Monthly Archives: June 2013

Florian Cramer: Anti-Media. Ephemera on Speculative Arts

By Miriam Rasch, June 25, 2013

Florian Cramer, lecturer at the Rotterdam based Willem de Kooning Academy, demonstrates in his new collection of essays Anti-Media, how media and art critique constantly reflect on their own tradition, language and manifestations, while at the same time trying to subvert them. In the essays Cramer presents and analyzes a wide range of subcultures – [...]

Ellen Sluis (Rio): De gigant is wakker, maar weet niet goed wat hij wil

By Geert Lovink, June 25, 2013

De gigant is wakker, maar weet niet goed wat hij wil Door Ellen Sluis in Rio de Janeiro Saímos do Facebook, “We zijn van Facebook afgegaan”, is een veelvoorkomende leus op de spandoeken van de demonstranten hier in Brazilië. Oftewel: Wij zijn niet langer ‘passief’ op Facebook en nemen daadwerkelijk actie. Sinds een week of [...]
http://public-cultures.unimelb.edu.au/ The Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) was established...

Introducing the Melbourne Unit of Public Cultures

By Geert Lovink, June 5, 2013

http://public-cultures.unimelb.edu.au/ The Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) was established in 2012 and is housed in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (Australia). It focuses on transformations in public culture produced by new intersections of knowledge, media, space and mobility, within Australia and internationally. The Unit seeks to develop new [...]