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Next 5 Minutes 1
The Next Five Minutes is a conference, exhibition and tv program taking place between 8th and 10th January 1993 in Amsterdam, that wants to leave behind the rigid dichotomy between the mainstream, commercial and national tv on one hand and marginal independent tv on the other. Although these differences may still be important, N5M wants to focus on tv-makers crossing the borders of tv-making and going into the spaces that the tv-world still has to offer.
ReadThe Language of Tactical Media
"World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between military and civilian participation." -- motto of Tactical Media Crew, borrowed from Marshall McLuhan
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Crisis / Media
Sarai-Waag Workshop at Sarai-CSDS, Delhi March 3-5, 2003
"The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who tried to stay neutral in times of crisis..."
- The Inferno, Dante Alighieri
Tactical Television in Italy
Overview and manifesto of urban tv movements in Italy
The revolution WILL be broadcast - at least locally
This essay provides a short and insightful overview of alternative television projects in the Italy of Berlusconi.
Telestreet
Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class
Arthur Kroker, Canadian media theorist and is the author of 'ThePossessed Individual', 'Spasm' and 'Hacking the Future'. Over the pastyears he, together with Marilouise Kroker, were often in Europe andmade appearances at Virtual Futures, V-2, Eldorado/Antwerpen, etc.Recently, they have also been discovered in German-speaking countries.Both are noted for their somewhat compact jargon, which made theirmessage appear to drown somewhat in overcomplex code. But "DataTrash"`(1994) changed all that. The long treck through the squashydiscourses had not been in vain. Firmly rooted in European philosophy,yet not submerged, Arthur Kroker has found his topic: the virtual class.
Which Democracy in a Post-Political Age?
The question that I would like to examine with you concerns the role that the new media can play in the fostering of democracy. We can discern roughly two opposite answers to that question. On one side there are those enthusiasts who argue that they provide us with the technology that will finally make it possible to realize the ideal of direct democracy under modern conditions, on the other side those detractors who see them as contributing to a further privatization of politics and as replacing rational debate by the instant expression of private prejucides, turning what ought to be public decisions into private consumer-like choices.
ReadMedia Darkness
Reflections on Public Space, Light and Conflict
There is an unshakable belief in the idea that what defines the mass
media is that they produce or constitute, in all their different ways,
a public. So while there is agreement on the fact that not every public
sphere is a communication medium, many people tend to think that every
communication medium constitutes a public sphere - the most recent and
prominent candidate being, of course, the Internet. But is this claim
as to the public quality of all media, hegemonic as it may be today,
really tenable?
Oliver Marchart
Since 2006 Oliver Marchart is Professor at the Universtiy of Luzern, 2001-2002 he was Scientific Advisor and Head of the Education Project of documenta 11.
He lectured at different universities (University of Vienna, University
of Innsbruck, Art Academies, Essex Summer School, University of Basel).
Fellowships: Research Fellow at the Centre for Theoretical Studies,
University of Essex (1995); Junior Fellow at the International Research
Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna (1997-1998); Fellow at the
Columbia University Institute at Reid Hall and the École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2005).
Media (in) Darkness
Media (in) Darkness
Oliver Marchart
Strategies for Tactical Media
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.
ReadA context for collecting the new media
At the turning of the year 1992 I received the program and manifesto for the Next 5 Minutes Conference in Paradiso. As professional collector of documents by and about social movements for the International Institute of Social History, the list of videos to be shown caught my attention immediately. This was an excellent opportunity to realize something for which I had been trying already for some time, to make an international sample collection of products from the movement of new independent video makers.
ReadTjebbe van Tijen
Tjebbe vam Tijen is a Dutch artist, theorist and curator.
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