The Concept of Tactical Media 

Tactical Media emerged when the modest goals of media artists and media activists were transformed into a movement that challenged everyone to produce their own media in support of their own political struggles. This "new media" activism was based on the insight that the long-held distinction between the 'street' (reality) and the 'media' (representation) could no longer be upheld. On the contrary, the media had come to infuse all of society...   Read More

• art,
• tactical media,
• theory,
• media theory,
• art of campaigning,
• media criticism,
• participatory media,
• tactical research

 Big Noise Films

Big Noise Films is a collective of media-makers around the world, dedicated to circulating beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images.

• tactical media,
• independent media,
• media criticism,
• cinema

Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University ('07-'08). While at Princeton he taught a seminar on new media in the Arab world. Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and media activists. Born in Jerusalem in 1955, Kuttab studied in the United States and has been working in journalism ever since 1980.

• Palestine,
• satellite television

Ricardo Rosas

Ricardo Rosas is a writer, translator and experimental musician. He was one of the organizers of the Brazilian Tactical Media Lab in Sao Paulo. He has studied Social Communication and German Studies at Universidade de Sao Paulo and is currently senior editor of Rizoma (www.rizoma.net), a web site devoted to activism, tactical media underground culture in general, net critic, conspiracy stuff and occulture. He writes about media activism and (anti) pop culture.

(died April, 11, 2007)

• tactical media,
• Brazil

Michael Dieter

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.

• tactical media,
• media theory

Sam de Silva

Sam de Silva is a creative producer and media practitioner. He has a multi-disciplinary background and has an interest in tactical media-arts, surveillance research, and protest and mobilisation strategies.

Joanne Richardson

Organiser, networker and writer, based in Cluj. Born in Bucharest, Romania, grew up in New York. Ex-philosopher, media theorist and freelance organizer.

David Garcia

David Garcia is an artist, teacher and organizer who has pioneered new forms of critical engagement with art and media based on occupying of the cracks which began to appear in the edifice of the broadcast media in the 1990s.

• art,
• tactical media,
• next 5 minutes,
• tactical television,
• tactical education

Adam Hyde

Adam Hyde is a sound and radio artist from New Zealand, and CEO of Floss Manuals - Free Manuals for Free Software.
He is the co-founder with Honro Harger of r a d i o q u a l i a sound and media art collective.

• free software

Annet Dekker

Annet Dekker is an independent researcher and curator. She is currently Assistant Professor of Media Studies: Archival Science at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Lecturer at London South Bank University.

• art,
• archive,
• theory

Christian Fuchs

Chair in Media and Communication Studies
Uppsala University
Department of Informatics and Media Studies

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.

 rebellious media conference

About the RMC

Frustrated with the mainstream media's coverage of war, climate change and the economy, or already making your own media?

Interested in acquiring new skills or finding out more about exciting radical media projects from around the world?

• diy media,
• independent media,
• media criticism

Eric Kluitenberg

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.

• art,
• tactical media,
• media theory,
• public domain,
• hybrid space

DeeDee Halleck

DeeDee Halleck is a media activist and co-founder of Paper Tiger Television and the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass roots community television network. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California at San Diego. Her filmography includes  films like Children Make Movies( 1961),  or Mural on Our Street, which was nominated for Academy Award in 1965. She has led media workshops with elementary school children, reform school youth and migrant farmers.

• tactical media,
• independent media,
• media criticism,
• prison

Donatella DellaRatta

Donatella Della Ratta is a PhD fellow at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, New Islamic Public Sphere Program, Copenhagen University and at the Danish Institute in Damascus.

• net.activism

Nina Meilof

Nina Meilof is an multi media advisor and an independent producer TV and internet programmes. Beside other projects, she worked for Amsterdam The Digital City and is an editor of Digital Citizen.