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.

Wojak’s Lament: Excess and Voyeurism under Platform Capitalism

In Viral Image Culture, by Anthony Glyn Burton, September 21, 2021

Those of us with faint memories of the early internet may remember it making a different appeal: nobody needed to know who you were if you didn’t want them to.…

Korean We Are Not Sick Video Lecture by Geert Lovink

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, September 20, 2021

http://whatdomuseumsconnect.kr/programs/1/sad-by-design-we-are-not-sick In this presentation, Geert Lovink discusses the dark side of the net. The mental state of internet users is tragic. Instead of empowerment and self-organization, what we mostly see…

Global Mutations of the Viral Image: Critical Meme Reader Launch

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, September 20, 2021

When: October 7, 2021 17:00 - 19:00

Where: Spui25, Amsterdam

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The Hidden Implications Behind the Ideology of Passive Income

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Morgane Billuart, September 16, 2021

Passive income. Not to dream of labor. Retiring at 30. Drop-shipping. E-commerce. Digital products. You’ve probably already heard of these words, terms, life goals. They have been referred to quite…

Post-Precarity Autumn Camp: How to Survive as an Artist?

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 16, 2021

From September 27th until October 1st, the Institute of Network Cultures, Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn), and Platform BK organize an autumn camp for young art workers. Fifteen recently graduated artists,…

ooooops-ed

In D E S K T O P I A, by @lbert Figurt, September 13, 2021

Whenever a mobile device breaks by collision or crash (talking about accidental slips and drops here / not considering luddite i-conoclasty, sponsored resistance tests or bittersweet pranks), it usually feels…

A poem

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, September 7, 2021

There is a gap in time, What should I do? I’m temporarily left-handed; looking at the notebook next to my bed. Boring. Some magazine underneath it. Boring. Another reading…

Out now: INC Reader #15 Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image

In Viral Image Culture, by Chloë Arkenbout, September 2, 2021

Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image Beyond the so-called ‘Alt-right’ and its attendant milieus on 4chan and Reddit, memes have passed the post-digital threshold and entered new…

Digital Golem, Gesticulating Hybrids, Affective Clones & whatever they want

In INC Longform, by Marko Gutić Mižimakov, August 24, 2021

Bodies - photoshopped, facetuned, beautified, deepfaked, synthesized simulated, rendered, digitized. What do these impalpable figures on the surface of the screen want from our palpable fingers…

Exhibition: PROOF OF STAKE-Technological Claims (Hamburg)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, August 24, 2021

4.9-14.11 2021, Kunstverein Hamburg (Germany) Some pictures of the exhibition, taken during the opening weekend: (intro to the guided tour) (Sarah Friend with her new work) With: ROBERT ALICE, MEL…

Machine Dreaming: On Writing with Language Transformers

In INC Longform, by Georgiana Cojocaru, August 16, 2021

‘To understand how humans must create AI, we must first understand how we must create ourselves.ʼ - Inferkit ‘Feeding AI systems on the world’s beauty, ugliness, and cruelty, but expecting it…

Against Gardening

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, August 12, 2021

this essay is published in On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation Against Gardening: Moments in the Life of a Gardener by Patricia de Vries…

Not everything grows exponentially

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, August 9, 2021

*A textual product of a time thus far* Subjects: Digi-tools, 35mm image, employed fingers, and Sevdaliza I am introspectively swiping and selecting the subjects from my memory, including those from…

Design for Care? Narratives of Climate Care in Design

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, August 8, 2021

this article is published in Press & Fold Magazine Design for Care? Narratives of Climate Care in Design by Patricia de Vries May you live in interesting times,…

Slanted Magazine #37 AI : Algorithmic Anxiety in Art & Design

In Algorithmic Anxiety , by Patricia, August 8, 2021

Slanted Magazine published an excerpt from my book Algorithmic Anxiety. You can find their #37 AI issue here Here's the PDF of the article: Slanted_AI#37_Patricia-de-Vries

desk-talk #4 / Bojana Romic

In D E S K T O P I A, by @lbert Figurt, July 29, 2021

New issue of the desk-talk series. This is a precious one, since - as in a symmetrical counterpoint to the previous take (with all its related stylistic ruminations) - it's…

Chatting with an AI about Burnout.

In NO FUN, by Jess Henderson, July 28, 2021

Talking about burnout with OpenAI tool GPT-3. In July 2020, OpenAI released Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) for beta testing – a natural language processing system (colloquially, an “AI”) that…

Shot Theory: From Viagra to the COVID-19 Vaccine, Pfizer Got it Right

In INC Longform, by Donatella Della Ratta, July 27, 2021

How did data culture evolve in the past decade up to present day? It shifted from the euphoria of sharing for the sake of sharing, characterizing Web 2.0’s advent in…

Performing the Archive: On Carla Gannis’s wwwunderkammer. By Natasha Chuk

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Geert Lovink, July 27, 2021

I click on a weblink that prompts me to join a room. The room is dark and drenched in a purple hue: blue and red hexagonal tiles rotate along the…

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