Deptford.TV Diaries II: Pirate Strategies (2008)

“This reader problematises the notion of ‘tactical media’. As McKenzie Wark and others stated already in 2003: ‘can tactical media anticipate, rather than be merely reactive?’ By calling for a strategic approach to media production and distribution, the intention is to overcome some of the structural paradoxes inherent to ‘alternative’ or ‘oppositional’ media, especially since much of the free / open culture dissemination on the Internet has become the new “mainstream” in itself (think of the casual defiance of copyright played out relentlessly and on a mass scale with file-sharing, social networking, and everyday media consumption).

The book is a compilation of theoretical underpinnings, local narratives and written documentation not only of the Deptford.TV project but of phenomena relating to this new situation of ‘strategic media’.”

Keywords: alternative media, strategic media, documentary filmmaking, piracy, file-sharing, digitization, media distribution, local regeneration, urban change.
Steal This Film, YouTube, copyleft, object code, Pirate Bay, Lewisham, Guanxi, Lawrence Lessig, Critical Art Ensemble, Facebook, Pepys estate, Armin Medosch, remix culture, Found footage, Linux, Node.London, Debian Social Contract, Jonas Andersson, Cory Doctorow

Publisher OWN, SPC Media Lab, Deckspace, London, 2008
Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 License
ISBN 9781906496111
171 pages

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Deptford.TV diaries (2006)

Deptford.TV is an audio-visual documentation of the regeneration process of Deptford (south-east London) in collaboration with SPC.org media lab, Bitnik.org, Boundless.coop, Liquid Culture and Goldsmiths College.

Since September 2005 we started assembling AV material around the area, asking community members, video artists, film-makers, visual artists and students to contribute statements, feedback and critique of the regeneration process of Deptford.

The unedited as well as edited media content is being made available on the Deptford.TV database and distributed over the Boundless.coop wireless network. The media is licensed through open content licenses such as Creative Commons and the GNU general public license.

This book is a compilation of theoretical underpinnings, interviews and written documentation of the project.

Contributors: Adnan Hadzi, Maria X, Heidi Seetzen, James Stevens, Erol Ziya, Bitnik media collective, Andrea Pozzi, Andrea Rota and Jonas Andersson, alongside selected public-license texts from Hakim Bey, Jaromil and Guy Debord.

Keywords: Deptford, Pirate Bay, Telestreets, Free Culture movement, file-sharing, Creekside, Negativland, gift economy, Free Software movement, Berthold Brecht, internet archives, software patents, Cinelerra, Jaromil, technological determinism, urban regeneration, alternative media, VideoLAN, Cyberpunk, MEncoder.

Publisher Liquid Culture, 2006
Creative Commons BY-SA License
ISBN 0955479606
104 pages

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Public Netbase: Non Stop Future. New practices in Art and Media (2008)

The publication is both a review of the pioneer days from the perspective of Public Netbase as well as an outlook into the future of art and culture in digital networks. It provides an overview of a critical information economy discourse, insights into Tactical Media strategies and a critique of the loss of public domain and the commons. Based on the extensive archives of Public Netbase, the book features some of the most spectacular and controversial art projects and interventions from 1994 to 2006. It also offers historical documents and manifestos critical of commercialization and control society issues, together with a view into the digital world of tomorrow.

Sections: Discourse; New Art Practices; Tactical Media; Digital Mediaculture, Networking and Participation; Public Netbase; World-information.org

Editors: Branka Ćurčić, Zoran Pantelić / New Media Center_kuda.org
Editorial team: Konrad Becker, Branka Ćurčić, Zoran Pantelić, Felix Stalder, Martin Wassermair
Publisher Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, 2008
ISBN 9783865884558

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