net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010
Dymitri Kleiner is a software developer working on projects that investigate the political economy of the internet, and the ideal of workers’ self-organization of production as a form of class struggle. Born in the USSR, Dmytri grew up in Toronto and now lives in Berlin. He is a founder of the Telekommunisten Collective, which provides [...]
Michael Edson, director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution and Smithsonian Commons, opens with the goals and virtues of the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian institution is the world’s largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. Toghether these museums, research centers and [...]
People are slowly coming back into the room after the lunch break. The most popular workgroup, called Open Distribution Models for Broadcasting, caught the attention of about twenty people. A video call with Bregtje van der Haak live from Hong Kong is set up, as she is joining us in the discussion the first half [...]
by Caroline Goralczyk In his talk on the challenges of sustaining common goods in the digital era, Yann Moulier-Boutang, editor of the Quarterly French Review MULTITUDES and professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, discussed the fate of digital commons by comparing them to the ancient commons of pre-colonial primitive accumulation, such as fishing, [...]
by Catalina Iorga Jeff Ubois, of archival.tv, gave the last talk of the Economies of Commons 2 conference at De Balie, Amsterdam and presented his thoughts on the imbalance of public/private institutions, and how libraries, museums and archives can meet the new challenges of preservation.
Preservation, artlab, research, collection.. all rolled up into one: the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk). Starting in 1978, NIMk collects and preserves media art and electronic products, in addition to operating as a distributor to generate revenue for artists who work with new technologies. Sandra Fauconnier pinpoints one of the unique selling-points of the NIMk. [...]
by Nicola Bozzi Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic Physics, but she has been working for media archiving institutions involved in digital preservation – like the Aarhus University Library and the Royal Library – for many years now. Even if digital archives don’t sound as complex as theoretical atomic physics, in her presentation [...]
What is scholarly communication? Should higher education be considered a public good? How will we be able to structure the zettabytes of the digital universe? What is the trend in open access and public depositing? Scholar Charlotte Hess addresses her main concerns regarding digital commons, and knowledge commons in particular. As an Associate Dean for [...]
By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010
As policy adviser of distribution technologies for the NPO, ‘Nederlandse Publieke Omroep’ (Dutch Public Broadcasting), Bram Tullemans finds himself situated at the heart of the debate on open video distribution. He has been occupied with Uitzending Gemist, a Dutch service website which provides television programs from the public channels online short after they were broadcasted [...]
By Fenneke Mink Annelies Termeer presents the Celluloid Remix online video contest organized by EYE Film Institute Netherlands and Images for the Future. In this 7 years during project four public archive institutes digitize, save, preserve and share the Dutch audiovisual heritage for the future. What comes after digitization is the question Termeer answers by [...]
