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With these new possibilities for practices of archiving, it could be associated with heterogeneous nomadic spaces and the reconfiguration of collective memories.

Tactics represent the reclaiming of public space and webs of interaction could be produced through all available media. These tactical media practices produce prompt replies, create localised reactions and instigate disturbances in the everyday. It provokes collective participation in areas of transition. There are no fixed territories, it is produced globally in media specific channels.

Telecommunications is arguably the last major electronics industry that has remained untouched by the open source revolution. Major telecommunications manufacturers still build ridiculously expensive, incompatible systems, running complicated, ancient code on impressively engineered yet obsolete hardware
including proprietary software.

  

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While Voice over IP (VoIP) is often thought of as little more than a method of
obtaining free long-distance calling, the real value of VoIP is that it allows voice to
become nothing more than another application in the data network.

It sometimes seems that we’ve forgotten that the purpose of the telephone is to allow people to communicate, to connect and to share information. It should be possible to make it happen in a far more flexible and creative way than currently available to us.

The idea is to use an existing form of network that is built for multipe commercial use or companies exchange and turn the concept over into a tactical response to existing structures.
The DIY for vagabonds – tactics on the move toolkit enables local cultural workers to share resources and become better aware of what others have already experienced and archived. It is an open source software platform for sharing tactical practices on the level of Do-It-Yourself media tools. Using any kind of phone, participants could store and retrieve audio information on and from a server while moving through the city.

The efforts and social aspects of these Do-it-Yourself media tools are that they connect people to people, they tend to be relatively low-tech, small, bottom-up, inexpensive and very human, because they are filled with human voice.

Archives, which traditionally were rather located behind the doors of institutions, could now be expanded. Archival practices themselves have changed shape with the enhancement of collaborative and distributed archiving.