Hi Rachel,
I'm not sure it's exactly what you have in mind. But just in case it
helps, you could take a look at some of the artists and art activist
projects that made up the second day of the Pirate Care conference last
week:
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/pirate-care-conference/
Hopefully, we should be able to make some recordings available in the
not too distant future.
Best, Gary
On 27/06/2019 11:27, Rachel O' Dwyer wrote:
What characterises media art interventions in the context of
‘surveillance capitalism’, platforms and the gig economy? Are these
practices still meaningful or, as F.A.T. Lab claimed in 2015, have
they lost political significance in the face of global platforms?
Can we still speak about ‘tactical media’ or ‘the exploit’, and if
not is this because
a) network activism has transformed so that these older descriptions
no longer accurately describe net art and ‘hacktivist’ practices, or
b) these art practices have stayed much the same, but they are no
longer effective in the current political and economic context?
I’m wondering if anyone knows of any writing that attempts to
theorise/frame media art activist work post 2012? Perhaps to speak
about it as a set of practices discrete from theories of ‘tactical
media’ or ‘the exploit’ that go before? Perhaps something on
post-internet art and activism?
Or is it a case of looking at writing about activism in the face of
defeat and what seems like a hopeless cause?
If you've read or written anything that you think might be interesting
I'd love to hear about it,
Best,
Rachel
A bit more detail about why I'm asking this question:
I’m currently writing about various tactical and activist practices in
the wireless space, including artistic interventions, software-defined
radio communities who are reverse-engineering, hacking, sniffing and
jamming signals, communities and activists who are building communal
Wi-Fi and cellular networks and artists making work in or about the
politics of the wireless spectrum – who owns it, how it’s controlled
and so on.
But I’m feeling a bit paralysed.
I love these works; I love their inventive materiality and the ways
that they exploit and reverse-engineer existing systems, but I don’t
know what claims I can make for their political impact. And yet I feel
that this work is still very worthwhile.
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