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THE VOID goes to KABK: Photography & Society Workshop

By Giulia Timis, May 23, 2024

On the 18th of April, we were invited to hold a workshop for the Photography & Society Master’s students at KABK, in the Hague. Being the first workshop I did as part of THE VOID team (a very ominous way of describing oneself, as a student pointed out later), I was excited to be there. [...]

Vasyl Cherepanyn on the Aftermath of the Revolutions

By 11111 &23%#719, May 4, 2022

The first edition of the Kyiv Biennial named The School of Kyiv took place in 2015. By adapting, or rather reappropriating the well-known and highly commercial format of the international exhibition, Vasyl Cherepanyn, one of the organizers of the Biennial, sought to reflect the Maidan revolution in a thematic format of education. The school epitomized [...]

Reflexions on Navigating (Dis)information

By Maria van der Togt, May 3, 2022

We met around 8, on a Thursday evening[1]. Welcomed by the smell of homemade soup. Courtesy of Mirror Soup Kitchen Lviv. Hackers, artists, researchers, journalists, and passerby’s filled their bellies with the very same soup that’s providing essential sustenance a mere 1.362km away. The very same recipe, cooked on the very same day. It tasted [...]

A conversation between Anab Jain and Marta Peirano, as recorded and retold in a small colony of ants

By Inte Gloerich, May 21, 2021

Written by: Gabriele Ferri and Inte Gloerich Ant 1: [Wiggles antennae, wiggles antennae, wiggles antennae.] I bring an interesting message to pass along. Ant 2: [Wiggles, wiggles.] I’m listening. Ant 1: This is something that I’m passing along on behalf of my other sisters in the colony, who received it from another anthill, which received [...]

Relearn 2019

By Donato Spinelli, June 27, 2019

Relearn is a collective learning experiment and also a summer school that addressed to students, artists, teachers from all backgrounds and disciplines. The 2019 edition took place at Varia in Rotterdam on 7th-9th June, then in Brussels on 21st – 22nd at Hacktiris and finally on 06th-08th September in Paris at La Générale. The purpose [...]

The Facebook Liberation Army at Discovery Festival: live deleting of facebook accounts

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, September 28, 2015

On Friday 25 September the Facebook Liberation Army made fresh calls to arms at the Discovery Festival in the science centre Nemo, Amsterdam. Armed with pamphlets, zines and instructions on how to leave Facebook the resistance came disguised as Mark Zuckerberg. Many new rebels were enlisted in the Facebook Liberation Army and alternatives to social [...]

De revolutie van het digitaal uitgeven vindt nu plaats

By admin, October 16, 2013

De revolutie van het digitaal uitgeven vindt nu plaats Een interview met Geert Lovink door Jorinde Seijdel in samenwerking met het Instituut voor beeldende, audiovisuele en mediakunst Inleiding Bij de ingrijpende bezuinigingsmaatregelen voor kunst en cultuur in Nederland, die in 2013 in werking zijn gesteld, werd onder meer bepaald dat aan kunst- en cultuurtijdschriften geen [...]

Mobile Money Services in Uganda

By margreet riphagen, April 9, 2013

By Ali Balunywa  A qualitative research of the mobile money phenomenon in Uganda carried out by Geert Lovink (INC), assisted by Ali Balunywa (independent media consultant) Background Five Master students from the University of Amsterdam, Ali Balunywa, Wouter Dijkstra, Ben White, Guido van Diepen and Kai Henriquez Uganda for two months of field research. The [...]

The Social Media Reader by Michael Mandiberg

By margreet riphagen, July 5, 2012

The Social Media Reader Michael Mandiberg Publication Year: 2012 With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first [...]

Notes from Anne Helmond for Geert Lovink’s book launch of Networks Without a Cause: A critique of Social Media

By margreet riphagen, March 30, 2012

Source: Anne Helmond Anne Helmond & Geert Lovink during Geert Lovink’s book launch of Networks Without a Cause: A critique of Social Media. Photo by Sabine Niederer. Background image: http://ogilvynotes.com/49790/454990/sxsw-2012/the-nick-denton-interview-the-failure-of-comments The Institute of Network Cultures, Eva van den Eijnde and myself would like to welcome you to the official book launch of Geert Lovink’s new [...]