Willing Slave 

It's almost spring in Tokyo-

to pick up the dialogue between David and DeeDee as moderated by Geert on activist vs artist, corporation vs independent--

The Critical Engineering Manifesto 

The Critical Engineering Working Group - Berlin, October 2011  

• art,
• critical engineering

http://new . territories / appropriation . of . medical . discourse / art . com 

Nina Czegledy and Inke Arns presented the material described in the following text during the afternoon programme at V2_Organisation Rotterdam on Sunday, January 21st, 14.00 - 18.00 hrs.

On an imaginary journey in the territories of current medical practice and visual art, we observe the disintegration of former boundaries and discover the emergence of a new discourse involving new metaphors and new mythologies. In the course of this voyage we witness the crystallization of a process which began in the Enlightenment and today is linked together by electronic technologies. Mediated by television, and lately the Internet, the concepts involved here, have contributed to the construction of a simulated reality in both medical science and art which imprisons attention and redirects it from the subject of the activity reproduced.

Moving Forest CODA - One Day Workshop 

This workshop follows on from the Moving Forest event on July 4 as a coda, giving a time for reflection and for developing the argument and experience of the work along other lines.  It involves participants, organisers and guests, and people from CCW, CCS, RADA and activists, artists and others from across the sprawl.

• art,
• urban intervention,
• theory,
• hybrid space,
• performance

Launch: Open 21 (Im)Mobility - Exploring the Boundaries of Hypermobility 

Tuesday evening May 24  the theme issue (Im)Mobility of Open, Journal for Art and the Public Domain was presented at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, in combination with a screening of The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, and a Q & A with filmmaker Noël Burch.

• public space,
• public domain,
• borders,
• im/mobility

Newstweek 

Fixing the Facts.

"Media is the nervous system of a democracy; if it's not functioning well, the democracy can't function."
- Jeff Cohen, Founding Director of the Park Center for Independent Media

• tactical gizmology,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism,
• media criticism,
• critical engineering

Tactical Media Connections update: May 1, 2015 

A public research trajectory tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and its connections to the present.

Tactical Media Connections is an extended trajectory of collaborative research tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and mapping the relationships between its precursors and its progeny. The program is realised through a series of meetings and exhibitions, culminating in the publication of a Tactical Media Anthology with contributions and dialogues ranging across generations and territories.

• art,
• tactical media,
• archive,
• theory,
• tactical research

Maja Smerkar - In Defense of Artistic Freedom: Support Legal Action Against Political Abuse 

Maja Smrekar Legal Defense Fund 
Slovenian artist Maja Smrekar is taking legal action against a politically motivated smear campaign orchestrated by the far-right Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS)
In the lead-up to Slovenia’s 10th May referendum on pension reforms for awarded artists, SDS escalated its long-standing culture war—branding contemporary art as “degenerate” and weaponizing Smrekar’s internationally acclaimed K-9 Topology project to provoke moral panic.

• politics,
• art,
• campaign,
• democracy,
• contestational biology,
• biopolitics,
• disinformation

Unlike Us #3 - Social Media: Design or Decline 

On March 22nd and 23rd 2013 the Institute of NetworkCultures will organize the event Unlike Us #3. The aim of Unlike Us is to establish a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers who work on 'alternatives in social media'. Unlike Us was founded in July 2011. Through workshops, conferences, online dialogues and publications, Unlike Us intends to both analyze the economic and cultural aspects of dominant social media platforms and to propagate the further development and proliferation of alternative, decentralized social media software.

• art,
• network cultures,
• activism,
• net.activism,
• design,
• theory,
• social sculpture,
• participatory media