INC Winter Drinks and launch
Date: 19 January 2010
Location: Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Interactive Media, Expositieruimte (4th floor), Rhijnspoorplein 1, Amsterdam.
Time: Launch starts at 16:00.
Registration: rsvp (at) networkcultures (dot) org

At the INC winter drinks the Institute of Network Cultures will launch two online projects: the audio archive of Geert Lovink 1987-1995 (including the Bilwet interviews) and the Theory on Demand series.

Geert Lovink’s audio archive contains more than 200 hours of digitized material (transferred from audio cassettes to digital audio files). The archive contains editions from the Bilwet Portrait gallery and various other interviews and lectures from 1987 – 1995. For information about the Bilwet Portrait gallery please visit: http://www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet/

Theory on Demand is a new publication series by the Institute of Network Cultures. The name is derived from Print on Demand, a printing technology by which books (or other documents) are only printed when ordered. Print on Demand publishers includes Lulu, Blurb, and Open Mute. The Theory on Demand series mainly focuses on rare finds: manuscripts that haven’t been published yet and books that are already out of print.

The first books in the series are:
# 1 Dynamics of Critical Internet Culture, by Geert Lovink
# 2 Jahre der Jugend Netzkritik: Essays zu Web 1.0, by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz
# 3 Victim’s Symptoms, PTSD and Culture, by Ana Peraica (ed.)
# 4 Imagine There Is No Copyright and Cultural Conglomorates Too…, by Joost Smiers and Marieke van Schijndel

The books can be downloaded as pdf files from the INC website (from 19 January onwards). Printed copies can be ordered with one of the listed print-on- demand publishers (Lulu, Blurb, OpenMute, Qoop). http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/theoryondemand/

Het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur is ‘weekgast’ in de Havana, het weekblad voor studenten en medewerkers van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam.

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 summer.

Please check out our media archive for some nice summer reads. Most of our publications can be downloaded from the archive: the Incommunicado reader, C’lick Me reader, and the MyCreativity reader, for instance, are all freely available as downloadable PDFs.

Applicants for the internship: please feel free to contact Margreet with your questions and application letters. Email: margreet [at] networkcultures.org.