WORKSHOPS

Fun with 3378 / EXPERIMENTA 2015
Shoot on a Bolex & hand process your film!
Conducted by Scott Miller Berry @Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology

Positive+Negative

DIY Musical Instruments & Hacking Electronics |
EXPERIMENTA 2011
2^nd December 2011 @ Jaaga Creative Common Ground
Conducted by Indian Sonic Research Organisation ISRO / Marc Dusseiller / ANYMA; Supported by ProHelvetia Swiss Arts Council
The Indian Sonic Research Organisation, Bangalore alongwith artists ANYMA & Marc Duseiller from Switzerland will conduct a workshop on how to create handheld VJ sets (rioji ikeda for your pocket) by experimenting with mini-tubes and old video cameras, and how to build simple oscillators and amps that connect to speakers and to video screens. http://www.theisro.org/

PAINTING ON FILM AND CONTACT PRINTING 
Conducted by Sally Golding, Otherfilm, Australia
Srishti College of Art Design & Technology, September 2010

Click here for photo gallery https://www.flickr.com/photos/56576036@N02/

It is a difficult undertaking to survey the diverse forms and styles of media art. The genre was ignored by aesthetic theory for decades and even experts find it hard to define. Nevertheless, Curator Peter Zorn takes a ramble through the history of media art with a political focus. From the 1920’s avant garde movement and experimental filmmakers like Walter Ruttmann and Hans Richter, to the 1960’s explosion of underground film, the fluxus movement, video art with Nam June Paik, and up to the 1990’s digital revolution with netart, Zorn presents major artists and their work, as well as forms and styles of media activism from past to present.

CURATOR TALK| 90mins| EXPERIMENTA 2009
Color Light Art to Live Cinema – A journey through the history of audiovisual Live Performances with Sandra Naumann
Sandra Naumann focuses on Visual Music – showing lines of development and similarities between historical and contemporary work with audiovisual live performances – from Light Play in the 1920s to Light Shows in the 1960s, and contemporary VJing and Live Cinema today. She points out different strategies of transferring musical principles on the moving image and/or projected light.

THROUGH THE PINHOLE| EXPERIMENTA 2009
Workshop conducted by P.Madhavan of GOA-CAP
This workshop offers a chance to explore the basic notion and engineering of the elusive pinhole camera and then apply these principals to their own creations. Recycled and alternative materials will be played with (including matchbox, milk tins, coke cans, etc…). The second half of the workshop will be spent testing the new alternative camera—taking pictures and experimenting with self-portraiture and landscape photos. This workshop will also explore various methods of printing and transferring images in the darkroom. We will make pinhole cameras and paper negatives followed by investigating the ways to make positives out of these negatives through coating paper. The pin hole images created by the workshop participants will then be exhibited on the final day of EXPERIMENTA (Dec 20th) at Jagaa.

CAMERALESS FILM WORKSHOP
Bal Vividha Fair, Dongri, Bombay, September 2005
Conducted by Experimenta India in collaboration with Comet Media Foundation

Zonasa Fair, Architecture College Bombay, October 2005
Conducted by Experimenta India in collaboration with Comet Media Foundation

OPTICAL PRINTING WORKSHOP| EXPERIMENTA 2005
Co-ordinated by no.w.here UK
An introduction to the process of artist filmmaking through 3 classics of experimental film.
1. Berlin Horse by Malcolm Le Grice
2. Charlemagne 2: Piltzer by Pip Chodorov
3. Adebar and/or Schwechater by Peter Kubelka

This workshop examines how these films have specifically used optical printing to create new forms of film art language. By breaking the films down into their component parts this workshop provides insight into how artists have experimented with film technology and how these technologies might be used to extend your own practice.
Venues: British Council Auditorium, Bombay and Delhi

LECTURE DISCUSSION with ADOLFAS MEKAS | EXPERIMENTA 2005
The History of American Personal Cinema

Adolfas Mekas discusses the history of personal cinema in the USA –  past present and future – and screens a few films to illustrate his lecture. 

In 1971 Adolfas founded the Peoples’ Film Department at Bard College. In the years before his academic tenure, Mekas was an active writer, scholar, and filmmaker. He co-founded (along with his brother Jonas) and edited “Film Culture” Magazine from 1953-1976. His extensive filmography includes “Hallelujah the Hills” and “Going Home, ” a personal documentary about his journey to native country Lithuania, his first return since he and his brother survived the country’s WWII Nazi invasion. With the continued blessing of St. Tula, the patron saint of cinema, Mekas continues to teach film at Bard College in the Hudson River Valley where he lives with his wife Pola Chapelle. 

Venues: EXPERIMENTA 2005 British Council Auditorium, Bombay and Delhi

CAMERALESS FILM WORKSHOP| EXPERIMENTA 2004
Conducted by no.w.here U.K
There is a familiar vocabulary of marks and images that characterise the cameraless film: scratched, drawn and painted shapes made directly on the filmstrip; hand tinting, shading and overdrawing on found footage as well as the use of Letratone, xerox imagery and the celebrated wings and petals of Stan Brakage’s film Mothlight. By looking at artists’ films that are synonymous with experimental animation from Oskar Fischinger, Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Man Ray, Len Lye and Stan Brakage, the participants engage in practical hands on experimentation exploring materials / ideas, drawing and painting directly onto the filmstrip. The workshop ends end with a screening of this collaborative film.
Venue: Kitab Mahal Fort; Bombay British Council, Delhi

‘FILM AS ART > PERSONAL FILMMAKING| EXPERIMENTA 2003
Conducted by Shumona Goel
British Council Auditorium, Bombay