Tactical Media Panel 2024

What is the role of small-file media in zones of precarity? Our panel of experts explores this in Tactical Media: Small File Media in Stages of Siege and Infrastructural Precarity. Moderated by Dr. Radek Przedpełski, with Mehvish Rather, Francesca DiBona, Nasri Sayegh, Yuri Yefanov, and Mohammad Zaki Rezwan.

This web panel, hosted by our friends at Cineworks at 11am PST on October 21, 2024, will discuss small-file media in states of siege and infrastructural precarity, expanding on David Garcia and Geert Lovink's notion of "tactical media" and Laura U. Marks' notion of the "Arab glitch." Our invited speakers consider issues in disseminating media in current zones of conflict where internet infrastructures can be itinerant and bandwidth fluctuates, techniques of media art and activism that respond to states of siege, the possibilities for small-file media in such contexts, and the potential for collaboration between independent artists and researchers around the world. Panelists include filmmakers Mehvish Rather and Francesca DiBona, documentarists based in Canada and focused on zones of political conflict, artists and filmmakers Nasri Sayegh in Lebanon and Yuri Yefanov in Ukraine, and media scholar Mohammad Zaki Rezwan in Bangladesh. The panel will be moderated by visual artist/scholar Dr. Radek Przedpełski from Trinity College Dublin.