Felix Stalder

Felix Stalder is a researcher, economist, and media theorist, working in Zürich and Vienna. He is co-founder and co-moderator of the influential nettime mailing list for net criticism.

• media theory

Luchezar Boyadjiev

Luchezar Boyadjiev is a Bulgarian artist, working and living in Sofia, Bulgaria. As an Eastern European artist he often found himself in the position of a GastArtBeiter after the fall of Communism in EE.

• post-governmental organisation

Barbara Abrash

Barbara Abrash is a teacher, curator and independent producer. She is the director of public programs at the Center for Media, Culture and History and the Center for Religion and Media at New York University where, since 1986, she has taught a graduate seminar in media and history in the Public History Program.

Arthur Kroker

Arthur Kroker is media- en cultuurwetenschapper aan de University of Victoria in Canada. Hij houdt zich bezig met technologie, cultuur en theorie, Franse en Duitse politieke theorie, sociale wetenschappen en ethiek en biotechnologie. Samen met zijn vrouw Marilouise onderhoudt hij CTheory.net, het toonaangevende online magazine over technologie, media en cultuur, met artikelen, interviews, video's en recensies. 

Statement on Open Strike in the Cultural Sector in Lebanon 

In solidarity with and participation in the popular uprisings taking place across Lebanon against the current systems of power, we the undersigned cultural organizations and structures collectively commit to Open Strike, and call for our colleagues in the cultural sector to join us.

• art,
• civil disobedience,
• middle east,
• street protest,
• general strike

Jordan Crandall

Jordan Crandall is an artist, theorist, and performer based in Los Angeles.  His video installations, presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide, combine formats and genres deriving from cinematic and military culture, exploring new regimes of power and their effects on subjectivity, sociality, embodiment, and desire. Crandall writes and lectures regularly at various institutions across the US and Europe.  He is the 2011 winner of the Vilém Flusser Theory Award for outstanding theory and research-based digital arts practice, given by the Transmediale in Berlin in collaboration with the Vilém Flusser Archive of the University of Arts, Berlin.  He is currently (2012) an Honorary Resident at Eyebeam art and technology center in New York, where he is continuing the development of a new body of work that blends performance art, political theater, philosophical speculation, and intimate reverie.  The work, entitled UNMANNED, explores new ontologies of distributed systems  -- a performative event-philosophy in the form of a book and a theatrical production.  He is also the founding editor of the new journal VERSION.

• art,
• theory,
• surveillance

World-Information Brussels 

The Vienna Institute for New Culture Technologies / t0 was invited by the organizers of the European City of Culture Brussels 2000 to stage the lead project of the new media program.

• infopolitics,
• world-information

Ontologies of the Wayward Drone - Part I 

A Salvage Operation

On a clear evening in December, as the sun was setting over the Texas horizon, a Mexican drone entered U.S. airspace and crashed into a backyard in El Paso.

• art,
• war,
• surveillance,
• drone

Minor Media Normality in the East 

1. Autogenerative Europe

In our imagination, eastern Europe was always black and white. Traveling to East Germany or Poland meant suddenly leaving colorful western Europe and entering a movie from the forties or fifties. Later we simply couldn't remember having seen any color, not the green of the trees, nor the red of the brick buildings. When we went to the movies to see a film by Wajda, Kieslowski or Tarkowsky, the filmmaker's experiments with color only reinforced our image of the east as gray. Europe clearly had an ideologically motivated neurosis when it came to the perception of color.

• art,
• network cultures,
• deep europe

Unpresidented: Washington Post: Trump Flees White House 

Unauthorized Special Edition of the Washington Post: “Trump Flees White House”

“Bye-Bye 45” offers road map to creating the near future we want and need

• activism,
• info-activism,
• culture jamming,
• news

Special "Merseyside editions" of The S*n appear in Liverpool newsagents: The Truth - We Lied 

A spoof edition of The S*n tabloid newspaper has started to appear at Liverpool news agents, following the Sun's refusal to mention the Hillsborough inquest verdicts on its front page, and the infamous 'The Truth' front page on April 19, 1989, containing false accusations towards Liverpool fans. In parallel a nation wide campaign has started refusing free World Cup promotion editions of The Sun across the UK.

• activism,
• spoof,
• culture jamming,
• news

New Ad Campaign Explains Drones to Skeptical American Public 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 6, 2013 - San Francisco, California
The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new series of advertisements to defend America's drone policy amidst mounting public scrutiny from lawmakers and human rights groups.  
On Election Day, November 5, 2013 the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged over a dozen bus shelter advertisements in San Francisco, including the intersection of Market and 7th Street, one block from the Federal Building.

• war,
• public space,
• culture jamming,
• billboard improvement,
• drone