Red Tape

Red Tape is a discussion series initiated by students of the Visual Communication programme at the Royal College of Art.

Marco Deseriis

Marco Deseriis is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Eugene Lang College of The New School. His recent publications include ?The General, the Watchman and the Engineer of Control: The Relationship between Cooperation, Communication, and Command in the Society of Control,? Journal of Communication Inquiry Special Issue on Communication and Autonomism, Ed. Jack Bratich (October 2011).

www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=70519

• tactical media,
• media theory,
• media criticism

Peter Marcuse

Peter Marcuse is Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Columbia University, New York.
www.marcuse.org/peter/peter.htm

• urban intervention,
• public space,
• occupy

Sue Basko

Sue Basko, Lawyer.

• public space,
• occupy

Occupy Los Angeles

Declaration of Occupation

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

• occupy

Pavlos Hatzopoulos

Pavlos Hatzopoulos is managing editor of Re-public.

Nelli Kambouri

Nelli Kambouri is a researcher at the Center for Gender Studies and Equality, Panteion University, Athens.

Simona Levi

Simona Levi is a multidisciplinary artist born in Italy and established in Barcelona since 1990. She is the Director of Conservas, a cultural activity centre. Since 2000, she has directed the arts festival INn MOTION which takes place at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of the city of Barcelona. She is an outstanding activist in European social movements in the area of free circulation of knowledge and the right to housing. She is also involved in several artistic and activist platforms. She is co-founder of EXGAE, a civil organization that defends from the abuses of the cultural industry trade groups.

• art,
• free culture,
• austerity

Nadia Plesner

Nadia Plesner (born 1981) is a Danish artist working and living in the Netherlands.

• art,
• campaign,
• darfurnica

Jodi Dean

Jodi Dean is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

• political science

Daniel van derVelden

Daniel van der Velden is a graphic designer and writer. He graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy, and studied in Maastricht at the Jan van Eyck Academie under Michael Rock, Armand Mevis, Paul Elliman, Karel Martens and Jan van Toorn.

• design,
• wikileaks

Aalam Wassef

Aalam Wassef, 38, is an Egyptian independent artist (installations, new media), blogger and internet activist.
He is based in Cairo in El Khalifa area.

• art,
• net.activism,
• middle east

Omar Robert Hamilton

Omar Robert Hamilton is an independent filmmaker and the producer of the annual Palestine Festival of Literature. He was born in London in 1984, and studied English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford. He now lives in Cairo.

• middle east

NYC General Assembly

The NYC General Assembly is composed of dozens of groups working together to organize and set the vision for the #occupywallstreet movement.

• street protest,
• tactical camping

Michael Dieter

Michael Dieter is a PhD candidate at University of Melbourne, currently completing a doctoral thesis on the relations between media aesthetics, ecological thought and political philosophy in critical technoscientific art practices. His publications have appeared in the journals M/C and the Australian Humanities Review. He currently teaches in the new media program at the University of Amsterdam.

• tactical media,
• media theory

Franco Berardi ('Bifo')

Franco Berardi Bifo is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist.

• media theory,
• precarity,
• telestreet,
• media criticism

Jon Rich

Jon Rich was born in Amman in 1965. He teaches Arabic and Sociology in Lisbon, where he has lived since 1990.

Darko Fritz

Darko Fritz Fritz is artist and independent curator and researcher. He was born in 1966, in Croatia, and currently he lives and works in Amsterdam, Zagreb and Korcula. He studied architecture at the University of Zagreb [1986 - 1989] and media art at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam [1990 - 1992].

• tactical media,
• migration,
• media criticism

Christian Fuchs

Chair in Media and Communication Studies
Uppsala University
Department of Informatics and Media Studies

 Furtherfield

Furtherfield is an artist organisation founded by artists Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett in 1997 and sustained by the work of its community as the Internet took shape as a new public space for internationally connected cultural production.

• art,
• participatory media