Monthly Archives: September 2012

Network Cultures Links

By Miriam Rasch, September 28, 2012

We all gave up MySpace long ago, but now that they issue a new design, the question arises: Is MySpace the new Facebook? The Electronic Frontier Foundation takes A Deep Dive into Facebook and Datalogix: What’s Actually Getting Shared and How You Can Opt Out. ‘So what is Facebook doing? It is asking the denizens [...]

Creative Networks In the Rearview Mirror of Eastern European History by Rasa Smite

By Miriam Rasch, September 28, 2012

The Amsterdam Institute of Network Cultures presents: Theory on Demand #11 Rasa Smite, Creative Networks In the Rearview Mirror of Eastern European History This study explores the dawn of internet culture from an Eastern European perspective. Starting with a theoretical angle several networks are introduced and interpreted as complex socio-technical systems. The author analyzes the [...]

Nieuwe manieren van publiceren over kunst en cultuur

By Miriam Rasch, September 13, 2012

Conferentie Open, 12 september 2012 De komende bezuinigingen treffen de hele culturele sector en ook Open, organisator van de conferentie over de toekomst van publiceren in kunst en cultuur, ontkomt er niet aan. Net als de Rijkskacademie in Amsterdam, waar op 12 september de bijeenkomst plaatsvond. De toekomst is digitaal voor instellingen in het nauw, [...]

Save the date, Video Vortex #9 Lüneburg

By margreet riphagen, September 12, 2012

http://videovortex9.net/ All too often the (theoretical) discourse on moving images and online video is out of sync with the actual field of video culture and its most current phenomenologies and developments. Therefore we want to gather videos of all shades with the help of “navigators,” people we trust to point out and profile some of [...]

Researching search – notes from an INC intern

By renekoenig, September 10, 2012

A few years ago, I looked with envy on INC´s Society of the Query initiative. When I stumbled upon it, it was already too late for me: The Society of the Query conference was over and I already dedicated my diploma thesis to Wikipedia. Not that I would have regretted this decision – I think [...]