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Marek Tuszynski, Executive Director and co-founder of Tactical Tech (2003), is a filmmaker, producer, curator, teacher and provocateur whose creative interventions span media from film and radio to television, books, exhibitions, public spaces and, of course, the web. For 30 years, he has worked at the intersection of technology and politics, information and activism, and the consequences of living in a quantified society.
Before Tactical Tech, he co-founded organisations dedicated to creating a circular economy of electronics, documenting contemporary art in post-communist countries and rapid technology response in crisis.
Within Tactical Tech, he co-founded Tactical Studios, co-curated the exhibitions Nervous Systems : Quantified Life and the Social Question (2016), The Glass Room (2016 &#8211; ongoing), and Everything Will Be Fine (2022), and co-authored the books Visualising Information for Advocacy and Efficiency And Madness. Marek lectures at universities worldwide, including the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Design Department of the Politecnico di Milano, The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, New York University in Berlin and the North Eastern University in Boston.
Marek was recently awarded a prize in the artist category by Mozilla&#8217;s Rise 25, which rewards &#8220;25 visionaries who are reshaping our digital future&#8221;.

Marek Tuszynski - Tactical Tech

The stories we need to hear do not have an easily identifiable protagonist, a person or group of people who can project their emotions, their unique stories and experiences, and help us relate to the problems and struggles they have faced in the past or will face in the near future. The stories we need to tell are about data, algorithms, silicon chips and a host of faceless companies, opaque protocols, overblown techno-fantasies and sluggish policies. Is it possible to tell compelling stories that create something more positive than a few mental itches and short-term discomfort?

And so what ?

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Tactical Tech

Anna Ridler is an artist and researcher who works with systems of knowledge and how technologies are created in order to better understand the world. She is particularly interested in ideas around measurement and quantification and how this relates to the natural world. Her process often involves working with collections of information or data, particularly data sets, to create new and unusual narratives.
Her work has been exhibited widely at cultural institutions worldwide including the Barbican Centre, Centre Pompidou, HeK Basel, The Photographers’ Gallery, the ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Anna Ridler

Looking at the relationship between data and artificial intelligence and how it can be used for artistic purposes ; and how the recent developments with large text to image models potentially change this.

Synthetic Data

Theatre

OMSE is a creative studio crafting simple, striking brands.
Since 2016, they’ve been working with household names and future visionaries to help them have an impact on the world around them and build their legacy. With an ethos based around forming tight creative partnerships, they’ve been able to collaborate with an incredible number of artists and to partner with clients ranging from the UK’s largest sushi chain, a night club once home to the largest printing factory in Western Europe through to China’s first gin, and many more.

OMSE  (James Kape & Pedro Messias)

The ups and downs that come with running a studio and how we got to where we are today.