Monthly Archives: June 2020

Selfies Under Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome (Video Episode)

By Geert Lovink, June 27, 2020

After the fifth episode of the Selfies Under Quarantine series, here, at the Institute of Network Cultures, we discussed how such online courses, but also lectures and debates, could make more use of the video essay form. If there is such as thing as the ‘visual turn’ in education (in re: popular culture), away from [...]

Out Now: TOD#33 Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art

By patricia, June 15, 2020

Over the past decade, a growing number of artists and critical practitioners have become engaged with algorithms. This artistic engagement has resulted in algorithmic theatre, bot art, and algorithmic media and performance art of various kinds that thematise the dissemination and deployment of algorithms in everyday life. Especially striking is the high volume of artistic [...]

++just out++ Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade

By Geert Lovink, June 12, 2020

Edited by Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske INC Reader #14 Download it here, as e-pub, pdf or print-on-demand (via Lulu): Video Vortex Reader #3: Inside the YouTube Decade What is online video today, fifteen years into its exponential growth? What started with amateur work of YouTube prosumers has spread to virtually all communication apps: an [...]

Changes at INC, introducing ‘synthesis’, central INC email list

By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2020

While we’re publishing a lot, here at the Institute of Network Cultures, trying to facilitate critical reflection on the corona crisis with diaries and essays from around the world, we’re also planning a restart of INC so that we’ll have space and resources for new urgent projects and research networks in this corona period/economic crisis. [...]

Open Position: Digital Publishing Intern

By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2020

For the further development of its publication strategy – combining digital and print publications with web-based content and other media – the Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an intern with production and research skills, for an internship with our digital publishing team Internship period: August 31st until December 18th, 2020 (0.8 fte/4 days [...]

Natalia Stanusch: I Present You with Myself–On the Evolution of the Emoji

By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2020

I Present You with Myself: Facebook Avatars and Apple Memoji, or a Brief Account of the Evolution of Emoji* By Natalia Stanusch While swiping through Facebook’s people you might know suggestion window, I got genuinely dazed. Among profile pictures of photographed faces, I saw a cartoonish face with exaggeratedly wide-opened eyes and mouth with chopper-like [...]

Anonymize Your Online Footprint-Info Security for Direct Action

By Geert Lovink, June 1, 2020

Internet-related tips for protesters (document in development here) Whether you are protesting in person or working in digital spaces (or both) covering your browsing habits, metadata, and search histories is important. These can be ordered as evidence, or can expose others even months or years later. Even without a court order or direct governmental surveillance, [...]