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 →

The Last week’s conference Digital Activism # Now, at Kings College London could, be seen as providing a counter narrative to the  conference of 2013, Unlike Us, organised by Amsterdam’s Institute’s of Networked Culture. In contrast, many of last week’s panels suggest the return of the Big We, characterised by Paolo Gerbaudo, (the… read more →

Conversation with Marcel Mars about his project Public Library
 
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Artist/hacker Marcel Mars agues that the concept of the public library is
 right up there with public education, public health care and the scientific
 method as a both a great achievement and social good to which almost 
everybody subscribes to… read more →

Sean Cubitt, Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths in the third of a series of conversations with leading researchers designed to take stock twenty years after the launch of the British experiment to introduce of research and doctoral programs into art schools.  Sean’s research into visual technologies, media art… read more →