A Hero’s Journey? Ideological Entrepreneurs and Reactionary Digital Politics – Lecture by Alan Finlayson

By admin, June 17, 2024

On Monday June 24, 2024 8pm, Spui25 (Amsterdam) there will be a lecture by Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia, UK), moderated by Marc Tuters (Mediastudies, UvA). The lecture will look at how the disruptive affordances and practices of global digital culture relate to political reconfigurations symptomatic of a broader crisis of liberalism. Alan Finlayson [...]

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, [...]

Book Release of INC ToD #51 in São Paulo on the Failed Coup (May 7)

By Geert Lovink, May 4, 2024

BOOK RELEASE The Planalto Riots: Making and Unmaking a Failed Coup in Brazil The unsuccessful coup d’état of 8 January 2023 in Brasilia, Brazil, where thousands of rioters stormed and sacked government buildings is a notable example of the scale of extreme-right mobilizations made possible in large part through social media, and executed by masses [...]

Memories of Marina – Marina Vishmidt, 1976-2024

By Sven Lütticken, May 3, 2024

Marina’s intellectual practice truly constituted a form of praxis. Her work was always embodied and situated in a commonly sensed world. For all its conceptual rigour, it was as aesthetic as it was theoretical; it would be a grave mistake to paint Marina as some niche theorist who happened to specialize in writing about value [...]

Resisting Data Colonialism: A Practical Intervention @Spui25 – 23-05 2024

By Tommaso Campagna, April 25, 2024

Undead Digital Labor and the General Intellect – A Conversation on AI between Tiziana Terranova and Daniël de Zeeuw

By admin, April 23, 2024

Daniël de Zeeuw: A combination of genuine concerns and moral panics over AI (often fueled by the tech moguls themselves) has reached a new high in recent years, particularly with the introduction of ChatGPT by OpenAI. For some it represents the specter of the singularity hanging like an evolutionary cloud over humanity; while others sense [...]

Plot(ting) Launch | Wednesday April 17, 2024 | 14:30-19:00 (Rietveld Academie)

By Geert Lovink, March 24, 2024

Join us for an afternoon with talks, performances, bites and drinks. The Art & Spatial Praxis research group at Rietveld/Sandberg, coordinated by Patricia de Vries, is delighted to invite you to the launch of the publication of Plot(ting) on April 17th from 14:30 to 19:00 at the Rietveld Academie, Fedlev Building, Room FL101. Rooted in [...]

Just Out: Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed by Morgane Billuart

By admin, March 13, 2024

The Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present the first book by former INC intern Morgane Billuart. It is based on her INC Longforms about the wider context of menstruation apps. Published by Set Margins’ in Eindhoven (NL): Morgane Billuart Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed Inquiries in Female Health Technologies In a world [...]

LIMA Conference: Transformation Digital Art 2024 (March 21-22)

By Geert Lovink, February 28, 2024

HNI Rotterdam/Li-Ma Amsterdam, March 21-22, 2024 Transformation Digital Art 2024 is LI-MA’s eighth annual international symposium on the preservation of digital art. This year it takes place over two days, at two different locations: on Thursday 21 March the symposium will be hosted by Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam and on Friday 22 March it will take [...]