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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 founding 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 was part of the performing arts collective [http://badco.hr/ BADco.] He got his PhD at Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures, focusing on the political economy of technology and the planetary ecological crisis.  
  
 
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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), which he 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 worked 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/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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* [http://homepage2.nifty.com/ISEA-Japan/inl/inl93a.html "Multimedia Institute - mi2"], ''ISEA Newsletter'' #93, Jun-Aug 2003.  
 
* [http://homepage2.nifty.com/ISEA-Japan/inl/inl93a.html "Multimedia Institute - mi2"], ''ISEA Newsletter'' #93, Jun-Aug 2003.  
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* Medak, et al., ''[http://zarez.hr/repository/issue/pdf/146/146.pdf#page=21 Sloboda stvaralaštvu]'', section in ''zarez'' 7:146, Zagreb, 2005, pp 21-28. [http://scribd.com/doc/142871399] {{cr}}
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* Medak, et al., ''[[Media:Sloboda_stvaralastvu_2005.pdf|''zarez'' 7(146): "Sloboda stvaralaštvu"]]'', Zagreb, 2005, pp 21-28. Magazine section. {{cr}}
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* Medak, et al., ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3182 System.hack()]'', Zagreb: Mama, 2006, 96 pp. Exhibition catalogue. {{cr}}/{{en}}
 
* Medak, et al., ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3182 System.hack()]'', Zagreb: Mama, 2006, 96 pp. Exhibition catalogue. {{cr}}/{{en}}
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* editor, with Petar Milat, ''[[Media:Medak_Tomislav_Milat_Petar_eds_Idea_of_Radical_Media.pdf|Idea of Radical Media / Ideja radikalnih medija]]'', Zagreb: Multimedia Institute, 2013, 256 pp. {{en}}/{{cr}}
 
* editor, with Petar Milat, ''[[Media:Medak_Tomislav_Milat_Petar_eds_Idea_of_Radical_Media.pdf|Idea of Radical Media / Ideja radikalnih medija]]'', Zagreb: Multimedia Institute, 2013, 256 pp. {{en}}/{{cr}}
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* editor, with Petar Milat, ''[[Media:Medak_Tomislav_Milat_Petar_eds_Prospects_of_Arkzin.pdf|Prospects of Arkzin / Izgledi Arkzina]]'', Zagreb: Arkzin and Multimedia Institute, 2013, 48 pp. With DVD ''Arkzin Digital Archive / Digitalna arhiva Arkzina''. {{en}}/{{cr}}
 
* editor, with Petar Milat, ''[[Media:Medak_Tomislav_Milat_Petar_eds_Prospects_of_Arkzin.pdf|Prospects of Arkzin / Izgledi Arkzina]]'', Zagreb: Arkzin and Multimedia Institute, 2013, 48 pp. With DVD ''Arkzin Digital Archive / Digitalna arhiva Arkzina''. {{en}}/{{cr}}
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* with Marcell Mars and Manar Zarroug, [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/27/public-library-an-essay/ "Public Library (An Essay)"], ''Memory of the World'' blog, 27 Oct 2014. On the idea of public library.
 
* with Marcell Mars and Manar Zarroug, [http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/27/public-library-an-essay/ "Public Library (An Essay)"], ''Memory of the World'' blog, 27 Oct 2014. On the idea of public library.
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* editor, with Goran Sergej Pristaš, ''[[Media:Medak_Pristas_eds_Time_and_Incompletion_Images_and_Performances_of_Time_in_Late_Capitalism.pdf|Time and (In)completion: Images and Performances of Time in Late Capitalism]]'', Zagreb: BADco, 2014, 171 pp. [http://badco.hr/hr/news-item/download-time-and-incompletion Publisher]. {{en}}
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* editor, with Marcell Mars, ''[[Media:Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf|Javna knjižnica / Public Library]]'', Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, 144 pp. {{cr}}/{{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Medak_Tomislav_Shit_Tech_for_a_Shitty_World_2016.pdf|Shit Tech for a Shitty World]]'', Ljubljana: Aksioma, 2016, 13 pp.
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* with Marcell Mars and Dubravka Sekulić, [https://monoskop.org/images/f/f9/We_Need_It_We_Do_It_Croatia_at_the_15th_International_Architecture_Exhibition_La_Biennale_di_Venezia_2016.pdf#page=228 "Taken Literally"], in ''We Need It - We Do It: Croatia at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition / La Biennale di Venezia 2016'', eds. Emina Višnić and Miranda Veljačić, Split: Platforma 9.81, 2016, pp 228-235. {{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Medak_Tomislav_The_Hard_Matter_of_Abstraction_2016.pdf|The Hard Matter of Abstraction]]'', Stuttgart: Verlag für Handbücher, 2016, 80 pp. [http://www.verlagfuerhandbuecher.de/thehardmatterofabstraction/index.php?0010] {{en}}
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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}}
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* with Valeria Graziano and Marcell Mars, [[Media:Graziano Valeria Mars Marcell Medak Tomislav 2019 Learning from Syllabus.pdf|"Learning from #Syllabus"]], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21020 State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art]'', eds. Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, and Inte Gloerich, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2019, pp 115-128. {{en}}
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* 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, 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 Valeria Graziano and Marcell Mars, [https://monoskop.org/images/0/0b/Of_Bread_Wine_Cars_Security_and_Peace_2020.pdf#page=53 "Pirate Care: Against the Crisis"], in ''...Of Bread, Wine, Cars, Security and Peace'', Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, and Zagreb: What, How and for Whom/WHW, 2020, pp 103-109. [https://kunsthallewien.at/en/exhibition/of-bread-wine-cars-security-and-peace/] {{en}}
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** [https://monoskop.org/images/3/36/Von_Brot_Wein_Autos_Sicherheit_und_Frieden_2020.pdf#page=53 "Pirate Care: Gegen die Krise"], in ''...von Brot, Wein, Autos, Sicherheit und Frieden'', Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, and Zagreb: What, How and for Whom/WHW, 2020, pp 101-109. [https://kunsthallewien.at/ausstellung/von-brot-wein-autos-sicherheit-und-frieden/] {{de}}
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* with Mladen Domazet and Andro Rilović, [https://sci-hub.st/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}}
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* with Marcell Mars, [https://monoskop.org/images/2/28/Stories_and_Threads_Perspectives_on_Art_Archives_2022.pdf#page=38 "Public Library and the Return of the Repressed Memory of the World"], in ''[[Media:Stories_and_Threads_Perspectives_on_Art_Archives_2022.pdf|Stories and Threads: Perspectives on Art Archives]]'', eds. Sara Buraya Boned, Jennifer Fitzgibbon, and Sezin Romi, L'Internationale, 2022, pp 74-89. [https://www.internationaleonline.org/library/#stories_and_threads_perspectives_on_art_archives] {{en}}
  
