Dictionary of War - Taipei Edition 

Taipei Edition: October 24th and 25th, 2008

• war,
• theory,
• dictionary of war

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?

• activism,
• diy media

Moving Forest 2012 London 

A twelve day prelude moving across the city; a twelve-hour sound art opera of betrayal and rebellion culminating in a spectacular series of disturbing performances in Chelsea College of Art Parade Ground; a one-day coda of debate.

Presented by AKA the CASTLE

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

World-Information Brussels 

The Vienna Institute for New Culture Technologies / t0 was invited by the organizers of the European City of Culture Brussels 2000 to stage the lead project of the new media program.

• infopolitics,
• world-information

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

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

Taking Care of Things! 

Archives - Life-Cycles - Care
TMF editors Eric Kluitenberg and David Garcia have been invited to participate in the workshop "Taking Care of Things!" in Lüneburg, Germany, January 15-18, organised by the Post-Media Lab / Centre for Digital Cultures - Leuphana University, and Habits of Living in cooperation with the Stadtarchiv Lüneburg.

• archive,
• theory,
• tactical research

Paolo Gerbaudo, Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism 

"Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the "indignados" protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a "cyberspace" detached from physical reality. Instead, social media is used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, which involves the assembling of different groups around "occupied" places such as Cairo's Tahrir Square or New York's Zuccotti Park."

• network cultures,
• activism,
• public space,
• participatory media,
• hybrid space,
• street protest

We Interrupt This Program 

Deep Dish TV and Paper Tiger TV to Release New Video Series About Resistance to Rise of Far-Right Political Movements.
We Interrupt this Program brings together reports from frontlines of fight against white nationalism, neoliberalism, patriarchy, and colonialism.

• politics,
• activism,
• video activism,
• tactical television

It Is Not The Changes That Might Take Place, But The Changes That Are Already Occurring And How To Make The Most Out Of It 

More than talking about changes that can be expected in the media landscape because of the developments and the influence of on-line streaming media, it is more consequent and important to consider (and act up on) the influence that these facilities already have in this particular area and the way in which information and communications as a whole have changed and will continue to change because on-line streaming media.