net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By morgancurrie, December 29, 2010
We were very happy with the turnout of the Economies of the Commons 2 conference in Amsterdam. For those of you who could not make it, there is a full video report of all presented lectures to be found at the DeBalie website and can also be watched below. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Conference Keynote [...]
By margreet riphagen, December 23, 2010
The Institute of Network Cultures wishes you a merry Christmas and a great 2011! We are closed from the 24th of December till the 3rd of January. In this newsletter you can read more about: Upcoming conferences: ‘Video Vortex #6’ Conference | 11-12 March 2011, Amsterdam ‘What is a Book?’ Conference | 20-21 May 2011, [...]
By margreet riphagen, December 20, 2010
In the Xmas issue of the New York Review of Books Robert Darnton writes about the challenges that libraries face these days. Towards the end of his article he discusses the initiative to start a Digital National Archive in the United States. In this context Darnton makes some interesting remarks about Google Books: “Perhaps even [...]
By margreet riphagen, December 8, 2010
Issue no. 2 Geert Lovink & Pit Schultz, Jugendjahre der Netzkritik, Essays zu Web 1.0 (1995 – 1997) about this publication: Dieses PDF / Print-on-Demand-Heft bringt eine Auswahl der Texte zusammen, in denen die Medientheoretiker und nettime-Gründer Pit Schultz und Geert Lovink zwischen 1995 und 1997 gemeinsam die Grundzüge des Konzepts der Netzkritik formulierten. Damals [...]
By cgmt87, December 7, 2010
The video of the Economies of the Commons 2 can we watched here. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Conference Keynote Charlotte Hess VIDEO Constructing a Commons-Based Digital Infrastructure As the digital universe swells to 1.2 zettabytes, as increasing amounts of valuable information are lost or enclosed, as more libraries close, as economies fall, as global inequities rise, [...]
By sabine, November 30, 2010
The Signpost recently interviewed Wikipedia researchers Johanna Niesyto and Nathaniel Tkacz from the “Critical Point of View” (CPOV) initiative. That initiative organized three conferences about Wikipedia this year, in Bangalore, Amsterdam, and Leipzig (see brief Signpost coverage of the second and third conferences). Via e-mail, we talked about these conferences and other activities of CPOV, [...]
By margreet riphagen, November 24, 2010
INC Print on Demand Service ‘Theory on Demand’ Issue no. 5 out now! Purchase it at lulu.com and/or download the pdf here Nikos Papastergiadis, Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday Spatial Aesthetics examines the most recent shifts in contemporary art practice. By working with artists and closely observing the way in which they relate [...]
By morgancurrie, November 16, 2010
Dymitri Kleiner is used to writing code, not books. However the texts that he was spreading around the Internet, inspired a lot of practitioners in the field of the free and open. One of those practisioners and friend of Dymitri, Matteo Pasquinelli, eventually took the effort in gathering all of Dymitri’s texts that were scattered [...]
By morgancurrie, November 15, 2010
Last, but surely not least in the session of “Critique of the Free and Open” is Simona Levi, multidisciplinary artist, director of Conservas and arts festival INn MOTION. She is also co-founder of EXGAE and organiser of the Free Culture Forum Barcelona. Earlier, professor Yann Moulier-Boutang, Nate Tkacz and Dymitri Kleiner talked about the (Creative) [...]
Former worker at Knowledgeland, Harry Verwayen started off his presentation by mentioning what he would not cover in his talk, namely viable revenue models to apply in this day and age (since according to Verwayen, this has been greatly covered on Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly’s blog). Thereafter, Verwayen directly mentions what he finds an effective [...]
