Monday:
TACTICAL MEDIA
"The term 'tactical media' refers to a critical usage and theorization of media practices that draw on all forms of old and new, both lucid and sophisticated media, for achieving a variety of noncommercial goals and pushing all kinds of potentially subversive political issues." – Critical Art Ensemble
GUEST LECTURER:
Steve Kurtz /Critical Art Ensemble (confirmed)
Read:
"Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance," by CAE (1994) // p625
URL: http://n5m.org pdf of brochure of n5m program
CAE website
Wednesday:
HACKTIVISM, ACTIVISM
What kind of influence does media have on the given values, political systems,
and economic systems? Whom does media serve and whom does it impact? To what
extent does technology condition social change? Are new media a means of social
control?Read:
"Mythinformation" Langdon Winner (1986) // p 587
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