How-to: Digital Art Criticism

By Leonieke van Dipten, 15/05/2018

On Thursday 19th of April the Domain of Art Criticism and the INC launched the How To Digitale Kunstkritiek at SPUI25 in Amsterdam. We are happy to announce that the How To is freely available (in Dutch). The How To Digitale Kunstkritiek is a practical guide, which discusses tools and methods for digital criticism. It [...]

Divide and conquer: the future of online criticism

By Miriam Rasch, 25/04/2018

The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online – a review by Miriam Rasch ‘Online, everyone is a critic – but only insofar as everyone is also a consumer.’ A cynical, but prescient quote from Robert Barry’s essay in the 2017 collection The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online which dives into ‘the changing conditions of criticism in [...]

Join our expanding network on The Art of Criticism and participate in research and experiments

By Miriam Rasch, 13/03/2018

A growing international network of researchers, practitioners and organisers within the field of art and cultural criticism is forming. The aim of network is to help establish a multiplicity of critical cultures in Europe. The network will apply for grants, exchange best practices and experiences, develop theoretical knowledge, make interventions in the field, and produce [...]

The Art of Criticism in Brussels 4 – 9 May 2018

By Leonieke van Dipten, 19/02/2018

By Sonja van der Valk Last November we talked about common projects and, with some beers in our hands, we decided to bring some of us together during the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (KFDA) in Brussels, May 2018. This much I can tell you, it is going to happen. Axel Andersson (Kritiklabbet), Wouter Hillaert (rekto:verso), and Daphne Rieken [...]

The Art of Criticism First Meet-up Report

By Miriam Rasch, 19/12/2017

Discussion on future research in the field of art criticism 20-21 November 2017, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam The Institute of Network Cultures, the Domain for Art Criticism, Kritiklabbet and Archined, have organized a discussion meeting with the intention to investigate and revitalize art criticism through research and collaborations between different media, countries [...]

Publishing Against The Grain: a traveling exhibition that provides a space for reading, thinking, and conversing

By Leonieke van Dipten, 09/11/2017

Publishing Against the Grain is a new traveling exhibition that provides a space for reading, thinking, and conversing, where slowing down can become a form of intellectual resistance, organized and produced by Independent Curators International November 18 – January 29 | Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MoCAA) | Cape Town, South Africa January 19 [...]

Can a critic become a developer?

By Leonieke van Dipten, 25/09/2017

Hybridisation in the (digital) publishing work flow, by Fabiola Fortuna Can a critic, or a humanist, become a developer? This question was brought to me some weeks ago by Sonja van der Valk (Domain for Art Criticism). My reply? Yes, surely. The necessary condition to do this – next to passion, of course – is [...]

Debate online – Tribute to Julian B. Coco

By Leonieke van Dipten, 25/09/2017

Tim and Katrein Breukers are artists in residence in Hotel Maria Kapel in the little Dutch town Hoorn. For a period of three months they have been researching the work of the musician and good friend of their grandmother’s, Julian B. Coco (1924-2013), trying to find a connection between his work and person and the [...]

Cross Critique – art criticism in (moving) images

By Leonieke van Dipten, 25/09/2017

Nine Dutch and Flemish critics and video artists landed on the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussel in May 2017. Their mission: to experiment with the possibilities of audio-visual criticism. Can you ‘write’ a critique in images? In which ways does text relate to a moving image, or audio to image and text? What kind of consequences does [...]

Cross Media Publishing: Cinekid MediaLab 2016

By Leonieke van Dipten, 20/09/2017

In a joint project in fall 2016, Cinekid MediaLab (an annual exposition of media art for children), PublishingLab (part of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) and Domain for Art Criticism produced forty-seven blogposts, a collection of essays and a website. Five critics and artists were involved in research and writing, while four students developed [...]