Bas Raijmakers is the creative director of STBY. Since the early nineties he has worked in the internet and media industry as consultant and research manager. He holds a master degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Amsterdam (1990) and a PhD degree in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London (2007).
ReadFrom 1993 is the editor in chief of Neural, the Italian/English new media culture magazine.
ReadThe Strategies for Tactical Archives conference investigates how documentation and archiving can feed into living practices of activists, artists and media makers that address the position of communities who feel aggrieved or excluded from the wider public culture.
The program consists of a public keynote lecture on Friday evening October 27 (starting 19.30) by Sarah Schulman, writer, activist and co-initiator of the ACTUP Oral History Project and author of Let the Record Show - A Political History of ACTUP New York, 1987-1993. This is followed by a one day conference on Saturday October 28 (10-17 hrs.) at Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.
Iona Sharp Casas is a Catalan/English independent writer, researcher and cultural analyst based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
ReadNomadic artist, programmer, and musician. Split background including passionate forays into media and journalism, electrical and computer engineering, and sonic/visual art.
ReadThe Raqs Media Collective enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs.
ReadArtist | Critical Engineer
ReadA twelve day prelude moving across the city; a twelve-hour sound art
opera of betrayal and rebellion culminating in a spectacular series of
disturbing performances in Chelsea College of Art Parade Ground; a
one-day coda of debate.
Presented by AKA the CASTLE
Eric Kluitenberg is an independent theorist, writer, and organiser on culture, media and technology. He is the editor-in-chief of the Tactical Media Files, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Network Cultures (2013). He teaches media theory and history at the Art/Science Interfaculty in The Hague.
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