net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Leonieke van Dipten, November 21, 2016
What can we say about the state of the art of digital comics? Comics have taken on new forms in the digital realm as they offer many ways of reshaping the combination of visual and textual components. The limitations of the printed comic book are lifted as gifs, videos, HTML and other digital techniques offer [...]
By Miriam Rasch, November 15, 2016
The 3D Additivist Cookbook Launch Party & Panel December 2, 2016 Printed Matter, New York The Additivist Cookbook is published by the Institute of Network Cultures. Printed Matter is pleased to host the launch of The 3D Additivist Cookbook, to coincide with its publication online and in 3D PDF format. The 3D Additivist Cookbook, devised [...]
By Miriam Rasch, October 7, 2016
For the further development of its hybrid publication strategy – combining digital and print books and other media – the Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an Intern with a strong interest in (digital) publishing 3-6 months, 4 days a week, starting January or February 2017 You will work on international publications in the [...]
By Miriam Rasch, October 4, 2016
‘Why can’t reflection be more jubilant?’ This phrase from Eduardo Navas’ Spate may serve as an adequate line to proudly introduce our new publication series Deep Pockets. ‘Jubilant reflection’ on networks, media activism, the political economy of the social, and other INC topics is what we’re after with this new line of print-on-demand and electronic [...]
By Leonieke van Dipten, September 26, 2016
‘As I walk towards my home at night a wet surface of the pavement glitters in all shades of black, reminding me that I am surfing. Not just on the street, but on the endless glassy surface of the interface of this world. This is where I belong. The warmth of the reflection entangles me, [...]
By Nadine Roestenburg, July 15, 2016
The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its presence resonating in [...]
By Inte Gloerich, July 7, 2016
The Deep Web evokes images of an underworld that cannot bear the light of day. Yet this hidden realm contains an estimated 96% of all the content to be found circulating online. The first international Crypto Design Challenge shout out to artists, designers, researchers and visionaries to dive in and create new images of the [...]
By Miriam Rasch, June 30, 2016
Now available: The Ends of the Internet by Boris Beaude, translated from the French by Patrice Riemens. If you are interested in a copy, fill out the form below. About this publication: *The Ends of the Internet* is an investigation into all the reasons why the Internet, which has been with us for over thirty [...]
By Miriam Rasch, June 7, 2016
Internet on the Outstation provides a new take on the digital divide. Why do whole communities choose to go without the internet when the infrastructure for access is in place? Through an in-depth exploration of the digital practices occurring in Aboriginal households in remote central Australia, the authors address both the dynamics of internet adoption [...]
By Miriam Rasch, May 25, 2016
In this fifth volume of his ongoing investigations, Dutch media theorist and internet critic Geert Lovink plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference [...]
