Tomislav Medak is a cultural activist and philosopher. He studied Philosophy, German language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. At the focus of his theoretical interests lie constellations of contemporary political philosophy, media theory and aesthetics. His practical pursuit is the expansion of the public domain. He is a free software and free culture advocate.
The focus of Tomislav’s work is social, biopolitical and media theory, in particular socio-theoretical implications of digital technologies and new media. His research activities are focusing on issues of social and cultural policies – investingating societal implications of IPR and alternatives to existing IPR framework, protection of the public domain and alternative regimes of management and representation of creative production. He is co-ordinating theory program and publishing activities of the Multimedia Institute/MAMA (Zagreb, Croatia). Tomislav co-edited a reader on the socio-cultural importance of free software “GNUSpectre” and co-authored the free culture, technology and science festival “Freedom to Creativity!”. He co-curated “System.Hack”, an exhibition on the history of hacking. Tomislav Medak is member of the Croatian Creative Commons team and board member of iCommons. He is also member of the urban activist initiative “Right to the City” and works with the Zagreb-based theatre group BADco as a performer, dramaturge and director.
