net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By sabine, March 24, 2005
Dutch statement on E-Culture From ICT to E-culture, by the Dutch Culture Council, Ministry of OC&W.
By sabine, March 22, 2005
Have you ever heard of MayDay, the global workers’ day of celebration: a tradition born in the USA, mummified in Russia and China, and neglected in Europe during the rise of neoliberalism and the all-too moderate politics of trade unionism? Its no surprise if MayDay means nothing to you, because in the Netherlands it has [...]
By Goran Batic (researcher for the Institute of Network Cultures) In 1994 the World Wide Web crept out of its scientific and academic egg and entered the first phases of popular consciousness. At this point the web design explosion began. Ten years later, we would like to stand back and attempt to map something of [...]
By sabine, March 15, 2005
(Aan deze Nederlandse lezing ligt een Engelse tekst ten grondslag, die ter gelegenheid van de Openbare Les als boekje is uitgegeven. Deze tekst kan hier als pdf worden gedownload.) Netwerken of Niet-werken? Door Geert Lovink Hogeschool van Amsterdam, lectoraat Interactieve Media Openbare Les, uitgesproken op 24 februari 2005 Iedereen heeft wel eens de impuls gehad [...]
By sabine, March 14, 2005
Persbericht Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur, Amsterdam 14 maart 2005. Interculturaliteit en lokale media in Amsterdam: onderzoek naar verouderde modellen In haar doctoraalscriptie De Slakom van SALTO (UvA, maart 2005), onderzoekt Marije Brom de veroudering van bestaande modellen in de lokale media. De ideeen over lokale media, die in de jaren zeventig aan de wieg stonden van diverse [...]
By sabine, February 18, 2005
By Nancy Mauro-Flude Females working with technology are no longer accepting tokenisation: angry, enthusiastic and diverse, they understand the struggle for equality. Most importantly, you become part of an emerging dialogue that changes not just conceptions of gender, but changes the technology itself. You love playing with cables, coding and/or programming more than ever, only it's not just coding, programming or pulling plugs any more - It's a new movement ‘the third wave of feminism’, and your part of it. Sharing information, making poetry out of the codes, playing with images & ad hoc networks, breaking down stable chains of signification, you are stepping on the posts of life itself! Then you go to the 3rd European Symposium on Gender & ICT: working for Change…
By sabine, January 22, 2005
By Goran Batic Ellen Pronk is a Dutch artist who uses her website as a private creative diary. The site has been online since 1997, and it’s called LIEFS meaning WITH LOVE. It changes on the daily basis, and it consists of animated gifs, texts, flash applets, pictures and games. She defines it a place [...]
By sabine, January 6, 2005
By Rob van Kranenburg So I finally (well, finally after forty years) lay down my distopian moments; my vision of the disintegration of the European nation states, that tsunami erasing painstakingly fought for public life called citizen, or e-citizen if you want to be precise. So for the last time: A worst case scenario: disintegration [...]
By sabine, December 28, 2004
(interesting concept… content theft. anyone who has any experience with the legal aspect of this? best, geert) From: Google Alert To: geert@… Subject: Latest results from Google Alert Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:05:53 +0000 *** New! Copyscape finds stolen copies of your website! *** It’s easy for people to steal your content from your [...]
By sabine, December 27, 2004
by Goran Batic, INC researcher for A Decade of Webdesign Max Bruinsma is an independent designwriter, editor, critic, curator and editorial designer, and former editor of Eye, the international review of graphic design in London. He studied art-, architecture- and design history in Groningen and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since 1985, his critical writings have featured [...]
