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'''Tomislav Medak''' (1973) is a philosopher with interests in contemporary political philosophy, media theory and aesthetics.  
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'''Tomislav Medak''' (1973) is a doctoral student at Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures, focusing on the political economy of technology and the planetary ecological crisis. He is also a member of the theory and publishing team of the [[Mama|Multimedia Institute/MAMA]], Zagreb since 2000, a co-initiator of the [https://pirate.care/ Pirate Care] project, and an artist in the performing arts collective [http://badco.hr/ BADco.]
  
 
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He earned a degree in philosophy and German studies from the University of Zagreb/Croatia (1997). His theoretical interests are in contemporary political philosophy, media theory and aesthetics. He has co-ordinated the theory program and publishing activities of the [[Mama|MaMa – Multimedia Institute]], Zagreb since 2000. He is a free software advocate and project leader of the Croatian Creative Commons team.
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With his colleagues at the [[Mama|Multimedia Institute/MAMA]], since 2000 he has organised talks, conferences and exhibitions, and edited publications in political economy, tactical media and the commons. His own research interests are in technology, capitalist development and post-capitalist transition, with a particular focus on environmental crisis, political economy of intellectual property and unevenness of techno-science. At times, he also writes on theatre, dance and politics.
  
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He has (co-)curated and (co-)organized a number of conferences and exhibitions dealing with political theory, commons or cultural policy, most recently the international conference ''Economy of Crisis Capitalism and Ecology of the Commons'', Zagreb (2012), the international conference ''Open Institutions – Institutional Imagination and Cultural Public Sphere'', Zagreb (2011), and an exhibition on the history of hacking ''System.Hack'', Zagreb, Belgrade/Serbia and Novi Sad/Serbia (2005–2007), created in collaboration with [[Marcell Mars]]. In 2012 he helped organizing and co-ordinating the Croatian protests against the international intellectual property treaty ACTA.
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He authored two short books: ''The Hard Matter of Abstraction – A Guidebook to Domination by Abstraction'' (V_____erlag für Handbücher, 2016) and ''Shit Tech for A Shitty World'' (Aksioma, 2015). He also co-authored several edited volumes:  ''Public Library'' (with Marcell Mars, WHW/Multimedija Institute, 2015), ''Guerrilla Open Access'' (with Marcell Mars, Post-office Press, 2018), ''The Idea of Radical Media'' (with Petar Milat, Multimedia Institute/Arkzin, 2014), and ''Time and (In)Completion: Images and Performances of Time in Late Capitalism'' (with Goran Sergej Pristaš, BADco., 2014).
  
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Since 2001 he has been working with the Zagreb-based experimental theatre collective BADco. as a performer, dramaturg and director. Most recently as dramaturg of the theatre production ''Black and Forth'' (2012), performer and dramaturg of the theatre production ''The League of Time'' (2010), co-director and performer of the theatre production ''1 poor and one 0'' (2008). Together with the collective he has created an interactive installation work ''Responsiblity for Things Seen'', initially presented at the Croatian exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and since then in Oslo/Norway, Zagreb, Rijeka/Croatia and Ljubljana/Slovenia. He is also a volunteer for the urban activist initiative Right to the City Zagreb.
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In parallel, he works as a performer, dramaturge and director with the Zagreb-based experimental theatre collective BADco. With the collective he has created a number of artworks, including performances ''Correcting Rhythm'' (2017), ''Spores'' (2016), ''A Pound of Histeria, Acceleration… melodrama'' (2014), ''The League of Time'' (2010) and ''1 poor and one 0'' (2008). Some of those have toured widely around Europe, while the interactive installation ''Responsibility for Things Seen'' was presented in 2011 Venice Biennal.  
  
