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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.

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    Mark Dery

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

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      Brian Holmes

      Brian Holmes, is an art critic, theorist and activist, particularly involved with the mapping of contemporary capitalism.

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        The End of a Paradise 

        In tactical media circles the Amsterdam media landscape has long been treated as a Utopian model because of her free radios, open tv-channels and digital public spaces. The last few years this media paradise is under threat. How did this come about? And is it still possible to reverse this development? This is the theme of the Amsterdam Media Debate. Nina Meilof (The Digital City - DDS), Andreas Baader and Josephine (Radio Patapoe), Frank (Radio de Vrije Keyser) and media-activists Patrice Riemens, Geert Lovink and Menno Grootveld prepared the grounds for the discussion.
        The aim of the Amsterdam Media Debate during The Next 5 Minutes is to explain to the international participants that big changes are underway here. They may perhaps learn something from our experiences, but we would also like to try and find out what the differences are with other big cities and with other countries. What are these big changes and how is the situation at the present moment?

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        Reclaim the Streets: The Film and Other Media Tactics 

        The Disorganisation

        Reclaim the Streets (RtS) cannot be understood as a campaign, although some of its methods are very similar. There are now RtS groups in thirty cities organising illegal street parties. Most of these groups only exist for the event, and many of the activists are involved in local campaigns during the rest of the year. There is no membership or official line although many would like to see a wider global strategy. As a movement, RtS is only four years old, and it could grow in unpredictable ways.

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        9-11 and After: A Virtual Case Book 

         The attack on the World Trade Center was--among other things--a stunning media event, and there was no shortage of analysis on mass media coverage. We saw no reason to replicate what others were doing. What no one seemed to be looking at closely was the significance of this ephemeral material that filled the streets and parks in New York below 14th Street or its relationship with the new media that was also flooding our lives.

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          the banality of cyberpunk, short notes on wikileaks 

          a year ago wikileaks was as known as any other hacker project on the
          chaos computer congress in berlin. its organizers which you remember
          only by surname were talking about technical and organisational
          issues, smoking a joint and gathering collaborators and co-developers.
          like often german or swedish hackers were running the backend of this
          project. they like the technocratic part where organisation and code
          goes together. here is where wikileaks has its center, and the idea of
          it was rather a channel, a protocol, or a p2p network to allow more
          transparency in information. the opposite movement against closing
          down on information which belongs to the public, and a direct result
          of a cyberpunk worldview, where an oligarchy of  a few corporations
          runs the world.

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          A context for collecting the new media 

          At the turning of the year 1992 I received the program and manifesto for the Next 5 Minutes Conference in Paradiso. As professional collector of documents by and about social movements for the International Institute of Social History, the list of videos to be shown caught my attention immediately. This was an excellent opportunity to realize something for which I had been trying already for some time, to make an international sample collection of products from the movement of new independent video makers.

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          Art Rant 

          Geert Lovink wrote:

          A gap is now in danger of getting bigger: old school video journalism, done by political activists, versus a thriving technology based network of media artists. Complaints about an 'eighties' style of amateurism of video works are on the rise. On the other hand, a depolitization of electronic arts is apparent as well. Or do we speak here about a mutual non-understanding? A return of the outworn difference between activist and artist? Can the concept of 'tactical media' present itself as a easy synthesis?

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          Final Program: As If / Vox Populi / The Syrian Archive / The Society of Post-Control 

          Tactical Media Connections public program, Amsterdam January 20 - 22, 2017.

          As part of the Tactical Media Connections public research trajectory tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and its connections to the present, a series of public events take place in Amsterdam between January 20 and 22, 2017. The public program includes an exhibition at Framer Framed in the Tolhuistuin cultural centre, opening on Friday January 20; a Meme Wars Lab workshop on Friday January 20; a public debate at Eye Filmmuseum on Saturday January 21, and a one day conference (‘The Society of Post-Control’) again at the Tolhuistuin on Sunday January 22.

          Please find below a brief program overview, followed by a detailed description of the different parts of the public program.

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