next 5 minutes international festival of tactical media, September 11-14 2003, Amsterdam

Tactical Technologies 3

1:Real TV 2: LET OUR VOICE BE HEARD! 3:HIPPIES FROM HELL


1: REAL TV
UK, 3:50 ', VHS
TV Jamming out of a compost toilet. In three and a half minutes it becomes clear that it's possible to treat your neighbours to a television program that differs from what they were expecting. During real TV the best episode of Eastenders is interrupted by an Undercurrents program. All it takes is a compost toilet ,a transmitter and an antenna.
 
2: LET OUR VOICE BE HEARD!
(Nek se cuje i nas glas!)
Krsto Papic, Croatia, 1970, 18', dvd
Pirate radio stations in rural north croatia were being set up as DIY constructions by peasants.
 
3: HIPPIES FROM HELL
Ine Poppe, NL, 2002, 53', MinDV
Hippies from Hell are a group of hackers, techies, artists, writers and puzzlers. In the eighties they published hacker magazine Hacktic and in 1993 they started the first Dutch Internet-provider, xs4all, thus opening the Internet for the general public. Apart from this they throw wild parties and organize open-air hacker festivals, using the Internet as their social platform. On their mailing list they discuss almost every aspect of our technology infested society. The Dutch hackers, as the hippies were called initially, are a special group within the international hacker movement, which they helped create for a large part.
In the film artists play with hardware, young hippies hack their school-calculators, lock pickers open locks without a key: hacking is not just fooling around with technology, it is an attitude, an activity, a verb.