Ned Rossiter is is a media theorist who researches on the political dimensions of labour and life in informational economies. He is currently investigating global logistics industries and the intersections between labour regimes, IT infrastructures, electronic waste industries and questions of informational sovereignty.
ReadFurtherfield 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.
The European Cultural Backbone was founded as an initiative of 16 Trans-European Media Institutions. They baptize their baby with an extensive "We want Bandwidth" campaign, starting in a medium near you any minute. What to do with it and what to make with it?
Because global problems need global protests and global solutions...
Take the Square!
From November 2010 we have been working on a daily basis in different
fields of Internet activism and journalism anonymously. We have decided,
however, to become public. The reasons are many, our personal security
being the main one.
We are Pedro Noel and Santiago Carrion Arcos, two Philosophy graduates from different origins, who met while studying in Spain.
This is a short text [1] which appears in "Public Netbase: Non Stop Future. New Practices in Art and Media" edited by the fine people at the New Media Center_kuda.org, in cooperation with World-Information Institute / t0. This book was presented at Transmediale 2009 in Berlin.
http://nonstop-future.org
Tactical media as a practice has a long history and, it seems save to predict, an even longer future. Yet its existence as a distinct concept around which something of a social movement, or more precisely, a self- aware network of people and projects would coalesce has been relatively short lived, largely confined to the internet's first decade as a mass medium (1995-2005).
The DARS Page chronicles daily acts of resistance and subversion (DARS) in contemporary Arab societies and beyond. All forms of resistance and subversion to political, economic, social, or cultural forms of exploitation will be of interest. This includes resistance to authoritarianism, occupation, imperialism, and social norms, and the many ways these are subverted.
ReadUKRAiNATV together with THE VOID (INC) came to co-organize a day long event at Framed Framed in Amsterdam. Part of the ongoing exhibition "Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis" this event will focus on streaming practices, hybrid and tactical media, stream art and expanded tv... With an open invitation to both in-person and online audiences, we will explores how media can be used as a tool for collaboration during times of crisis. It includes hands-on activities like PeerTube transmission tests, live stream workshop together with talks and creative performances.
ReadFacebook Event | Twitter #N17 | Direct Action Resources
On Thursday November 17th, the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall
Street movement, we call upon the 99% to participate in a national day
of direct action and celebration!
Written for Interstanding - Understanding INteractivity conference, Tallinn, Estonia November 23-25, 1995 - RFC Draft 1.1
What counts in the long run is the "use" one makes of a theory....We
must start from existing practices in order to retrace the fundamental
flaws.
--Felix Guattari, "Why Marx and Freud No Longer Disturb Anyone"
In 1994, when Critical Art Ensemble first introduced the idea and a
possible model of electronic civil disobedience (ECD) as another option
for digital resistance, the collective had no way of knowing what
elements would be the most practical, nor did it know what elements
would require additional explanation. After nearly five years of field
testing of ECD by various groups and individuals, its information gaps
have become a little more obvious and can finally be addressed.
Recent legislative steps in Hungary point towards the authoritarian transformation of the institutional structures and funding system of cultural life, by giving an ultra conservative artist group close to the rightwing government, the Hungarian Academy of Arts, an unassailable position of power. As a result of these decisions, the government has endangered the long term autonomy, professionalism and democratic procedures of Hungarian contemporary art.
ReadAn Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki
ReadEssay written in August 2002 for the New York University Tactical Media Lab, organised by the NYU Center for Media, Culture and History.
Methods of media resistance - the example of Radio B2-92
Veran Matic, editor-in-chief of the famous Radio B92, Belgrade, and
chairman of the ANEM federation of independent broadcasters in Serbia
and Montenegro, discusses some of the methods employed by his
organisation in the tumultuous environment of the former Yugolslavia.
On Sunday September 29 the exhibition Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis concludes with a series of interlocked conversations that explore how artists address the erosion of trust in knowledge and the rise of disinformation, through their investigative and critical practices.
Sunday September 29, 10.00 - 16.00
Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Hybrid off/online performance UKRAiNATV, 17.00 - 18.00
In the past four years we have been accustomed to receive information on the extent of global signit work that has actually been going on without the knowledge of civil populations, communications infrastructure users and developers and in many cases even governments. A very quiet debate has started around issues arising from the knowledge about the ECHELON system, which has now spread also into mainstream politics, and we should be very careful observers of this processes. One should also be aware of the fact, that possible ?sister" systems exist in the EU countries, Russia, France and China, although not much is known about them, except what can be gathered from each countries encryption regulations, which in this respect can be taken as an information on each of the countries civil rights and signit polices. We can also assume that Israel possesses strong signit mideast oriented capabilities.
ReadSince American Vice-President Al Gore made his famous speech in
California a couple of years ago, it has become impossible to scan any
news medium without finding at least one reference to the "Information
Superhighway". The Information Superhighway metaphor - specially
tailored for Mr. Gore's California audience - is so brilliantly
simplistic it seems to have blown the mind of every media editor in the
Western Hemisphere. With an Information Superhighway you just plug in
your modem and roll your data out onto the ramp and into the dataflow
where it zips along the freeway until it hits the appropriate off-ramp.
Finding data is the same - it's all nice straight data-lanes with on
and off ramps and well-banked curves.
