Tactical media
From Institute of Intermedia
taktická média
term coined in 1997
- definition?:
It is a call for a more open world society based on transparency rather than secrecy.“In the age of information, less secrecy may well mean less fear of sudden surprises, and therefore more security. Perhaps it is not too late to hope, as Ferdinand de Lesseps did a century ago, that ‘men, by knowing one another, will finally cease fighting.’”
Daniel Headrick, "Telecommunications and Imperialism: Double-Edged Sword"
- Roots of Tactical Media
tactical media borrows from a number of art, political, and social movements.
19. cent, Paris Commune, 1871.
20 cent. boom of information and communication media - distribution channels, press, photography, radio, film, television.
- Dada movement
Much like it, tactical media often aims to do the opposite of the media it penetrates: it shocks and reveals an antithesis. Holmes, Brian & Sholette, Gregory, "Civil Disobedience as Art Art as Civil Disobedience: A conversation between Brian Holmes and Gregory Sholette" from Artpapers.org, Vol. 29, No.5, 2005.
- surrealism: subversivity - opposition to the mainstream false, culture, the the concept of psychoanalytical approach, that a 'truer' experience that the present one is present - hidden. Tactical media also criticizes social, political and cultural elements of a establishment through its domain’s techniques.
- Situationist idea of detournement,
[see "The Language of Tactical Media" from BalkonMagazine, Autumn 2002, No. 12 from [1]http://subsol.c3.hu].
To appropriate images and words from mass culture in order to convey a new meaning, often going against the mainstream media. The appropriation of elements and the importance of aesthetics seen in detournement, as well see Lettrismus.
- Anarchism, (counter culture) autonomous media
Hakim Bey, [2] Gilles Deleuze, free student radio in Paris 1968? Noam Chomsky-Manufacturing the consent
- Dissident movement mainly in Eastern Europe, Latin America..70 ies - 90ies, samizdat..
videogramme einer revolution, Harun Farocki, Andrej Ujica 1989 [6]
- Political cultural opposition movement in Western Europe - Italy, Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, Noam Chomsky,
[7] the book, Manufacturing Constent
TM - one of the branches of alternative media; indymedia.org, Whole Earth Catalogue, The Well, conferencing tool, bulletin board, hypertext, project Xanada, Ted Nelson, etc.
to be in opposition to the biased media that is owned by businesses or governments with ulterior. As much as the art movements influenced the way tactical media is produced, one can find the goals and targets to be rooted in its relation to alternative media. Both are produced in order to reveal an alternate truth, and both strictly attack system, or representatives of the power.
Sovereign media:
"The sovereign media insulate themselves against the hyperculture. They seek no connection; they disconnect. This is their point of departure we have a liftoff. They leave the media surface and orbit the multimedia network as satellites. These doityourselfers shut themselves up inside a selfbuilt monad, an "indivisible unit" of introverted technologies which, like a roomr without doors or windows, wishes to deny the existence of the world. This act is a denial of the maxim "I am connected, therefore I am". It conceals no longing for a return to nature. They do not criticize the baroque data environments or experience them as threats, but consider them material, to use as they please. They operate beyond clean and dirty, in the garbage system ruled by chaos pur sang". They rose from the squatters movement and illegal radio in Amsterdam, about which they published their book Bewegingsleer (1991). Their main interest is in Media and Media theory, about which they write from a critical, speculative and often humorous perspective.
see [[8]]
tools:
- hack, cut through, penetrate - link to the military tactics
Hacker Manifesto - 1986
- leak, wiretap, monitoring - social and political control apparatus and mechanism
Telephone tapping (also wire tapping or wiretapping in American English) is the monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was an actual electrical tap on the telephone line. Legal wiretapping by a government agency is also called lawful interception. Passive wiretapping monitors or records the traffic, while active wiretapping alters or otherwise affects it.
- network, alternative network, ethernal network, clandestine network.. guerilla network.
- to jamm - culture jamming - pirat radio strategy to jamm the frequency, as well the police technology to jamm the broadcast,
narrowcasting.. minifm, culture
Tetsuo Kogawa, alternative radio DIY.
Microradio manifest
Mark Dery Adbusters ([http:www.adbusters.org]): the best culture jam is one that introduces a meta-meme, a two-level message that punctures a specific commercial image, but does so in a way that challenges some larger aspect of the political culture of corporate domination.
[11]www.tacticalmediafiles.net
- Smart Mobs
Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive, used by some of its earliest adopters to support democracy and by others to coordinate terrorist attacks. The technologies that are beginning to make smart mobs possible are mobile communication devices and pervasive computing - inexpensive microprocessors embedded in everyday objects and environments.In 1999 and 2000, Howard Rheingold started noticing people using mobile media in novel ways. In Tokyo, he accompanied flocks of teenagers as they converged on public places, coordinated by text messages. In Helsinki, he joined like-minded Finns who share the same downtown physical clubhouse, virtual community, and mobile-messaging media. He learned that the demonstrators in the 1999 anti-WTO protests used dynamically updated websites, cell-phones, and "swarming" tactics in the "battle of Seattle," and that a million Filipino citizens toppled President Estrada in 2000 through public demonstrations organized by salvos of text messages. Drivers in the UK used mobile communications to spontaneously self organize demonstrations against rising petrol prices. He began to see how these events were connected. He calls these new uses of mobile media
Howard Rheingold - a mini course on network and social network
http://www.rheingold.com/howard/ http://www.smartmobs.com/
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- disident/oposition movement in East Europe, Latin America, China.. see Velvet or Chinese student revolution, etc from 60ies till 80ies
- discussed examples:
Ant Farm media burn
0101010101 - Eva and Franco Mattes
0100101110101101.org interviewed by Jaka Zeleznikar, Now You're in My Computer, [13]
Autonome a.f.r.i.k.a., What is Communication Guerrilla [14]
Luther Blissett, XYZ of Net Activism
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CAE, Framing Tactical Media
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Sam de Silva, Baygone the Tactical Mozzies [[17]]
http://www.rebelart.net/diary/
Ricardo Dominguez interviewed by Coco Fusco, Electronic Disturbance
David Garcia & Geert Lovink, The ABC of Tactical Media
David Garcia, Islam & Tactical Media
Nathan Martin of Carbon Defense League, Parasitic Media
Joanne Richardson, The Language of Tactical Media
RTMark interviewed by Sylvie Myerson & Vidyut Jain, The Art of Confusion
Sfear von Clauswitz, A Reaction to Tactical Media
McKenzie Wark, On the Tactic of Tactics
[18] Peter Lamborn Wilson, Response to the Tactical Media Manifesto
in CZ
- theory
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