net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Chloë Arkenbout, July 11, 2024
Trigger warning: various topics where trigger warnings are often used are discussed in this article, such as sexual assault, car crashes, trauma and PTSD, misogyny, the genocide of Palestinian people and burn-out. “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.” – Ocean Vuong When in January of 2022 the Dutch news exploded because of [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, July 1, 2024
CLIMATE TRIBUNAL The Fossil Fuels Industry on Trial By Paolo Cirio The Climate Tribunal wants to shift perception regarding climate change by exposing historical, scientific, political-economic, and criminal evidence of how the fossil fuel industry is accountable for having caused climate change. This publication features texts and research from the activist and artistic work on [...]
By Jordi Viader Guerrero, June 26, 2024
On Tuesday October 1, 2024 from 10:00 to 16:00, the AHK Culture Club (Amsterdam) in collaboration with the Artificial Worlds Research Group will host AI_ANXIETY, a workshop inviting early career scholars in the humanities and artists to reflect on the institutional politics of AI research. The workshop will be facilitated by researchers Dmitry Muravyov, Aarón [...]
By admin, June 17, 2024
On Monday June 24, 2024 8pm, Spui25 (Amsterdam) there will be a lecture by Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia, UK), moderated by Marc Tuters (Mediastudies, UvA). The lecture will look at how the disruptive affordances and practices of global digital culture relate to political reconfigurations symptomatic of a broader crisis of liberalism. Alan Finlayson [...]
By Chloë Arkenbout, June 11, 2024
MyCy is an emerging on|offline social network tackling our (toxic✌️) relationship with social media. While Big Tech divides us into money-making data points, they want to create spaces for real connections, knowledge exchanges and creative flourishing! They are hosting a workshop series, please find all the information below. — In workshops and skillshares we will [...]
By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2024
SYNTHETIC VISION/IMAGES OF POWER Truth, Evidence, Labour & Knowledge in the Age of AI Dates: 27 & 28 June 2024 Venue: Framer Framed | Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71, 1093 KS Amsterdam Organisers/Conveners: Francesco Ragazzi + Donatella Della Ratta + Rocco Bellanova + Rebecca Stein We are thrilled to invite you to the conference Synthetic Vision / Images [...]
By Giulia Timis, May 23, 2024
On the 18th of April, we were invited to hold a workshop for the Photography & Society Master’s students at KABK, in the Hague. Being the first workshop I did as part of THE VOID team (a very ominous way of describing oneself, as a student pointed out later), I was excited to be there. [...]
By Geert Lovink, May 16, 2024
SRC003 – SIDEQUEST (ENCORE LABEL, AVOCADO IBUPROFEN AND VIRGILE FLORES) Encore Label is an art label inspired by the contemporary meta-landscape as a complex site of loss and potential. Their aim is to interlace musical, visual and cultural components to create clusters of knowledge and aesthetics. Through its projects, Encore is building an ever-expanding, collectible, [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, May 14, 2024
THEORY ON DEMAND #52 Archiving Activism in the Digital Age Edited by Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney The archiving of social movements has long contributed to their cultural impact. Given the wide availability of digital tools for the making and storing of records, ‘autonomous’ archiving is today becoming a significant part of the activist toolkit [...]
By Tommaso Campagna, May 6, 2024
INC Zine Falling Through On January 18th, 2024 Agnieszka Antkowiak, Morgane Billuart and Klara Debeljak came together in Prague, CZ to present their research in the form of a three-part performance lecture at the Display Gallery Space. The performative lectures danced around speculative narrative building and being (a girl) online, questioning truth and violence.
