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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T120000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/vernacular-politics-and-malays
 ian-tamil-pictorial-digital-ethnography/
SUMMARY:Vernacular politics and Malaysian Tamil pictorial digital ethnograp
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DESCRIPTION:\n	Sorayut Aiemueayut (Lecturer\, Department of Media\, Arts &
  Design\, Chiang Mai University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n\n	Chair/discussa
 nt: Michael Herzfeld (Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sc
 iences\, Harvard University)\n\n	 \n\n	Co-sponsored with the Harvard Univ
 ersity Asia Center\n\n\n	This talk points attention to the pictorial pract
 ices in a small studio engaged in the Malaysian Tamil community\, a workin
 g-class community which has a historical background as British colonialism
 's forced immigrants in the Malay peninsula. This studio offers mainly pho
 tographic services and edits portrait images in a digital collage style by
  changing the environment of the photo by using a backdrop of a religious 
 screen or other scenic places\, and using abstract colors.\n\n	This talk w
 ill discuss the illusion of colonial traces and its artistic embodiment. T
 he Malaysian Tamil are the colonial heritage as the cultural stereotype of
  docility\, who work hard and do tedious labor. The work of art in this sm
 all studio is a pictorial digital ethnography for re-narrating the Malaysi
 an Tamil identity to lively\, creative people and shows the process of red
 efining identity. Moreover\, the aesthetic in their work is a critical dia
 logue with the professional artist. The contrast\, unevenness\, and reduce
 d resolution embodies vernacular politics and makes the local producer a t
 raveler in a digital no- man's land\, an area in which they can go beyond 
 human finitude.
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