next 5 minutes international festival of tactical media, September 11-14 2003, Amsterdam

Tactical Technologies 2

1:Retooling Dissent 2:Owned 3:


1:RETOOLING DISSENT
Street Rec Collective, USA, 2002, 20', vhs
Tactical mediaprojects during the World Economic Forum and protests in New York in March 2002.
 
2:OWNED
Jennifer Read, VS, 2002, 70'
Owned gives the viewer a glimpse into the ecusive world of computer hacking. Tracing the history from the phone phreakers of the 1960s through the modern day computer hackers, it provides a face and a voice to the hacker handles and shows a diversity in the hacker community. We watch as a stereotypical hacker sits at his computer and hijacks web pages and also visit the Defcon convention in Las Vegas as hundreds of hackers gather to exchange information