Tomas Percival is an artist, researcher, and writer. His work critically investigates the intersections of space and security, with a particular interest in structures of assessment, risk governance, carceral geographies, data infrastructures, and border administration. He holds an MFA from the University of California–Los Angeles, and was an artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie. He completed his PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was also a Lecturer on the MA Research Architecture / Forensic Architecture programme. He is currently an Affiliated Fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.
tomas.percival@mailbox.org
Militant Media
Editor with Riccardo Badano and Susan Schuppli
Date: April 2024
Publisher: Spector Books
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Militant Media, the second volume in the Research Architecture book series, engages with the ethical and political implications of media and technology in relation to contemporary struggles and conflicts. In doing so, it reflects upon the changing role of media in justice and human rights campaigns, examining a range of topics from the use of images in campaigning to the evidentiary potential of digital materials in themselves. In addition to critical and theoretical reflections, Militant Media offers a wide range of practice-based projects that have developed oppositional modes of representation and created new aesthetic strategies and tools. Together these contributions seek to challenge prevailing power structures and enable new forms of political solidarity.
Contributors: Simon Barber, Arama Rata, Waireti Roestenburg, and Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho; Ariel Caine & Faiz Abu Rmeleh; Sophie Dyer & Gabriela Ivens; Anna Engelhardt; Kodwo Eshun; Helene Kazan; Júlia Nueno Guitart; Lawrence Abu Hamdan & Ghalya Saadawi; MARA Cohort; Lorenzo Pezzani & Charles Heller; Stafford Scott, Kamara Scott, Katrina Ffrench, Patrick Williams, Becky Clarke, Ilyas Nagdee, & Allan Hogarth; Leila Sibai; Sanjana Varghese; Gwendolyn Wallace; Eyal Weizman, Tomas Percival & Riccardo Badano.
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