ML8: A follow-up with Martin Zeilinger and Max Haiven

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, July 9, 2020

Because there was so much to discuss and many questions from the audience, many of my prepared questions for the speakers remained unasked during Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination. After…

Digital stitch

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Inte Gloerich, July 8, 2020

Written by: Pamela Nelson Sewing is an act of mindfulness. When we embroider or engage in other creative activities like painting or sculpting, our perception of time can become distorted…

Blockchain imaginairies – A report from MoneyLab8 Stream 7

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, July 8, 2020

In the past decade blockchain was pulled from left to right and back again to solve what seems like any issue, achieve any dream. From libertarian anti-state crypto-currencies and new…

COVID-19 Diary: Not Working

In No Fun, by Ruth Les, July 6, 2020

This edition of my COVID-19 Diaries features a two-part anecdotal poem on 'not working', combining fragments of conversations and dialogues collected over the past three weeks.   1st July 2020…

The Critic-lobbyist (When All Culture Has Become Kulturkritik)

In The Art of Criticism, by Axel Andersson And Miriam Rasch, 06/07/2020

Image by Stjepan Zlodi from Pixabay This is a guest post by Axel Andersson, editor-in-chief of Kritiklabbet in Sweden. The etymological link between criticism and crisis (via the Greek krinein)…

“We don’t want to get care from people who are not taken care of” – A Report of MoneyLab8 Stream #4

In MoneyLab, by Silvio Lorusso, July 3, 2020

Care, a concept that gained mainstream prominence during the pandemic, was the focus of the fourth stream of the MoneyLab8, moderated by Davor Mišković of Drugo More and including Tomislav…

Geert Lovink text archive (1999-2010) transferred to INC

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, June 28, 2020

The dilemma is an old one: should one spread one's legacy here and there in order to minimize risks to lose the information all at once or rather centralize the…

Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Video Episode)

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, June 27, 2020

After the fifth episode of the Selfies Under Quarantine series, here, at the Institute of Network Cultures, we discussed how such online courses, but also lectures and debates, could make…

ML#8: Value extraction and the workforce of the cryptocene

In MoneyLab, by Inte Gloerich, June 26, 2020

Monday 29 June, 5pm CET Live stream: http://aksioma.org/moneylab8 Moderator: Aude Launay (FR) Speakers: Martín Nadal (SP), César Escudero Andaluz (SP), Telekommunisten (CA/UKR), Sašo Sedlaček (SI), Nascent (UK) Value is classically…

‘Counter speed with a blossoming of un-immediacy’: interview on Urgent Publishing

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, June 25, 2020

For their upcoming podcast series where researchers in the ARIAS network talk about their projects, Morgane Billuart and Katie Clarke asked me to introduce Making Public and the urgent publishing…

INC closed for the summer

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Barbara Dubbeldam, June 25, 2020

When: July 4, 2020 - August 16, 2020

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The Speculative Design of Immaculate Motherhood

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, June 24, 2020

This article was first published by DigiCult by Patricia de Vries In the next five years, the artificial womb will become a medical reality. Ectogenesis, outside-the-womb gestation, is increasingly viable…

On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practice, its History and Politics

In INC Longform, by Devon Schiller, June 22, 2020

In September 2019 I visited Linz (Austria), the UNESCO City of Media Arts, where I attended the 40th Anniversary of the Ars Electronica Festival, 'the most time-honored media arts festival…

Special issue Urgent Publishing Debris @ Pervasive Labour Union zine

In Making Public, by Miriam Rasch, June 19, 2020

Making Public teamed up with Lídia Pereira of Pervasive Labour Union zine after the Urgent Publishing conference to make a special issue that would move far beyond the known realms…

It’s a book!

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, June 15, 2020

Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art:  A Kierkegaardian Inquiry into the Imaginary of Possibility by Patricia de Vries  Available as open access E-pub here. Over the past decade, a growing number…

Out Now: TOD#33 Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Patricia, June 15, 2020

Over the past decade, a growing number of artists and critical practitioners have become engaged with algorithms. This artistic engagement has resulted in algorithmic theatre, bot art, and algorithmic media…

NPC.CAFE, Texts on Videogames

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, June 15, 2020

Gui Machiavelli and I didn't really know where to publish our weird takes on videogames so we came up with our own text repository. It's called npc.cafe because non-player characters…

Vacature: INC zoekt producer-onderzoeker

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, June 14, 2020

https://www.hva.nl/vacatures/1104392/onderzoeker-Producer-Netwerkcultuur-(0,6-1,0-fte)?origin=multuOUrRd%2BkfCmjM7CCpA (please note: full command of the Dutch language is an absolute requirement for this job in order to teach, read documents, attend meetings and write grant applications) Ben je…

A Different Kind of Grief: Learning to Love Our Networks in a Time of Disconnection

In INC Longform, by Shane Finan, June 12, 2020

Have you ever seen a place transformed beyond recognition? Maybe a local lake dried up, or a treasured tree blew down, leaving an empty space where there was once a…

Making Public Presents the Urgent Publishing Toolkit and Publication

In Making Public, by Barbara Dubbeldam, June 9, 2020

What strategies are available to publishers in the cultural and research domains to conceive, produce, and position their contents in an urgent way? In the two-year research project Making Public…