INTRO: Tactical media are the momentary reaction tools for the artists and activists aimed to disseminate information, establish contacts, create images. Tactical media are used by those who don't have corporate sponsors, don't lobby power interests, but want to take part in a society's living and culture.

Tactical media prefer low technologies, small communities, private interests, amateurs. They use language of communication, intellect, creative participation. They don't represent anyone except for themselves but they call for everybody to use their low budget, non-professional, local, momentary tools. They think this a condition for creating a bright diverse culture, a culture of a civil society.
 
CONTEXT: The conferences next5minutes have started in early 90s and became the first symptoms of the europeanwide rise of new media and their non-commercial uses. The first three conferences have manifested an international movement for a free non-profit use of new technologies, for the sake of an open access to information and an open communication between the artists, social activists, media theorists and other people who are actively interested in the media-presence of their own.

An ultimate need in exploring the new media-technologies non-profit potential became extremely obvious under the new world conditions after the "9-11" tragic events. That's why the media-technology veterans together with younger volunteers have at 2002 initiated a new festival next5minutes4 which is a series of media-events in different cities of the world. At September 2003 their highlights will bу presented at the concluding festival in Amsterdam.

For now the Tactical Media Laboratories took place at Birmingham, Delhi, New-York, Cluj (Romania), Barcelona, Singapore, Rio, and are scheduled for Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Halifax, Adelaide (Australia) and some other cities.
 
MOSCOW VERSION: Since the tactical media agenda is not well known for Moscow we decide to represent it in a maximally broad context. Tactical media are the tools of a new young culture which talk the languages of non-budget cinema, video-activism, non-profit publications, leaflets, sites, and even the street actions intervening into an urban space. 
 

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