Launch Of C A M P , Mumbai > Friday, November 2, 2007. 6:00 pm

The launch evening consists of an extended screening-cum-talk by the CAMP initiators, as an introduction to the context, politics and practices that CAMP (project in collaboration with Khoj)will promote. This includes a discussion of Chitrakarkhana's ongoing work with alternative cable TV and CCTV systems, a social history of the internet in Bombay as told by Sanjay Bhangar, and Ashok Sukumaran's recent projects around electrical redistribution, and design. They will also discuss the CAMP program for this year, and invite participation in various forms.

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Location of Launch:
Friday, November 2, 2007. 6:00 pm.
at Jnanapravaha, 3rd floor Queens mansion, (opp. new
Chemould),
G. Talwatkar Marg
Fort, Mumbai.-1

About CAMP:
CAMP is a platform to organise, and then to do, things that are critical, egalitarian and inspirational,
within the city. It seeks to promote such artistic and media practices that build interfaces between themselves and urban activities at various scales. This project is being undertaken with a broad shared
experience (among CAMP members, its advisors and peers) of the "digital moment" of the past decade.
CAMP promises bold interpretations of current socio-economic and technology contexts, and their various micro-political implications.

CAMP will begin its relationship with various Mumbai publics through 'weekends', fortnightly events that
look intensively at specific histories, futures, and areas of multi-disciplinary collaboration. For example
there are planned weekends around the history of broadcast as an artistic medium, on the art market, on
building technological "confidence", on censorship, on local-area networks, on various kinds of maps, rooftop "real-estate" surveys and so on, mostly with an orientation towards practitioners and projects.

While CAMP is beginning with such small-scale activities, it also seeds two long term projects:

a) New Documentary: On the future of the documentary image, in times of video's material abundance.To
produce, receive and redistribute video by adopting a range of existing technigues and technologies. This is
related to chitrakarkhana's ongoing work, and will address a range of artistic, ethical and pragmatic
questions around video.

b) Design Studies: on what "making things for others" means now, when you- and i- can both seemingly
contribute. The project will engage with questions around "participation" in design, and of how knowledge moves across different forms, through institutional and pedagogic interventions into the broad field of activity presently known as Design.

And finally, on its name: CAMP has various possible "backronyms", a large number in fact. This came from our inability to claim a singular identity within a field of ideas, to say that this and not that, is what
will actually happen with CAMP.

For more see
www.camputer.org/?acronyms=many