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With [[Marcell Mars]] he organized a number of activities around the [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/cat/public-library/ Public Library] project, including [[Haip|HAIP festival]] (Ljubljana, 2012), exhibitions at [http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/program/2014/events/public-library/ Württembergischer Kunstverein] (2014) and [http://mi2.hr/en/2015/05/javna-knjiznica/ Galerija Nova] (2015), as well as coordinated digitization projects ''Written-off'' (2015), ''Digital Archive of Praxis and the Korčula Summer School'' (2016) and ''Catalogue of Liberated Books'' (2013ff).
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With [[Marcell Mars]] he organized a number of activities around the [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2015/05/27/repertorium_public_library/ Public Library] project, including [[Haip|HAIP festival]] (Ljubljana, 2012), the exhibitions at [https://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/program/2014/events/public-library/ Württembergischer Kunstverein] (2014), [https://mi2.hr/en/2015/05/javna-knjiznica/ Galerija Nova] (2015) and [http://web.archive.org/web/20200130220151/http://www.ravenrow.org/events/paper_struggles/ Raven Row] (2019), as well as coordinated digitization projects ''Written-off'' (2015), ''Digital Archive of Praxis and the Korčula Summer School'' (2016) and ''Catalogue of Liberated Books'' (2013ff). [http://tom.medak.click/en/bio/ (2021)]
  
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==
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* ''[[Media:Medak_Tomislav_Technologies_for_an_Ecological_Transition_2017.pdf|Technologies for an Ecological Transition]]'', Zagreb: Institute for Political Ecology, 2017, 25 pp. {{en}}
 
* ''[[Media:Medak_Tomislav_Technologies_for_an_Ecological_Transition_2017.pdf|Technologies for an Ecological Transition]]'', Zagreb: Institute for Political Ecology, 2017, 25 pp. {{en}}
 
* with Marcell Mars, [http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/against-innovation-compromised-institutional-agency-and-acts-custodianship "Against Innovation: Compromised Institutional Agency and Acts of Custodianship"], ''Ephemera'' 19(2): "Repair Matters", May 2019, pp 345-368, [[Media:Mars Marcell Medak Tomislav 2019 Against Innovation Compromised Institutional Agency and Acts of Custodianship.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
 
* with Marcell Mars, [http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/against-innovation-compromised-institutional-agency-and-acts-custodianship "Against Innovation: Compromised Institutional Agency and Acts of Custodianship"], ''Ephemera'' 19(2): "Repair Matters", May 2019, pp 345-368, [[Media:Mars Marcell Medak Tomislav 2019 Against Innovation Compromised Institutional Agency and Acts of Custodianship.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
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* with Marcell Mars, [https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Lison_Andrew_Mars_Marcell_Medak_Tomislav_Prelinger_Rick_Archives_2019.pdf#page=73 "System of a Takedown: Control and De-commodification in the Circuits of Academic Publishing"], in Andrew Lison, et al., ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21413 Archives]'', Lüneburg: meson.press, and University of Minnesota Press, pp 47-68. {{en}}
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* with Marcell Mars, [https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Lison_Andrew_Mars_Marcell_Medak_Tomislav_Prelinger_Rick_Archives_2019.pdf#page=73 "System of a Takedown: Control and De-commodification in the Circuits of Academic Publishing"], in Andrew Lison, et al., ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21413 Archives]'', Lüneburg: meson.press, and University of Minnesota Press, 2019, pp 47-68. {{en}}
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* [https://lefteast.org/croatia-earthquake-pandemic/ "Breaking the Camel’s Back: When an Earthquake and a Pandemic Converge"], ''LeftEast'', 23 Mar 2020. [http://tom.medak.click/posts/earthquake/] {{en}}
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* with Mladen Domazet and Andro Rilović, [https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12081-0 "Degrowth"], in ''Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes'', Elsevier, 2020, pp 287-295. [https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12081-0] {{en}}
  
 
==Translations==
 
==Translations==
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* Deleuze, Gilles; Herman Melville. (2014). ''[[Media:Deleuze_Gilles_Melville_Herman_Bartleby_ili_formula_Perovoda_Bartleby.pdf|Bartleby ili formula; Perovođa Bartleby]]''. Trans. Tomislav Medak and Maja Šoljan. Novi Sad & Zagreb: kuda.org & Multimedia Institute. 101 pp. [[Media:Deleuze_Gilles_Melville_Herman_Bartleby_ili_formula_Perovoda_Bartleby_2up.pdf|2-up version]]. {{sc}}
 
