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Piep Knars Krijs Kraak: Open Call for Art Exhibition

By Geert Lovink, August 15, 2022

(Dutch version below) Under the weight of growth and expansion, the city is cracking at the seams, seemingly about to collapse under its own weight. In the process, it’s making all kinds of noises—like an abandoned house that hasn’t been taken care of in years. And like any abandoned old house, the city is haunted. [...]

The Privacy of War

By Kateryna Iakovlenko, July 11, 2022

Photo: Dmytro Shutaiev, (17 March 2021), with Roman Ratushny. For several months I have been monitoring social media feeds looking for views from the war-zone. Not coincidentally, many current soldiers are intellectuals, artists, photographers, music promoters, and cultural activists—people who would never take up arms under other circumstances today are lying in a trench, and [...]

‘We Are Not Doing Anything Illegal, Why Be Anonymous?’ — Interview with Maxim Kondratiev from Avtozak LIVE

By 11111 &23%#719, May 26, 2022

Maxim Kondratiev is a coordinator of Avtozak LIVE, an independent media that covers protests and the violations of rights in Russia. Avtozak LIVE is mostly active on Telegram, where their channel has almost 51.000 followers. We talked with Maxim in early May via Zoom. He is currently residing in a migration centre in the Netherlands, [...]

Tactical Tech – In the loop Ukraine edition

By Maria van der Togt, May 11, 2022

🄸🄽 🅃🄷🄴 🄻🄾🄾🄿Ukraine special edition Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. Their vision is a world where digital technologies can contribute to a more equitable, democratic, and sustainable society. To enable this change, they investigate how digital technologies [...]

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 [...]

De culture of giving in de beeldende kunst 10 jaar na de bezuinigingen

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, April 30, 2022

De culture of giving is in de afgelopen jaren steeds belangrijker geworden voor het financieren van culturele programma’s. Maar wie geeft er eigenlijk aan wie en waarom? En hoe staan private giften in verhouding tot publieke financiering? De staat van mecenaat is een eendaags symposium van Platform BK en Framer Framed over de veranderende rol van [...]

Petition in Help of Sasha Skochilenko

By Maria van der Togt, April 25, 2022

Sign petition here. On April 13, a Saint Petersburg court sent the artist/musician to a pre-trial detention center. She faces between 5 and 10 years of imprisonment because, on March 31, she swapped price tags with stickers containing information about the actions of Russian soldiers in Mariupol in the “Perekrestok” supermarket. She is now accused [...]

Looking For an Intern From Ukraine for Tactical Media Room

By Chloë Arkenbout, April 19, 2022

Tactical Media Room is a temporary coordination group in Amsterdam supporting independent media in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, made possible by various organizations working in the tech sector, arts and culture, education, and research. We are looking for an intern for a few days a week with immediate effect, starting for a period of three [...]

Mark Deuze in Conversation with Ukrainian Journalists

By Maria van der Togt, April 14, 2022

Mark Deuze is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In light of current events, he initiated a series of Zoom interviews with Ukrainian (and East European) journalists working in Ukraine. Below you can find the first two interviews. Or you can watch them on Mark Deuze’s YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrAM_FOAyARuhku_HHVRFgQ. [...]