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.

Museum Directors Critique Climate Activists Instead of Climate Crimes

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 7, 2022

Activists from 'Letzte Generation Österreich' splashed the painting 'Death and Life' by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt on 15 November. 'Death and life' is the apt name of the Gustav Klimt…

Genomineerden Prijs voor Jonge Kunstkritiek 2022

In The Art of Criticism, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, 07/12/2022

De Prijs voor de Jonge Kunstkritiek is een stimuleringsprijs voor een nieuwe generatie critici en essayisten uit het Nederlands taalgebied, die schrijft over hedendaagse beeldende kunst. Verheugd maken de organisatoren…

THE VOID 06 | Therapy for Web Developers

In THE VOID, by T.V. Team, December 5, 2022

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Link list on NTFs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 15)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, December 3, 2022

What the Sam Bankman-Fried debacle can teach us about “longtermism" https://www.salon.com/2022/11/20/what-the-sam-bankman-fried-debacle-can-teach-us-about-longtermism/ History of FTX podcast https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeidxfg7lxefbv53tf3ykfrd6vnce3x5y3tekmkrkhgvatbhvpw5n4y/FTX_3.mp3 Stephen Diehl: Crypto is the ‘commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime’ (plus video)…

Photo report: Memes Beyond Images Conference

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, December 2, 2022

The (political) power of memes has moved beyond virtual images. The distinction between the virtual and ‘real life’ no longer applies, or perhaps was never really there. Their effects (or…

Geert in Berlin: Three Events (Dec. 8/9/10, 2022)

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, December 1, 2022

When: December 8, 2022 - December 10, 2022

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OUT NOW – New Essay by Geert Lovink: Extinction Internet

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Tommaso Campagna, November 24, 2022

Extinction Internet is not merely an end-of-the-world phantasy of digital technology that one day will be wiped out by an electromagnetic pulse or the cutting of cables. Rather, Extinction Internet…

Berliner Gazette launches After Extractivism

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, November 24, 2022

After an inspiring local event in Berlin at the Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, the Berliner Gazette has launched the “After Extractivism” conference as an “asynchronous online event” and expansive…

Stuck on the Platform: A Night of Raving Against the Internet

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Laurence Scherz, November 21, 2022

With Geert Lovink, Annet Dekker, Lucien Le Chevalier, justin case, Mo Wrights Where: OT301, 1054 HW Overtoom 301, AmsterdamOpen: 19:00 – 01:00 hrsFREE Timetable: 19:00 – doors open 19:30 – start program,…

THE VOID 05 | A Motherfucking Website

In THE VOID, by T.V. Team, November 17, 2022

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Participatory Livecasting

In Going Hybrid, by Lilian Stolk, November 17, 2022

What can participatory livecasting look like? Is there a playfulness in its future, and a true on- and offline collaboration between the physical world and the virtual one? “At the…

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 14

In Tactical Media Room, by Svitlana Matviyenko, November 16, 2022

August 29 – November 12, 2022 On August 29th, the Ukrainian army launched a spectacular counteroffensive towards the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv. Western media mobilized, I received several…

Minizine: Elements of the Conversation Starter

In Going Hybrid, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 14, 2022

Event reports dream to be conversation starters. How can we make those dreams come true? In the minizine 'Elements of a Conversation Starter', the Hybrid Pubs research group maps the…

THE VOID 04 | Memorable Websites

In THE VOID, by T.V. Team, November 7, 2022

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THE VOID 03 | Sampling Memes with Annebel Breij (Dj Set + Interview)

In THE VOID, by T.V. Team, November 2, 2022

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Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 13

In Tactical Media Room, by Svitlana Matviyenko, November 1, 2022

October 31, 2022 After clocks are set back one hour, Olya and I are more comfortable running at 6am: we leave while it’s still dark – no streetlights, of course,…

Violence is an Image: Weaponization of the Visuality During the War in Ukraine

In Tactical Media Room, by Lesia Kulchynska, October 26, 2022

Can an image be a weapon? By the word weapon I mean not the device that helps you win, but an instrument of violence — a device (in this case,…

New Ways of Reading: Publishing Experiments For All

In Going Hybrid, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 24, 2022

When: October 25, 2022 19:00 - 21:30

Where: Framer Framed, Amsterdam

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New: A Slice of the Pie

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, October 21, 2022

Sebastian Schmieg and I recently launched a new artwork entitled A Slice of the Pie. Check it out here: https://a-slice-of-the-pie.live/ For three months, a 16 square meter LED wall installed…

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