* Deleuze, Gilles; Herman Melville. (2014). ''[[Media:Deleuze_Gilles_Melville_Herman_Bartleby_ili_formula_Perovoda_Bartleby.pdf|Bartleby ili formula; Perovođa Bartleby]]''. Trans. Tomislav Medak and Maja Šoljan. Novi Sad & Zagreb: kuda.org & Multimedia Institute. 101 pp. [[Media:Deleuze_Gilles_Melville_Herman_Bartleby_ili_formula_Perovoda_Bartleby_2up.pdf|2-up version]]. {{sc}}
  
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==Interviews (given)==
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==Interviews==
 
* [http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/mi2text.html "Multimedia Institute (mi2): Zeljko Blace, Marcell Mars & Tomi Medak interviewed by Joanne Richardson"], ''subsol'' 2, Apr 2002. {{en}}
 
* [http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/mi2text.html "Multimedia Institute (mi2): Zeljko Blace, Marcell Mars & Tomi Medak interviewed by Joanne Richardson"], ''subsol'' 2, Apr 2002. {{en}}
 
* Katarina Lovrečić, [http://gkr.hr/Magazin/Razgovori/Tomislav-Medak-Knjiznice-trebaju-i-onu-nevidljivu-masu-knjiznicara-uvidjeti-kao-saveznika "Tomislav Medak: Knjižnice trebaju i onu nevidljivu masu knjižničara uvidjeti kao saveznika"], ''GKR'', 20 Aug 2013. {{cr}}
 
* Katarina Lovrečić, [http://gkr.hr/Magazin/Razgovori/Tomislav-Medak-Knjiznice-trebaju-i-onu-nevidljivu-masu-knjiznicara-uvidjeti-kao-saveznika "Tomislav Medak: Knjižnice trebaju i onu nevidljivu masu knjižničara uvidjeti kao saveznika"], ''GKR'', 20 Aug 2013. {{cr}}
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* Petar Jandrić, Ana Kuzmanić, [[Media:Jandric Petar Kuzmanic Ana 2017 Knowledge Commons and Activist Pedagogies From Idealist Positions to Collective Actions Conversation with Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.pdf|"Knowledge Commons and Activist Pedagogies: From Idealist Positions to Collective Actions: Conversation with Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak"]], in Jandrić, ''Learning in the Age of Digital Reason'', Rotterdam: Sense, 2017, pp 243-269. {{en}}
 
* Petar Jandrić, Ana Kuzmanić, [[Media:Jandric Petar Kuzmanic Ana 2017 Knowledge Commons and Activist Pedagogies From Idealist Positions to Collective Actions Conversation with Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.pdf|"Knowledge Commons and Activist Pedagogies: From Idealist Positions to Collective Actions: Conversation with Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak"]], in Jandrić, ''Learning in the Age of Digital Reason'', Rotterdam: Sense, 2017, pp 243-269. {{en}}
 
* Felix Stalder, Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/caring-for-the-public-library/ "Caring for the Public Library, Interview with Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak"], Mar 2019, 33 min. Video. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/caring-for-the-public-library_mars_medak.pdf Transcript]. Conducted Oct 2017 at HEK, Zurich. Part of the [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/category/working-materials/interviews/ Creating Commons] project. {{en}}
 
* Felix Stalder, Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/caring-for-the-public-library/ "Caring for the Public Library, Interview with Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak"], Mar 2019, 33 min. Video. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/caring-for-the-public-library_mars_medak.pdf Transcript]. Conducted Oct 2017 at HEK, Zurich. Part of the [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/category/working-materials/interviews/ Creating Commons] project. {{en}}
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* with Jodi Dean and Petar Jandrić, [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/398d9609-6bb7-44ec-955c-687b59023b05 "Embrace the Antagonism, Build the Party! The New Communist Horizon in and Against Communicative Capitalism"], ''Postdigital Science and Education'' 1:1, Mar 2019.
 
