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Out Now – All the Other Directions We Can Go: Alternative Media Networks and their Infrastructures

By Carolina Pinto, September 5, 2023

  All the other directions we can go: alternative media networks and their infrastructures by Carolina Valente Pinto This book analyses the values and processes that characterise DIY (do it yourself) digital infrastructure, relating networked initiatives to broader tensions in contemporary alternative media production, namely between ideology and practice in cultural and artistic networked initiatives. [...]

The Power of Small Hidden Networks

By Natasha Chuk, September 4, 2023

The affordances, limitations, and architectures of space, proximity, interaction, and playfulness come together through unlikely radio frequencies in the experimental works of Shanghai-born, New York City-based interdisciplinary artist Viola He’s recent creative experiments. While an artist-in-residence at Wave Farm—working from a studio space situated on a 29-acre property in the northern Catskills of upstate NY—He [...]

New Cybernetic Psychedelia: An Interview with Erik Davis

By Megan Phipps, August 8, 2023

In Expanded Cinema, written in 1970, Gene Youngblood outlines what he deems as his contemporary scientific transition as an era of Cosmic Consciousness. Youngblood explains: “At their present limits astrophysics, biochemistry, and conceptual mathematics move into metaphysical territory. Mysticism is upon us: it arrives simultaneously from science and psilocybin.” (p. 136) Within cosmic consciousness, a [...]

Out Now: Log Out – A Glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 10, 2023

This book, edited by Valeria Ferrari, Florian Idelberger, Andrea Leiter, Morshed Mannan, María-Cruz Valiente, Balázs Bodó, brings together voices from various fields of intellectual inquiry, based on the idea that technological, legal and societal aspects of the information sphere are interlinked and co-dependent from each other. In order to tackle the existing gap in shared [...]

Machine Anxiety or Why I Should Close TikTok–But Don’t

By Mariana Fernandez Mora, June 13, 2023

It’s Wednesday evening and I have no specific plans. I’m chilling on the sofa, scrolling through TikTok and Instagram while Below Deck Sailing Yacht is playing in the background. Even though I’m not moving I’m tired and bored. I have multiple screens open, trying to distract me, with no plans and no people available to [...]

Young People and Information – A Manifesto

By Geert Lovink, June 1, 2023

(Editor Alex Grech, Malta) Young People and Information Manifesto The State of Play with Online Information – The Issues We Want to Address The manifesto is a primer for much-needed input and discussions among young people, individuals and institutions whom young people perceive as being able to address issues relating to online information – and [...]

Bruce Sterling on the Art of Text-to-Image Generative AI

By Geert Lovink, May 17, 2023

Authorized transcript of Bruce Sterling’s lecture during the TU Eindhoven conference AI for All, From the Dark Side to the Light, November 25, 2022, at Evoluon, Eindhoven, co-organized by Next Nature. Website of the event: https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/calendar-and-events/25-11-2022-ai-for-all-from-the-dark-side-to-the-light. YouTube link of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB461avEKnQ&t=3325s — It’s nice to be back in Eindhoven, a literal city of light [...]

May 25th: MAST Journal Special Issue Launch – Blurring Digital Media Culture

By Kate Babin, May 9, 2023

On May 25th at the University of Amsterdam there will be a free event to launch the special issue of The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, Blurring Digital Media Culture edited by Tony D. Sampson and Jernej Markelj. Date: May 25, 2023 Time: 13:00-18:00 Location: University of Amsterdam BG2, room 0.02, Turfdraagsterpad 15-17, 1012 [...]

INC stands in solidarity with the Casual UvA protest: We Are Not Disposable

By Tommaso Campagna, April 20, 2023

We publish here the press release of today's protest at the University of Amsterdam from the collective Casual UvA (Nederlandse versie hieronder). We Are Not Disposable: ‘Wegwerpdocenten’ at the University of Amsterdam organizing a demonstration  On April 20, at 17:00, Casual UvA, a collective of university employees – the majority on temporary contracts and a [...]

New INC Telegram Channel

By admin, April 11, 2023

We invite you to join our new Telegram channel, a place where we can connect through collaborative conversations, livestreams and the sharing of our latest publications such as books, zines, articles, videos, events and much more. To subscribe to the Institute of Network Cultures channel click here: In our Telegram channel, we encourage you to [...]