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Initiated on 080808 after the conference ISEA2008 in Singapore, the first publication on Zero, an artist book by Alok b. Nandi and Ajaykumar is released on 081216.
More info about “expositions on zero” on www.zero.fluxtopia.net
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)
Alok Nandi will be presenting/speaking about Indian Films, in a festival in South of France (Rencontres cinématographiques de Pezenas), from 13th to 15th of February and then on 24th of February, he will be convening a discussion on animated movies, cartoons, … at FuturAnima in Brussels.
Futuranima
De l’illustration à l’animation
Ce module propose d’explorer la manière dont se déroule le travail d’adaptation de “l’inanimé” d’une bande dessinée ou d’un livre d’illustration à “l’animé” du film ou de la série d’animation.A travers les témoignages d’auteurs d’univers différents confrontés à cette expérience, nous évoquerons la place de l’auteur et du réalisateur dans ce processus. Et au-delà de cette question “technique” de l’adaptation, on aura l’occasion d’évoquer les rencontres de ces deux univers que sont l’édition et l’audiovisuel.
Une rencontre organisée par la SACD/Scam et animée par Alok Nandi. Avec entre autres : José Parrondo, Léon Pérahia (Dupuis et Media)…
On March 27th, he will be convening a panel at the Paris Book Fair, Salon du Livre de Paris 2007. Meanwhile, he will be speaking in New Delhi at Doors of Perception 9, on March 3rd, about his new design project “Taltala Tales”, articulating design process with food & urbanity, flow, essence, rasa, juice.
Just released … and more on http://www.doorsofperception.com/juice/
Doors 9 Press Release
Dateline New Delhi: 05 February 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DOORS OF PERCEPTION 9 ON “JUICE”: FOOD, FUEL, DESIGN.
http://www.doorsofperception.com/juice/
NEW DELHI, INDIA, 2, 3 MARCH 2007A unique gathering of global design experts meets in New Delhi, India, on 3 March to discuss solutions to the growing crisis concerning food and energy. The ninth edition of the celebrated Doors of Perception conference - known as “the Davos of design” - is on the theme ‘Juice’.
Doors of Perception’s director, John Thackara said today: “global food systems are an extreme example of the wasteful economic ways that have emerged with globalisation. The transport, processing, packaging and distribution of food consumes ten times more energy than enters our bodies as nutrition”.
Dr Aditya Dev Sood, CEO of Centre for Knowledge Societies (CKS), and co-producer of Doors 9, explained the significance of the event: “Doors reframes key economic and social challenges as opportunities for design innovation in which mobile technologies play a key role”.
In developed countries, the food consumption of a single family generates eight tonnes of CO2 emissions a year, John Thackara said. “Tackling climate change is in large part about re-shaping - and re-localising - these global flows. Networks and wireless communications play a key role - and India can be a teacher to the world in many respects”.
Among the globally renowned experts at Doors 9 will be Jimmy Wales (USA, founder of Wikipedia); Alex Steffen (USA, founder of the best-selling Worldchanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century); Stefan Magdalinski (UK, founder of theyworkforyou.org); agro-biotechnologist Villoo Morawala Patel; and Hannu Nieminen from Nokia, and designer Jogi Panghaal.
Harry Nair, Director of Global Consumer Design, is joined by the eminent designer and scenographer Rajiv Sethi and noted architect Naresh Narasimhan. “Juice is the essence of food, but a word which can also be used to mean credit, electricity, access, flavor and love” said Dr Sood. Diverse approaches to food and energy will be explored in the conference as we imagine new social and technological systems”.
Doors of Perception has been called “the nearest thing the design world has to a World Economic Forum”. The Economic Times of India praised the “brilliant insights into the internet and sustainability” at Doors 8 (New Delhi 2005).
The main sponsor of Doors 9 is the mobile phone company, Nokia. Hannu Nieminen explained: “Mobile telecommunications will play a critical role in re-shaping global flows of food and energy in the transition to sustainability”.
Among other global innovators participating in Doors 9 are Debra Solomon (the Dutch-American editor of culiblog.org). British tv producer David Barrie and service designer Nina Belk (UK) who are organizing urban farming projects in the UK; and Chris Hardwicke (Toronto) and Ron Paul (Portland) who are designing farmers markets as hubs within urban food systems in the USA.
Author Andre Viljoen compares global examples of how food and urban development are intertwined. Robert O’Dowd and Nick Devitt (UK, Designs of the time, or Dott) explain how food systems innovation contributes to urban and regional development.
