<videovortex> Call For Fellowships

[Namita]

PAD.MA - is an online archive of densely text-annotated video  
material, primarily footage and not films. The entire collection is  
searchable and viewable online, and is free to download for non-  
commercial use. We see PAD.MA as a way of opening up a set of images,  
intentions and effects present in video footage, that conventions of  
video- making, editing and spectatorship  have tended to suppress.
This is our first call for fellowships and we would like to connect  
with people from diverse backgrounds and interests, who like to work  
creatively on video, film, digital and offline archives or  
collections.  We are offering two types of fellowships.

The first is a call to work with online video, writing about video and  
film, and creative combinations of the two. The second is a call for  
those interested in research and writing on early film histories in  
India.

Please distribute these fellowship calls widely.

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1. Pad.ma Fellowship for Experiments with Video Archives

Over the last 4 years, through many contributions from groups and  
individuals, Pad.ma has built a growing collection of documentary  
footage, contemporary art video, cinema, performing and classical  
arts, lectures, long interviews and so on. We now want to open the  
archive up to collaborations, video contributions from surprising and  
disparate sources, experiments in writing about, displaying and  
sharing video.

We invite proposals for fellowships with Pad.ma, especially those  
interested in working with video and archives in the following ways

-        Writing on existing footage in the archive: Many essays on  
Pad.ma are a commentary on a set of videos, or link disparate videos  
in collections.  See examples at http://essays.pad.ma

-        Contribution of an existing collection of videos to Pad.ma:  
The contribution can be of a specific set of videos that are linked  
thematically, or sourced from a project such as documentary films or  
existing archives. An example of this is Kolar Gold Fields footage  
sourced from the film 'After the Gold'(J.Nair). See https://pad.ma/grid/title/project==Kolar%20Gold%20Fields%20and%20Mines 
  The project proposal must include transcription and annotation of  
videos, where possible extended to a written essay.

-        Software development: Pad.ma is always looking for  
programmers - amateurs or professionals - who are interested in  
extending the software behind Pad.ma (http://pan.do/ra), or who might  
want to use the Pad.ma API (http:/pad.ma/api) to build interesting  
applications.
-        Pad.ma also invites general scholarship on material from  
early film archives, the Internet Archive's moving image library, and  
other offline sources. We also encourage research and exploratory  
writing on popular and mass cultures online, that culls from Youtube  
and other online video platforms. These materials can be drawn  
together from diverse sources - an example in Pad.ma is the collection  
of the Radia tapes that are recordings of conversations between power  
brokers and media houses that were leaked to the public. The  
collection can be used for analysis, investigative journalism, but  
also as a script for a play or film. See https://pad.ma/grid/title/list==zi:The%20Radia%20Tap%28e%29s

Duration of Fellowship: 6 Months
Remuneration: 15,000 per month over 6 months, to be disbursed in 3  
installments

The fellowship will commence in September, 2012 and will culminate in  
a seminar-workshop in February, 2012 for the Pad.ma fellows. Maximum  
number of fellows chosen will be 8.

Please apply with a statement of your research interest (1 page or 500  
word outline) and plan for the fellowship and a copy of your CV. You  
can also send a writing sample and additional links to videos, images  
and other files, using host services such as http://hostb.org. We may  
require a meeting in Mumbai or Bengaluru before final decision on the  
proposals.

The fellowship is open for non-Indian participants, but funding for  
travel to workshop and other travel, if required, has to be raised  
separately. Applicants can be of any educational or disciplinary  
background.

Last date of submission of proposals: 1st August, 2012
Date for deciding proposals: 24th August, 2012
Write to Namita A. Malhotra: n at pad.ma


2. Pad.ma Research Fellowship in Film Histories

While the focus of Pad.ma thus far has primarily been on footage, we  
would like to open Pad.ma out to an exploration of film studies,  
history and technology. Technology does not merely change the way  
films are made or seen, but also the way that it is studied, and film  
studies has travelled a long way from the time that one had to make  
notes in the dark to the control over the temporal flow of the film  
brought by video. Through this fellowship  we are interested in  
exploring the possible futures of film studies when it meets new  
technologies and the internet which allows for different ways in which  
we can categorize, retrieve and write about the moving image.

Celebrating forty years of copyright-free cinema in (1952 being the  
current threshold) amidst the hundred years of Indian cinema this  
year, we intend to upload pre-1952 films on to Pad.ma  and open them  
out to future collaborations with film historians and scholars.  
Fellows are encouraged to apply with a statement of their research  
interests, the films that they would like to work with on pad.ma and  
the kind of materials around the film that they would bring into  
conversation with the film.

Duration of Fellowship: 6 Months (with a possible extension to a year  
subject to future funding)
Remuneration: 15,000 per month over 6 months, to be disbursed in 3  
installments

Maximum number of fellows chosen will be 4. There will be additional  
fellowships administered via Jadavpur University Media Lab, and the  
School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

There will be a board of mentors including leading film scholars who  
will guide the independent fellows. There will also be a workshop at  
the beginning and the end of the fellowship period.

Please apply with a statement of your research interest and plan for  
the fellowship, a copy of your CV and one sample piece of writing. You  
can also send a writing sample and additional links to videos, images  
and other files, using host services such as http://hostb.org. We may  
require a meeting in Mumbai or Bengaluru before a final decision on  
the proposals.

Last date of submission of proposals: 1st August, 2012
Date for deciding proposals: 24th August, 2012
Write to Lawrence Liang: lawrence at altlawforum.org

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