Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:53:59 +0000
From: Undercurrents alternative newsvideo <underc-AT-gn.apc.org>
Subject: Tactical Media conference


Undercurrents will probaly be there if we can work out just what the
academics behind the conference are actually trying to tell us about 
alternative media..see what we do http://www.undercurrents.org


Next 5 Minutes 3
Conference on Tactical Media
Amsterdam & Rotterdam, 12-14 March, 1999

<http://www.dds.nl/n5m>

The third Next 5 Minutes, an Amsterdam based conference on tactical
communications culture, featuring DIY media, dissident art and electronic
media activists from around the world, will take place on the 12th, 13th
and 14th of March 1999.

WHAT IS TACTICAL MEDIA ?
The term 'tactical media' refers to a critical usage and contextualisation
of media practices that draw on all forms of old and new media for
achieving a variety of specific non-commercial goals and pushing all kinds
of potentially subversive political issues. 

BEYOND THE INTERNET...
The net as a medium has by now been well established, both in discourse 
as well as practice. N5M3 will move beyond the mere assertion of this new 
medium and question what the
wider social, cultural and political impact is of the fact that virtually
all media are now turning digital, and of the new political and economic
constellations that evolve around the new (global) information and
communication structures. 

 AREAS OPEN FOR DISCUSSION
The Art of Campaigning
The 'Art of Campaigning' focuses on the media strategies employed by
groups around the world who are fostering their social and political aims
via media campaigns. There are a number of examples of such campaigns that
use highly diverse strategies and types of media, 
like the Clean Clothes Campaign,
Bandwidth campaign, 
McLibel-case 
Sans Papiers campaign. 
Campaigns like these and the specific media strategies they
employ will be an important topic for N5M3.

How Low Can You Go
In several conferences and campaigns, for instance in the Bandwidth
campaign, the economic and political structures of access were
investigated. Discussions and campaigns like these revealed how deeply
political the construction of technology is and how dramatic its effects
in terms of both social exclusion and inclusion. Therefore, instead of
merely focusing on the tactical posibilities of new digital media, new
movements for the specific promotion of low-tech, i.e. cheap, established
and accessible technology, will be presented, discussed and developed at
N5M3.

Tactical Education
Besides the formal learning institutions, education is happening all the
time in cultural and social contexts where people exchange ideas and
experiences in a concentrated way. Art, culture and social action in the
field of new media technologies contribute in an important way to creating
awareness about the powerful effects of media, and help to raise
media-literacy N5M3 wishes to explore new models of education that can
play a critical role in processes of social and political change.

The Post-Governmental Organisation
NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) have become important actors in the
arena of international and global politics, taking over tasks that
traditionally were the domain of nation states. As such, NGOs are part of
the re-definition of the role of national governments which combines the
advantage of greater international control of global issues like human
rights and the ecology, with the disadvantage of a decrease in democratic
accountability of some of the global actors. The debate about such
Post-Governmental Organisations deals with the double-edged nature of this
new form of governance, for which the tactical use of networking
technologies and other media has proven to be a powerful tool.
Concentrating on the opportunities and dangers of organising social,
cultural and political action beyond the politics of the nation state,
N5M3 will host a unique 'PGO Contest', in which contributors will present
the most and the least effective strategies for achieving global presence.

Structure of the Event
N5M3 will be a working conference, which will consist of a focused public
program surrounded by many smaller scale working sessions, seminars and
workshops. The focus of the event will be on exchange of ideas,
experience, working methods, and the construction of long-term
partnerships and network structures. A series of follow-up workshops about
tactical uses of satellite technology and other topics will be held at
V2_Organisation Rotterdam between the 15th and the 19th of March 1999.

For more information please contact: 

<mailto:n5m3-AT-waag.org> 
CLICK HERE http://www.dds.nl/~n5m






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