net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Tommaso Campagna, September 20, 2023
By Carolina Pinto, September 5, 2023
All the other directions we can go: alternative media networks and their infrastructures by Carolina Valente Pinto This book analyses the values and processes that characterise DIY (do it yourself) digital infrastructure, relating networked initiatives to broader tensions in contemporary alternative media production, namely between ideology and practice in cultural and artistic networked initiatives. [...]
By Natasha Chuk, September 4, 2023
The affordances, limitations, and architectures of space, proximity, interaction, and playfulness come together through unlikely radio frequencies in the experimental works of Shanghai-born, New York City-based interdisciplinary artist Viola He’s recent creative experiments. While an artist-in-residence at Wave Farm—working from a studio space situated on a 29-acre property in the northern Catskills of upstate NY—He [...]
By Megan Phipps, August 8, 2023
In Expanded Cinema, written in 1970, Gene Youngblood outlines what he deems as his contemporary scientific transition as an era of Cosmic Consciousness. Youngblood explains: “At their present limits astrophysics, biochemistry, and conceptual mathematics move into metaphysical territory. Mysticism is upon us: it arrives simultaneously from science and psilocybin.” (p. 136) Within cosmic consciousness, a [...]
By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 10, 2023
This book, edited by Valeria Ferrari, Florian Idelberger, Andrea Leiter, Morshed Mannan, María-Cruz Valiente, Balázs Bodó, brings together voices from various fields of intellectual inquiry, based on the idea that technological, legal and societal aspects of the information sphere are interlinked and co-dependent from each other. In order to tackle the existing gap in shared [...]
By Mariana Fernandez Mora, June 13, 2023
It’s Wednesday evening and I have no specific plans. I’m chilling on the sofa, scrolling through TikTok and Instagram while Below Deck Sailing Yacht is playing in the background. Even though I’m not moving I’m tired and bored. I have multiple screens open, trying to distract me, with no plans and no people available to [...]
By Geert Lovink, June 1, 2023
(Editor Alex Grech, Malta) Young People and Information Manifesto The State of Play with Online Information – The Issues We Want to Address The manifesto is a primer for much-needed input and discussions among young people, individuals and institutions whom young people perceive as being able to address issues relating to online information – and [...]
By Geert Lovink, May 17, 2023
Authorized transcript of Bruce Sterling’s lecture during the TU Eindhoven conference AI for All, From the Dark Side to the Light, November 25, 2022, at Evoluon, Eindhoven, co-organized by Next Nature. Website of the event: https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/calendar-and-events/25-11-2022-ai-for-all-from-the-dark-side-to-the-light. YouTube link of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB461avEKnQ&t=3325s — It’s nice to be back in Eindhoven, a literal city of light [...]
By Kate Babin, May 9, 2023
On May 25th at the University of Amsterdam there will be a free event to launch the special issue of The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, Blurring Digital Media Culture edited by Tony D. Sampson and Jernej Markelj. Date: May 25, 2023 Time: 13:00-18:00 Location: University of Amsterdam BG2, room 0.02, Turfdraagsterpad 15-17, 1012 [...]
By Klara Debeljak, April 23, 2023
Attending conferences such as the 2023 Transmediale A Model A Map A Fiction in Berlin is a type of privilege. In our oversaturated world, it is a privilege to be exposed to people who do the data-sifting for you and collectively fill out and reveal this endless web of connections. By this I mean the [...]