 
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==Interviews==
 
==Interviews==
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* [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}}
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* 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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* [http://www.balcancancontemporary.net/article.php?id=507 "All Forms of Shadow Knowledge Exist in the Fault Lines of Officially Sanctioned Knowledge"], ''Balcan Contemporary'', 18 Dec 2015. {{en}}
 
* [http://www.balcancancontemporary.net/article.php?id=507 "All Forms of Shadow Knowledge Exist in the Fault Lines of Officially Sanctioned Knowledge"], ''Balcan Contemporary'', 18 Dec 2015. {{en}}
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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}}
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* "From Independent Cultural Work to Political Subjectivity", in ''The Art of Civil Action: Political Space and Cultural Dissent'', eds. Philipp Dietachmair and Pascal Gielen, Amsterdam: Valiz, 2017, pp 207-227. [https://www.valiz.nl/en/publications/the-art-of-civil-action] {{en}}
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* 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. {{en}}
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* [[kuda.org]], [https://kuda.org/sites/default/files/docs/UO_Interview%20with%20Tomislav%20Medak%20and%20Petar%20Milat%2C%20Multimedia%20Institute%20mi2.pdf "Art organization. Interview with Tomislav Medak and Petar Milat, Multimedia Institute mi2, Zagreb, 2019"], 2019. {{en}}
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* Hana Sirovica, [https://www.kulturpunkt.hr/content/taking-care-unconditional-solidarity "Taking Care of Unconditional Solidarity"], ''Kulturpunkt.hr'', 8 Mar 2020. {{en}}
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* 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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* Jasenka Leskur, [[Media:Medak Tomislav 2023 Pirati skrbi.pdf|"Da bi pomogli drugami, 'pirati skrbi' spremni su ići i protiv zakona"]], ''Slobodna Dalmacija'', 28 Oct 2023, pp 34-35. [https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/pirati-skrbi-svjesno-idu-protiv-zakona-da-bi-pomogli-nepoznatim-ljudima-evo-zasto-to-rade-i-na-sto-su-sve-spremni-1335005] {{cr}}
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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* [[Mama|Mama Zagreb]]
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* [[Mama]], Zagreb
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* [[Digital libraries]]
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* [[Marcell Mars]]
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* [[Memory of the World]]
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* [[Shadow libraries]]
  
 
==Links==
 
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* http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/people/tomislav-medak/
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* [http://tom.medak.click/en/ Website]
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* http://badco.hr/authors/tom/
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* [https://pirate.care/ Pirate Care]
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* [http://badco.hr/en/about/#!tomislav-medak Profile on BADco]
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* [https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/tomislav-medak Profile on U Coventry]
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* [https://twitter.com/tmedak Twitter]
  
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Tom Medak in Zagreb, 2017.
Born Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Lives in Zagreb, Croatia

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

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 worked 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)

Publications[edit]

  • Medak, et al., System.hack(), Zagreb: Mama, 2006, 96 pp. Exhibition catalogue. (Croatian)/(English)
  • editor, with Petar Milat, Prospects of Arkzin / Izgledi Arkzina, Zagreb: Arkzin and Multimedia Institute, 2013, 48 pp. With DVD Arkzin Digital Archive / Digitalna arhiva Arkzina. (English)/(Croatian)
  • with Marcell Mars and Manar Zarroug, "Public Library (An Essay)", Memory of the World blog, 27 Oct 2014. On the idea of public library.
  • with Marcell Mars and Dubravka Sekulić, "Taken Literally", in We Need It - We Do It: Croatia at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition / La Biennale di Venezia 2016, eds. Emina Višnić and Miranda Veljačić, Split: Platforma 9.81, 2016, pp 228-235. (English)
  • with Valeria Graziano and Marcell Mars, "Pirate Care: Against the Crisis", in ...Of Bread, Wine, Cars, Security and Peace, Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, and Zagreb: What, How and for Whom/WHW, 2020, pp 103-109. [3] (English)
    • "Pirate Care: Gegen die Krise", in ...von Brot, Wein, Autos, Sicherheit und Frieden, Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, and Zagreb: What, How and for Whom/WHW, 2020, pp 101-109. [4] (German)
  • with Mladen Domazet and Andro Rilović, "Degrowth", in Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes, Elsevier, 2020, pp 287-295. [5] (English)

Translations[edit]

Interviews[edit]

  • "From Independent Cultural Work to Political Subjectivity", in The Art of Civil Action: Political Space and Cultural Dissent, eds. Philipp Dietachmair and Pascal Gielen, Amsterdam: Valiz, 2017, pp 207-227. [7] (English)

See also[edit]

Links[edit]

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