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From: "Anand Bhatt." <anand.bhatt@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:46:05 +0530
FILE ‘05 – ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL & SYMPOSIUM
http://www.file.org.br
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
nov 1 to nov 20, 2005
Pat Badani
New Media project “Where are you from_Stories” (FILE Festival) and
associated research paper “Where are you from?_The Networked Sphere”
(FILE Symposium)
FILE Festival and Symposium motivates and discloses works and research
related to media arts, digital culture and new media.
"Where are you from?" explores the Utopian imagination in contemporary
nomadism and global migratory processes. Notions of belonging are
revealed in 3-language video-clips (English/French/Spanish) with
testimonies from citizens-at-large collected since 2002 in several world
cities. Selected video-clips culminate in database art, an online
archive on contemporary notions of a “better-life”.
http://www.hometransfer.org/where/stories.html
The work is inscribed at the crossroads between ethnographic and
documentary practices as well as New Media forms that bring to play the
technologies of our times in order to distribute video content on the
Internet.
The “Where are you from?” project has been supported by a generous,
one-year Media Arts Research Grant, from the Canada Council for the Arts
(2002)