Ágnes Básthy: Crisis? What Crisis? Taking a Suspicious Walk around a Fashionable Notion

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, October 31, 2024

(Text of the speech by Ágnes Básthy on the first day of Metaforum X, Budapest, October 25, 2024) "'Krisis’ was originally a medical concept which designated, in the Hippocratic corpus…

THE VOID T.V. #2 Girl Theory – Stream Archive

In Institute of Network Cultures, by T.V. Team, October 29, 2024

Last week to send in proposals! | Tactical Media Reader: Common Tools for Common Struggles

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Tommaso Campagna, October 28, 2024

Introduction to MetaForumX in Budapest

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Flóra Barkóczi, October 26, 2024

Welcome to MetaForum X, the fourth edition of the MetaForum conference series, taking place in Budapest, Hungary, from October 24-26, 2024. Although this event is not about nostalgia, it is…

On the New Issue of Diseña and Moody Publications

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, October 14, 2024

I'm gladly surprised to find out that What Design Can't Do, often in pair with my friend Afonso Matos's Who Can Afford to Be Critical?, happens to be frequently discussed…

An In-Humanist Analysis of Contemporary Palestine

In Tactical Media Room, by Donatella Della Ratta, October 9, 2024

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” Theodor Adorno famously declared in a widely cited passage from his  Cultural Criticism and Society 1955 essay. This powerful statement by the prominent…

Input ↔︎ Output | Part 4: Barricades

In THE VOID, by Jordi Viader Guerrero, October 7, 2024

This is the fourth blog post of a multi-part series making sense of THE VOID's online video practices in the context of cybernetic participatory culture, the legacies of tactical media,…

Drown Your Laptop: On Office Sirens, Working from Home, and Aesthetics of Refusal

In INC Longform, by Agnieszka Wodzińska, September 23, 2024

Summer came and went. I realised I had spent just as much time being outside as I did watching others be outside. On TikTok, I came across clips of people…

THE VOID 10 | Urgent Websites

In THE VOID, by T.V. Team, September 17, 2024

//// The Void Episode 10  //// Although this series usually praises slow internet-building practices, this episode makes an exception. Noam Youngrak Son’s development of three web tools is an urgent…

Input ↔︎ Output | Part 3: Diagrams and Abstraction

In THE VOID, by Jordi Viader Guerrero, September 12, 2024

This is the third blog post of a multi-part series making sense of THE VOID's online video practices in the context of cybernetic participatory culture, the legacies of tactical media,…

Algorithms vs Interactions: The Revenge of Artificial Intelligence over Design

In INC Longform, by Nolwenn Maudet, September 5, 2024

I don't understand the power of artificial intelligence. Or rather, I wonder why AI overshadows the power of interfaces. We live in a world obsessed with data processing, the resulting…

Input ↔︎ Output | Part 2: Hardware Implementation

In THE VOID, by Jordi Viader Guerrero, September 4, 2024

This is the second blog post of a multi-part series making sense of THE VOID's online video practices in the context of cybernetic participatory culture, the legacies of tactical media,…

Art in Permacrisis on Radio Alhara

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 4, 2024

Starting on the 5th of September, 2024, our podcast Art in Permacrisis will be aired on Radio Alhara every first Thursday of the month between 10:00 am and 11:30 am…

‘Exit Reality’ with Valentina Tanni and Guests | Report from Ljubljana

In .expub, by Rok Kranjc, September 2, 2024

Throughout April and May 2024, Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art launched two exciting publications and hosted two events in collaboration with art historian and curator Valentina Tanni. These delve…

The Mistake of Post-Institutional Art

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 2, 2024

In recent times, conversations I'm having with fellow art workers tend to spiral into fantasies of escaping the art institutions. A far-right government has taken power in the Netherlands a…

Gray Zone of Images

In Tactical Media Room, by Lesia Kulchynska, August 28, 2024

“There are rarely good reasons for showing us the images of mutilated victims” Harun Farocki   “Those of you who, despite the flood of death images, choose not to bear witness…

The Missing Free Software in the Principles of Perma-Hybridity

In Geert, by Giuseppe Aceto, August 25, 2024

Geert Lovink's Principles of Perma-Hybridity is packed-full with concepts I want to explore to a deeper level despite already resonating with my understanding and experience. However, I felt alternatives to…

Principles of Perma-Hybridity

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, August 24, 2024

(written for the NoSchoolNevers publication The Internet of Dead Things) “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this…

Principles of Permacomputing from the South: Dynamic Relational Processes, Organisms, Making and Doing Transformations

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, 13/08/2024

On 18 July 2024, I co-convened "Planetary Data Infrastructures,” with peers selecting a satisfying series of workshops and participatory sessions integrating scholarly presentations with skills sharing and artistic practice through…