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Irregular Ukraine Linklist, part 2

By Geert Lovink, April 9, 2022

(thanks to all that started to contribute to this act of collaborative filtering /geert) Mariupol computer museum destroyed (via Patrice) https://kbd.news/Mariupol-computer-museum-destroyed-1327.html Ukranian Dispatches https://newfascismsyllabus.com/category/contributions/ukrainian-dispatches/ Essay and Zoom interview with Ukranian film maker Oleksyi Radynski (via Alex) https://www.e-flux.com/journal/107/322782/is-data-the-new-gas/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/55/60303/maidan-and-beyond-part-i/ https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/#/de/veranstaltungen/diskussionsveranstaltung-ukraine-4 (German, English) Russian prosecutor requests harsh sentences for editors of student-run magazine DOXA https://cpj.org/2022/04/russian-prosecutor-requests-harsh-sentences-for-editors-of-student-run-magazine-doxa/ What is the [...]

OUT NOW – PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot

By Dunja Nešović, April 6, 2022

PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot Edited by Dunja Nešović The zine PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot gathered more than 30 authors with an aim to collectively explore the omnipresent, yet somehow often overlooked, screenshot as a contemporary digital image and practice that fuses the human and machinic boundaries of authorship and vision.​​ As [...]

Open Letter of Dmitry Pilikin, Russian Artist, Curator, Art Historian

By Geert Lovink, April 4, 2022

Open Letter Dear friends and colleagues, I want to write important thoughts for me. It is very difficult for me to talk about culture and art at a time when war is going on. The official Russian authorities call what is happening in Ukraine “a special military operation by Russian servicemen to protect Ukraine from [...]

Adventurous Writing at the Domein voor Kunstkritiek Lab Days

By Laurence Scherz, March 22, 2022

This spring, Domein voor Kunstkritiek and De Nieuwe Garde are organizing an adventurous lab on digital art criticism and essays, in which they will dive into online publication forms together. A lab for Dutch and Flemish cultural journalists, essayists, and makers with a passion for experimentation who want to look (far) beyond the linear text. [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 5

By Svitlana Matviyenko, March 12, 2022

March 11, 2022 At 11pm, I go to bed with the intent to spend a couple of hours on writing. I am staring at the blank page for quite some time; the siren goes off and then, as if by following its call to tune in, I start writing. A reporter from the Canadian Press [...]

Time Is an Unrenewable Resource – And You Know How We Are With Those

By Maria van der Togt, March 2, 2022

[The extraction of time] It’s a sunny Saturday afternoon on the 26th of February, as I make my way up the stairs of a round shaped former office building on the Donauweg in Sloterdijk. A building that was once the residency of Serbian and Polish construction workers. But not today, today it’s a place for [...]

Net uit: ZWERFLAWAAI EN ANDER (ON)GEWENST GELUID van JOOST SMIERS

By Geert Lovink, February 18, 2022

Nu in de boekhandel, 15 euro, of te bestellen via https://www.starfishbooks.org/product/joost-smiers/ JOOST SMIERS (INC auteur!) ZWERFLAWAAI EN ANDER (ON)GEWENST GELUID Rust, reuring, overlast We gruwen bij de gedachte dat in onze steden en dorpen de stilte van het graf zou heersen. De vraag is dan wat we aan geluid in de publieke ruimte prettig vinden, [...]

OUT NOW – In the Time of Refuge. A Collection of Writings and Reflections on Art, Disaster and Communities

By Tommaso Campagna, February 14, 2022

In the Time of Refuge Edited by David Pledger and Nikos Papastergiadis In this timely collection of essays and artistic works, we gain a spherical perspective on the role of the arts in addressing the challenge of climate change through the concept of refuge. This book follows from a pioneering five-year program of artistic experimentation [...]

Call For Contributions – PRTSCN: THE LAZY ART OF SCREENSHOT

By Dunja Nešović, January 20, 2022

The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) invites all designers, artists, writers and web-surfers (if there are any left) to submit their visual and written works created via or inspired by screenshots! In the upcoming hybrid publication PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot, INC wants to collaboratively explore the omni-present, yet somehow often overlooked screenshot as [...]

OUT NOW – Radical Housing: Art, Struggle, Care

By Tommaso Campagna, December 17, 2021

Theory on Demands #42 Radical Housing: Art, Struggle, Care Edited by Ana Vilenica Housing space is a crucial locus of social reproduction, as it is a place where countless acts of care that sustain our lives take place. Yet, capital has forced its way into our homes, making them a battleground. Art is embedded and [...]