Videos of Fear and Loathing of the Online Self

By Inte Gloerich, July 20, 2017

Videos of the lectures of the conference that was held last May in Rome (together with John Cabot University and Roma Tre University) are gradually coming in. Watch the first ones here. Including presentations by Biella Coleman, Franco Berardi, and Jodi Dean. Topics include online subjectivity theory, going behind and beyond the selfie, artistic practices [...]

RaiNews reporting on Fear and Loathing of the Online Self

By Inte Gloerich, June 28, 2017

Click here to read The Anonymous mask and the selfies of Isis (in Italian) by RaiNews including interviews with Biella Coleman and Geert Lovink.

Event: Karakters en maskers, de gezichten van het online zelf

By Inte Gloerich, June 19, 2017

27 Juni 2017, 17:00 – 18:30 Spui25 (Spui 25-27, Amsterdam) Sprekers: Daniël de Zeeuw, Patricia de Vries en Kim de Groot. Moderator: Geert Lovink MELD JE AAN VIA DEZE LINK ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.’ De nineties-droom, waarin het internet door haar eerste profeten werd verkondigd als parallel universum, een cyberwereld waarin [...]

Tutte le emozioni dentro un «like»

By Inte Gloerich, June 13, 2017

Written by: Teresa Numerico, 23.05.2017 (first published in Il Manifesto) Vivere al tempo del selfie: un convegno a Roma intorno al racconto di sé. L’autoritratto è sempre esistito, ma la tentazione compulsiva all’«essere guardati» è più recente. La scelta (politica ed etica) di Anonymous decide per l’indisponibilità, si sottrae alla vita «esposta» Selfie è stata [...]

From Selfies to Biometrics and Playing at Diminished Reality in East-Jerusalem

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 12, 2017

22 May 2017, Session 1: Behind and Beyond Selfies, John Cabot University Olga Goriunova describes that self hood and truth are linked by a distance, in which the factual and the fictional are re-arranged. The face become material for algorithmic analysis, that forms the debate of indexical truth and algorithmic objectivity. Fabio Cristiano and Emilio [...]

The World Behind Your Back

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 6, 2017

22 May 2017, Session 1: Behind and Beyond Selfies, John Cabot University Ana Peraica’s presentation focused on the selfie and self-images in regard to the places their recorded in. She approaches the selfie as a way to report the world behind ones back. Ana starts her keynote with a personal story of her grandfather who [...]

Report: Fear and Loathing of the Online Self, Rome

By Inte Gloerich, June 1, 2017

This post was written by Nicola Bozzi, and first appeared on 31 May 2017 on Schiz🙃cities. I have been to a few INC conferences in my Amsterdam years, so when they announced they were tackling online identity this time I just had to go. Organized in collaboration with John Cabot University and Roma Tre, Fear [...]

Artistic Practices of the Online Self

By Inte Gloerich, May 29, 2017

By: Fabiola Fortuna 23 May 2017, Roma Tre University Two artists are ready to start their talks. One of them is standing in front of a bookstand, with – instead of a book – a smartphone and a tablet upon it. Behind her, videos and pictures are playing on a big screen. The last session [...]

Three Conversations to Deconstruct the Social Media Stage

By Inte Gloerich, May 19, 2017

Written by: Camilla Palermo “Hey, what are you up to?” “Me? Nothing special, just reading Visual Thinking by Rudolph Arnheim. You know, the German art historian? It is indeed a very interesting work.” What is fascinating about this excerpt from this outwardly pretentious – because, “you know”, why should one know who Arnheim is? – [...]

Flyers Fear and Loathing of the Online Self out now

By Inte Gloerich, May 15, 2017