Walter Amerika (The Netherlands), an advisor to global food companies, explains steps being taken by some multinationals to be part of the solution. Ellis Nader (USA) and Ian Brown (Fair Tracing, UK) will describe state-of-the-art at identity management and food certification systems. They are joined by Dawn Danby, Jyoti Stephens, and Marcy Rick (Canada/USA) whose project Beeline also deal with food information systems, as will Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Canada) representing thinglink.org.
Among other design experts present at Doors 9 are Garrick Jones (UK, Ludic Corp); Francois Jegou (Solutioning, Belgium); Stefano Mirti and Giovanni Cannata (idLab, Italy); Georg-Christof Bertsch (Germany), Jennifer Leonard (Ideo, USA), Margie Morris and Susan Faulkner (USA, Intel) Kristi van Riet (Doors of Perception) and Kultivator from Sweden.
John Vijay Abraham and Sanjeev Shankar, and then Alok Nandi, are documenting food cultures of Indian cities. Maria Wedum (Denmark) Claire Hartten (USA) and Patricia Michelson (UK) will be present with their project Dirt Cafe, along with artist Maja Kuzmanovic (Netherlands).
In addition to the conference and social technologies bazaar, at India Habitat Centre, a street-level new media happening – Mediawala - is also planned during the days preceding Doors 9. Juha Huuskonen, the artistic director of Pixelache festival and the curator of the first Mediawala, says “Mediawala is a re-interpretation of Juice theme by a motley group of multi-disciplinary media practitioners”. Mediawala, a collaboration between CKS, Doors and Pixelache, features work from La Molleindustria (McVideogame), LeCielEstBleu (interactive environments inspired by nature), Keity Anjoure (dance performance with trees) and also contributions from Leandro Pisano & Alessandro Esposito (Interferenze Festival), Ville Hyvönen (Pixelache), Sophea Lerner (hybrid radio cuisine), Mo-Ling Chui and Zeenath Hasan.
Doors 9 is sponsored by Nokia (Finland); Designs of the time (UK, Dott 07); Royal Society of Arts (UK).
PRESS IMAGES
http://doors8delhi.doorsofperception.com/pressdownloads/BACKGROUND NOTES
Doors of Perception
Doors of Perception is a worldwide design and innovation network whose aim is to learn how to design services, some of them enabled by information technology, that meet basic needs in new ways. The objective of Doors is to turn the transition to sustainablity into a series of design opportunities. Every two years, the Doors network meets to share the results of its work with citizens, education, industry and professionals.
http://doors8delhi.doorsofperception.com/
http://www.doorsofperception.com/embed.php?_about_us.html“When people talk about innovation in this decade, they really mean design”. ?Bruce Nussbaum in Business Week, January 2005
Centre for Knowledge Societies (CKS)
CKS conceptualizes and develops innovative products and services that harness the new possibilities of media, communications and technology. We offer research and design services to leading Indian and multinational clients. CKS has offices at Bangalore and New Delhi in India. We have also built partnerships with research organizations in Brazil, China, and other emerging economy environments, which allows us to compare and synthesize findings from diverse cultural contexts. CKS is the author of Used in India, a multidisciplinary documentation project that captures the innovative ways in which Indians have used media and technology in the 20th century. We have also produced recent editions of the acclaimed Doors of Perception design conference. CKS founded the Learning Lab Initiative to promote the creative use of mobile devices for public education in emerging economy environments.
http://www.cks.in/html/company_htmls/cks_overview01.htmlPixelache
Pixelache is a festival of electronic art and subcultures. The festival features projects that experiment with media and technology from a broad range of disciplines: artists, engineers, designers, researchers and architects. Pixelache focuses especially on the activities of international grassroot networks and communities such as VJ community, media activists, open source community and demoscene. The goal of Pixelache is to act as a bridge between the traditional creative disciplines and rapidly developing electronic subcultures.
http://www.pixelache.ac/Food as a design issue
When an iceberg lettuce is shipped from its US greenhouse to Harvey Nichols Food Hall in London, 127 calories of energy are used in its shipping and merchandising for every one calorie of nutrition that enters your mouth. There are 52 transport and process stages in one bottle of ketchup. The CO2 emissions attributable to producing, processing, packaging and distributing the food consumed by a family of four is about 8 tonnes a year.Number of food miles has increased by 15% in the ten years to 2002. 19 million tons of CO2 emitted from foods transport in 2002. Household and individual trips to grocery stores and other food outlets contribute a significant portion to urban transportation volume. San Franciscans made approximately 4 million trips to shop for food and non-food items in 1990 (23% of all trips) about 86%-in private automobiles. Food waste including food packaging makes up close to a third of the total waste that ends up in many city landfills thereby and deprives households and farmers of a valuable organic fertilizer. City water pollution problems are exacerbated when chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used on farms in the city’s region.
