Do It Yourself media in internet for off-line campaigns

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Topics of “Samizdat” is very common again. Samizdat war born during the “cold war” as practice of intellectual opposition for ideological mainstream in Soviet Union. Now, when we use not only have sometimes access, but own copy machines, personal computers, printers, scanners, internet communication etc., is difficult to understand how ...

Media activism as a new dimension of public space

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

On 17th of October was held the third session of Vilnius Media Seminar (VMS). The goal of VMS3 was to rethink and discuss media activism in the context of public space and sphere. Young philosophers, sociologists, architects, artists and activists gathered to compare two case studies from Lithuania and Belarus. ...

Tactical Media – Technology Of Visibility

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

This text is based on the presentation made in VMS#3 in 17th of October, Vilnius. Tactical media’s effectiveness is measured against its documentation and representation in the mass media. The documentation of the event is necessary to make the event visible which raises the question; in what way is it visible? Moreover, ...

Media activism: creating new reality or re-designing public space

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Let’s start from with a little joke about what is happening now in a globalizing world. Pessimists study Chinese Optimists study English. Realists only study the Kalashnikoff… If we try to export these rules for the current situation in the media sphere, especially in Belarus, we (as realists) will immediately begin to study tactical ...

The noise is the message

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

We are publishing Alexei Krivolap’s presentation which was done on the 2nd session of Vilnius Media Seminar (VMS) "Strategies of Tactical Media: Noise Makes Sense" on 19th of February, 2007. Let’s start from one small example. Awake after a good party we often have a headache, or let’s be more exact: a hangover. There are two ...

The french-english war
(under a red, white and blue flag)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

We are publishing Benjamin Cope’s presentation which was done on the 2nd session of Vilnius Media Seminar (VMS) “Strategies of Tactical Media: Noise Makes Sense” on 19th of February, 2007. His experiences in making radio shows and traveling all around Poland for interviewing local people without having good polish skills ...