net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Alexandra Juhasz and Peter Snowdon, April 7, 2021
This is the first of what will be a three-part blog series in which we present the insightful conversation between film professor, media producer, theorist and activist Alexandra Juhasz and writer and filmmaker Peter Snowdon. Last year, the two held multiple virtual conversations at the digital roundtables of Zoom about the ubiquity of such communication [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, April 6, 2021
As the co-editor of the upcoming INC Reader about critical meme research, you can imagine when I received an invitation to the Meme Studies Research Network I got really excited. Over 250 international and interdisciplinary researchers, artists and other meme enthusiasts are currently connecting over there. Which has been a blast, honestly. The main goal [...]
By Evelien van Nieuwenhoven, April 1, 2021
Over het plezier van samen servers overbelasten Gisteravond vond onder leiding van The Hmm en PublicSpaces een virtuele tour plaats rond verschillende alternatieve platforms. Ongeveer 90 online deelnemers bezochten 5 open source platformalternatieven voor sociale media, samenwerktools, videoconferencing en onderwijspresentaties. Platforms waar eigen databeheer, hosting en de privacy van gebruikers voorop staan, en zo wel [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, March 29, 2021
What is this new NFT blockchain craze everyone is talking about? The first IMPAKT TV programme on Thursday 8 April will be looking at the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Unlike such popular cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin and Ethereum, these digital collector’s items cannot be traded. Blockchain technology makes each non-fungible token unique and uncopiable, and [...]
By Geert Lovink, March 25, 2021
Paz Sastre (ed.). Manifiestos sobre el arte y la red 1990-1999. EXIT Libris. (Texto en español a continuación) During the 90s, manifestos devoted to exploring the relationships between art and the ever-expanding net abounded. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of the World Wide Web, the era of the “pioneers” of [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, March 25, 2021
Dat de coronacrisis de culturele en creatieve sector volledig op haar kop heeft gezet is evident. Wat speelt er momenteel op beleidsniveau? En hoe spelen digitalisering en verduurzaming een rol in de transitie naar een weerbaar cultureel landschap – zowel tijdens als na de coronacrisis? In de EU heeft de sector vanwege de pandemie in [...]
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 24, 2021
Who wants a ‘perfect’ algorithm? On March 23 2021, the Nxt Museum hosted a Q&A with filmmaker and activist Shalini Kantayya. She is the director of the investigative documentary “Coded Bias” (2020) which exposes and explores the biases of artificial intelligence technologies prevalent yet mostly invisible in daily life. During the event moderated by filmmaker [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, March 22, 2021
PloktaTV unravels the relationship between people and technologies, in all their different forms. The films are not just about gears, valves and switches, but mostly about people and about how we are connected through technologies. About what part they play in our mental lives. In our surroundings. In our societies. Plokta’s program approaches these questions [...]
By Klara Debeljak, March 20, 2021
You are unable to comprehend me rationally, because you harbor deep emotions about me without even being aware of them. You are always a little afraid I will take things from you, and you believe I am the source of your suffering. You think above all that I expose your impermanence, which is the quintessential [...]
By Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 19, 2021
Growing up, my friend had a Nintendo Entertainment System knock-off called Pegasus. I think it was only sold in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. I spent a few summers in her attic, playing a variety of side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling pixelated games. It was fun to see each other get better at different levels and challenges, [...]
