1. The Sarai ProgrammeCentre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Delhi www.sarai.net

2. sarai an enclosed space in a city or, beside a highway where travellers and caravans can findshelter, sustenance and companionship a tavern - a meeting place - a public housea place to rest in the middle of a journey a destination and a point of departure 3. saraicaravan serai seraglio sarajevo katwaria sarai mor sarai kalu sarai sarai julena - sarai rohilla - sarai kale khan neb sarai ber sarai arab ki sarai sheikh sarai jea sarai lado sarai yusuf sarai 4. Sarai-CSDS : Distributed Public CreativityInterdisciplinary Research Experimental Media Practice Contemporary Art Architecture for Public Knowledge Generation Discussion Lists& Web Content ArchivePresentations Talks Screenings Publications Exhibitions Workshops Seminars 5. ARTis RESEARCH RESEARCH isART THEORISTS arePRACTITIONERS PRACTITIONERSare THEORISTS KNOWLEDGE isCREATIVITY CREATIVITYis KNOWLEDGE nothing is certain there is nothing new in new media 6. Sarai : Activities, Nodes and Processes Cybermohalla collaboration with ngo critical pedagogy locality media labs free & social softwareworking class spaces young people interpreting and imaginingurban experience Continuing ResearchInformation Society Surveillance/Censorship/ Information Politics Intellectual Property Piracy/Commons/Open Source Urban Environments Architecture/Zoning/Ecology/ Health/Labour Publics and Practices Cinema/Video/Music/Cable Viewership/Circulation/Distribution Production/Re-Production/Piracy Language Hindi Language Resources Localization of FLOSS Software Hindi Lists and Publications Translation Art & Media ProjectsSarai Media Lab Raqs Media Collective Installations/Video Radio/Print/Web Residencies Publications Sarai Readers (English) Sarai.txt (English) Deewan-e-Sarai (Hindi) Media Nagar (Hindi) Cybermohalla Publications (Hindi and English) Archive dvd/vcd/cd/books/pamphlets documents/images/posters popular cultural materials Online Presence: Websites/Lists/Blogs/Online Archive/E Books Events: Conferences/Seminars/Workshops/Talks/Screenings Outreach: University & City Events/Informal Meetings Collaborations: Local/Regional/International Distributed Research Network: Fellowships and Stipends 7. www.sarai.net 8. Events at Sarai 9. Conferences Seminars Workshops 10. Sarai Publications 11. The Sarai Reader Series Copyleft Publishing ' The Public Domain' : Sarai Reader 01, 2001 (http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader1.html) 'The Cities of Everyday Life' :Sarai Reader 02, 2002, (http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader2.html ). 'Shaping Technologies' : Sarai Reader 03, 2003 ( http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader3.html ) 'Crisis/Media' : Sarai Reader 04, 2004 ( http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader4.html ) 'Bare Act' : Sarai Reader 05, 2005 ( http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader_05.html) 12. 13. 14. TheCyber Mohalla Project 15. Text "...Listening to the Softest and the Loudest of Sounds ..." "...At the Compughar, technology is not a terror, neither is it expensive. We have computers here, but no computer course. Neither is their any vocational training. What there is, is an open environment. Here, we write that which we feel. Whatever we write, we type onto the computer. This is not a place where we young people and kids are under any kind of pressure". (Compughar - literally, 'computer house' - basti (neighbourhood) speak for the Ankur/Sarai digital lab at the LNJP basti, Delhi) Collaboration between Sarai and Ankur Ankur is an NGO working in the field of Alternative, Critical and Non Formal Education 3 Locality Media Labs Located in a Working Class Neighbourhood and in 2 Illegal Settlements Locality Labs networked withCybermohalla R&D Lab & the Sarai Media Lab 60 Young Practitioners Meeting Thrice a Week Oldest Locality Lab is 4 Years Old 16. 17. Collaborative Writing, Editing, Listening Story Telling Performances / Radio Discussion Lists / Blogs Broadsheets / Wall Magazines Fearless Speech Needs Fearless Listening 18. 19. http://nangla-maachi.freeflux.net 20. http://nangla.freeflux.net 21. 