Conference Report

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 [...]

Photo report: Memes Beyond Images Conference

By Chloë Arkenbout, December 2, 2022

The (political) power of memes has moved beyond virtual images. The distinction between the virtual and ‘real life’ no longer applies, or perhaps was never really there. Their effects (or should we say affects?) are moving through digital infrastructures, policy, regulations, and bodies. If memes are used as a tool by the alt-right to mobilize [...]

Report on Radical Networks in Berlin

By Inte Gloerich, October 30, 2018

I went to Radical Networks in Berlin (19-21 October 2018). It was a very inspiring experience and I took notes feverishly for 3 days. The program was diverse and inclusive, in-depth but accessible to non-techies. I worked out the notes of the talks that I found especially interesting a bit further and added references below. [...]
MoneyLab #7: Outside of Finance On feminist economics, social payments,...

MoneyLab #7: Outside of Finance

By Inte Gloerich, December 20, 2019

MoneyLab #7: Outside of Finance On feminist economics, social payments, corporate crime and the “blokechain” Since 2013, MoneyLab has explored questions around the design of money, the democratization of finance, and the new shifts in fintech.  On 14 and 15 November, the 7th edition of MoneyLab was held in Amsterdam. At MoneyLab #7: Outside of [...]

Video Vortex XI Kochi 2017 Conference Report

By Inte Gloerich, April 5, 2017

23 – 26 February 2017, Kochi, India. Download the conference report here. Video technology has radically altered the ways in which we produce, consume and circulate images, influencing the aesthetics and possibilities of moving image cultures, as well as yielding a rich body of scholarship across various disciplines. Given its ease of access and use, [...]

MoneyLab #3 Failing Better 2016 Conference Report

By Inte Gloerich, December 22, 2016

MoneyLab #3 Failing Better. A two day symposium of talks, workshops, performances and parties that conquer the assumption that anything is too big to fail. 1-2 December 2016, Amsterdam. The aim of MoneyLab is to research, map and probe (alternative) strategies of redistribution and intervention in digital economy. It starts with the conviction that after [...]

MoneyLab #2: Economies of Dissent 2015 Conference Report

By Inte Gloerich, December 22, 2015

MoneyLab #2 Economies of Dissent. A two day symposium of talks, workshops, performances and parties that conquer the assumption that anything is too big to fail. 3-4 December 2015, Amsterdam. An overview of the video registration of MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent is available here, and the photos can be found here. The blogposts about each session [...]

MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives 2014 conference report

By Miriam Rasch, May 26, 2014

MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives videos and blog reports are now online! If you missed out on this year’s conference or would like to experience it again, be sure to check out the reports, photos and videos of the speakers on the MoneyLab page. MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives, an initiative of the Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van [...]

Society of the Query #2 conference report

By admin, February 13, 2014

The Society of the Query #2 conference report offers an overview of the conference held November 7-8 2013 in Amsterdam. The file functions both as a summary and as archive of the project. It consists of the key results, the conference program, all conference blogposts and many other (research) blogposts concerning the topic of ‘online search [...]

Unlike Us #3 conference report

By admin, July 1, 2013

The Unlike Us #3 Conference Report is an overview of Unlike Us #3 Social Media: Design or Decline, held March 22nd – 23rd, 2013 in Amsterdam. The file functions both as a summary and as archive of the project. It consists of the key results, the conference program, all conference blogposts and many other (research) [...]