net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By margreet riphagen, May 20, 2011
Call for creative action The Internet is the place where we meet, speak, create, educate ourselves and organize. However, as we are at a turning point in early web history, it could either become a prime tool for improving our societies, knowledge and culture, or a totalitarian tool of suveillance and control. After 15 years [...]
By margreet riphagen, May 18, 2011
By morgancurrie, May 16, 2011
We’re sorry to announce that ‘Text to the Paratext’ with Sean Dockray has been canceled
By margreet riphagen, May 5, 2011
A conference on literacy and publishing in the digital age from 19-21 May. Download the program here. The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, has rapidly grown outdated. Meanwhile the capacity to create digital book-like functions and forms is endless. in a double sense the book is coming unbound, both from [...]
By margreet riphagen, April 28, 2011
By: By jussi.parikka at 27/04/2011 – 06:30 Jussi Parikka’s blog Amsterdam based journalist and critic Josephine Bosma’s just published book Nettitudes. Let’s Talk Net Art (2011) tackles the themes of net.art, aesthetics, politics and network culture practices in a great way. Bosma, herself very much an insider to the net art scene since its emergence [...]
April 27, 4:00pm, Rogers Communication Centre, Room 202 Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario More information about the seminar you can find here: http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/news/WikiLeaks_The_Politics_of_Exposure.html The purpose of this series of events is to encourage critical dialogue on the phenomena of Wikileaks. We aim to explore the theoretical and discursive tensions inherent in representations of Wikileaks, as well as possibilities [...]
By margreet riphagen, April 19, 2011
Theory on Demand #7 Image, Time and Motion: New Media Critique from Turkey, Ankara (2003 – 2010) Edited by: Andreas Treske, Ufuk Onen, Bestem Büyüm and I. Alev Degim. Design: Katja van Stiphout DTP: Margreet Riphagen Printer: ‘Print on Demand’ Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2011 ISBN: 978-90-816021-5-0 Download the TOD#7 reader here. About [...]
By margreet riphagen, March 17, 2011
Door: Henk Verbooy www.ikmagazine.nl Zonder cloud computing en social media zou Het Nieuwe Werken (HNW) niet of nauwelijks mogelijk zijn. Maar moeten we er blij mee zijn? Gewapend met die stelling en die vraag ging IK (Intellectueel Kapitaal) naar de Hogeschool van Amsterdam voor een interview met mediatheoreticus, netcriticus annex activist Geert Lovink. Zonder internet [...]
By margreet riphagen, March 14, 2011
Havana is de newspaper of the Amsterdam’s University of Applied Science. Last Friday a student of the Havana visited the Video Vortex conference and made a small movie. http://www.havanaweb.nl/nieuws/video-vortex-geen-idee-eigenlijk-1699.html/play
By rachel, March 8, 2011
Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube About the book: Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of texts that critically explore the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use. With the success of YouTube (‘2 billion views per day’) and the rise of other online video sharing [...]