City households spend from 10 to 40% of their income after taxes on food purchases for the home and meals outside the home. Food sector establishments such as restaurants, fast food outlets, supermarkets, specialty food stores, taverns, and food wholesalers are an important part of any city’s economy. And yet one fourth to one half of elderly patients in the US suffer from malnutrition rates ranging from 25 to 85%
In reaction to these unsustainable trends, demand is growing for living arrangements involving food co-ops, collective kitchens and dining rooms, community gardens, and other enhancements of community food systems. Trend to household food procurement, preparation, and service as daily life enhancements. Also demand among urban poor is growing for food pantries, soup kitchens, and food banks.
More at: http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2006/09/why_juice_food.php
2006 was Indian in Lille, France …
Alok Nandi was artistic adviser, as well as speaker, conference convenor and had a media art installation in “Bombay Maximum City”.
11 days left to see the exhibition, and meanwhile a preview on video:
As of Dec. 14th, the in situ and interactive installation “MAAD” by Alok b. Nandi can be seen everyday till January 14th in the exhibition “Bombay Maximum City”, in the lille3000 India Festival. This first version of the installation - looking at “mariages arrangés, amoureux, dérangés” as a social construct in urban setting - is showing the dynamics of communities in this megapolis, microcosm of India, microcosm of the globe (?) and proposing critical distance in certain rituals.
art & concept: Alok Nandi - curator: Caroline Naphegyi
design: architempo - code: ecocode
As of the week-end of Dec. 2 & 3, Alok Nandi is proposing a weekly chronicle on Paris-based Radio BFM, in the program Inde Hebdo, on books and literature. This is broadcasted twice a week and can also be accessed via podcast.
More on Radio BFM Inde Hebdo
Avec 1,11 milliard d’habitants, l’Inde abrite 20% de la population mondiale. Le territoire indien représente six fois la France, c’est le septième plus grand pays du monde et la plus grande démocratie parlementaire. La progression de 8 % de son PIB désigne l’Inde aujourd’hui comme une des premières locomotives de l’économie mondiale. Avec les meilleures chiffres de progression industrielle depuis 10 ans, un secteur des services frénétique représentant près de 60% du PIB et une consommation intérieure forte, l’Inde semble prête à relever tous les défis afin de s’imposer comme la grande puissance économique mondiale du 21ème siècle.
Terre de contrastes où 25% de la population vit en dessous du seuil de pauvreté mais aussi terre promise où les occidentaux sont de plus en plus nombreux à venir s’y installer, le géant indien, encore trop méconnu, inquiète et déstabilise la Vieille Europe.C’est dans ce contexte que BFM a décidé de lancer une nouvelle émission, Inde Hebdo.
Une heure hebdomadaire pour mieux comprendre les enjeux et les opportunités entre l’Inde et la France, apprendre à entreprendre ensemble et préparer demain.Chaque semaine, une équipe d’experts économiques et politiques de l’Inde, de chefs d’entreprises étroitement liés dans une collaboration professionnelle franco-indienne, se réuni sous la houlette de Michel Picot pour décrypter les secrets de la réussite et de l’ascension économique du pays, découvrir les grandes sagas du business indien.
Inde Hebdo est l’occasion de plonger au cœur des réalités plurielles de l’Inde moderne, entre la fascination de Bollywood et le raffinement de traditions millénaires.
A piece by Alok Nandi is published in Cahiers du Cinema, where he speaks about his meeting with the film maker Satyajit Ray, in 1990, and he is sharing the “Cinematheque Imaginaire” Ray gave him.
This will be the base of an interactive application on Cinematheque Imaginaire, in French, and later in English.
This 25th October, Alok Nandi is giving a talk on parallel cinema in India, looking a.o. at Ritwik Ghatak, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, …
at Le Fresnoy, an art school close to Lille, North of France. On 21st, he was moderating a debate with documentarist Anand Patwardhan.