RE-OUT NOW – Beautiful World – Typo-Film by Mieke Gerritzen

By Tommaso Campagna, October 27, 2021

We are glad to announce the re-digitalization of the typo-film by Mieke Gerritzen “Beautiful World”. First published in 2006 this film traveled in DVD and fiscal booklet, after 15 years we decided it was time to preserve this masterpiece and re-publish it online. Beautiful World is a film about a feeling that prevails the world [...]

BLACK BOX EAST: POST-COMMUNIST LABORATORIES OF GLOBALIZATION

By Dunja Nešović, October 19, 2021

BLACK BOX EAST is the project of the Berliner Gazette that was oriented towards uncovering the latent material and ideological structures that keep the eastern, post-communist areas as the (exploited) “Other” years after the Cold War has ended. The name of the project reflects the processes of mystifying “the East” that in turn serve to [...]

Katherine McKittrick: Black Method / Curiosity & Wonder (virtual lecture)

By Geert Lovink, October 18, 2021

https://perdu.nl/nl/r/black-method-curiosity-and-wonder/ Students of the Amsterdam Sandberg Instituut organize a lecture series and the first event is Thursday October 21, 2021 in Perdu, Kloveniersburgwal 86, Amsterdam, 8 pm: Reading and discussion of Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick. Part of the extracurricular course Recipes for a Technological Undoing offered to students at the Sandberg [...]

Kampala Diary – Day 1

By Tommaso Campagna, October 15, 2021

3PM I arrive at the airport in Entebbe, Uganda. My cousin has been living with her partner in Kampala, the capital for the last three years. They both work as economists for energy companies that offer rural people low-interest loans to purchase solar panels. I immediately notice that the air has a different smell [...]

20 October: The Hmm ON Online Fandom

By Chloë Arkenbout, October 12, 2021

The act of idolizing has long surpassed just hanging some posters on your bedroom wall. With the rise of the internet, and especially Web 2.0, fandom has extended onto our screens—allowing fans from all over the world to always be in touch with each other. When, during the Black Lives Matter protests last year, the [...]

gezocht: onderzoeker/producer Netwerkcultuur (x/v/m) (0,6 fte)

By Geert Lovink, October 6, 2021