Medak, Tomislav

Tomislav Medak is currently a doctoral student at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. He is also a member of the theory and publishing team of the Multimedia Institute/MAMA in Zagreb, as well as an amateur librarian for the Memory of the World/Public library project and an artist in the performing arts collective BADco. With the Multimedia Institute he has (co-)organised talks, conferences and exhibitions, as well as (co-)edited publications in the fields of political economy, tactical media and the commons. His research is in technologies, capitalist development and post-capitalist transition, with a particular focus on economies of intellectual property and unevenness of techno-science. At times, he writes on theatre, dance and politics. He’s the author of two short books: »The Hard Matter of Abstraction – A Guidebook to Domination by Abstraction« (V_____erlag für Handbücher, 2016) and „Shit Tech for A Shitty World“ (Aksioma, 2015). Together with Marcell Mars he has co-edited »Public Library« (WHW/Multimedija Institute, 2015) and »Guerrilla Open Access« (Post-office Press, 2018). https://tom.medak.click