Raqs Media Collective

We were invited recently by the Tate Modern to participate in their "Global Photography Now" series of talks. We have been thinking about photographic/image making practice - not as result but as notation - for some time now. So, we consolidated some of these notes and ideas, and presented them..

Here is the entire text of the talk

Raqs was invited by Steve Dietz and Joel Slayton of ISEA 2006 and Zero One San Jose (http://www.01sj.org/) to be 'conversationalists' at the Pacific Rim New Media Summit last week. Being outsiders to the Pacific Rim, we decided to make our entry in the form of stories, so we put together what we called 'Pacific Parables' a set of narrative vignettes that ask questions about the world, connectivity and our time, scanning beneath the surface of old and new media.

Here they are.