A collective of five artists dedicated to exploring the intersections
between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory.
Jordan Crandall is an artist, theorist, and performer based in Los Angeles. His video installations, presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide, combine formats and genres deriving from cinematic and military culture, exploring new regimes of power and their effects on subjectivity, sociality, embodiment, and desire. Crandall writes and lectures regularly at various institutions across the US and Europe. He is the 2011 winner of the Vilém Flusser Theory Award for outstanding theory and research-based digital arts practice, given by the Transmediale in Berlin in collaboration with the Vilém Flusser Archive of the University of Arts, Berlin. He is currently (2012) an Honorary Resident at Eyebeam art and technology center in New York, where he is continuing the development of a new body of work that blends performance art, political theater, philosophical speculation, and intimate reverie. The work, entitled UNMANNED, explores new ontologies of distributed systems -- a performative event-philosophy in the form of a book and a theatrical production. He is also the founding editor of the new journal VERSION.
ReadMichael 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.
Howard
Slater is a London-based writer and researcher. His texts have appeared
in Datacide,as part of the collaborative TechNet project, and under pseudonym
in Alien Underground, Shimmer and The Techno Connection. He is the editor
of 'Break/Flow'.
ArtLeaks is collective platform initiated by an international group of artists, curators, art historians and intellectuals in response to the abuse of their professional integrity and the open infraction of their labor rights. In the art world, such abuses usually disappear, but some events bring them into sharp focus and therefore deserve public scrutiny. Only by drawing attention to concrete abuses can we underscore the precarious condition of cultural workers and the necessity for sustained protest against the appropriation of politically engaged art, culture and theory by institutions embedded in a tight mesh of capital and power.
Arthur Kroker is media- en cultuurwetenschapper aan de University
of Victoria in Canada. Hij houdt zich bezig met technologie, cultuur en
theorie, Franse en Duitse politieke theorie, sociale wetenschappen en
ethiek en biotechnologie. Samen met zijn vrouw Marilouise onderhoudt hij
CTheory.net, het toonaangevende online magazine over
technologie, media en cultuur, met artikelen, interviews, video's en
recensies.
Taipei Edition: October 24th and 25th, 2008
ReadGraz Edition: October 13 and 14, 2006
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
Conscious of the growing involvement of artists in political protest through their art and the utilisation of conventional and digital media technologies, RealTime's editors approached media theorist McKenzie Wark to comment on where he sees Tactical Media fitting in the bigger picture of power and media.
ReadOleg Kireev (born 1975) - art- and mediacritic, editor and curator,
writer, critic and activist, founder of the Ghetto collective, Moscow.
Participated in a number of media-political campaigns ("Against all
parties", 1999) and actions ("Barricade at Bolshaya Nikitskaya", May
1998). Author of articles on art and politics in the Russian and
international press ("Novaya gazeta", "Nezavasimaya gazeta", "Flash
art", "Siksi", "Mute"
