After the carnival like excitement around the Scottish referendum the cliché that is echoing around mainstream media discourse is that that politics in the UK can now never be the same again. That new levels of voter and popular participation in a political process has surpassed anything we have… read more →

In the book Pandora’s Hope, Bruno Latour suggests replacing the concept of science with research. This, he argues, would have the effect of rendering science less cold, less aloof and distant; less likely to act as if it were disconnected from the collective. This shift he asserts would result in something more uncertain… read more →

-My social networks followed me into the war and collided with others – a reminder that warfare has become newly alive with information. The basic suite of tools journalists use has only been around six or seven years – so Gaza is one of the earliest glimpses into how propaganda… read more →

The involvement of art in activist movements is highly contested. Particularly at a point when a veritable industry exists of politically engaged art in museums and academies around the world. One of the few shows I have seen to address this terrain in a way that takes us into new… read more →

About Tactical Media Connections  A public research trajectory tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and its connections to the present  Under the working title ‘Tactical Media Connections’ the editors of the Tactical Media Files, David Garcia and Eric Kluitenberg have begun an extensive public research project that seeks to trace… read more →

A public debate at Framer Framed, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, Sunday July 6, 14.00 – 17.00hrs With: Brian Holmes (writer, art critic, translator, activist), Robert Kluijver (Curator of Crisis of History), Paolo Gerbaudo (Researcher, writer, lecturer King’s College London),  Simona Lodi (director Share Festival Torino), Ozge Celikaslan (Video Vortex Istanbul) – Moderators: David Garcia (artist, researcher, co-founder Next 5 Minutes) & Eric Kluitenberg (writer, theorist, editor… read more →

In recent posting on the nettime mailing list Geert Lovink posed the following question; “To me, it is somehow super clear that Facebook is evil. Not hard to understand. But Google? Why are tensions rising so high lately around them? Look at the tone of the Cory Doctorow blog post… read more →

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the  outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of  human contempt find that without changing their  address they eventually live in the metropolis.  — Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant.   Although the drive for mass participation has been at… read more →

Dutch artist Ron Peperkamp is the managing director, co-inventor and advocate of Kunst Reserve Bank, a sophisticated experiment to test whether the potency of art as a signifier of human creativity could act as a reliable reserve currency. In other words the goal was to substitute an ‘Art Standard” for… read more →

During the 1990s and Noughties Amsterdam became known for ambitious and large scale ‘art into life’ projects  that took the methods invented by of critical post modern artists and propelled them into engagements with the wider public sphere transcending the one off homeopathic street interventions by the likes of Barbara… read more →