The Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies is a research initiative of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
The ACGS is part of the Research Priority Area Cultural Transformations and Globalisation.
Julian Stallabrass is a lecturer, writer, curator and photographer.
Big Noise Films is a collective of media-makers around the world, dedicated to circulating beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images.
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.
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ReadRodrigo Nunes is a lecturer in modern and contemporary philosophy at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil.
ReadJo van der Spek is a journalist, radio maker, and an activist dealing with issues around migration and international conflict zones.
Women on Waves aims to prevent unsafe abortions and empower women to exercise their human rights to physical and mental autonomy.
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Born in Knittelfeld, Austria, in 1970, lives and works in Vienna.
From November 2010 we have been working on a daily basis in different
fields of Internet activism and journalism anonymously. We have decided,
however, to become public. The reasons are many, our personal security
being the main one.
We are Pedro Noel and Santiago Carrion Arcos, two Philosophy graduates from different origins, who met while studying in Spain.
MOVING FOREST LONDON 2012 is presented by AKA the Castle:
ReadArtLeaks 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.
The Paris-based artists Léonore Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt form the artist-duo Bureau d´études.
ReadRita Raley is Associate Professor of English, with courtesy appointments in Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of digital media and humanist inquiry, with a particular emphasis on cultural critique, artistic practices, and language (codework, machine translation, electronic literature, and electronic English).
Muriam Haleh Davis is a
graduate student in the Department of History at New York University.
Her research interests focus on race and decolonization in Algeria. She is also a regular contributer to Jadaliyyah.
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.
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