Institute of Network Cultures Blog
TOD #6: Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global
Posted on Thursday, 2 September 2010, 1:01 pm by admin
The Institute of Network Cultures proudly presents the 6th issue in the Theory on Demand series from Tom Apperley, Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global about this publication: Global gaming networks are heterogenous collectives of localized practices, not unified commercial products. Shifting the analysis of digital games to local specificities that [...]u-Turm projection ISEA 2010
Posted on Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 12:49 pm by margreet
By Carlos Garcia Moreno-Torres So, that’s it, we did it…and it was huge, bright, exciting, different, new, busy, crowded, fun, exhausting, magnificent, difficult, great, geweldig, tietenaffengeil and so many other things that there are not enough words to describe it, so from now own let me just say, as a sway to sum it up, [...]Recent pictures
Video Vortex
YOUTUBE AS A SUBJECT: Interview with Constant Dullaart
Posted on Thursday, 2 September 2010, 9:18 am by rachel
By Cecilia Guida Constant Dullaart (the Netherlands, 1979) is a visual artist who ironically explores new modes of imagining and using the internet as a medium. His research is focused on the contemporary language of images and re-contextualizing material found on the Web. For him, the Web is a space, a landscape, a world to investigate [...]WATCHING YOUTUBE by M. Strangelove
Posted on Friday, 2 July 2010, 11:18 am by ceciliaguida
The world of the ordinary people and their extraordinary videos ‘I like to watch. I confess’ says Michael Strangelove, adjunct professor in the department of communication at the University of Ottawa, opening his book Watching YouTube by divulging his enjoyment of any kind of video on YouTube and other internet sites – laughing babies, home-made cartoons, [...]Culture Vortex
Final report
Posted on Thursday, 1 July 2010, 12:46 pm by lorenazevedei
The Public 2.0 research as a first activity of the Programme line with the same name has come to an end. This three months research has been initiated in order to answer some vital questions related to the media art collections of NIMk and the groups of users that use this collection. 1. How do users [...]Discussion with the non-professionals
Posted on Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 9:40 pm by lorenazevedei
Culture Vortex is an innovation program to encourage public participation in online cultural collections. networkcultures.org/culturevortex/Wikipedia, Critical Point of View
Interview with Hendrik-Jan Grievink
Posted on Friday, 20 August 2010, 8:55 am by julianabrunello
What was the compelling reason for you to get involved in a project concerning Wikipedia? As a designer, I dedicate myself to inventing new ways of understanding the world through images. I use existing images in almost every project: the Fake for Real memory game I showed during the conference is a good example of this. This [...]Interview with Felipe Ortega
Posted on Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 8:46 am by julianabrunello
As a computer scientist and engineer you could have chosen among many different objects of study, why Wikipedia? For 3 reasons: Firstly, at that time (2005) it was very clear for me that Wikipedia was a new Internet phenomenon, a flagship initiative, one that would play a key role in the [...]net critique by Geert Lovink
Ten Theses on Wikileaks
Posted on Monday, 30 August 2010, 12:25 pm by geert
By Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens These 0. “What do I think of Wikileaks? I think it would be a good idea!” (after Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quip on ‘Western Civilisation’) These 1. Disclosures and leaks have been of all times, but never before has a non state- or non- corporate affiliated group done this at the scale Wikileaks managed [...]The Meaning of Open is Obfuscated–Interview for Ars Electronica
Posted on Monday, 23 August 2010, 12:11 pm by geert
The Meaning of Open is Obfuscated Interview with Geert Lovink by Andreas Hirsch (AEC), for the Ars Electronica 2010 Catalogue Andreas Hirsch: In your book “Dark Fiber” (2002) you wrote: “Changes in technological paradigms take years. It’s questionable whether human nature, with all its fatal flaws and charming defects, will ever change. It is therefore good to [...]
