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| Imagine IC, the new centre for the visual representation of migration and cultures, is the location for a temporary public media laboratory from September 12th till 22nd. Open at all times to the wider audience, artists, campaigners, local and international media makers and activists will develop and discuss their work for 10 days, hold workshops with local media groups, present examples, realise live media programs on-line and via radio and tv, and execute various projects. This Tactical Media Laboratory (short: TML) will be the first of an international series of TMLs, organised in various cities, and on different continents. |
The key-concept "tactical media" originates from a series of infamous conferences and festivals that have been organised in Amsterdam since 1993 under the title Next 5 Minutes. Tactical media deals with the meeting point of art, media, and social and political questions. After three earlier editions the need is felt for a new approach. The purpose of the international series of TMLs is to investigate the role of media in contemporary cultural and political life, each time from within a new local context and perspective. At the heart of our concern is the question who is given a voice in the contemporary media landscape, and which voices are left out. How can the individual as well as an as diverse as possible representation of cultural and political groups make their own voice be heard by media?
The Amsterdam TML will focus on the relationship between media and migrant cultures. Workshops and presentations will run continuously around themes such as: Virtual Shelter, net.radio and Home-Land Connections, GenderChangers: Women and Technology, Migration and Illegality, Wireless Media, and the Power of Personal Testimony. The TML is the joint effort of a large number of artists and media groups, amongst others: ambient tv, ASCII, De Balie, Harwood, dyne.org, Waag Society, RAZO, NYU Center for Media, Culture and History, Gender Changers Academy, expertbase.net, ghetto.ru, Paradox, Salto, and many more.
After Amsterdam the series of TMLs will be continued in New York, Delhi, Sydney, Cluj, Moscow, Berlin, Barcelona, in Latin America, and in other cities. The results of this series will be brought together in a concluding festival that is organised in Amsterdam in the end of May 2003. |
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