net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Maurice Dharampal, May 28, 2021
The pandemic is causing labels to hold out with album rollouts for the time concerts are allowed again. This streamlining of revenue models is quite common but doesn’t sit well with fans. But if there’s one thing this pandemic has shown, is the culture industry’s ability to innovate. Other ways of streamlining business models are [...]
By Shruti Chamaria, May 26, 2021
Cyberia is a poetic provocation in the form of a photographic series that explores infrastructures of Cybercafés in Bangalore. What does it mean to use these overlooked spaces today—as a worker, a client, or simply an artist? These sites composed of passages, objects, and stories—reveal a sense of connection, privacy, self-expression, surveillance, and manipulation. Against [...]
By Inte Gloerich, May 21, 2021
Written by: Gabriele Ferri and Inte Gloerich Ant 1: [Wiggles antennae, wiggles antennae, wiggles antennae.] I bring an interesting message to pass along. Ant 2: [Wiggles, wiggles.] I’m listening. Ant 1: This is something that I’m passing along on behalf of my other sisters in the colony, who received it from another anthill, which received [...]
By Maurice Dharampal, May 20, 2021
‘It’s difficult to write about somebody who is a better writer than you,’ billy woods elucidates. Together with fellow rapper ELUCID, they make up the New York duo Armand Hammer, whose recently released album Haram dotted with lyrical references to literature, Critical Theory, shrewd social and political commentary. As a digital humanities grad student and [...]
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, May 15, 2021
“We need to focus on what remains unrendered, or unseen – what we are blind to.” – Rosa Menkman On Friday evening May 14, 2021, the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and The Digital Hub hosted a webinar with Rosa Menkman and Joanna Zylinska. It was the fifth event in the Digital [...]
By Malin Dittmann, May 12, 2021
The moment I write this I am a design student at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where I am enrolled in the industrial design master program. I currently generate no noteworthy income from my own design practice, but I do have hopes for a noteworthy professional future. This is what I assume my [...]
By Maurice Dharampal, May 12, 2021
…Cleanliness is godliness And God is empty just like me. – Zero by The Smashing Pumpkins (1996) Cleanliness is next to Godliness Since the COVID-19 pandemic, our interaction with the digital has increased to never-before-seen heights. Along with it identity theft, hacks, the ‘misinfodemic’, data breaches, phishing, and other cyber risks all skyrocketed as result. [...]
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, May 7, 2021
“A journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, complete at every point along the way.” – Francis Alÿs Most of us are used to knowing that our devices track how we interact with them and monitor what we do when they are around. But the [...]
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 [...]
By Geert Lovink, April 20, 2021
Interview by Hoçâ Cové-Mbede In March 2021 London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit issued a warning towards students and universities to stop visiting Sci-Hub, the first website in the world to provide mass and public access to millions of research papers, a project designed, programmed and maintained by Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011. The press statement [...]
