Global Information Landscapes and
Urban Transformations in Asia

Vienna, 20th - 22th of June 2005

Namita Malhotra

Bio

Namita Malhotra is a researcher of the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, and works on an interdisciplinary project on law and media. She is interested in exploring the intersections of law, culture, and new technologies. She has recently created two comic rescensions on copyright and trademark, and has compiled a database on queer readings of popular culture.

Lecture

"New Media Practice in South Asia, Examples from Bangalore and Delhi"
An assortment of media works from different perspectives that address questions of the politics of information, technology and new media in the contemporary.

Abstract

This presentation contains an assortment of media works that address contemporary questions concerning politics of information, technology, and new media from different perspectives. We attempt to cover a range of personal experiences of technology, the everyday experience of law, and media and different media spaces in the city (whether multiplexes or by-lanes where pirated products are sold). A range of existing and ongoing works from practitioners in Bangalore and Delhi includes: The Cinematograph Act 1952 (interactive), Kaun Mile Dekho Kisko - The Merry Gay Round of Love (video) and others including Straight 8 (part of Film Tales-video on home movies by Ayisha Abraham). There will also be documentation of a proposed project by Srishti final year students, a film on surveillance by members of Sarai, as well as videos/ internet art by Kiran Subbaiah.