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.
Next 5 Minutes is a festival that brings together media, art and politics. Next 5 Minutes revolves around the notion of tactical media, the fusion of art, politics and media. The festival is organised irregularly, when the urgency is felt to bring a new edition of the festival together.
ReadThe Next Five Minutes is a conference, exhibition and tv program taking place between 8th and 10th January 1993 in Amsterdam, that wants to leave behind the rigid dichotomy between the mainstream, commercial and national tv on one hand and marginal independent tv on the other. Although these differences may still be important, N5M wants to focus on tv-makers crossing the borders of tv-making and going into the spaces that the tv-world still has to offer.
ReadOpening on 22 June 2024 at Framer Framed, the exhibition Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis highlights the ways in which the scientific disciplines – historically associated with truth-telling – are increasingly used by cynical actors of big corporations and rogue governments alike to obscure, mislead and effectively capitalise and weaponise ignorance. The exhibition is curated by David Garcia and Mi You.
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.
Amsterdam & Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 12-14 March, 1999
The third Next 5 Minutes, an Amsterdam based conference on tactical communications culture, featuring do-it-yourself media, dissident art and electronic media activists from around the world, took place on the 12th, 13th and 14th of March 1999.
N5M3 archived festival website
ReadInternational Festival of Streaming Media
De Balie, Paradiso, Melkweg
Amsterdam, October 6 - 8, 2000
"World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between military and civilian participation." -- motto of Tactical Media Crew, borrowed from Marshall McLuhan
ReadMarco 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
Eva and Franco Mattes internationally known as 0100101110101101.org - is
a couple of restless European con-artists who use non conventional
communication tactics to obtain the larges visibility with the minimal
effort. Past works include staging a hoax involving a completely made-up
artist, ripping off the Holy See and spreading a computer virus as a
work of art.
