net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Marco te Brömmelstroet, Letizia Chiappini, and Ying-Tzu Lin, May 18, 2022
Originally published in Dutch on NRC (May 22th, 2022) Premise of the article This article looks at Amsterdam as an illustrative example of our research about digital platforms. Commercial platforms for food and grocery delivery have grown tremendously during the Covid period. Their advertisements and logos are capturing attention everywhere, on ferries, trams and in [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, May 15, 2022
The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an intern with research and development skills Internship period: September 1st, 2022 until Feburary 1st, 2023 (0.6-0.8 fte/3-4 days a week). The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) is a media research center that actively contributes to the field of network cultures through research, events, publications, and online [...]
By Maria van der Togt, May 11, 2022
🄸🄽 🅃🄷🄴 🄻🄾🄾🄿Ukraine special edition Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. Their vision is a world where digital technologies can contribute to a more equitable, democratic, and sustainable society. To enable this change, they investigate how digital technologies [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, May 10, 2022
April 13 – May 8, 2022 If you do not know Russian or if you just focus on the voice’s timbre and the rhythm of this brief conversation, it feels comforting. You’d immediately sense this young woman and man are attracted to one another. They definitely have a bond and, possibly, even a passion. You [...]
By Angela Gurtsieva, May 4, 2022
The first edition of the Kyiv Biennial named The School of Kyiv took place in 2015. By adapting, or rather reappropriating the well-known and highly commercial format of the international exhibition, Vasyl Cherepanyn, one of the organizers of the Biennial, sought to reflect the Maidan revolution in a thematic format of education. The school epitomized [...]
By Maria van der Togt, May 3, 2022
We met around 8, on a Thursday evening[1]. Welcomed by the smell of homemade soup. Courtesy of Mirror Soup Kitchen Lviv. Hackers, artists, researchers, journalists, and passerby’s filled their bellies with the very same soup that’s providing essential sustenance a mere 1.362km away. The very same recipe, cooked on the very same day. It tasted [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, April 30, 2022
De culture of giving is in de afgelopen jaren steeds belangrijker geworden voor het financieren van culturele programma’s. Maar wie geeft er eigenlijk aan wie en waarom? En hoe staan private giften in verhouding tot publieke financiering? De staat van mecenaat is een eendaags symposium van Platform BK en Framer Framed over de veranderende rol van [...]
By Svitlana Matviyenko, April 25, 2022
Let me start this blog posting with a the list of Russian wars over the past 30 years: Georgia (1991-1993), Abkhasia (1991-1993), Transnistria (1992), North Ossetia-Alania (1992), Tajikistan (1992-1997), Chechnya (1994-1996), Dagestan (1999), Chechnya (1999-2009), Georgia (2008), South Ossetia and Abkhazia, North Caucasus (2009-2017), Ukraine (2015 – present), Syria (2015 – present), Central African Republic [...]
By Maria van der Togt, April 25, 2022
Sign petition here. On April 13, a Saint Petersburg court sent the artist/musician to a pre-trial detention center. She faces between 5 and 10 years of imprisonment because, on March 31, she swapped price tags with stickers containing information about the actions of Russian soldiers in Mariupol in the “Perekrestok” supermarket. She is now accused [...]
By Laurence Scherz, April 20, 2022
Het Domein voor Kunstkritiek en De Nieuwe Garde organiseren dit voorjaar een avontuurlijk lab rondom digitale kunstkritiek en essayistiek, waarin we met elkaar in de online publicatievormen duiken. Een lab voor Nederlandse en Vlaamse cultuurjournalisten, essayisten en makers met experimenteerdrift die (ver) voorbij de lineaire tekst willen kijken. Meld je aan voor deze driedaagse met [...]
