Tamara Vukov
Balkan Meditations
In the current age of perpetual mediatised wars, Balkan Mediations stems out of the many questions raised for North Americans by the 1999 NATO bombing of Kosovo and Yugoslavia. Balkan Mediations takes the ironies of today's intimate links between media and military technologies as its point of creative intervention, examining the incongruities and brutalities of a context in which, to paraphrase Bob Ostertag, we now use the same tools to play, create medi and kill.
Biography
Pomgrenade has been active in experimental and documentary film and video production, community radio and sound, all around media jamming and shit-disturbing since the past ten years. In her spare time, she pursues graduate work in media and communication studies, where she researches and publishes on the relationship between current media representations of immigration and the increasingly racist and exclusionary nature of Canadian immigration policy.