pan.do/mains

The Pad.ma/Pan.do/ra seeded archives and applications have grown roots, and we are happy to list them here. These include the stand alone pan.do/ra instances and also front-ended subsets of archives hosted in pad.ma.

Standalone installations of pan.do/ra:

Pad.ma and indiancine.ma Bak.ma
bak.ma consists of voluminous video collections beginning from the 1960s until today covering political incidents and movements in Turkey's history. See more

858.ma
Mosireen Collectives Egypt Archive on Tahrir Square. See more

Leftove.rs
The documents archive of Mayday Rooms, London. A shared archive of material traces of working class movements.

AMP
The allied UK video archive of activist media in audio, video, photographs, pamphlets and graphics.

Also video art projects:

CDOSEA
Critical Dictionary of South East Asia with Ho Tzu Nyen.

Njp.ma
Mobile friendly read-only archive of Nam June Paik’s video material including lesser known documentaries directed by him, extensive documentation of Fluxus happenings and performances, source material for his video sculptures, and footage of the broadcast experiments. The annotated archive is at https://archive.njp.ma/grid/title

FCRA with CAMP
CAMP members Ashok and Shaina were forensic architecture guest professors for 2023-2024. As part of their pedagogic method, we created a combined video archive for both Forensic Architecture and Center for Research Architecture, making visible their own institutional engagements via methods, regions, funders and on the granular level with full text search across newly generated video transcripts. An ongoing project, that we will jointly develop when we can reconvene post the urgent focus on Gaza, and the Goldsmiths crisis with budget cuts.

Phantas.ma
The new platform for moving images and ideas that draws from https://pad.ma and https://indiancine.ma. https://phantas.ma/about/

Phantas.ma/polis
The video art programme of the Asian Art Biennale along with 66 essays on the films. It’s all pulled from a small project of 17 films annotated inside of pad.ma at https://pad.ma/grid/created/project=AAB21

Ghar Mein Shehar Hona: City Housing in a Cultural Matrix 1950 to 2020

Pad.ma Tours


Older databases included the original pirate archive 0xDB and turkishcine.ma.