Posts By: Geert Lovink

We Are Here Founder Papa Sakho 27-2-1960 – 9-1-2025

By Geert Lovink, January 14, 2025

Cheikh Sakho, in Holland known as Papa Sakho, was born in Dakar, Senegal, on the 27th of February 1960, the second son in a family of artists. He finished the Art Academy, Ecole des Arts du Sénégal, in 1988. He expressed himself in painting, music, welding and leather and was active as art producer and [...]

Dual Book Launch @Framer Framed of System of Systems’ Managing Displacement Series

By Geert Lovink, November 27, 2024

12 Dec 2024 18:00 – 20:00, Framer Framed, Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71, Amsterdam On 12 December 2024 at Framer Framed, System of Systems launches the first two books in their Managing Displacement series: Outsourcing and Extraction. System of Systems is a research project that analyses the bureaucratic, spatial, and technological conditions shaping Europe’s migration landscape. The themes [...]

Naked Logic: Lecture of Boldizsár Hordós at Metaforum X, Budapest

By Geert Lovink, November 12, 2024

I am happy to teach computer history at a fine arts university. Besides, I also work with small kids. Part of my job is to pry phones out of their hands—not the most pleasant part of the day. This is partly because (as with every mandatory intervention) it stirs up more chaos than it prevents. [...]

Ágnes Básthy: Crisis? What Crisis? Taking a Suspicious Walk around a Fashionable Notion

By Geert Lovink, October 31, 2024

(Text of the speech by Ágnes Básthy on the first day of Metaforum X, Budapest, October 25, 2024) “‘Krisis’ was originally a medical concept which designated, in the Hippocratic corpus of texts, the moment when the doctor decided whether the patient would be able to survive the disease. Theologians reprized the term to indicate the [...]

Full Program of Metaforum X – Permacrises, October 24-26, 2024, Budapest

By Geert Lovink, October 14, 2024

Editorial Team: Flóra Barkóczi, Geert Lovink, Áron Lődi, Diana McCarty, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi and János Sugár Download conference program booklet here: Metaforum_Handout_Full_2024 Embracing the legacy of the three MetaForum conferences (1994-96), MFX continues to highlight the urgent issues of the times with a reflection on contemporary crisis surfing. The theme of PermaCrises examines the persistent breakdown [...]

Full Program of Platform Blues  – Conference at University of Canberra, November 21, 2024

By Geert Lovink, October 10, 2024

Location: Building 1, Level A, Room 21 (Theatre), Bruce (ACT), Australia More information: https://networkcultures.org/events/platform-blues-one-day-conference-at-university-of-canberra/ Free entrance but please register here: https://events.humanitix.com/platform-blues Opening: 10:00 – 10:15am Welcome – Julian.Knowles (Dean of the UC Faculty of Art & Design), Geert Lovink and Denise Thwaites Session 1: 10: 15 – 11:15am Hiding in and from the internet: Avoidance and Dissociation [...]

INC Internship Call for the First Half of 2025

By Geert Lovink, September 4, 2024

The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for interns with research and development skills Internship period: February 1st until July 1st, 2025 (4-5 months, 3/4 days a week). The starting and closing dates can be a bit flexible. The overall period will be at least four and maximum six months with a possibility to extend the [...]

MetaForumX: PermaCrises – Budapest, October 24-26, 2024

By Geert Lovink, July 20, 2024

Call for Participation Embracing the legacy of the three MetaForum conferences (1994-96), MFX continues to highlight the urgent issues of the times with a reflection on contemporary crisis surfing. The theme of PermaCrises examines the persistent breakdown of our political, societal and cultural systems, capturing the extremity of this situation through its continuality and pervasiveness. [...]

Program of Synthetic Vision/Images of Power (Framer Framed, 27/28.6.24)

By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2024

SYNTHETIC VISION/IMAGES OF POWER Truth, Evidence, Labour & Knowledge in the Age of AI Dates: 27 & 28 June 2024 Venue: Framer Framed | Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71, 1093 KS Amsterdam Organisers/Conveners: Francesco Ragazzi + Donatella Della Ratta + Rocco Bellanova + Rebecca Stein We are thrilled to invite you to the conference Synthetic Vision / Images [...]

Introducing Sidequest (NO INTERNAL COMPASS, NO NARRATIVE DRIVE)

By Geert Lovink, May 16, 2024

SRC003 – SIDEQUEST (ENCORE LABEL, AVOCADO IBUPROFEN AND VIRGILE FLORES) Encore Label is an art label inspired by the contemporary meta-landscape as a complex site of loss and potential. Their aim is to interlace musical, visual and cultural components to create clusters of knowledge and aesthetics. Through its projects, Encore is building an ever-expanding, collectible, [...]