net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Geert Lovink, April 20, 2021
Interview by Hoçâ Cové-Mbede In March 2021 London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit issued a warning towards students and universities to stop visiting Sci-Hub, the first website in the world to provide mass and public access to millions of research papers, a project designed, programmed and maintained by Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011. The press statement [...]
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, April 15, 2021
Maya Man is a young artist, dancer and technologist from New York. Utilising her background in coding and computer science, she makes projects that enhance and expand online experiences. Her work incorporates themes of joy, nostalgia and curiosity all at once, often leaning on early internet aesthetics while projecting a vision of embodied technological bodies [...]
By Geert Lovink, April 15, 2021
In the early morning of April 14th, 2021, the four editors of the journal DOXA were arrested by Russian authorities. Armen Aramyan, Natasha Tyshkevich, Volodya Metelkin and Alla Gutnikova appeared in court later that day. The purpose of the charges were made clear by the judge – to silence critics – who ordered the editors [...]
By Alexandra Juhasz and Peter Snowdon, April 7, 2021
This is the final blog post of the three-part conversation between film professor, media producer, theorist, and activist Alexandra Juhasz and writer and filmmaker Peter Snowdon. Alex In this moment, living in COVID; living as we do in isolation; living in fear; living in America (as I do) where, thank goodness, we have a new [...]
This is the follow-up of the three-part blog series of the insightful conversation between film professor, media producer, theorist, and activist Alexandra Juhasz and writer and filmmaker Peter Snowdon. Alex Peter, I really love the way you write about each of the distinct videos in your book The People Are Not an Image, your deep [...]
This is the first of what will be a three-part blog series in which we present the insightful conversation between film professor, media producer, theorist and activist Alexandra Juhasz and writer and filmmaker Peter Snowdon. Last year, the two held multiple virtual conversations at the digital roundtables of Zoom about the ubiquity of such communication [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, April 6, 2021
As the co-editor of the upcoming INC Reader about critical meme research, you can imagine when I received an invitation to the Meme Studies Research Network I got really excited. Over 250 international and interdisciplinary researchers, artists and other meme enthusiasts are currently connecting over there. Which has been a blast, honestly. The main goal [...]
By Evelien van Nieuwenhoven, April 1, 2021
Over het plezier van samen servers overbelasten Gisteravond vond onder leiding van The Hmm en PublicSpaces een virtuele tour plaats rond verschillende alternatieve platforms. Ongeveer 90 online deelnemers bezochten 5 open source platformalternatieven voor sociale media, samenwerktools, videoconferencing en onderwijspresentaties. Platforms waar eigen databeheer, hosting en de privacy van gebruikers voorop staan, en zo wel [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, March 29, 2021
What is this new NFT blockchain craze everyone is talking about? The first IMPAKT TV programme on Thursday 8 April will be looking at the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Unlike such popular cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin and Ethereum, these digital collector’s items cannot be traded. Blockchain technology makes each non-fungible token unique and uncopiable, and [...]
By Geert Lovink, March 25, 2021
Paz Sastre (ed.). Manifiestos sobre el arte y la red 1990-1999. EXIT Libris. (Texto en español a continuación) During the 90s, manifestos devoted to exploring the relationships between art and the ever-expanding net abounded. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of the World Wide Web, the era of the “pioneers” of [...]
