Josephine Bosma lives and works in Amsterdam. From an art background,
she is a journalist and author in the fields of art, new media and media
theory, focusing on art, sound and performance on the internet, as well
as cyberfeminism and media politics.
Rachel Baker is a network artist based in London. Between 1991 and 1996 she attended art colleges including Exeter College Of Art and Design, Newport School of Art and Design, and Goldsmiths College where she completed an MA in Design Futures, studying internet + audio communications and pseudo-interactive marketing.
ReadGregory Sholette is an artist, activist and author based in New York.
ReadAndreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin and works as the curator of the Leuphana Arts Program in Lüneburg.
ReadDarko Fritz Fritz is artist and independent curator and researcher. He was born in 1966, in Croatia, and currently he lives and works in Amsterdam, Zagreb and Korcula. He studied architecture at the University of Zagreb [1986 - 1989] and media art at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam [1990 - 1992].
ReadAalam Wassef, 38, is an Egyptian independent artist (installations, new media), blogger and internet activist.
He is based in Cairo in El Khalifa area.
Amy Sara Carroll is Assistant Professor of American Culture / Latino / a Studies and English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (2004), and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University (1995).
ReadShu Lea Cheang (born in Taiwan) is a multi-media artist, working within
the fields of net-based installation, social interface and film
production.
Inke Arns, curator and artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein (www.hmkv.de) in Dortmund, Germany, since 2005. She has worked internationally as an independent curator, writer and theorist specializing in media art, net cultures, and Eastern Europe since 1993. She lived in Paris (1982-86), finished school in West-Berlin in 1988, studied Russian literature, Eastern European studies, political science, and art history in Berlin and Amsterdam (1988-96) and in 2004 obtained her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis focusing on a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflected the historical avant-garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-)Yugoslavia and Russia.
ReadOleg Kireev (born 1975) - art- and mediacritic, editor and curator,
writer, critic and activist, founder of the Ghetto collective, Moscow.
Participated in a number of media-political campaigns ("Against all
parties", 1999) and actions ("Barricade at Bolshaya Nikitskaya", May
1998). Author of articles on art and politics in the Russian and
international press ("Novaya gazeta", "Nezavasimaya gazeta", "Flash
art", "Siksi", "Mute"
Campaigns and Movements Although a global conference, the first Next 5 Minutes, held six years ago(1993), was dominated by the first large scale encounter between two distinctive cultural communities. On the one hand, Western European and North American campaigning media artists and activists and on the other hand their equivalent from the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, dissident artists and samizdat activists, still basking in the after glow of the role they played in bringing down the communist dictatorships. In the excitement of discovering each other, these two communities tended to gloss over their ideological differences,understandably emphasising only the shared practice of exploiting consumer electronics (in those days mostly the video camcorder) as a means of organisation and social mobilisation. We referred to these practices, and the distinctive aesthetic to which it gave rise, tactical media.
ReadOver 2,000 Ogoni, including their leader, Ken Saro-Wiwa have died since they started their non-violent campaign against Shell. Many Ogoni are still imprisoned today. Their only crime was to campaign against the ecological destruction of their homeland by Shell and ask for a greater share of the oil wealth that had been drilled from under their land.
ReadPaolo Cirio works with legal, economic, and cultural systems of the information society. He shows his research and intervention-based works through artifacts, photos, installations, videos, and public art.
ReadA collective of five artists dedicated to exploring the intersections
between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory.
International meeting for #GlobalDebout programme May 7th-8th – Paris, Place de la République
Location: Paris, Place de la République
This meeting is intended for activists and citizens all over the world.
International Call by #NuitDebout
Michael Dieter is a PhD candidate at University of Melbourne, currently
completing a doctoral thesis on the relations between media aesthetics,
ecological thought and political philosophy in critical technoscientific
art practices. His publications have appeared in the journals M/C and
the Australian Humanities Review. He currently teaches in the new media
program at the University of Amsterdam.
Member of Not An Alternative, a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, whose mission
aims to integrate art, activism and theory in order to affect popular
understandings of events, symbols and history.
www.notanalternative.net
