David Garcia
David Garcia (UK) is an artist, academic and organiser. He curated the exhibition As If: The Media Artist as Trickster at Framer Framed in 2017, along with Annet Dekker.
Garcia has pioneered new forms of critical engagement with art and media, based on an occupying of the cracks which began to appear in the edifice of broadcast media in the 1990s. Through a series of events, most notably Next 5 Minutes, he (along with others) identified these kinds of interventions as part of a wider trend: a previously uncategorised set of cultural and political practices they called, ‘Tactical Media’. These ideas caught on and have since been recognised as one of the more significant and distinctive cultural movements of the last two decades. To connect the ‘memory’ of Tactical Media to the radical proliferation and transformation of these practices, Garcia co-founded, (with Dutch Media theorist Eric Kluitenberg), the award winning Tactical Media Files, an online repository of Tactical Media materials past and present.
Alongside these projects Garcia has been active in Higher Education in which he has been instrumental in developing and embedding processes that unlock the radical potential of art as research. He has developed these ideas as Professor of Design for Digital Culture University of Portsmouth & Utrecht College of Art in the Netherlands where he launched the (UN) Common Ground project and publication, based around empirically grounded case studies of collaborations in academia, art and industry. He is currently Professor of Digital Arts and Media Activism at Bournemouth University.
Exhibitions
Exhibition: As If - The Media Artist as Trickster
On politically inspired media art that uses deception in all its forms. Curated by Annet Dekker and David Garcia i.c.w. Ian Alan Paul
Agenda
Symposium: 'The Society of Post-Control'
Extended conversation on the emergence, consequences, and activist responses to the Society of Post-Control.
Symposium: Art and Political Conflict
On the relationship between art and political conflict and how it has been reshaped by digital media and the internet.
Magazine
New media / Politics and technology /
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How much of this is fiction at FACT, Liverpool
The living archive / Middle East / New media / Politics and technology /
Report: Public Debate 'Vox Populi and The Syrian Archive'
Art and Activism / New media / Politics and technology /
Recensie: de kunst van het misleiden. Een bespreking van de expositie 'As If'
Politics and technology /
Exhibition review: the artist as charlatan, discussing the exhibition ‘As If’
New media / Politics and technology /
