Tag Archives: Tactical Media

Lessons in anti-security: tactical media and viral art

Daniel de Zeeuw | 19 February 2012, 10:15 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

The following report is the outcome of two three hour sessions held in the context of the New Media course “Critical Media Art”, exploring the ideas and practices of ‘tactical media‘, in particular the use of viral tactics by artists, programmers, activists, and their collaborations. In the first session, media theorist Erik Kluitenberg gave a lecture…

Live Transmission of Labour Day in Bogota

Fei An Tjan | 04 May 2011, 9:54 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

I attended the processions of 1 May (Labour day) in Colombia. The idea was as follows: At 8 AM, we would all gather on the square to set up the installation, DJ turntables, waterproof tent (it rains a lot), and of course, the computer and cameras. The performance would be filmed by 2 cameras and then be transmitted live over the Internet.

*Choose Life*

Ourania Dalalaki | 19 March 2011, 6:54 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Ourania Dalalaki, Ashiq Khondker, Maritje Onjering, Hans Terpstra

mini-exhibition curated for the Critical Media Art seminar.

Disengage from the fear of technology, engage living forms through technicity, transform life, choose life.

Living, Semi-living, bio-creations that tactically aim to shape life.

26 Days of Peace – a collection of tactical media projects

Stefania Bercu | 13 February 2011, 1:51 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , ,

Since the end of the Second World War, the world has only known twenty-six cumulated days of peace. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Gulf War gave rise to a hope that we could blissfully live in a global capitalist democracy, but this changed with the attacks of September 11, 2001. Slavoj Zizek calls the…

Book review: Public Netbase: Non Stop Future/ New practices in Art and Media

Ourania Dalalaki | 22 September 2010, 12:10 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“New information technologies have become ubiquitous and thoroughly established in our everyday life. This marks the end of a period of intense experimentations and speculations related to the introduction of global communication systems more than a decade ago. Artists and cultural workers were the first to explore the liberatory dimensions and to apply emancipatory potentials. These early…

The Politics of Social Media. Facebook: Control and Resistance

Marc Stumpel | 04 September 2010, 7:33 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Hereby I post my MA thesis ‘The Politics of Social Media. Facebook: Control and Resistance’ for anyone who is interested in the political dimension of social media. A link to the full PDF can be found below.

Abstract
This thesis examines the governance of contemporary social media and the potential of resistance. In particular, it sheds light on several cases…