NEXT
5 MINUTES 4
International
Festival of Tactical Media
PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM
De
Balie / Paradiso / Melkweg / Waag Society
NIM
What
is Next 5 Minutes?
Next
5 Minutes is a festival that brings together art, campaigns, experiments in
media technology, and transcultural politics. Next 5 Minutes revolves around
the notion of tactical media, the fusion of art, politics and media. The festival
is organised irregularly, when the urgency is felt to bring a new edition of
the festival together.
How
did this particular edition of the festival come about?
The
fourth edition of the Next 5 Minutes festival is the result of a collaborative
effort of a variety of organisations, initiatives and individuals dispersed
world-wide. The program and content of the festival is prepared through a
series of Tactical Media Labs (TMLs) organised locally in different cities
around the globe. This series of Tactical Media Labs started on
What
are the main themes of N5M4?
The
program of Next 5 Minutes 4 is structured along four core thematic threads,
bringing together a host of projects and debates. These four thematic threads
are: "Deep Local", which explores the ambiguities of connecting
essentially translocal media cultures with local contexts. "The
Disappearing of the Public" deals with the elusiveness of the public that
tactical media necessarily needs to interface with, and considers new
strategies for engaging with or redefining 'the public'. "The Tactics of
Appropriation" questions who is appropriating whom? Corporate, state, or
terrorist actors all seem to have become effective media tacticians, is the
battle for the screen therefore lost? "The Tactical and the
Technical" finally questions the deeply political nature of (media-)technology,
and the role that the development of new media tools plays in defining,
enabling and constraining its tactical use.
The
festival explores a variety of forms and formats, from low-tech to high-tech,
from seminars and debates to performances and urban interventions, screenings,
installations as well as sound projects and live media, a pitching session, a
tool builders fair and open unmoderated spaces. Defining for tactical media is
not the medium itself, but the attitude towards media.
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MORE
INFORMATION:
How
can I find out more about the festival?
By
reading on in this document, but also by consulting the website of the festival
at: http://www.n5m.org The site also contains
a Frequently Asked Questions section that addresses many practical questions
you may have.
Further
information can be obtained from the festival office: [log in to unmask]
Clemencia Rodriguez
Associate Professor
Department of
Communication
University of Oklahoma
610 Elm Avenue
Norman OK 73019 USA
405 325 1570