UniCommon

UniCommon is a transnational social movement focused on precarious living and labour conditions, with a special focus on crippling public education infrastructures.

• precarity

Franco Berardi ('Bifo')

Franco Berardi Bifo is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist.

• media theory,
• precarity,
• telestreet,
• media criticism

 Candida TV

Candida TV was born from the melting of different realities: underground cinema, video production, rave parties, street theaters, independent radios, underground bulletin board systems on the net and counterculture pop-magazines in the last seven years in Rome.

• art,
• activism,
• independent media

Luther Blissett

"Luther Blissett" is a multi-use name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by hundreds of artists and social activists all over Europe since summer 1994.

Tatiana Bazzichelli

Tatiana Bazzichelli (it/de) is a researcher, networker and curator, working in the field of hacktivism and net culture.

• network cultures,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism

Micha Cárdenas

Micha Cárdenas is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts Department and Critical Gender Studies Program at University of California San Diego (USCD), a transgender performance and new media artist and theorist. She is a researcher at the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and at CalIT2. Her work deals with the interplay of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She currently lives and works in San Diego and Los Angeles.

• art

Andy Cameron

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

• design,
• interactive media

Mark Dery

Mark Dery is a cultural critic. He writes about media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and unpopular culture.

 ArtLeaks

ArtLeaks 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.

• art,
• campaign,
• precarity,
• art of campaigning

Matteo Pasquinelli

Matteo Pasquinelli is a writer, curator and researcher. He completed his doctorate at Queen Mary University of London with a thesis on the new forms of conflict within knowledge economy and cognitive capitalism. He wrote the book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons (2008) and edited the collections Media Activism (2002) and C'Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader (2007). He writes and lectures frequently at the intersection of French philosophy, media culture and Italian post-operaismo.

• theory,
• media theory

Simona Levi

Simona Levi is a multidisciplinary artist born in Italy and established in Barcelona since 1990. She is the Director of Conservas, a cultural activity centre. Since 2000, she has directed the arts festival INn MOTION which takes place at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of the city of Barcelona. She is an outstanding activist in European social movements in the area of free circulation of knowledge and the right to housing. She is also involved in several artistic and activist platforms. She is co-founder of EXGAE, a civil organization that defends from the abuses of the cultural industry trade groups.

• art,
• free culture,
• austerity