Workshop Interfacing Amsterdam’s Colonial Histories

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Tommaso Campagna, November 26, 2020

During this workshop, we ideate and explore tactics to turn iconic buildings into visual gateways that address Amsterdam’s stakes in historical trade routes and slavery. By appropriating physical and digital…

Tactical Visual Culture x The Hmm: watch all 8 talks here

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 24, 2020

To kick off our new research project Tactical Visual Culture, we partnered up with The Hmm for a special event. For our first theme 'Video Witnessing' we invited 8 speakers,…

Breathing as Writing: The Productive Tensions and Murmurs of the Telematic World.

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, November 22, 2020

“The one who understands is not extracting from the abstract from out of the tone, the rhythm, and the cadences the noise internal to the utterance, the cacophony internal to…

The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue by Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 21, 2020

“The body has been drained of its sedimented meanings through the sheer persistence of the recording device and ceased to be a body productive of meanings or connotations beyond its…

Noise vs. Control: A Parable Against Modelling the Future by Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 21, 2020

“People find themselves seemingly unable to create the conditions for a radical bifurcation—not the disruptive ‘radical innovation’ of the kind claimed by those startup entrepreneurs who present themsevles as ‘new…

Call for Proposals: INC Reader #15 – Critical Meme Research 

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 13, 2020

As they metastasized from the digital periphery to the mainstream, memes have seethed with mutant energy. From now on, any historical event will be haunted by its memetic double —…

Book launch: Theory on Demand #37 From Opinions to Images by Ulus S. Baker

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 13, 2020

When: November 19, 2020 17:30 - 18:30

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OUT NOW: TOD#38 Satellite Lifelines by Isabel Löfgren

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Marijn Bril, November 12, 2020

My book Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities just launched and can be found online (info below). Hospitality is central to the question…

Reporting The Hmm at Tactical Visual Culture

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Maisa Imamovic, November 11, 2020

We’ll start soon! is streaming on the screen of tonight’s live event: The Hmm at Tactical Visual Culture, while I’m changing my font to Helvetica. The sound of Synth Sinatra…

The Interface as Playground: Albert Figurt’s Desktop Narratives

In Tactical Visual Culture, by Marijn Bril, November 11, 2020

On November 4, 2020 the INC and the Visual Methodologies Collective had the pleasure to host a Desktop Narrative Workshop by Albert Figurt, an Italian video-artisan, multi-instrumentalist, independent researcher, and…

MoneyLab #11 Disaster Capitalism

In MoneyLab, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 10, 2020

When: March 26, 2021 - March 28, 2021

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Principles of Stacktivism

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, November 10, 2020

(this essay was published first by tripleC in the non-peer-reviewed Reflection section of the journal here) Principles of Stacktivism by Geert Lovink “One of the last frontiers left for radical…

Out now: Internet, Mon Amour – Chronicles before yesterday’s collapse

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 9, 2020

‘The future was yesterday, when we were inseparable from computers and smartphones, for better or for worse. Even when we would have preferred to do without them, because we knew…

Interview: Digital Lockdown with Geert Lovink by Jess Henderson

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, October 30, 2020

(published in the No Fun Mag, October 28, 2020) Jess Henderson: As I write to you in August 2020, you are on vacation in a depopulated rural area and pretty…

De Kunst van de Kritiek: hybride, dialogisch en urgent

In The Art of Criticism, by Miriam Rasch, 20/10/2020

De Kunst van de Kritiek is een samenwerking tussen het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur, Domein voor Kunstkritiek en vele nationale en internationale partners, die sinds 2015 bestaat. Wat kunnen internet en…

Diary of a Stylist

In INC Longform, by Maisa Imamović, October 19, 2020

'After reading Diary of a Stylist e-commerce product pictures will never be the same.' – Geert Lovink, internet critic 'All at once this piece is a journal peppered with droll…

Shock Me. Please: On Pervasive Boring Creativity

In No Fun, by Jess Henderson, October 19, 2020

The following is an excerpt from my new book Offline Matters: The Less-Digital Guide to Creative Work, which can also be found in the current print issue of Amsterdam Alternative…

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 9)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, October 15, 2020

Hydra darknet plans to operate outside of Russia https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/russian-darknet-marketplace-hydra-launches-dubious-ico Erhard Schuettpelz: review of Katharina Pistor, The Code of Capital https://www.zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/circulation-revisited-4 One: new Amazon payment system with your palm (via Inte…

MoneyLab #X – Economythologies Scrapbook

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, October 14, 2020

As part of our program for MoneyLab #X – Economythologies, we are embarking on a community scrapbooking project. Our aim is to develop a patchwork of ideas, images and references…
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