net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By sabine, March 2, 2008
Liz Losh and Ouinon.net both posted pics of the INC package they received, which included all of the INC publications. Left: http://virtualpolitik.blogspot.com/2008/03/surprise-package.html Right: http://www.ouinon.net/index.php?2008/02/19/310-thanks-to-geert-lovink Order INC publications by sending a message to info (at) networkcultures (dot) org. They are also freely available as PDF from the publications page.
By sabine, January 30, 2008
Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (eds.), MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007. ISBN: 987-90-78146-04-9 Order a copy of the book by sending a message to marijevaneck (at) networkcultures (dot) org. Download a low-res pdf here. about the book: The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into [...]
By sabine, January 4, 2008
This text is a response to the current trend towards Practice-Based PhD’s as discussed in the ‘Third Cycle: Artistic Research after Bologna, International conference on the third cycle in higher arts education’, Felix Meritis 10-11 October 2007. By Nancy Mauro-Flude (artist and forthcoming PhD candidate). Thank you to : Geert Lovink, Michael Kolkman and Jan [...]
By sabine, November 9, 2007
This book takes an inventory of the art of collaborative practice, surveys the landscape of new, cooperation-enhancing technologies, and renders the inner workings of cooperative processes as a new model for social movements. Civic participation is on the decline, but, online, more people work together than ever before. Activists contribute citizen journalism. New media artists [...]
Friday 23 November 2007 : Zero Comments: Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse. A Critique of Citizen Journalism. The dominant citizen journalism discourse presents itself as an empowering, all-inclusive movement. However, the vast majority of bloggers neither sees itself as a political subject (‘citizen’) or has the ambition to become a journalist. The ‘citizen journalism’ meme was [...]
By sabine, October 25, 2007
Report by Sarah Turner At midnight Sunday 14 Oct, the two temporary screens were unplugged which together with a third permanent one, displayed the Urban Screens art and events programme. Urban Screens Manchester 07 was over. During the four preceding days, Manchester was a hub for the international Urban Screens crowd arriving from around the [...]
By sabine, September 28, 2007
two-day public program on RFID and things to come. 19 & 20 OCTOBER 2007 DE BALIE AMSTERDAM www.debalie.nl/recallingrfid recall 1 bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one’s mind, esp. so as to recount it to others; remember. 2 officially order (someone) to return to a place. It’s in travel documents, building passes, pet [...]
By sabine, August 12, 2007
Responses to YouTube. Presented by Argos, Centre for Art & media, and Institute of Network Cultures (INC). Over the past years the moving image has claimed an increasingly prominent place on the internet. Thanks to a wide range of technologies and web applications it has become possible, not only to record and distribute video, but [...]
Een Spanningsveld. Muziekstijl en Muziekbeleving in Amsterdam. Bestaat er wel zoiets als ‘typisch Amsterdamse muziek’? Ter afsluiting van de Master Algemene Cultuurwetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam deed Josine Laarakker onderzoek naar de samenstelling en samenhang van de in Amsterdam aanwezige muziekscènes. De scriptiebegeleiding was in handen van Dr. Geert Lovink.
By sabine, July 3, 2007
Playing The Waves Lars von Trier’s Game Cinema Jan Simons Paperback, sewn, 256 pages. Size: 16 x 24 cm ISBN: 978-90-5356-991-7 / 978-90-5356-979-5 Published in the series ‘Film Culture in Transition’, published by AUP. Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam Order online: http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789053569795 Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Waves-Amsterdam-University-Transition/dp/905356991X/ref=sr_1_1/002-0358365-9718456?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181595823&sr=1-1 About the book Although Dogma 95 has been hailed as a [...]