22. Text "A re-telling, a word taken to signify the simultaneous existence of different versions of a narrative within oral, and from now onwards, digital cultures... A rescension cannot be an improvement, nor can it connote a diminishing of value.A rescension is that version which does not act as a replacement for any other configuration of its constitutive materials.The existence of multiple rescensions is a guarantor of an idea or a work's ubiquity. This ensures that the constellation of narrative, signs and images that a work embodies is present, and waiting for iteration at more than one site at any given time. Rescensions are portable, and taken together, constitute ensembles that may form an interconnected web of ideas, images and signs." Rescension 23. Contemporary Art Projects Produced at the Sarai Media Lab 24. Temporary Autonomous Sarai The Wherehouse Lost New Shoes A Measure of Anacoustic Reason The Impostor in the Waiting Room 25. Text Text 26. Text Text 27. Text Text 28. Text Text 29. Text Text 30. Text Text 31. LEX WIKI 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. Networked Creative Practice(s) Intensive Face to Face Interaction Over Long Periods Emphasis on Process rather than Product Flexibility & Multiplicity of Forms Collaborations and Conversations Continuing (Non-Goal Oriented) Research 38. Locating Media and Art Practice at Saraiwithin the context of a Distributed Research Network 39. Research Practice Undergraduate & Post Graduate Students in Universities and Institutes MPhil and PhD Research Scholars College and University Departments Independent Researchers and Scholars Working Academics Students Artists and Performers Critics and Curators Free Software & Open Source Programmers Archivists Journalists Professionals Designers Writers Activists Fans and Enthusiasts 40. apart from mid-career and young artists, researchers, theorists& practitioners,people involved with saraihave also included :a worker in a fast food chain a small town bank employee a nurse in a maternity ward a comic book writer a composer of electronic music a sound recordist a lawyer a pensioner a sports journalist 41. Vijayawada Udaipur Goa Delhi Srinagar Chandigarh Kolkata Ahmedabad Udaipur Allahabad Shillong Chennai Madurai Bangalore Goa Mumbai SARAI Creation of a Dense Network of InteractionsThrough Regular Postings on the Reader-List and Feedback from Peers & SaraiRaipur Hyderabad Vijayawada Pune Jaipur Aligarh Tezpur 42. Delhi Srinagar Chandigarh Kolkata Ahmedabad Udaipur Allahabad Shillong Chennai Madurai Bangalore Goa Mumbai SARAI Raipur Hyderabad Vijayawada Pune Jaipur Aligarh Shanghai Sydney Tokyo Dhaka Bandung Singapore Colombo Helsinki Hamburg Amsterdam London New York Chicago Los Angeles Mexico City Tehran Beirut Lahore Moscow Istanbul Vienna Taipei Sao Paulo Lagos Bangkok Kuala Lampur Melbourne Karachi Seoul Johannesburg Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Dakar Exchanges on the Reader List transmit to a Global Network throughForwards, Replies,Other Lists etc.Tezpur 43. Ponytails-Rings-Punches : Female Boxers in India Pankaj Rishi Kumar, Mumbai Documenting the Making of a Hindi Film Song Prashant Pandey, Delhi Blank Noise : Notes Towards a Sound Installation in Womens Toilets Building Testimonies on Sexual Harrassment in Public Space Jasmeen Patheja, Bangalore Manuel in the City : A Semi-Fictionalized Illustrated Book on the Arrival and Absorption of Goan Migrants in Mumbai Rochelle Pinto, Mumbai Media Coverage of the Execution of Dhananjoy Chatterjee and is Impact on Children in West Bengal Biswajit Roy and Nilanjan Datta, Kolkata Selected Independent Fellowship Research Topics 44. Taran Khans Project Socialist Wives Documentary Video, Archival Research, Interviews, Oral History, Text, Performance 45. Corridor :The First Indian Graphic NovelSarnath Bannerjee 46. Nancy Adajanias Projecton Digital Manipulationand Popular Photography 47. Shahid Datawalas Photographic Research Project on the Ambience of Cinema Spacesin Delhi 48. The Contemporary City Migration Information and Society Media Histories and Practices Intellectual Property Experimental Media Forms Language Technology, Politics & Culture Urban Environment Labour Architecture Open Source & Free Software Narratives of Everyday LifeOral History Suburbs, Small Towns, Streets, Neighbourhoods Cinema, TV, Radio, Performance, Music, Print, Internet Contemporary Art Infrastructure Conflict & Violence Surveillance Popular Culture Sexuality Tactical Media Cultures of Piracy Essays Design Comics Photography Law and Legality Typography The New Economy Urban Childhood Leisure Sport