International public seminar and evening screening program on the recent outbursts of social protest and their media strategies, hosted by De Balie, centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam, Friday September 30, 2011.
This polyvocal, collectively authored paper describes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a border disturbance art project developed by the Electronic Disturbance Theater. The paper outlines the motivations behind the tool and elaborates a notion of Science of the Oppressed as a methodology for developing locative media projects in solidarity with social movements. A shift is identified from Tactical Media to Tactical Biopolitics in contemporary media art. Walkingtools.net is also introduced as a platform for sharing technical information about locative media projects in order to create an ecology of projects. Poetic sustenance, part of the Transborder Immigrant Tool's functioning, is discussed in a context of Inter-American Transcendentalism.
ReadBruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, speaker, futurist and design instructor.
Read®TMark is an artist and activist collective, founded in 1991. ®TMark
apprpriates the corporate veil by organising itself as a corporation.
Through the ®TMark Mutual Fund System
the collectiove has executed a series of "corporate subversion
projects", suing the legal displacements reserved for corporations for
anti-corporate activism.
