Amsterdam, January 13, 2003

We are pleased to announce the final festival dates for Next 5 Minutes 4 - International Festival of Tactical Media in Amsterdam, The Netherlands:

The dates of the festival are: Friday September 12, Saturday September 13, and Sunday September 14 (2003).

Next 5 Minutes is a festival that brings together art, campaigns, experiments in media technology, and transcultural politics

The fourth edition of the Next 5 Minutes festival is the result of a collaborative effort of a variety of organisations, initiatives and individuals dispersed world-wide. The program and content of the festival is prepared through a series of Tactical Media Labs (TMLs) organised locally in different cities around the globe. This series of Tactical Media Labs started on September 11, 2002 in Amsterdam and will continue internationally until June 2003.

TMLs have so far been organised in: Amsterdam, Sydney, Cluj, Barcelona, Delhi, New York, Singapore, Birmingham, Nova Scotia, and Berlin, while upcoming TMLs are planned in Chicago, Portsmouth, Sao Paulo, Moscow, Dubrovnik, and Amman

Reports from the various TMLs, essays and other materials can be found on-line via the Next 5 Minutes web journal:

http://www.n5m4.org

A series of workshops, seminars and networking meetings will be scheduled in the days before, during, and after the festival. Further announcements of the final schedule for these side-events will follow as the program develops.

Detailed program information about the festival will be released as the final program takes shape via this general web site of Next 5 Minutes:

http://www.n5m.org

For further information about the festival and the TML please contact the Next 5 Minutes production office in Amsterdam:

info@n5m.org