net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By August Kaasa Sundgaard, September 12, 2024
For the past couple of years, a certain type of animation has haunted me. It’s an AI-manipulated image that brings its human subjects to life by simulating speech, lip movements, and facial expressions. In these ‘talking head animations’ or ‘digital puppets,’ the background remains static while only the subject’s face moves or changes. The [...]
By Geert Lovink, September 4, 2024
The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for interns with research and development skills Internship period: February 1st until July 1st, 2025 (4-5 months, 3/4 days a week). The max. capacity we have is three positions. You will be a part of a small young research team within a large Dutch polytech (www.hva.nl). Tasks within the [...]
By Katee Woods, September 2, 2024
I feel like there should be a word to describe the feeling you get when discovering something is immensely popular and yet you have never heard of it. This is one of the feelings I got when reading Valentina Tanni’s latest book, Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold. There are [...]
By Geert Lovink, July 20, 2024
Call for Participation Embracing the legacy of the three MetaForum conferences (1994-96), MFX continues to highlight the urgent issues of the times with a reflection on contemporary crisis surfing. The theme of PermaCrises examines the persistent breakdown of our political, societal and cultural systems, capturing the extremity of this situation through its continuality and pervasiveness. [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, July 11, 2024
Trigger warning: various topics where trigger warnings are often used are discussed in this article, such as sexual assault, car crashes, trauma and PTSD, misogyny, the genocide of Palestinian people and burn-out. “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.” – Ocean Vuong When in January of 2022 the Dutch news exploded because of [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, July 1, 2024
CLIMATE TRIBUNAL The Fossil Fuels Industry on Trial By Paolo Cirio The Climate Tribunal wants to shift perception regarding climate change by exposing historical, scientific, political-economic, and criminal evidence of how the fossil fuel industry is accountable for having caused climate change. This publication features texts and research from the activist and artistic work on [...]
By Jordi Viader Guerrero, June 26, 2024
On Tuesday October 1, 2024 from 10:00 to 16:00, the AHK Culture Club (Amsterdam) in collaboration with the Artificial Worlds Research Group will host AI_ANXIETY, a workshop inviting early career scholars in the humanities and artists to reflect on the institutional politics of AI research. The workshop will be facilitated by researchers Dmitry Muravyov, Aarón [...]
By admin, June 17, 2024
On Monday June 24, 2024 8pm, Spui25 (Amsterdam) there will be a lecture by Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia, UK), moderated by Marc Tuters (Mediastudies, UvA). The lecture will look at how the disruptive affordances and practices of global digital culture relate to political reconfigurations symptomatic of a broader crisis of liberalism. Alan Finlayson [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, June 11, 2024
MyCy is an emerging on|offline social network tackling our (toxic✌️) relationship with social media. While Big Tech divides us into money-making data points, they want to create spaces for real connections, knowledge exchanges and creative flourishing! They are hosting a workshop series, please find all the information below. — In workshops and skillshares we will [...]
By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2024
SYNTHETIC VISION/IMAGES OF POWER Truth, Evidence, Labour & Knowledge in the Age of AI Dates: 27 & 28 June 2024 Venue: Framer Framed | Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71, 1093 KS Amsterdam Organisers/Conveners: Francesco Ragazzi + Donatella Della Ratta + Rocco Bellanova + Rebecca Stein We are thrilled to invite you to the conference Synthetic Vision / Images [...]
