net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By sabine, November 23, 2009
System Flaws and Tactics After the opening speech by Bram Crevits (Cimatics) and Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures), the 5th edition of Video Vortex kicked off at the amazing Atomium in Brussels. The first session addressed System Flaws and Tactics. This session was inspired by the inherent errors, disabilities and restrictions of online video [...]
By margreet riphagen, November 16, 2009
Op woensdag 9 december 2009 vindt in De Balie in Amsterdam een symposium plaats over de staat van de kunstkritiek. Het symposium bestaat uit twee delen, een middag- en een avondprogramma. Het middagprogramma is gewijd aan de beeldende kunstkritiek, het avondprogramma aan kunstkritiek in bredere zin. Middag: ‘Critics Floating in the Virtual Sphere’ De digitale [...]
By margreet riphagen, July 15, 2009
CPOV event #1: WikiWars Call for Participation Wikipedia has emerged as the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. Different stakeholders – Wikipedians, users, academics, researchers, gurus of Web 2.0, publishing houses and governments have entered into fierce debates and discussions about what the rise of Wikipedia and Wiki cultures means and how they influence [...]
By margreet riphagen, July 3, 2009
Proudly we present the Winter Camp report; From Weak Ties to Organized Networks – Ideas, reports and Critiques. about the publication: In March 2009 the Institute of Network Cultures brought 12 networks to Amsterdam for a week of getting things done. Aim of Winter Camp was to connect the virtual with the real in order [...]
By margreet riphagen, June 22, 2009
Cultural Studies: My Creativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries My favourite piece in My Creativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries -a collection of essays edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter- is Annelys De Vet’s Creativity is not About Industry: I have nothing smart to say about the creative industry. This might be [...]
By sabine, June 21, 2009
INC’s research intern Dennis Deicke wrote his second book review, of Stefan Weber’s Das Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: Wie Netzplagiate Ausbildung und Wissen gefährden. Heise Verlag, Hannover: 2009. The Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: How Web-Plagiarism endangers Education and Knowledge, written by Stefan Weber, deals with the influence of the ever-increasing internet use on the prevalent culture of knowledge. Austrian media scholar [...]
By sabine, June 17, 2009
As the INC is preparing for a conference on search engines, titled The Society of the Query, research intern Dennis Deicke is delving deep into search engine theory. His book reviews can be read on the preliminary conference site www.networkcultures.org/query. Dennis has published his first review, which covers David Gugerli’s Suchmaschinen, Die Welt als Datenbank. [...]
By sabine, May 25, 2009
The INC delegation just got back from the Video Vortex event in beautiful Split, Croatia. A big thank you to the organizers for arranging this fruitful conference and exhibition: Dan Oki, Miranda Veljačić, Toni Mešrović, Dinko Peračić and Sandra Sterle, the Film and Video Dept. of the Acadamy of Arts at the University of Split, [...]
By sabine, May 13, 2009
The Video Vortex program has been updated! Check out the updated program here. Video Vortex 4 includes contributions by: Perry Bard, Natalie Bookchin, Maarten Brinkerink, Vito Campanelli, David Clark, Dagan Cohen, Cym and the Aethernauts, Alejandro Duque, Albert Figurt, Stefan Heidenreich, Jasmina Kallay, Sarah Késsene, Lev Manovich, Dalibor Martinis, Gabriel Menotti, Ana Peraica, Valentina Rao, [...]
By margreet riphagen, April 14, 2009
By Urte Jurgaityte Just released in Spanish with contributions from Igor Sádaba [Ed.], Michel Bauwens, Geert Lovink, Fernando Carbajo, César Rendueles and Rubén Blanco, Dimino Abierto. The texts in this booklet show different perspectives about transformations of cooperative forms of creation, dissemination and access to culture. In recent years, the cultural debate has been revitalized [...]
