The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) analyzes and shapes the terrain of network cultures through events, publications, and online dialogue. Our projects evolve around digital publishing, alternative revenue models, online video and design, digital counter culture and much more.
Updates from the INC
12 april 2019: NWA-matchmakingsbijeenkomst De Kunst van de Kritiek
NWA-matchmakingsbijeenkomst De Kunst van de Kritiek / The Art of Criticism Meld je aan met het formulier onderaan deze pagina. Wanneer: 12 april 2019, 12.00-17.00 uur (inclusief lunch) Waar: @DROOG Design Staalstraat 7A/B 1011 JJ Amsterdam Voor wie: Deze matchmakingsbijeenkomst is bedoeld voor alle spelers uit het veld van de kunst- en cultuurkritiek: critici, redacteuren [...]
MoneyLab considers interventions in and experiments with digital economy.
Democratizing Technological Innovation
By: Menno Grootveld Twenty-five years after the breakthrough of the internet to the general public, there is little left of the enthusiasm that accompanied that breakthrough originally. In 1993, the internet was seen as one large, anarchist sanctuary, where everyone could do whatever they wanted. The new medium was described at the time as the [...]
Making Public - Pressing Matters in Publishing.
Call for Workshops: Urgent Publishing
We are looking for workshops that can tie into the themes of the Urgent Publishing conference that are hands-on and collaborative. Zine-making, coding, visualization techniques are a few examples of what we are looking for in a workshop, but we consider anything interesting and hands-on.
The Art of Criticism: A European Network for Experiments in Art Criticism
Meld je nu aan voor de NWA-matchmakingsbijeenkomst
NWA-matchmakingsbijeenkomst De Kunst van de Kritiek / The Art of Criticism Meld je aan met het formulier onderaan deze pagina. Wanneer: 12 april 2019, 12.00-17.00 uur (inclusief lunch) Waar: @DROOG Design Staalstraat 7A/B 1011 JJ Amsterdam Voor wie: Deze matchmakingsbijeenkomst is bedoeld voor alle spelers uit het veld van de kunst- en cultuurkritiek: critici, redacteuren [...]
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VideoVortex XII in Malta: Call for Lectures/Theory Presentations
Download as PDF Conference: September 27-28, 2019 Please submit to: submissions@vv12.org Deadline for lectures/theory contributions: March 15, 2019. Please also look at our website where you can read the general call: http://vv12.org VideoVortex, an artistic network concerned with the aesthetics and politics of online video, will gather again in Malta for a two-day conference in [...]
Art, Work, and Identity in an Age of Planetary-Scale Computation
Extracting Computerized Desires – a Review of Clickmine
By: Tim Brouwer On the website clickmine.click visitors stumble upon a computer-generated grassland, which one can only interact with by clicking it. This browser-based game, developed by artist and software engineer Sarah Friend, is called Clickmine (2017) and invites players to engage with the realm of virtual currencies and experience mining them. Alongside her work [...]
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A Behavioral Definition of Design – Notes on Self-Design
Our goal here is to develop a framework that can encompass both the design of things and the design of beings. In order to do so, we need a working definition of design. For this purpose let us consider an unlikely source, Karl Marx’s Capital: A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, Read the rest