Latest Version of the Sad by Design/We Are Not Sick Performance

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 26, 2022

New version of my ever-changing music-theory performance under fluctuating names Sad by Design and We Are Not Sick, this time at Neme Gallery in Limassol (Cyprus), December 11, 2021, as…

MONEYLAB NFT ESSAY PRIZE

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, January 21, 2022

Popular search query: "Making Millions with NFTs!" Empowerment or Trap? Jackpot or pocket money? You be the judge. Time to auction off our criticality. In a single year, NFTs have…

Call For Contributions – PRTSCN: THE LAZY ART OF SCREENSHOT

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Dunja Nešović, January 20, 2022

The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) invites all designers, artists, writers and web-surfers (if there are any left) to submit their visual and written works created via or inspired by…

No Shot Like Screenshot: Banal, Sublime and Dangerous

In INC Longform, by Dunja Nešović, January 19, 2022

but also     Computational devices such as computers and smartphones give us an easy way of preserving the contents of their screens for myriad of purposes through screenshotting. Whether…

Q&A with Business Consultant Maik Baumgaertner

In Geert, by Geert Lovink, January 11, 2022

Email interview with Geert Lovink by business consultant Maik Baumgaertner (late 2021) Maik Baumgaertner: Thinking specifically about the intersection of the internet and culture, what’s on the horizon for 2022? What are…

Link list on NTFs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 13)

In MoneyLab, by Geert Lovink, January 9, 2022

Mozilla founder blasts browser maker for accepting ‘planet incinerating’ cryptocurrency donations https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/mozilla_accepts_cryptocurrency/ The NFT Handbook: How to Create, Sell and Buy Non-Fungible Tokens https://hyperallergic.com/701414/nft-handbook-create-sell-buy-non-fungible-tokens-matt-fortnow-quharrison-terry/ The Weirdness Beyond Web3’s Bullshit https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-weirdness-beyond-web3-bullshit…

Stop Being Reasonable: On Nonviolence in Social Media Comment Wars  

In The Digital Gutmensch, by Chloë Arkenbout, January 5, 2022

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ― Angela Davis “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s…

INC is hiring an intern

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Chloë Arkenbout, December 24, 2021

The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an intern with research and development skills Internship period: February 1st until July 1st, 2022 (0.6-0.8 fte/3-4 days a week). The Institute…

The Paradox of the Political Art & Design School – Notes on Bourdieu

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, December 21, 2021

During the last couple of years, in various countries such as the Netherlands, Germany and the UK, art & design schools were demanded to take an explicit political stand. They…

OUT NOW – Radical Housing: Art, Struggle, Care

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Tommaso Campagna, December 17, 2021

Theory on Demands #42 Radical Housing: Art, Struggle, Care Edited by Ana Vilenica Housing space is a crucial locus of social reproduction, as it is a place where countless acts…

Memes, Irony and Ugliness

In Viral Image Culture, by Idil Galip, December 17, 2021

Several months ago, I was having a conversation with my friend Chloe about the future of memes and she asked me what my favourite meme was. The question stumped me…

Addendum to Platform BK’s Open Letter to Dutch Art Academies: Economic Responsibility in Art Education

In ENTREPRECARIAT, by Silvio Lorusso, December 16, 2021

Last week I signed Platform BK's open letter entitled "Graduates of art academies deserve more agency over their future" without hesitation. Addressing the executive boards of Dutch Art academies, the…

‘Kunstadacemies moeten hun studenten beter voorbereiden op het leven na de opleiding’, opiniestuk in Het Parool

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

Veel afstudeerders van kunstacademies ervaren een harde, stressvolle landing op de arbeidsmarkt. In deze onzekere tijd verdienen zij het meer grip te krijgen op hun eigen toekomst. Academies zouden studenten…

Out Now: Post-Precarity Zine

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 15, 2021

The Institute of Network Cultures and the Learning Community Critical Making are proud to present the Post-Precarity Zine, a toolbox for beginning artists. Times have changed. The art world and…

A Poem about Screenshots

In Living Industry, by Maisa Imamovic, December 15, 2021

Upheavals erupt, faster than change.   There are three known cops in my head, Cops in my head.   The Cop of Time, Grants freezing one of the two existential…

How Do Platforms Reshape Cultural Industries?

In Institute of Network Cultures, by Dunja Nešović, December 14, 2021

On Monday, 6th of December, Spui25 organized a panel event How Do Platforms Reshape Cultural Industries? that gathered Thomas Poell, Anne Helmond, David B. Nieborg and Jeroen de Kloet in…

Cycles: the Sacred and the Doomed, On Optimization, PMDD and its Metaphors.

In INC Longform, by Morgane Billuart, December 13, 2021

Assemblages of screenshots from different internet resources   We must know whether we want to change the world to experience it with the same sensorial system like the one we…

Contextualised Communitarian Economies, Feminine Solidarity, Body-land and Territorial Agonism

In Performing the Internet, by Nancy Mauro-Flude, December 9, 2021

‘How to unlearn what we know and unthink the system: Contextualised Communitarian Economies, Feminine Solidarity, Body-land and Territorial Agonism’. Review of Laura Rodriguez Castro, Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place: Sentipensando…

Shifting the Definition of Professional Competence: Jue Yang on the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp in Metropolis M

In Our Creative Reset, by Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 8, 2021

'The rhetoric that artistic freedom should be separate from talks of money and professionalization still prevails in art academies and public imaginations, making the survival — not to mention well-being…
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