Sarai.
As part of its public initiative, Sarai is interested in media cultures that lie in the shadow of technological and social elites. We are interested in speaking to critical voices that produce and live the new media, which may exist in the street, the software factory, the worlds of the local videowalla, the neighbourhood Public Call Office/cybercafe, the street photographer, the gray markets in music, computers and other media-ware. This is the electronic everyday, which resides in the shadows of the spectacular media space conjured by the media empires in South Asia. Sarai will engage with the practitioners of the electronic everyday, through a series of collaborative links, workshops and events in the locality. The processes, networks and procedures of the outreach dimensions of the Sarai programme are currently in development. A design for a low-cost and easily replicable hardware and software solution for net connectivity and tools for web authoring is currently being conceptualised by the programming and design team at Sarai. A detailed note on this will soon be posted on this site.