Posts By: sabine

Summer time

By sabine, July 3, 2008

Now that school’s out, and the Video Vortex Reader editing process is in full swing, Network Notebook #2 is being fine tuned, the new publication in the Studies in Network Cultures series is being written, and we’ve started the preparations for our next event (in March 09), it’s time to wish you all a wonderful [...]
De digitale gezelligheid van HyvesOud-medewerker Eva Kol schrijft boek over...

Interview met Eva Kol in NRC

By sabine, March 16, 2008

De digitale gezelligheid van HyvesOud-medewerker Eva Kol schrijft boek over succesvolle vriendennetwerksite. 14 maart 2008. Door David Haakman http://www.nrc.nl/media/article974461.ece/De_digitale_gezelligheid_van_Hyves_ Hoe kon een klein internetbedrijfje uitgroeien tot de populairste netwerksite van Nederland? Die vraag beantwoordt de 26-jarige Eva Kol in haar boek Hyves. Ze beschrijft niet alleen hoe het vriendennetwerk zich ontwikkelde, maar ook hoe de leden Hyves [...]
Boekpresentatie: Eva Kol, Hyves, Utrecht: Kosmos Uitgevers, 2008. Locatie: De...

11 maart 2008: Boekpresentatie Eva Kol, Hyves

By sabine, March 5, 2008

Boekpresentatie: Eva Kol, Hyves, Utrecht: Kosmos Uitgevers, 2008. Locatie: De Waag, Theatrum Anatomicum, Nieuwmarkt Amsterdam Datum: Dinsdag 11 maart 2008 Tijd: 17.00u Vrij entree. Vanaf deze maand ligt het boek ‘Hyves’ in de winkels. Het is het eerste boek over de 6-miljoen leden tellende netwerksite Hyves en is geschreven door oud-Hyves-medewerker Eva Kol. De publicatie [...]

INC publications pics

By sabine, March 2, 2008

Liz Losh and Ouinon.net both posted pics of the INC package they received, which included all of the INC publications. Left: http://virtualpolitik.blogspot.com/2008/03/surprise-package.html Right: http://www.ouinon.net/index.php?2008/02/19/310-thanks-to-geert-lovink Order INC publications by sending a message to info (at) networkcultures (dot) org. They are also freely available as PDF from the publications page.
Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (eds.), MyCreativity Reader: A Critique...

Out now: MyCreativity reader

By sabine, January 30, 2008

Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (eds.), MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007. ISBN: 987-90-78146-04-9 Order a copy of the book by sending a message to marijevaneck (at) networkcultures (dot) org. Download a low-res pdf here. about the book: The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into [...]

Theoria Cum Praxi: Some Thoughts About Practice-based PhDs. By Nancy Mauro-Flude

By sabine, January 4, 2008

This text is a response to the current trend towards Practice-Based PhD’s as discussed in the ‘Third Cycle: Artistic Research after Bologna, International conference on the third cycle in higher arts education’, Felix Meritis 10-11 October 2007. By Nancy Mauro-Flude (artist and forthcoming PhD candidate). Thank you to : Geert Lovink, Michael Kolkman and Jan [...]
This book takes an inventory of the art of collaborative...

The Art of Free Cooperation – Edited by Geert Lovink &Trebor Scholz

By sabine, November 9, 2007

This book takes an inventory of the art of collaborative practice, surveys the landscape of new, cooperation-enhancing technologies, and renders the inner workings of cooperative processes as a new model for social movements. Civic participation is on the decline, but, online, more people work together than ever before. Activists contribute citizen journalism. New media artists [...]
Friday 23 November 2007 : Zero Comments: Blogging, the Nihilist...

Lecture Geert Lovink at Goldsmiths, University of London

By sabine, November 9, 2007

Friday 23 November 2007 : Zero Comments: Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse. A Critique of Citizen Journalism. The dominant citizen journalism discourse presents itself as an empowering, all-inclusive movement. However, the vast majority of bloggers neither sees itself as a political subject (‘citizen’) or has the ambition to become a journalist. The ‘citizen journalism’ meme was [...]
Report by Sarah Turner At midnight Sunday 14 Oct, the...

Urban Screens Manchester: It’s about content!

By sabine, October 25, 2007

Report by Sarah Turner At midnight Sunday 14 Oct, the two temporary screens were unplugged which together with a third permanent one, displayed the Urban Screens art and events programme. Urban Screens Manchester 07 was over. During the four preceding days, Manchester was a hub for the international Urban Screens crowd arriving from around the [...]
two-day public program on RFID and things to come. 19...

19-20 october: RECALLING RFID

By sabine, September 28, 2007

two-day public program on RFID and things to come. 19 & 20 OCTOBER 2007 DE BALIE AMSTERDAM www.debalie.nl/recallingrfid recall 1 bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one’s mind, esp. so as to recount it to others; remember. 2 officially order (someone) to return to a place. It’s in travel documents, building passes, pet [...]