Biography
Tomislav Medak is a researcher with a PhD on technopolitics and planetary environmental crisis from Coventry Unversity’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures. Over the last couple of years, he has worked with Valeria Graziano and Marcell Mars as one the co-initiators of the Pirate Care project and a policy coordinator for the green-left political platform Možemo! in Croatia.
His own research interests are in care, ecology, technology and capitalist development, with a particular focus on the commons and the disability. At times, he also writes on theatre, dance and politics.
Formerly he was a member of the theory and publishing team of the Multimedia Institute/MAMA in Zagreb and an artist in the performing arts collective BADco.
At Multimedia Institute, with his colleagues, he was organising talks, conferences and exhibitions, and edited publications in political economy, tactical media and the commons.
He authored 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). He also co-authored several edited volumes: together with Marcell Mars Public Library (WHW/Multimedia Institute, 2015) and Guerrilla Open Access (Post-office Press, 2018), with Petar Milat The Idea of Radical Media (Multimedia Institute/Arkzin, 2014) and with Goran Sergej Pristaš Time and (In)Completion: Images and Performances of Time in Late Capitalism (BADco., 2014).
From 2000-2020 he was working as a performer, dramaturge and director with the Zagreb-based experimental theatre collective BADco. With the collective he has created a number of artworks, including performances Correcting Rhythm (2017), Spores (2016), A Pound of Histeria, Acceleration… melodrama (2014), The League of Time (2010) and 1 poor and one 0. Some of those have toured widely around Europe, while the interactive installation Responsibility for Things Seen was presented in 2011 Venice Biennal.