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.

Young People and Information – A Manifesto

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, June 1, 2023

(Editor Alex Grech, Malta) https://www.3cl.org/young-people-and-information-manifesto/ The State of Play with Online Information - The Issues We Want to Address The manifesto is a primer for much-needed input and discussions among…

Off the Offensive Parturition, I Wonder by Manuel Robim

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, May 31, 2023

STRIPTHƎSIS2023.002 As opposed to the template-typical pensive nowness creature, slowly eroding as a result of existing primarily as means of corporate sustainability, I do not thrive in a slave-like wonder…

Recensie: Justin O’Connor – ‘Reset: Een nieuw begin voor kunst en cultuur’

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, May 30, 2023

Het socialistische tijdschrift Jacobin heeft sinds januari 2023 eindelijk een Nederlandse versie. In een van de eerste artikelen op het ‘platform voor linkse ideeënstrijd’ maakt Teun Dominicus de stand van…

Book Launch of Pak Mokum Terug (Book in Dutch, Event in English)

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, May 26, 2023

When: June 15, 2023 19:00 - 22:00

Where: Takland, Amsterdam

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Link list on NTFs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 16)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, May 25, 2023

David Rosenthal: Crypto, My Part In Its Downfall (via Eduard de Jong) https://blog.dshr.org/2023/04/crypto-my-part-in-its-downfall.html Dan Darkpill on Brian Daugherty of the Bitcoin Association: "If you are wondering where senators, politicians &…

Under The Influence(r) by Manuel Robim

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, May 25, 2023

STRIPTHƎSIS2023 .001 Under The Influence(r) // by MANUEL ROBIM The depravity of our senses has led us into a rampant search for the unknown within ourselves. What drives us to…

Overview of Recent UKRAiNATV Live Webcasts (#EFIR 52-56)

In Tactical Media Room, by Geert Lovink, May 22, 2023

(please visit their website for more information: https://ukrainatv.streamart.studio/) -- LIVE FROM KRAKOW -- UKRAiNATV X CHICKS ON SPEED AV SHOW #~EFIR 56 MAY 21, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7Dz7q-9qF9Y OVERVIEW OF UKRAiNATV #EFIR…

Making & Breaking III: Communal Luxury, edited by Sebastian Olma & Justin O’Connor

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, May 9, 2023

This issue of Making and Breaking sets out to re-imagine culture beyond individualised consumerism and personal preferences indexed to the ability to pay. Kirsten Ross recovered the idea of Communal Luxury from the…

Mumories at MU Hybrid Art House

In Going Hybrid, by Carolina Pinto, May 5, 2023

Opening on the 5th of May, the exhibition "Hybrid Tales For Hybrid Times: 25 years of radical shapeshifting at MU" is featuring MUMORIES, an audio installation developed by the Living…

THE VOID 08 | timeis.capital – A Video Research on Dutch Art Spaces and Self-organization

In THE VOID, by T.V. Team, May 3, 2023

//// The Void Episode 08 //// In this episode THE VOID hosts the collective timeis.capital which runs an online platform for audio-visual research on self organisation. This project consists of…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 17

In Tactical Media Room, by Svitlana Matviyenko, May 3, 2023

January 4, 2023 – January 26, 2023 My father, still extremely upset about being placed at the elderly house, tells me he would escape if only he could walk. He…

Décoder, Recoder, Dépasser : Pour une Véritable Techno-Magie

In INC Longform, by Victor Chaix, April 26, 2023

for the English version, click here: Quel rapport pouvons-nous établir entre Chat GPT et une soupe à la tomate jetée sur un Van Gogh ? Quelle invitation nous fait Proust,…

Diary of a Video Editor

In Going Hybrid, by Ray Dolitsay, April 25, 2023

Lately, I have been seeing … things. Without a better explanation, I chose to blame my stress levels and exhaustion for the obscure visions. With my background in media and…

Interview with German Media Theorist Annekathrin Kohout by Geert Lovink about her Pop Culture Studies: Nerds, K-pop and Cuteness

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 24, 2023

Leipzig-based German media theorist Annekatherin Kohout has written a ‚cultural studies’ history of the nerd figure. Nerds, Eine Popkulturgeschichte was published in 2022 by C.H. Beck in Munich. I was…

Live Performance of UKRAiNATV from the SAR Artistic Research Conference in Trondheim

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 19, 2023

When: April 21, 2023 19:00 - 22:00

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Call For Proposals – Critical Meme Reader III: Breaking the Meme

In Viral Image Culture, by Chloë Arkenbout, April 18, 2023

The meme is dead. Or at least that is what opinion pieces, magazine articles, conference presentations, and even memes themselves have declared over the years. Despite this, "meme" is as…

Turkish Translation: İnternetimizi Geri Almanın Yolu-Platformdan Kaçış

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, April 17, 2023

(After the German, Italian and Spanish, there is now the Turkish translation of Stuck on the Platform, published by İletişim Yayınları in Istanbul, translated by Memet Ratip) https://iletisim.com.tr/kitap/internetimizi-geri-almanin-yolu/10379 İnternetimizi Geri…

M.I.T. khr0n1kles [ bonus track ]

In D E S K T O P I A, by @lbert Figurt, April 16, 2023

If I had to summarize my whole overseas experience in one sentence, I would say it has been a long and overstimulating heterogony of ends. I was supposed to travel…

DeusexMaki: A Hybrid Theater Performance

In INC Longform, by Maki Barna-Lipkovski, April 14, 2023

This is an auto-poetic text about a hybrid theater performance DeusexMaki (Desibozheizmashine)The performance premiered on 20 November 2022. It grew out of my Art doctorate at the University of Technical…

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