Tactical Archives - Radical Networks
Channel: Adjy Leak
Date: 2019-03-16

While the Internet became popular in Brazil at the beginning of the year 2000, a series of initiatives from artists and activists used this space to look for more open and networked communicative formats. Being part of these events and different initiatives Giseli Vasconcelos, Tati Wells and Cristina Ribas come together to concatenate a 20 years old collective narrative.

This work consists in a confluence of Brazilian tactical archives from the sites midiatatica.info and desarquivo.org. It is also the opening of a documentation that involves connections with activist art and early Brazilian internet culture. It suggests a timeline based on initiatives that have influenced the Brazilian scenario in techno-political and cultural aspects for approximately two decades of internet. As such, we suggest an online interface desarquivo.midiatatica.info | midiatatica.desarquivo.org, and a device-space (a laboratory!) to activate a collective gathering in the form of an experimental lecture (or a lecture that becomes a laboratory in itself) to take place in the conference. This experimental lecture will be focused on privileging networking from a feminist internet thought. The archival documentation includes the sharing of books that were edited along these years, articles, platforms, data bases and more.

The participation in the event happens through this mixed assemblage, having the experimental lecture as the core gathering in which authors and participants will discuss practices through a gender perspective.

Giseli Vasconcelos
Radical Networks - Spektrum Berlin
21 Oct. 2018