* Miljenka Buljević, [https://booksa.hr/kolumne/intervju/svijet-takozvanog-drustva-znanja-svijet-je-nejednakosti "'Svijet takozvanog društva znanja svijet je nejednakosti'"], ''Booksa.hr'', Zagreb, 13 Apr 2020. {{cr}}
 
* Miljenka Buljević, [https://booksa.hr/kolumne/intervju/svijet-takozvanog-drustva-znanja-svijet-je-nejednakosti "'Svijet takozvanog društva znanja svijet je nejednakosti'"], ''Booksa.hr'', Zagreb, 13 Apr 2020. {{cr}}
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==Interviews==
 
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* with Jodi Dean and Petar Jandrić, [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/398d9609-6bb7-44ec-955c-687b59023b05 "Embrace the Antagonism, Build the Party! The New Communist Horizon in and Against Communicative Capitalism"], ''Postdigital Science and Education'' 1:1, Mar 2019.
 
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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* [[Mama|Mama Zagreb]]
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* [[Mama|MAMA Zagreb]]
 
* [[Digital libraries]]
 
* [[Digital libraries]]
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
 
* [http://tom.medak.click/en/ Personal website]
 
* [http://tom.medak.click/en/ Personal website]
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* [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/people/tomislav-medak/ Profile on Memory of the World]
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* [https://pirate.care/ Pirate Care]
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* [http://badco.hr/en/about/#!tomislav-medak Profile on BADco]
 
* [https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/tomislav-medak Profile on U Coventry]
 
* [https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/tomislav-medak Profile on U Coventry]
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* [http://badco.hr/en/about/#!tomislav-medak Profile on BADco]
 
 
* [https://twitter.com/tmedak Twitter]
 
* [https://twitter.com/tmedak Twitter]
  
 
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Revision as of 09:11, 17 May 2021


Tom Medak in Zagreb, 2017.
Born Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Lives in Coventry, United Kingdom

Tomislav Medak (1973) is a doctoral student at Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures, focusing on the political economy of technology and the planetary ecological crisis. He is also a member of the theory and publishing team of the Multimedia Institute/MAMA, Zagreb since 2000, a co-initiator of the Pirate Care project, and an artist in the performing arts collective BADco.

With his colleagues at the Multimedia Institute/MAMA, since 2000 he has organised talks, conferences and exhibitions, and edited publications in political economy, tactical media and the commons. His own research interests are in technology, capitalist development and post-capitalist transition, with a particular focus on environmental crisis, political economy of intellectual property and unevenness of techno-science. At times, he also writes on theatre, dance and politics.

He authored two short books: The Hard Matter of Abstraction – A Guidebook to Domination by Abstraction (V_____erlag für Handbücher, 2016) and Shit Tech for A Shitty World (Aksioma, 2015). He also co-authored several edited volumes: Public Library (with Marcell Mars, WHW/Multimedija Institute, 2015), Guerrilla Open Access (with Marcell Mars, Post-office Press, 2018), The Idea of Radical Media (with Petar Milat, Multimedia Institute/Arkzin, 2014), and Time and (In)Completion: Images and Performances of Time in Late Capitalism (with Goran Sergej Pristaš, BADco., 2014).

In parallel, he works as a performer, dramaturge and director with the Zagreb-based experimental theatre collective BADco. With the collective he has created a number of artworks, including performances Correcting Rhythm (2017), Spores (2016), A Pound of Histeria, Acceleration… melodrama (2014), The League of Time (2010) and 1 poor and one 0 (2008). Some of those have toured widely around Europe, while the interactive installation Responsibility for Things Seen was presented in 2011 Venice Biennal.

With Marcell Mars he organized a number of activities around the Public Library project, including HAIP festival (Ljubljana, 2012), the exhibitions at Württembergischer Kunstverein (2014), Galerija Nova (2015) and Raven Row (2019), as well as coordinated digitization projects Written-off (2015), Digital Archive of Praxis and the Korčula Summer School (2016) and Catalogue of Liberated Books (2013ff). (2021)

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Interviews

See also

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