Workshop: Tactical Media 2.0: Archiving the Everyday, July 6 - 11, 2009
Digital Media have opened up immense possibilities of exploring our daily lives, our environments, of documenting daily responses to our environs. The Tactical Media Workshop series organized in the Media Lab are camps where we acquire the know-how of meaningful intervention into everyday life even as we keep records of it.
‘Archiving the everyday’, the second workshop in the series was conducted by Nilanjan Bhattacharya (filmmaker and media artist) and Budhaditya Chatterjee (sound artist and sound designer). The workshop was coordinated by Dr. Subhajit Chatterjee, Lecturer, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University. With the help of experienced faculty, participants learned to explore her/his immediate environment - localities, nature, people - with sound and image, to use multiple, economical means to create a portable archive. Learning involved both introduction to the gadgets and the principles of use. The workshop produced a series of short media works where participants critically engaged with various subjects ranging from public transport experience, urban soundscapes to problems of urban planning & development, with the help of tools provided by the Lab.