net critique blog by Geert Lovink
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 [...]
By sabine, June 1, 2007
Edited by Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen, Matteo Pasquinelli On June 2, 2007 at the C’Lick Me Festival in Paradiso, Amsterdam, the C’Lick Me Reader will be launched. Read all about the festival on www.c-lickme.nl. C’LICK ME: A NETPORN STUDIES READER Editorial Assistance: Geert Lovink, Sabine Niederer Copy Editing: Wietske Maas Design: Kernow Craig Publisher: Institute [...]
By sabine, May 24, 2007
Introducing the MA Thesis of Lenneke Bolkenbaas. Available at the website of the Insitute of Network Cultures as a pdf: click here. University of Amsterdam’s Lenneke Bolkenbaas has researched a Macedonian television series that deals with ethnic differences amongst youngsters in this small Balkan country. Nashe Maalo was produced by Search for Common Ground and [...]
By sabine, May 7, 2007
All audio and video documentation from our past events and conferences is available at the INC Media Archive. The November 06 MyCreativity documentation includes Video On Demand and podcasts of all sessions and a PDF version of the newspaper. Also check the archive for audiovisual material on Urban Screens, The Art and Politics of Netporn, [...]
By sabine, April 23, 2007
by Nancy Mauro-Flude This is a text I wrote during my MA Media Design at Piet Zwart Institute, in response the Thematic Project *Command Line Culture* September-December 2006 led by Florian Cramer, (the course director). From the perspective of a performing artist, and as a developer of the /eclectic tech carnival http://eclectictechcarnival.org/ I discuss my [...]
By sabine, April 6, 2007
Network Notebooks is a series of publications on recent new media theory. INC proudly presents: Network Notebooks nr.1: Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web by Rosalind Gill Order printed copies by sending an email to info (at) networkcultures.org. A pdf is also freely available here. For [...]
By sabine, November 6, 2006
Book launch: 12.30pm, Friday 17 November PostCS 11, Post CS Building, Amsterdam www.ilove11.nl Organized Networks Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions Ned Rossiter Paperback, sewn, 250 pages, Size: 16 X 23 cm ISBN 90-5662-526-8 / 978-90-5662-526-9, € 23.50 First publication in the series ‘Studies in Network Cultures’, published by NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and Institute of [...]