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

TMF Editors

The editors of the Tactical Media Files archive and documentation resource is a continuously changing group of individuals. The resource was started in 2008 by David Garcia, Eric Kluitenberg, Michiel van der Haagen, and Ian van Riel, further assisted by Gerbrand Oudenaarden, Adam Hyde, Huub Sanders (IISG) and many other individuals and organisations.

• tactical media

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

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

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.

Dave Oswald Mitchell

Dave Oswald Mitchell is a writer, editor and researcher camped out at the intersection of the economic and ecological crises.

• activism,
• info-activism

Tactical Media Room 

Duration: 19 Apr 2022 - 30 Dec 2022

The Tactical Media Room (TMR) is an initiative of Waag Futurelab and Institute for Network Cultures (HvA), founded in late February 2022 after the Russian invasion in Ukraine. In collaboration with hackers, artists, designers and researchers in The Netherlands, TMR aims to support independent tactical media, journalists, newsrooms and civic initiatives from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.

• campaign,
• war,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism

Gene Ray

Gene Ray is a critic and theorist living in Berlin, is a member of the Radical Culture Research Collective (RCRC).

• art,
• tactical media