Tactical media / Rita Raley.

Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and ed...

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Main Author: Raley, Rita
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
Series:Electronic mediations ; v. 28.
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Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and education. From They Rule, an interactive map of the myriad connections between the world's corporate and political elite created by Josh On and Futurefarmers, to Black Shoals, a financial market visualization that is intended to be both aesthetically and politically disruptive, they embrace a broad r.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-186) and index.
ISBN:9780816667987
0816667985
0816651507
9780816651504
0816651515
9780816651511
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.