12 Mar 2007

Tasveerghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US.
Self-description: "Tasveer Ghar is a trans-national virtual 'home' for collecting, digitizing, and documenting various materials produced by South Asia's exciting popular visual sphere including posters, calendar art, pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings, advertisements, and other forms of street and bazaar art. Some of the key fields of exploration within the network are: (a) the social and performative life of images; (b) the histories and everyday lives and voices of producers, disseminators and 'consumers'; (c) various techniques of visuality/media of visualisation (for instance, ritual or theatrical performance, or political spectacle). [...] Tasveer Ghar is located in three institutional nodes: * University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A. * South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany * Sarai, at the Center for Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India. The principals at these institutions will be Sumathi Ramaswamy, Christiane Brosius, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta respectively."
Site contents: * What Is Tasveer Ghar; * Who Is Building It; * Where We Started From; * House Of Pictures; * Links [i.e. other Websites and Online Resources on South Asian Popular Culture and Arts - ed.]; * Call For Proposals ["... We are pleased to invite proposals for short-term fellowships involving the collection and documentation of unique forms of popular visual arts of India with a focus on 'Gender, Nation and Spaces for the Everyday', resulting in the digitization of the collected specimens and their virtual exhibition on the website of Tasveer Ghar at the end of the fellowship. The estimated duration of the fellowship is 6 months. ... Last date of submission of proposals: April 30, 2007."]; * Contact.
URL http://www.ektaramusic.com/tg/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Sumathi Ramaswamy (sumathi--at--umich.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30