Nina Meilof

Nina Meilof is an multi media advisor and an independent producer TV and internet programmes. Beside other projects, she worked for Amsterdam The Digital City and is an editor of Digital Citizen.

Iona Sharp Casas

Iona Sharp Casas is a Catalan/English independent writer, researcher and cultural analyst based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• art,
• archive,
• theory

 Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies

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.

• politics,
• media,
• globalisation,
• theory

Noortje Marres

Noortje Marres is a political philosopher and researcher at the University of Amsterdam. She completed her Ph.D. thesis No Issue, No Public. Democratic deficits after the displacement of politics, at the philosophy department of the University of Amsterdam in November 2005.

Michael Dieter

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.

• tactical media,
• media theory

Tjebbe van Tijen

Tjebbe vam Tijen is a Dutch artist, theorist and curator.

• art,
• archive,
• design,
• next 5 minutes

WE ARE HERE 

Support campaign for 120 asylum seekers astray for over two years in Amsterdam.

We have applied for asylum in your country. Our claims have been rejected. Now we are called 'illegals'. But we prefer to call ourselves refugees. Wars, international conflicts and systematic violence have devastated our countries. So you understand why we don't like being called illegals. We are refugees. And now we live on the streets. We barely have rights. We have no means of subsistence.

• campaign,
• migration,
• refugees

Daniel van derVelden

Daniel van der Velden is a graphic designer and writer. He graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy, and studied in Maastricht at the Jan van Eyck Academie under Michael Rock, Armand Mevis, Paul Elliman, Karel Martens and Jan van Toorn.

• design,
• wikileaks

March for Refugee Rights 

For a human life and against deportation.
November 18-20, Amsterdam to The Hague

• activism,
• migration,
• street protest,
• refugees

Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is a media theorist, net critic and activist.

Patrice Riemens

Patrice Riemens (born 1950) is a geographer and currently the Fellow of the Waag Society in Amsterdam. He is a promoter of Open Knowledge and Free Software, and has been involved as a "FLOSSopher" (a 'philosopher' of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software movements) at the Asia Source and Africa Source camps, held in 2005 and 2006 to promote FLOSS among non-governmental organisations. He is a member of the staff of Multitudes.

Menno Grootveld

Menno Grootveld ran a pirate tv-station (Rabotnik TV) in the early eighties, which later became one of the first legal local broadcasters in Amsterdam.

• tactical media,
• grassroot journalism,
• activism,
• independent media

Merijn Oudenampsen

Merijn Oudenampsen is an urban sociologist, active member of the Flexmens collective and a freelance researcher. His main research interest is Dutch populism.

• politics,
• environment,
• campaign