Tactical media

Pages

• Arkzin
• BIONIC
• Bureau of Inverse Technology
• Critical Art Ensemble
• Dictionary of War
• David Garcia
• Graham Harwood
• Eric Kluitenberg
• Geert Lovink
• Makeworld
• !Mediengruppe Bitnik
• Next 5 Minutes
• Raqs Media Collective
• Florian Schneider
• Tactical Media Camp
• Ubermorgen
• The Yes Men
• YoHa
• Zamir

Resources

• Tactical Media Files, a living archive for tactical media, eds. Eric Kluitenberg and David Garcia.
• Virtual Casebooks on Tactical Media, New York University, eds. Barbara Abrash and Faye Ginsburg, 2002ff.
• Actipedia, open-access, user-generated database of creative activism.
• Tactical Tech, a Berlin-based non-profit organisation, working since 2003 to advance the use of information and digital technologies by advocates and activists worldwide.

Publications

• The Next Five Minutes Zapbook, ed. Amsterdam Cultural Studies (Jeroen van Bergeijk, Geke van Dijk, Karel Koch, Bas Raijmakers), Amsterdam: Paradiso, 1992, 70 pp.
• Chris Hill, "Where Independent Media Made a Difference: Citizen producers in Eastern Europe, 1989-1991", Community Media Review, Mar-Apr 1994.
• Studio Voice 238: "Electronic Nomads. Internet Alternative", Oct 1995. [1] (Japanese)
• Next 5 Minutes 3 Workbook, eds. David Garcia and Geert Lovink, Amsterdam, 1999, 146 pp.
• Critical Art Ensemble, Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media, Autonomedia, 2000.
• Subsol: "Tactical Media", ed. Joanne Richardson, 2002.
• Graham Meikle, Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet, Routledge, 2002. [2] [3]
• Next 5 Minutes 4 Reader, eds. Thomas Comiotto, Eric Kluitenberg, David Garcia, and Menno Grootveld, Amsterdam, 2003, 140 pp.
• Alexander R. Galloway, "Tactical Media", ch 6 in Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, MIT Press, 2004, pp 174-206.
• Joanne Richardson (ed.), An@rchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance, New York: Autonomedia, 2005, 368 pp.
• Ricardo Rosas, Giseli Vasconcelos (eds.). net_cultura 1.0: Digitofagia, São Paulo: Radical Livros, 2006, 347 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Branka Ćurčić, Zoran Pantelić (eds.), Public Netbase: Non Stop Future. New practices in Art and Media, Revolver, 2008.
• Deptford.TV diaries II: Pirate Strategies, London: OWN/SPC Media Lab/Deckspace, 2008, 171 pp.
• Third Text 22(5): "Whither Tactical Media?", eds. Gene Ray and Gregory Sholette, Sep 2008. [4]
• Rita Raley, Tactical Media, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 208 pp.
• Eric Kluitenberg, Legacies of Tactical Media: The Tactics of Occupation: From Tompkins Square to Tahrir, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011, 57 pp.
• Anne Danielle Soares Clinio dos Santos, Mídias táticas no Brasil: dinâmicas de informação e comunicação, Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. Dissertation. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Wolfgang Sützl, Theo Hug (eds.), Activist Media and Biopolitics: Critical Media Interventions in the Age of Biopower, Innsbruck University Press, 2012, 209 pp.
• Magdaléna Kobzová, Taktické média ako miesta konvergencie [Tactical Media as Places of Convergence], Prague: FAMU, 2013. PhD dissertation. [5] [6] (Slovak)
• Christina Dunbar-Hester, Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism, MIT Press, 2014, 320 pp. [7]
• Brian Holmes, "Tactical Television. Movement Media in the Nineties", Regarding Spectatorship, 2015.
• Eric Kluitenberg, David Garcia (eds.), Tactical Media Anthology, MIT Press, forthcoming. [8]
• Publications on tactical media at Monoskop Log

See also

Video activism, Internet activism, Art and activism