Tactical Media Files

Tactical Media Files is a documentation resource under continuous development. We have begun the task of organising the infinite (and growing) amount of available data, with the aim of making it more easily accessible for new generations of activists and activist makers, scholars and curators to draw on. Tactical Media Files has been conceived as a... 'living archive'. The aim is not create a final, mute and unchanging reservoir, but much rather an active resource that can be utilised to connect current practice to a memory of events past. The archive can also serve as a documentation tool for current and future events. Organisations, initiatives and individuals who are interested to use this resource for documentation purposes, become active as a contributing editor, or who would like to contribute relevant materials can contact the current editorial group to discuss these possibilities. We very much welcome active involvement in the project. Living archives are not just about conserving the past, tactical media's history continues to hold a tremendous reservoir of practices and social-political experiences. It also serves to remind us that mediation remains a central component of today's politics of resistance, a living practice in a continuous process of renewal and re-invention. So go ahead browse our archives, check our video's, look up articles and people, and above all share your thoughts, knowledge and tactical media with us so that we remain a living archive. All materials in this resource are freely available (unless indicated otherwise) on precondition that the originators of the material and Tactical Media Files as the source are mentioned in the publications (electronic, print or otherwise) you may wish to use them for. The website is the principal point of access to the materials collected for the Tactical Media Files, while the physical archive resides at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.Read More