Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global
Brown University organised the Asian Video Cultures event at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts between October 24 and 26, 2013. Nishant Shah presented a paper titled “In Access: Approaches to Understand Digital and Online Video in Contemporary Asia”.
Read about the event on Asian Video Cultures website here.
Agenda
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013 at 6pm (Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center)
Screening and Q&A with director Paromita Vohra
Partners in Crime (2011) – http://www.parodevi.com/?p=323
*followed by reception
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 (Englander Studio, Granoff Center)
8:30-9am *Breakfast
9am Welcome – Bhaskar Sarkar
Session I: Infra-structures
9:15 Jenny Chio, “Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China”
10:15 Chia-chi Wu, “Wei dianying and Xiao quexing— Technologies of ‘Small’ and Trans-Chinese Cinematic Practices”
Coffee Break
11:30 Patricia Zimmerman, “EngageMedia: The Gado Gado Tactics of Indonesia’s New Social Media”
Lunch 12:30-1:30pm (*for participants)
Session II: Circulation
1:30 Feng-Mei Heberer, “An Archive of Bad Feelings, a Site of Public Address – Experimental Video Works from Asian Germany”
2:30 Rahul Mukherjee and Abhigyan Singh, “MircoSD-ing ‘Mewati Videos’: Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture”
Coffee Break
3:45 Michelle Cho, “Cosmopolitics and Kpop Video Culture”
4:45-6:15pm Screening and Discussion with Paromita Vohra
Q2P (2006, 53 min) – http://www.parodevi.com/?p=254
7pm Dinner
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 (Englander Studio, Granoff Center)
8:30-9am Breakfast
Session III: Intimacies
9am Niranjan Sivakumar, “Minorigate: The Perils and Potentials of Global Cultural Circulation”
10am Conerly Casey, “Bollywood Banned, and the Electrifying Palmasutra: The Sensory Politics of Love and Pornography in Northern Nigeria”
Coffee Break
11:15am Nishant Shah, “In Access: Approaches to Understand Digital and Online Video in Contemporary Asia”
Lunch 12:15-1pm (*for participants)
Session IV: Occupation
1pm Mariam B. Lam, “Archival Trauma, Critical Regionalism and Southeast Asian Video Arts”
2pm Nathaniel Smith, “Vigilante Video: Japan’s New Netizens and the Wrongs of the Right”
Coffee Break
3:15pm Celina Hung, “Documenting ‘Immigrant Brides’: the Stakes of Multiculturalism in the Taiwanese Media”
4:30 Closing Roundtable: “In the Penumbra of the Global”
7pm Dinner
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