net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By sabine, October 5, 2004
By Geert Lovink People love events. They can't get enough of all the offline events on offer. Like festivals, conferences are venues where you can meet future collaborators, debate ideas and artworks, party intensely, get inspired, provoked, learn, make new friends, and then occasionally carry on the dialogue in the sauna.
By sabine, October 4, 2004
By Sabine Niederer The theme of this years’ Ars Electronica Festival was TIMESHIFT: The World in Twenty-Five Years. Ars Electronica got to celebrate her 25th birthday, and took the opportunity to reflect on the (recent) past and to look into future of digital arts and culture. Language of Networks The TIMESHIFT conference was preceded by [...]
By sabine, October 1, 2004
The first lecture in the (Dutch spoken) series Nieuwe Media in Nederland (new media in the Netherlands) was held on September 29, by Arie Altena. Altena held an inspiring lecture on ‘hypertext beyond hypertext and literature beyond literature’. His starting point were the promises and dreams of Internet literature in the nineties. Floppydisc novels (such [...]
By sabine, September 30, 2004
AOIR 2004: Ubiquity? University of Sussex, 19-22 September 2004. AOIR 2004 turned out to be conference where a lot of the speakers didn’t show up and the intenet access was below average, actually did turn out to be a pretty good place to exchange research ideas. For me, the first day of the AOIR 2004 [...]
