05/2008 10:30 (RTBFSat)
27/05/2008 11:22 (RTBFSat)
27/05/2008 22:45 (RTBFSat)

David Vanderburgh, Unité d’Architecture et d’Ingénierie architecturale, Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve, and Alok Nandi will speak about “Urban exhibitionism, or representing the recalcitrant city”, reflecting on an exhibition they worked on in 2006/07.

ANALOGOUS SPACES - INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
GHENT UNIVERSITY - 14-17 MAY 2008
Analogous Spaces refers to the fact that every science or knowledge, every thought, every memory, every action creates its own space and that these spaces are organised according to a similar structure or architecture.

Themes and Topics

14-17 May 2008
Ghent University, International Conference ANALOGOUS SPACES

The International Conference on Analogous Spaces interrogates the analogy between spaces in which knowledge is preserved, organized, transferred or activated. Although these spaces may differ in material, virtual, or operational ways, there are resemblances if one examines their ’structure,’ ‘form’ and ‘architecture’. How do these spaces co-exist and interrelate?

The conference will be organized around three main themes:

* The first theme (15 May) explores spatial analogies in terms of social and intellectual networks. What are the geographic relationships and/or technological affordances that support or inhibit the development of such networks? What constrains their development and effectiveness and how do different kinds of network models help in understanding their formation, evolution and dissolution.

* The second theme (16 May) deals with the space of knowledge and memory. How can we compare the encyclopedia and the museum, the book and the library, the diagram and the database? How do they use architecture to structure knowledge and how is architecture used as a metaphor of memory?

* The third theme (17 May) explores the space required for speed, action and decision making. In modernity, fast and effective action generates its own space of organization, intelligence and feedback. What does this space look like, and what are the different ways in which it can be represented?

More on http://www.analogousspaces.com
See you in Ghent on May 17th, 2008

Institute of Contemporay Arts, London. Nash Room.
Monday 28th April 2008,
Seminar Workshop: 2 pm-6 pm

This event aims to investigate the relationship between the aesthetic and the ethic in human sociality that allows us to treat each other with trust, respect and dignity, and ask “how can it be, or how is it, embedded within art, performance and design?”

Computer-mediated communication, immersive & interactive technology (ambient) is impacting on how we communicate & interact, affecting our conception and performance of human knowledge and cognition, and thereby sense-making.

Chair: Dr Satinder Gill. Cambridge University, Centre for Music and Science, & Middlesex University, European research project ETHICBOTS.

Attendees include :
• Ghislaine Boddington, Creative Director Body Data Space
• Kristina Anderson, Interactive Artist, STEIM
• Alok Nandi, writer/director, designer, Brussels
• Caroline Nevejan, Researcher Ethics & Art (Presence), Amsterdam
• Alexis Johnson, AKarts
• Simon Poulter, PVA
• Jennifer Spiegel, Goldsmiths
• Gordana Novakovic, UCLA
• Julie Freeman, artist, nano-technology
• Derek Matravers, Philosophy, OU
• Alan Blackwell, Computer Science, Cambridge

The event is supported by EU Coordination Action network: ETHICBOTS (Emerging Technoethic of Human Interaction with Communication, Bionic, and robOTic systems) and Middlesex University

Giving a talk about “Cuisine as Design, Design as Cuisine” in the symposium Hybride Stad, taking place in Genk on 18th of April. A publication will come out after some days.

Program and more info on experiency.be

Cuisine as design :: Design as cuisine
If ‘design’ allows ‘transformation of existing conditions into preferred ones’ (Herbert Simon), ‘cuisine’ is interesting to put in parallel, next to it, close to it, into it. Especially as a process but also as a space (and a non-space), it might ensure that thinking and talking about ‘design as cuisine’ or vice-versa results into reframing making and consuming. Design thinking and design research will allow to explore paradigms of ‘experience design’ where food is a fascinating transversal vehicle, both conceptual, physical and in fact experiential. This text will travel into foodscapes to reveal design attitudes.
Alok b. Nandi - March 2008

India & Design - two terrains put together
for an exhibition … more soon …

The 3rd evening of Pecha Kucha Night Brussels attracted again a large audience !
The 4th is planned on May 20th.
Updates will be on http://pechakucha.architempo.net

2008 for Alok Nandi :
_ April, talk about “Food & Design”, in Genk School of Design & Art
_ April, participating in a TV programme about Indian Cinema and Bollywood, on RTBf
_ May, invited speaker with D. Vanderburgh, professor at ARCHI LLN, in “Analogous Spaces” Gent conference
_ June, in Helsinki, design workshop, insight + foresight
_ July, selected for conference ISEA 2008 Singapore, with Ajaykumar, artist & professor at Goldsmith College London
_ Design September, busy cooking … get ready
_ November, invited “commissaire délégué” at the Intl Design Biennale of St-Etienne; participation in group exhibition curated by Giovanna Massoni, also at St-Etienne.

And also Pecha Kucha in March, May, September and more …
And every week radio chronicle on India & Books for IndeHebdo Radio BFM (mahanet.com)
Stay tuned …

working on the design of a series of “real” physical objects after many years in virtual scapes.
More soon … it is la série n8 Orientable …

Giving on March 17th a plenary intro talk about “Experience Design” at Hogeschool Antwerpen, launching a week workshop of the “masteropleiding productontwikkeling”. Companies involved in the workshop include Alcatel Lucent, Recticel, Inbev, Verhaert, Boone International, P&G, Tupperware, Potmstudios.

The 3rd evening of Pecha Kucha Night Brussels is taking place on March 20th, at iMAL.
More on http://pechakucha.architempo.net

Speakers planned on March 20, 2008, are
_ Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, designswarm, tinker.it, London
_ Satinder Gill, Gesture and Multi-Modal Communication, UK
_ Luc Hoebeke retired and still searching, with
…Nirmala Isabelle Hoebeke, master in graphic arts
_ François Jégou, Sustainable Everyday Project, SDS
_ Maja Kuzmanovic, fo.am, media art & design
_ Arne Quinze, Quinze & Milan
_ Paolo Sacchettini - Torsen & car testing on frozen lakes
_ Sanjeev Shankar, architect/designer, street vending
_ Rob Van Kranenburg, RFID and cultural operator
_ Philippe Vandenbroeck, shiftn, scenario, photography
_ Olu Vandenbussche, design for the visually challenged
_ Danny Venlet, designer