Workshop
The Lab regularly organizes workshops, with Resource Persons from across the country, and participants from the University and outside. These provide training, but not only in technical skills. The workshops produce works of image and sound - CD ROMs, videos, Sound installations, design, collage, campaigns and small personal/community archives. Each participant creates something that generates knowledge, rather than learn the skill to reproduce forms and ideas common to the world of media and business.

Special effort is made to induct students from various age groups, from the fringe areas of the city and the small towns, people who can develop these skills easily if given a systematic access to the tools and concepts.

We have initially selected four areas in which several workshops, between 1-3 weeks in length, have already taken place. The areas are:

Digital Media and Contemporary Art
Some of our foremost artists have turned to inter-media work that use audio-video elements and re-locate their medium of expression in a space between the canvas and the screen. The Lab is trying to build contact with this new art practice by hosting artists who create image and sound installations in the Lab, and share the process with workshop participants. The outcome is as free in form as possible, so that possible methods of work and inquiry become as important as the work being produced.

Tactical Media
These workshops, conducted by media practitioners, web designers and computer technicians, aim at demystifying the new technological forms and developing basic skills of reception and use. The participant learns about tactics of intervention in the information world, easy and cheap ways of archiving, designing and creating programmes, campaigns and communities.

Law and the Image
Legal experts, film scholars and media practitioners conduct workshops where participants explore the possibilities of both questioning and incorporating the encounter between law and media forms. They produce material in the workshop that looks at questions of intellectual property, authorship and censorship as well as possibilities of open source and free software, the Internet, the new forms of sharing, and copy culture in general.

Apart from the above, we have plans to offer workshop in the area of Sound Cultures and Indian Cinema. These workshops will introduce aspects of sound technique and design in relation to the contemporary media world, and inculcate a sense of the history of sound. The course will be primarily for students, scholars and practitioners of film and media. They will work with sound engineers, critics and filmmakers. The workshops may produce sound montage, designs, sound essays, stories in sound, or analyze existing soundtracks by compiling and re-mixing them. Some of the workshops held already have generated very interesting audio-works and soundscapes.

For details of the workshops already held, please visit News/Events