Eric Kluitenberg

Eric Kluitenberg is an independent theorist, writer, and organiser on culture, media and technology.  He is the editor-in-chief of the Tactical Media Files, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Network Cultures (2013). He teaches media theory and history at the Art/Science Interfaculty in The Hague.

• art,
• tactical media,
• media theory,
• public domain,
• hybrid space

Michael Benson

Michael Benson is a writer, film-maker, and photographer. In recent years he has authored a series of illustrated books with space themes for Abrams, the leading publisher of art books in the United States. His new book, Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle, was well in reviewed in The New York Times, The LA Times, and other publications. Benson's Beyond exhibition projects are based on his book Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes, which has been published in English, French, German, Spanish, Korean and Japanese. Beyond exhibitions of varying sizes have toured Europe and North America, and limited-edition prints from the Beyond project produced by Benson's company, Kinetikon Pictures, have been acquired by museums and private collectors.

• yugoslavia,
• cultural memory

A Different Sense of Time - Reading Tactical Media 

This short essay for Cahiers Costech explores the complicated relationship of activist and experimental / artistic practices around digital and online media to the problem of time.

• tactical media,
• archive,
• activism,
• info-activism,
• tactical research

World-Information Amsterdam 

World-Information.Org is an trans-national cultural intelligence provider, a collaborative effort of artists, scientists and technicians. It is a practical example for a technical and contextual environment for cultural production and an independent platform of critical media intelligence.

• infopolitics,
• info-activism,
• World-Information.Org,
• world-information,
• surveillance

Culture and Technologies of Control 

Introduction to the cultural intelligence manual "Tactical Reality Dictionary"

• tactical reality,
• control

Help B92 Campaign 

International support campaign for independent media in Yugoslavia, including the famous Radio B92 media center, in operation between March and July 1999.

• radio,
• tactical media,
• independent media,
• yugoslavia

Media Squares: On the new forms of protest and their media 

International public seminar and evening screening program on the recent outbursts of social protest and their media strategies, hosted by De Balie, centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam, Friday September 30, 2011.

• tactical media,
• design,
• media criticism,
• participatory media,
• wikileaks,
• middle east,
• street protest,
• cinema,
• occupy

net.congestion 

International Festival of Streaming Media
De Balie, Paradiso, Melkweg
Amsterdam, October 6 - 8, 2000

• network cultures,
• streaming media

Migrants / Media / Metropolis 

Migration and media-activists gather with theorists and labour organizers to discuss and share best practices in the fight against precarity and insecure labour conditions. Sharing inspiring examples of social justice unionism and creative campaigning like Justice for Janitors in the U.S. and Cleaners For a Better Future in the Netherlands.

• campaign

Publication: Legacies of Tactical Media - The Tactics of Occupation: From Tompkins Square to Tahrir. 

Out now and available for download:
INC Network Notebooks 05 - Legacies of Tactical Media
Tactical Media employ the 'tactics of the weak' to operate on the terrain of strategic power by means of 'any media necessary'. Once the rather exclusive practice of politically engaged artists and activists, the tactical appropriations of media tools and distribution infrastructures by the disenfranchised and the disgruntled have moved from the margins to centre stage.

• tactical media,
• archive,
• theory,
• media theory,
• hybrid space,
• tactical camping,
• occupy,
• self-mediation,
• tactical research

Interfund report 

Subject: [Interfund] - Create Your Own Solutions
Date: 03.12.98, 21:54:24

Interfund meeting  {AT}  Xchange Unlimited, Riga November 29, 1998.

During the Xchange Unlimited Baltic New Media Culture Festival in Riga a meeting was held to discuss the creation of the Interfund. The participants were Diana McCarty, Rasa Smite, Manu Luksch, Pit Schultz, Eric Kluitenberg, and others.

In memoriam: Oleg Kireev 

On Friday April 3, 2009 we received the terribly sad news that our friend and ever inspiring colleague Oleg Kireev from Moscow had died, apparently as a result of suicide. We are left behind as friends and colleagues, bereaved and puzzled by this dramatic fact. Kireev was a prominent guest in some of the most important projects in the art / media / politics triangle, which we had the honour developing at De Balie. Kireev was a crucial figure in circles of free culture, media activism and the arts in Moscow, one of the most demanding environments for such activity one can think of.

• tactical media,
• Russia

Next 5 Minutes 3 

Amsterdam & Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 12-14 March, 1999

The third Next 5 Minutes, an Amsterdam based conference on tactical communications culture, featuring do-it-yourself media, dissident art and electronic media activists from around the world, took place on the 12th, 13th and 14th of March 1999.

N5M3 archived festival website

• tactical media,
• streaming media,
• post-governmental organisation,
• art of campaigning,
• tactical education,
• cyberfeminism

Next 5 Minutes 4 

Next 5 Minutes is a festival that brings together media, art and politics. Next 5 Minutes revolves around the notion of tactical media, the fusion of art, politics and media. The festival is organised irregularly, when the urgency is felt to bring a new edition of the festival together.

• tactical media,
• cartography,
• activism,
• diy media,
• streaming media,
• media theory,
• media criticism,
• participatory media,
• cyberfeminism

Not Home 

"Happiness is where I am not"

Darko Fritz's Search for Home

• art,
• migration,
• borders