The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) analyzes and shapes the terrain of network cultures through events, publications, and online dialogue. Our projects evolve around urgent publishing, alternative revenue models, critical design and making, digital counter culture and much more.

Review of Steve McQueen’s Occupied City: Amsterdam Holocaust Database Cinema

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, December 4, 2023

The topic of documenting vanished places has occupied me for decades. What is this urge to record disappearance? It can be such a desperate mission. Why do we film absence?…

Beyond the Faust and the Hype-Imaginaries of Large Language Text Models

In INC Longform, by Daniele Gambetta, November 30, 2023

This text is a translation of articles published in Italian magazines Dinamopress and Not "But while in the ancient world the machine may still be a symbol of unity with…

The Hmm Hotline is here!

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Giulia Timis, November 30, 2023

The Hmm Hotline is here! Get all your burning questions on AI answered @ PickUp Club in Amsterdam, December 6, 8 PM CET! What data is being used to train…

Smart Phone Mythologies–On Dasha Ilina’s Advice Well Taken

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 29, 2023

Dasha Ilina's video work Advice Well Taken: Folk Tales of Digital Savation uses the 'techlore' concept to find out what 'urban legends' are in the age of smartphones. You can…

AUC lecturers publish statement in solidarity with student sit-ins for Palestine

In Tactical Media Room, by Admin, November 28, 2023

This is the statement from the Amsterdam University College lecturers in solidarity with the student sit-ins for Palestine: Since Monday 20 November, Amsterdam University College students have been participating in…

Extinction Internet-Interview with Geert Lovink by Carlos Scolari

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 28, 2023

(This email interview was conducted in July 2023 by Carlos Scolari for the Spanish edition of the Extinction Internet essay and primarily deals with my 2022 book Stuck on the…

Presenting .expub

In .expub, by Tommaso Campagna, November 27, 2023

The Insitute of Network Culture is proud to announce .expub, a Creative Europe reseaarch project about expanded publishing. .expub Exploring expanded publishing The project will engage artistic and independent publishers…

Unsettling the Cloud: On Data Centers and Counter-Narratives

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Ruben Stoffelen, November 24, 2023

As I gaze out of my window, I am met with a totem. This totem is gray and windowless, nestled in between offices and academic buildings. Behind it is a…

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 17)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, November 22, 2023

Why I am Cryptophic https://www.bvp.com/atlas/why-i-m-cryptophobic Pop-up Community zuzalu, Istanbul, November 2023 https://zuzalu.city/ https://zuzalu.notion.site/Homepage-cb20817c7ca54ca6a151915babd03c38 Are NFTs Dead? https://dappgambl.com/nfts/dead-nfts/ Jacob Silverman: Blowing Up the Crypto Cartel https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/blowing-up-the-crypto-cartel-silverman SafeMoon executives withdrew $200 million…

eSims for Gaza

In Tactical Media Room, by Admin, November 21, 2023

‘Palestinians won’t be silenced again!' : Egyptian journalist Mirna El-Helbawi initiative to get Gaza back online

National Walk-Out for Palestine on November 29th

In Tactical Media Room, by Admin, November 21, 2023

🌍✊On November 29th, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, join us from 12:00 to 13:00 for a National Walkout! 📢 We're standing up against the silencing and…

Our Terms, Our Conditions – Report of the 2023 IMPAKT Festival

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Klara Debeljak, November 20, 2023

During IMPAKT festival 2023 lawyer Jan Fermon and artist Jonas Staal presented their collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook. The lawsuit aims to force legal recognition of Facebook as a public…

Networks, Platforms, Digital Commons: Interview with Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 20, 2023

Conducted for issue 2 of The Reservoir (Brooklyn, 2023), theme: Communion, distributed by Autonomedia. By Max Moorhead Geert Lovink is a media theorist, net critic, and activist, who has been…

OUT NOW: What Design Can’t Do

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, November 19, 2023

My new book What Design Can't Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion, with Federico Antonini's melancholic design, is finally out. Get it from Set Margins' website and soon from many…

The Epicentre

In Tactical Media Room, by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, November 18, 2023

Moshe Dayan said in 1967 that Israel must act like a mad dog so that its enemies will know that their hostile actions will receive an immeasurable response: a strategy…

A Door May Open - Short Movie Screening

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Tommaso Campagna, November 16, 2023

When: December 2, 2023 20:00 - 22:00

Where: OT301, Amsterdam

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Introducing EtherPort

In Going Hybrid, by Giulia Timis, November 16, 2023

The cultural sector is stuck in event overkill. Openings, symposiums, workshops, artist talks, and conferences follow each other in rapid succession. Each one puts an even more important matter on…

Report: The Network State conference @Taets, Zaandam (30 Oct 2023)

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, October 31, 2023

Yesterday, I attended The Network State conference. Here are some of my quick thoughts after the conference, featuring free market utopianism, blockchain colonialism, life-extension, and libertarian exits.

Experimenting Liveness: Stream Art Between Amsterdam, Kraków, and Kyiv | REPORT

In THE VOID, by Giulia Timis And Tommaso Campagna, October 30, 2023

This is an improved report of the live webcast that happened on September 28 2023, between 12.00 and 13.00, at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science. In this…

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