Institute of Network Cultures Blog
Celebrating 5 years of YouTube with the ‘YouTube Canon’
Posted on Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 12:10 pm by sabine
Celebrating 5 years of YouTube, the city theater of Amsterdam and Upload Cinema presented the YouTube Canon, compiled by new media professionals (including the INC). The shows on February 22 and 23, 2010 were sold out entirely. After enjoying YouTube classics for two hours, the audience itself was subject of a YouTube video. One thousand [...]Video Vortex Reader II: Call for Contributions
Posted on Friday, 5 March 2010, 3:01 pm by sabine
In response to the increasing potential for video as a significant form of personal media on the Internet, the Video Vortex program examines key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. With the rise of YouTube and alternative platforms, the moving image on the Internet has become expansively [...]Recent pictures
Wikipedia, Critical Point of View
program booklet CPOV
Posted on Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 11:14 am by Serena Westra
Here you can download the program booklet. It also contains the program of the Wikiwars event, held in India 12 & 13 January. -program booklet Critical Point of View Organized by: Institute of Network Cultures Location: Public Library Amsterdam Concept: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer Editorial board: Johanna Niesyto, Nishant Shah, Nathaniel Tkacz and Sunil Abraham Research: Juliana Brunello Project manager: Margreet [...]Interview with Patrick Lichty, Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kidall
Posted on Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 9:58 am by julianabrunello
by Juliana Brunello I have been running some interviews with the speakers from the conference and posting it on our blog. I was going to make only individual interviews, but by researching about the works from Patrick Lichty, Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kidall, I saw a connection and thought it would be interesting to make a common interview [...]net critique by Geert Lovink
Let’s End Anonymous Peer Review
Posted on Monday, 1 March 2010, 8:16 am by geert
I have mentioned this here and there. Now I will make a blog entry about it: it’s time to make a public appeal against (anonymous) peer review practice of academic journal articles, PhD proposals, funding applications and so on. I get these requests every now and then and will now make my response public. If you [...]Exodus Strategies in the Networked Desert
Posted on Friday, 26 February 2010, 5:44 am by geert
Email interview with Geert Lovink by Daphne Dragona & Ilias Marmaras (Athens), February 26, 2010. Conducted for Konteiner, a Greek monthly independent magazine on politics, culture and arts, which is distributed independently and also comes as a supplement of Eleftherotypia, a major and well-known Greek newspaper. DD & IM: Twenty years of networked culture: Networked in the [...]Society of the Query
Ying Zhu and Bruce Robinson on Critical Masses, Commerce, and Shifting State-Society Relations in China
Posted on Thursday, 11 March 2010, 1:37 pm by Shirley Niemans
The essay Critical Masses, Commerce, and Shifting State-Society Relations in China, recently published on The China Beat blog, is based on the script of a talk that Professor of Media Culture at the City University of New York Ying Zhu gave at Google’s New York offices on February 12, 2010. In her talk, Zhu focused [...]Berliner Gazette: Suchen, Spielen, Lernen by Konrad Becker
Posted on Thursday, 11 March 2010, 12:38 pm by Shirley Niemans
Suchen, Spielen, Lernen (to search, play and learn) is a recent essay by by Konrad Becker, director of World-Information.org and co-editor of the upcoming Deep Search ll symposium in Vienna as well as the upcoming volume Critical Strategies in Art and Media (Autonomedia, 2010). The essay is available (in German) at the Berliner Gazette: http://berlinergazette.de/suchen-spielen-lernen/.
