net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By INC Team, April 19, 2010
Symposium on interactivity and public space 22 and 23 April 2010 TrouwAmsterdam The two-day symposium – A wedge between private and public – looks at interactive art in public space from the perspective of three core concepts: object, interface and affect. On day one, theoreticians discuss and expand on these principles, while the second day [...]
By margreet riphagen, April 9, 2010
We were very happy with the large amount of people attending the CPOV Wikipedia conference in Amsterdam. However, for those of you who could not make it, there is a full video report of all presented lectures to be found here. Credits: The Critical Point of View conference is organized by the Institute of Network [...]
By sabine, March 5, 2010
In response to the increasing potential for video as a significant form of personal media on the Internet, the Video Vortex program examines key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. With the rise of YouTube and alternative platforms, the moving image on the Internet has become expansively [...]
By serenawestra, March 1, 2010
by Shirley Niemans On monday March 1, Dutch newspaper NRC Next devoted two pages to articles on Google. One article by Peter Teffer, ”Maakt het internet ons dommer?” (does the Internet dumb us down?) features an interview with Geert Lovink. The other article is an experiment by two NRC reporters, Teffer and Pfauth, who attempted [...]
By margreet riphagen, February 3, 2010
Naar aanleiding van de Society of the Query conferentie, die gehouden is in november 2009, is er een interessant interview afgenomen met Siva Vaidhyanathan voor Vrij Nederland. Siva is de auteur van het boek ‘the Googlization of Everything‘ dat momenteel geschreven wordt. Een boek over één bedrijf, Google, een volledige cultuur, economie en community kan [...]
By INC Team, January 28, 2010
By Rachel O’Reilly Introduction Curatorial practice discussions and debates are still vastly under-programmed in Australia; they sometimes take place in terms of legacy discussions (individual shows/ provocateurs); philosophies of aesthetics; local ritual digestions of recent international publications; or as a showcasing of emergent forms. This is hardly surprising given it has only been recently that [...]
By INC Team, January 26, 2010
We were very happy with the large amount of people attending the latest Video Vortex conference in Brussels. However, for those of you who could not make it, there is a full video report of all presented lectures to be found here. Cimatics festival was hosting the 5th Video Vortex conference. Two years after its [...]
By margreet riphagen, January 15, 2010
www.followthemoney.nu (video availabe) Conference on 14.01.2010 at de Balie Short summary by Juliana Brunello First Welcome: Hans Maarten van den Brink welcomes us participants to the conference. He shortly explains that this is the 11th edition of the circuit of conferences done by Mediafonds, Sandberg Institute and for the first time with Erasmus University. The [...]
By margreet riphagen, January 11, 2010
By Rachel O’Reilly Darren Tofts considered the 1990s history and present plight of media art in Australia,” in terms of individual artists, and access to and curatorial advocacy of media art work”. This presentation could be considered follow up commentary to Toft’s highly accessible and extremely timely book Interzone: Media Arts in Australia which addressed [...]
By margreet riphagen, December 16, 2009
By Rachel O’Reilly Douglas Kahn, founding Director of Technocultures Studies at University of California (Davis) spoke on the final leg of his ANAT tour across Australia, organised by Sarah Last. Kahn opened with a recording of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Chuck Berry, and David Rosenboom “performing” live brain wave tunes on CBS’s Mike Douglas Show [...]
