This is where you can find all the documentation from our projects, events and conferences.

Critical Point of View, Wikipedia Research Initiative: 12-13 January in Bangalore and 26-27 March in Amsterdam
The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) seek to bring together ideas, experiences and scholarship about Wikipedia in a reader that charts out detailed user stories as well as empirical and analytical work to produce.. The organisations will jointly host two separate conferences aimed at building a Wikipedia Knowledge Network and charting scholarship and stories about The Wikipedia from around the world. (more).
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Urban Screens 2009: The City as Interface: 4 December, Trouw Amsterdam in Amsterdam
Urban Screens is a series of events and seminars that has been organized around the theme of outdoor display screens (LED signs, plasma screens, projection boards, information terminals as well as intelligent architectural surfaces) in urban areas. It supports the idea of using public space as a platform for creation and cultural exchange, strengthening the local economy and encouraging public discussion. Since the first Urban Screens event in 2005 in Amsterdam, related international conferences have taken place in Manchester in 2007 and Melbourne in 2008. (more).
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Society of the Query conference: 13 – 14 November, Trouw Amsterdam in Amsterdam
With the Society of the Query conference -stop searching, start questioning-, the Institute of Network Cultures aims to critically reflect on the information society and the dominant role of the search engine in our culture. What does the dependency on the engine to manage the complex system of knowledge on the Internet mean? What alternatives exist? How can the increasingly centralized web be regulated? What is the future of interface design? By bringing together researchers, theorists and artists, the conference will examine the key issues that are emerging around web search, and contextualize developments within the fields of knowledge organization and information design. (more).
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Winter Camp 09
Winter Camp is an event, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and ook place from 3-7 March ‘09 in Amsterdam. Network Cultures Winter Camp is a mix of presentations and work spaces with an emphasis on getting things done. It’s a four-day program of work spaces and plenary presentations, in which a dozen networks (each of which has 5-15 people) can work on their specific topics (more).
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Video Vortex
On 18-19 January 2008 the Institute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with Argos Brussels and the Netherlands Media Arts Institute, organized Video Vortex. In response to the increasing potential for video to become a significant form of personal media on the Internet, this conference examines the key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content (more).
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New Network Theory
On 28 – 30 June 2007, the INC and Media Studies, University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, organized the international conference New Network Theory. The object of study has shifted from the virtual community and the space of flows to the smart mob. New Network Theory explored contemporary network theory that suits and reflects the changes to the objects of study that come to define our understandings of network culture – a post-Castellsian network theory, if you will, that takes technical media seriously (more).
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MyCreativity
On November 16-18, 2006 the Institute of Network Cultures and the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster organized MyCreativity, a Convention on international Creative Industries research. MyCreativity was a two-day conference that intended to bring the trends and tendencies around the Creative Industries into critical question (more).
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The Art and Politics of Netporn
On September 30 and October 1, 2005 the first academic conference on netporn was held in Amsterdam. It was organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, Katrien Jacobs and Matteo Pasquinelli. The Art and Politics of Netporn presented multiple perspectives on our growing immersion in pornographic web-based media. Furthermore, it discussed the potential of art and critical research in times of heightened information surveillance, filtering and censorship (more).
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Urban Screens 05
Urban Screens was an international conference, that was held in Amsterdam on September 30- October 1, 2005. Urban Screens investigated how the commercial use of outdoor screens can be broadened with cultural content. Urban Screens was organized by the INC in collaboration with Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Department of Art and Public Space (more).
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Incommunicado 05
Incommunicado 05 was a conference about information technology for development, that was held in Amsterdam on June 15-17, 2005. The approach of the conference was to mix many approaches and viewpoints to understand this working towards a critical survey of the current state of ‘info-development’, also known as the catchy acronym ‘ICT4D’ (more).
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A Decade of Webdesign
A Decade of Webdesign was a conference marking the first ten years of web design, that was held in Amsterdam on January 21-22, 2005. The approach of the conference was to mix many means of understanding this first decade of work and creativity. The conference was organized by the INC in collaboration with Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie Hogeschool Rotterdam and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (more).
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