net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By sabine, December 16, 2004
PLAYFUL Playful is een twee-maandelijks terugkerend evenement dat telkens is opgebouwd uit een seminar in de ochtend, in de middag gevolgd door ‘Playful the Game’, waarbij gamers op het grote doek met en tegen elkaar strijden. Playful is een samenwerking tussen hoogt4/’t Hoogt, Universiteit Utrecht, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. De seminar in de eerste [...]
By sabine, November 25, 2004
DEAF04 — Open Alliances: Transfer of Knowledge in Art, Media Technology and Education. Rotterdam, Wednesday November 10, 2004. By Kim van Haaster As a layman in a world called ‘New Media’, guided by my colleague Sabine, I paid a visit to the DEAf04, a conference about digital art in the broadest sense of the word. [...]
By sabine, November 22, 2004
Eveline Lubbers from http://www.spinwatch.org and the Institute of Network Cultures present the screening of the film: Toxic Sludge Is Good For You The Public Relations Industry Unspun Date: Thursday November 25, 2004, at 16:00 Location: HvA Interactive Media, Weesperzijde 190 (next to Amstelstation), Amsterdam, room C 1.02. Free entrance. Laura Miller will introduce the video [...]
By sabine, October 29, 2004
Interview with Jill Magid – By Geert Lovink US-American, Amsterdam-based artist Jill Magid was a ‘must see’ at the 2004 Liverpool Biennial (www.biennial.com). Her work fitted in tightly with the Biennial’s topic of the city and the ‘engagement with place’. The installation, Evidence Locker, shown at the Tate Gallery and the Fact centre for new [...]
By sabine, October 15, 2004
ACTION ALERT: Urgent Action In Support of Indymedia, by Lee Salter “An unacceptable attack on press freedom, free speech, democracy and privacy.” On 7 October 2004 two Indymedia Web Servers were seized from the US-owned web hosting company Rackspace operating in London (UK), at the request of the US Justice Department, which apparently acted at [...]
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By sabine, October 13, 2004
By Sabine Niederer Under Delusion, Maartje Fliervoet, ‘t Hoogt Utrecht Yesterday evening (October 12, 2004) Amsterdam based video artist and photographer Maartje Fliervoet guided a crowd through here constructed misty worlds, inspired by cinema classics like Les Temps du Loup (Michael Haneke 2003), Il Deserto Rosso (Antonioni 1964) and Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972). Ruud Bakker, [...]
First slide of Rob van Kranenburg’s presentation (October 13, 2004) on E-culture in the Netherlands. Quotes from ads (varying from shampoo ads to internet shopping ads) all focusing on ‘safety’. Image by Serena Williams
Globalisation, academic flexibility and the right to research: A call for a European network of precarious/temporary researchers and for the free circulation of knowledge.
By sabine, October 12, 2004
By Rob van Kranenburg As I walk up to the check-in at Capetown Airport, the man looking at my documents nods and says: I have only one question, I saw you writing a long letter on your computer, what were you writing? Oh, I said, you will like it. It is about how amazed I [...]
