Wide Open to the Web Warriors 

Activists are using the internet to fight large companies over ethical issues. Yet many major brand-owners lack a clear counter-strategy. Earlier this month a group of environmental activists staged a sit-in at Shell's London offices. Although Shell turned the power off and cut the phone lines, activist Roddy Mansfield  broadcast the protest live to the internet and e-mailed the press, using a digital camera, laptop computer and mobile phone.

• campaign,
• war,
• activism,
• net.activism

Clemens Apprich

Theorist, writer, and Research Fellow at the Moving Image Lab as well as coordinator and curator at the Post-Media Lab at Leuphana University in Lüneburg.

• tactical media,
• media theory,
• media criticism

 Soda_Jerk

Soda_Jerk is an art collective established in 2002. It is comprised of sisters Dan and Dominique Angeloro, who are currently based in Berlin.

Brett Stalbaum

Brett Stalbaum is an artist and research theorist specializing in information theory, database, and software development. A serial collaborator, he was a co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater in 1998, for which he co-developed software called FloodNet (http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html), which has been used on behalf of the Zapatista movement against the websites of the Presidents of Mexico and the United States, as well as the Pentagon. As Forbes Magazine put it "Perhaps the first electronic attack against a target on American soil was the result of an art project." For EDT, this was all learned behavior taught by the example of the Zapatistas. Stalbaum has been part of many other individual and collaborative projects, and has published widely on digital art, its context and aesthetics, and location aware media. He is a past editor of Switch, the new media journal of the CADRE digital media lab.

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).

• public domain,
• political science

Joanne Richardson

Organiser, networker and writer, based in Cluj. Born in Bucharest, Romania, grew up in New York. Ex-philosopher, media theorist and freelance organizer.

 tranzit.sk

tranzit is a network working independently in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia since 2002.

• art,
• network cultures,
• diy media

Christoph Schlingensief

A biography on Christoph Schlingensief.
By Till Briegleb.

• art,
• campaign,
• identity theft,
• trickster

Networked Disruption 

The current techno-economic paradigm of Web 2.0 has challenged notions of art and hacktivism within digital culture. The book "Networked Disruption" takes up this challenge and discusses a new perspective on political and social criticism. It simultaneously asks what are the conditions for hacker and artistic practices under Web 2.0 and how can social networking be seen to build on and incorporate artistic practices from the earlier decades of digital and network culture.

Through its theoretical discussion of contemporary art and hacktivism, the book maps out a new contradictory space for art and criticism: Networked disruption.

• network cultures,
• activism,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism,
• hacktivism

Connected Archives @DEAF 07, in Rotterdam 

Expert meeting (morning) and public presentations (afternoon) during the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) 2007.
Organised by de Balie and Portsmouth University, ISEA and V2_ In collaboration with Virtual Platform.

Thursday 12 April
Expert meeting: 10.00 ? 13.00
Public presentations: 15.00 ? 18.00

• tactical media,
• archive

Bas Raijmakers

Bas Raijmakers is the creative director of STBY. Since the early nineties he has worked in the internet and media industry as consultant and research manager. He holds a master degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Amsterdam (1990) and a PhD degree in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London (2007).

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Alessandro Ludovico

From 1993 is the editor in chief of Neural, the Italian/English new media culture magazine.

Iona Sharp Casas

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

• art,
• archive,
• theory

Robert M Ochshorn

Nomadic artist, programmer, and musician. Split background including passionate forays into media and journalism, electrical and computer engineering, and sonic/visual art.

• art,
• archive,
• design,
• critical engineering

 Raqs Media Collective

The Raqs Media Collective enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs.

• art,
• public space,
• public domain,
• digital commons

Gordan Savicic

Artist | Critical Engineer

• art,
• critical engineering