Tactical Media: Small File Media in Stages of Siege and Infrastructural Precarity

An online expert panel that explores the role of small-file media in zones of precarity.

Cineworks and the Small File Media Festival are proud to co-host 𝗧𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮: 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, an online expert panel that explores the role of small-file media in zones of precarity.

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Monday, October 21st at 11:00am PST. Online via Zoom. The link to the panel will be emailed to registrants before the day of the panel.

This online panel 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.

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Cineworks would like to thank our generous funders–BC Arts Council, Canada Council, the City of Vancouver, and the Province of British Columbia (Gaming), as well as our friends from the Small File Media Festival, for making this event possible.