Ab Tak 256 An event and discussion held in a city cybercafe. Using readymade infrastructure (high bandwidth, computers, a room) to produce certain shared online and offline experiences. Dates and location will be posted shortly. Meanwhile see also past events by CAMP.

	PADMA Archive Launch Thursday, February 28, 2008. PAD.MA is an online archive of video material, primarily footage and not finished films, that has been densely text-annotated. The entire collection is searchable and viewable online, and is free to download for non-commercial use. We see PADMA as a way of opening up a set of images, intentions and effects present in video footage -- resources that conventions of video-making, editing and viewing have over time tended to suppress, or make unavailable. read more...
	From the Category: Video Art. Part I Sunday, February 10, 2008. CAMP brings you a selection of works on video that are well-known and "published" in some form, but are generally hard to find. In part I, these are mostly videos from the US and Europe, which also reflects conditions in the online networks, i.e. where we found them- which we would like to discuss. read more...
	Archive, Access, Anxiety December 21-22, 2007 An extended discussion on digital archiving, hosted by oil21.org and CAMP. read more...
	Kiosk of Someone Else's Dreams December 6-9, 2007 An outdoor computer kiosk from where a number of neighbourly connections were managed. These are a combination of recorded video, live audio and live electrical connections, testing possibilities at the juncture of the database, its "location", and its live interpretation by various publics. read more...

CAMP seeks to create platforms beyond the binaries of commodity markets vs. 'free culture', or individual vs. institutional will, to think and to build what is possible, what is equitable, and what is interesting, for the future.

We want:

• To test the ground between art practices, multiple ideas of the public, and private life and property. To consider such thresholds of publication and ownership as sites for new work.
  
  
• To engage with urban activity in our region, at infrastructural scales.
  
  
• To examine certain technical/ professional terminologies, for example "video" and "design", in times of their material ubiquity, using easily-available resources.
  
  
• To develop local distribution platforms of both "media" and "material".

CAMP is a small "startup" initiated in collaboration with Khoj Delhi, but as you can see it has a broad range of ambitions. Activities in the first year are divided into Weekends and Long Projects. Weekends are events that look intensively at specific interests and areas of action, where some concerns across disciplines can be seen in a consolidated way, with people from different backgrounds. See past events.

Long Projects include continuations of ongoing work, with some shifts in focus. This includes two main projects:

• New Documentary, which deals with video production and distribution, in the age of video's material abundance. This is related to chitrakarkhana's ongoing work, and is planned as a series of engagements with contemporary video: as a broadcast medium, as archives, in its 'community media' genre, as surveillance, and in other everyday forms.
  
  
• Design Studies, which will ask new questions using design as a locus, to see what can be made of the gap between personal or communal desires, self-organisation and authorisation, and 'standard types' such as templates, technical regulations, policy and law. Mass customisation, "you-ness" and other slogans of participation claim to narrow this distance, but this is contestable. The project will operate as artistic and pedagogic interventions into the broad fields of material activity currently known as 'design'.

Camp's founding members are:

Shaina Anand, filmmaker and artist, founder of www.chitrakarkhana.net

Ashok Sukumaran, who trained as an architect and artist, now does speculative technical and conceptual projects. http://0ut.in

Sanjay Bhangar, who trained in indymedia and urban studies, now works as an independent web developer and technology writer.

CAMP is a collaboration with Khoj International Artists Association, and is supported by a grant from the NRTT, India.

CAMP has at the moment about 1,00,000 possible names in English (of which one is generated every time this page reloads). This is according to the below schema, and its various recombinations.

Culture	According to	My	Peers
Critical	Art and	Metaphorical	Publics
City	After	Media	Parties
Computer	Against	Moral	Police
Confidence	Allowing for	Many	People
Campaign	Around	Magical	Promises
Collective	Approach to	Mofussil	Politics
Challenges	After	Multiple	Publications
Collaboration	Across	Metropolitan	Permissions
Comfort	And	Minor	Partnerships
Commons	Art as	Meta	Practice
Community	Art and	Marginal	Philosophies
Conversation	About	Missing	Protests
Citizens	And	Monetary	Programs
Cooperation	As per	Materialist	Practices
Contracts	Among	Mumbai	Privates
Code	Allowing for	Model	Panoramas
Camp	Around	More	Peripheries
Company	Adjusting to	Mechanical	Paradise

This number (1 lakh) is less than 1/10th of the number of NGO's in India. A sea of good intentions!

We ofcourse cannot claim any of this as territory. This exercise arose from doubts whether anyone can ever determine in advance, what effects their organisation may have. And which combinations may work, and which will fail.
Nevertheless, this is a map of some 'universal' intentions - our own and not our own, that we will slowly populate. And draw some working titles from in the future.