Michael Seemann

Michael Seemann studied Applied Cultural Studies in Lüneburg. Since 2005 he is active on the internet with various projects. He founded twitkrit.de and Twitterlesung.de ('reading Twitter'), organized various events and runs the popular podcast wir.muessenreden.de. In 2010 he began the blog CTRL-verlust, about the loss of control over data on the internet. In 2014 he published Das neue Spiel after a successful crowdfunding campaign. Now he blogs at mspr0.de and writes for various media like Rolling Stone, TIME online, SPEX, Spiegel Online, c't and the DU magazine. He gives lectures on whistleblowing, privacy, copyright, internet culture and the crisis of institutions in times of Kontrollverlust.

• network cultures,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism,
• surveillance

Florian Schneider

Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, writer, and developer in the fields of new media, networking and open source technologies. In his work he focuses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and technology.

• migration,
• no border,
• dictionary of war,
• borders

We Demand The Impossible: 

An Interview with John Jordan and Gavin Grindon

Furtherfield interview with Gavin Grindon and John Jordan from the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination about the User's Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible. Published by Minor Compositions.

• art,
• participatory media,
• austerity

Sami BenGharbia

Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate. He was a political refugee living in the Netherlands between 1998 and 2011. Sami is the author of the first Tunisian e-book (in French) Borj Erroumi XL.

• activism,
• infopolitics,
• net.activism,
• info-activism,
• blogosphere

Julian Stallabrass

Julian Stallabrass is a lecturer, writer, curator and photographer.

• art,
• theory

Andy Cameron

Co-author with Richard Barbrook of the infamous Californian Ideology essay (1995).

• design,
• interactive media

Video Vortex Reader II launched and available for download 

On Saturday, the 12th of March 2011, a few minutes before six, the second Video Vortex reader was  presented to the audience of the sixth edition of the Video Vortex conference. Editors Geert Lovink and Rachel Somers Miles invited the contributors to the second volume, who were present en masse, to celebrate the launch of the book on stage.

• art,
• network cultures,
• video activism,
• participatory media

Micz Flor

Micz Flor is a flexecutive cultural producer and media developer with a special interest in video and streaming media.

• culture,
• radio,
• community media,
• grassroot journalism,
• streaming media

Stop Streaming and Listen: Fight Post-Governmental-Content-Control Streaming Media breaks UK law - find out why nobody wants to care... 

Streaming media deliver video or audio content over the web. But streaming media are very different from the web. In the UK such formats force BT to breach the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Act. To the grass-roots activist web-critics, this might be the right (and most likely only) time to pull the plug and prune the web. Alternatively we could happily stream on and witness how independent media production will be pushed to the periphery of the new order. Here is one of many scenarios...

• radio,
• streaming media,
• independent media

Pavlos Hatzopoulos

Pavlos Hatzopoulos is managing editor of Re-public.

David Cox

David Cox is an award winning film-maker, digital media artist, writer, and cultural critic who has lived and worked in Britain, the United States and Australia. His films include OTHERZONE, PUPPENHEAD and BIT. He obtained his Masters Degree in 2003 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia. He holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Film and Television (with Honors) in 1990 from Melbourne's Swinburne School of Film and Television. He also holds a Bachelor of Education degree from Deakin University, Australia.

• culture jamming

Rick Prelinger

Archivist, teacher, writer, lecturer and filmmaker. President, Prelinger Associates, Inc., commonly known as Prelinger Archives. Co-founder (with Megan Shaw Prelinger) of the Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly reference library in San Francisco.
Founded Prelinger Archives (New York and San Francisco), which at its peak held over 48,000 ephemeral (advertising, industrial, educational, documentary and amateur) films and over 30,000 cans of unedited (raw) footage. The core film collection was acquired in August 2002 by the Library of Congress.

• archive,
• public domain

Arthur Kroker

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. 

Digital Tailspin: Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden 

Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. Data we never knew existed is finding paths that were not intended and reveals information that we would never have thought of on our own.

• network cultures,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism,
• surveillance

The Disappearance of Public Space on the Net 

The Internet was started in the 1970's by the U.S. Defense Departmentas a communications tool and is now being bought out by I.B.M., M.C.I.and other megaCorporations. April, 1995 marked the closing of theNational Science Foundation's part of the internet, and signaled thebeginning of the end of the publicly funded computer networkinfrastructure.

• network cultures,
• net.activism

The Days of the Commune 

a work in progress in solidarity with OWS -  live and online

Citizens join us!
Every Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 1.30pm, March through May, we come to Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) to work on The Days of the Commune, a play by Bert Brecht. Each scene in the play denotes one day. Each day is documented and posted on our website thedaysofthecommune.com

• street protest,
• occupy,
• theatre

Connected Archives @DEAF 07, in Rotterdam 

Expert meeting (morning) and public presentations (afternoon) during the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) 2007.
Organised by de Balie and Portsmouth University, ISEA and V2_ In collaboration with Virtual Platform.

Thursday 12 April
Expert meeting: 10.00 ? 13.00
Public presentations: 15.00 ? 18.00

• tactical media,
• archive

Jeremy Hammond

Jeremy Hammond is a gifted young computer programmer facing a decade in prison. His crime? Leaking information from the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, information which revealed that Stratfor had been spying on human rights activists at the behest of corporations and the U.S. government.

• infopolitics,
• info-activism,
• anonymous,
• surveillance

Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz is the founder of Demand Progress, which launched the campaign against the Internet censorship bills (SOPA/PIPA) and now has over a million members. He is also a Contributing Editor to The Baffler and on the Council of Advisors to The Rules.

• infopolitics,
• public domain,
• info-activism