INC speaks about Out of Ink and Society of the Query 2 at the Brown Bag Lunch

By serenawestra, February 13, 2013

On Wednesday January 23 2013 INC’s Francesca Coluzzi and René König presented at the Brown Bag Lunch sessions of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Graphic Designer and visual artist Francesca Coluzzi from Italy worked on the Out of Ink project for the last 5 months as a research intern at the Institute of Network Cultures. In [...]

The Video Vortex #9 flyer is out now

By serenawestra, January 30, 2013

The flyer of the 9th edition of Video Vortex is out now. Re:assemblies of Video will be held between the 28th of February and the 2nd of March 2013 in Lüneburg, Germany

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Unlike Us Reader: Understanding Social Media Monopolies...

Call for contributions: Unlike Us Reader

By serenawestra, June 1, 2012

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Unlike Us Reader: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives INTRODUCTION Following the success of the previous INC readers we would like to propose to put together a reader with key texts (see under below for possible topics). Anthology (print, pdf, epub) produced by the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with [...]

Interview met Koen Damhuis over Facebook, Generatie Y en de huidige samenleving

By serenawestra, May 24, 2012

Afgelopen woensdag sprak Serena Westra van het Institute of Network Cultures met auteur Koen Damhuis over zijn boek ‘De Virtuele Spiegel: Waarom Facebook ons Ongelukkig maakt’. In zijn boek werpt hij een sociologische blik op de positie van zijn generatie, Generatie Y, die in de huidige samenleving steeds meer moeite heeft met de hoge prestatiedruk [...]

I Read Where I am – nieuwe recensies

By serenawestra, May 10, 2012

Er zijn twee nieuwe recensies geschreven over ‘I Read Where I Am’: een in Frieze en een in Gonzo. Beide artikelen (pdf) staan op de website van Valiz en zijn te vinden via onderstaande links. Recensie in Frieze Recensie in Gonzo

Public Space Invaders A collaborative research on collective urban activism...

Call for collaboration: Public Space Invaders

By serenawestra, April 5, 2012

Public Space Invaders A collaborative research on collective urban activism [1] is asking for your attention. Seeking for alternatives to administration driven city construction, the focus lies on self-organized projects who practically reshape public space. To visualize the demographic topology of the practitioners network as well as inherent project patterns, Quatorze [2] develops an online [...]

Geert Lovink in NRC Next

By serenawestra, March 1, 2010

by Shirley Niemans On monday March 1, Dutch newspaper NRC Next devoted two pages to articles on Google. One article by Peter Teffer, ”Maakt het internet ons dommer?” (does the Internet dumb us down?) features an interview with Geert Lovink. The other article is an experiment by two NRC reporters, Teffer and Pfauth, who attempted [...]