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On platformization permeation: intersectionalists perspectives from India

By Gianmarco Cristofari, February 3, 2022

On Monday 17th, I got myself ready for some pleasant Zoom fatigue. At 9.30 am CET (2.30 pm in India) I joined three hours and half roundtable on feminist and intersecionalist perspectives on platformization. During five high-quality presentations, I learned about the increasing permeation of platformization in India’s informal economy, care work, and more. I [...]

Young Creatives Unite at Blend 2021

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, November 6, 2021

Illustrators, designers and other creatives gathered in a skatepark in Breda last month to learn from each other and discuss the realities of working in precarious conditions where disciplines merge, creativity flows, and we all negotiate ways to stay afloat – financially and emotionally. What came out of the two-day event? Gathering energy The spacious [...]

Copy before you transfer. Digital archiving strategies with nGbK Berlin

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, April 27, 2021

Collectivity, copying, care. Sharing knowledge is key; no one should be irreplaceable. Copy before you transfer. Care about your content and be transparent about your biases, as archiving is never truly objective. Last Friday, the first event in the Networks of Care series initiated by nGbK Berlin took place. Artist Cornelia Sollfrank introduced Old Boys Network [...]

“Please move through this site with care.” On Maya Man’s Compassionate Digital Experiments

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, April 15, 2021

Maya Man is a young artist, dancer and technologist from New York. Utilising her background in coding and computer science, she makes projects that enhance and expand online experiences. Her work incorporates themes of joy, nostalgia and curiosity all at once, often leaning on early internet aesthetics while projecting a vision of embodied technological bodies [...]

Play Time in de tijd

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, February 15, 2016

Een recensie van Robert van Boeschoten De film Play Time van Jacques Tati was zijn tijd ver vooruit en eveneens een film die past in het tijdsbeeld. Tati laat in zijn film alle scenes organiseren als in een spel. De scenes verwijzen niet echt naar elkaar maar zijn als tijdfragmenten aan elkaar verbonden. Hiermee geeft [...]

Grand Theft Auto ontmoet Mr. R van Fassbinder

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, February 1, 2016

Door Robert van Boeschoten Het toneelstuk ‘Warum lauft Herr R. Amok’, geschreven door Michael Fengler en Werner Fassbinder en geregisseerd door Susanne Kennedy, is verplichte kost voor alle gamedesigners. In het stuk wordt de geschiedenis getoond van Herr R. die probeert zijn leven invulling te geven door tevreden te zijn met wat hij heeft maar [...]

Art of Masks: Faceless at Mediamatic

By Daniel de Zeeuw, April 16, 2014

I recently visited Mediamatic Factory in order to preview its “Faceless” exhibition, which included a tour by the curator. Parallel to the exhibition, various interesting events took place, amongst which: a Facial Weaponization Suite and Computer Security workshop, and an evening of lectures by various artists and theorists.     Not untimely We all remember [...]

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 [...]

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

Quantified Self #1 – a fragmented self-analysis

By Silvio Lorusso, August 8, 2011

Quantified Self exploits the opportunity of gathering relevant informations by tracking INC blogs’ fruition. Through separated dossiers periodically published on this blog an archive of the websites’ history will be built. The first dossier offers a visual comparison among INC’s blogs’ visits during the month of June 2011.