net critique blog by Geert Lovink
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 [...]
By sabine, December 26, 2004
by Goran Batic, INC researcher for A Decade of Webdesign Luna Maurer (1972) is a graphic/interaction designer based in the Netherlands. After completing courses at the Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute she’s done many different kinds of projects ranging from interactive narration to performances and fashion. Instead of seeing herself as a graphic designer [...]
By sabine, December 16, 2004
PLAYFUL Playful is een twee-maandelijks terugkerend evenement dat telkens is opgebouwd uit een seminar in de ochtend, in de middag gevolgd door ‘Playful the Game’, waarbij gamers op het grote doek met en tegen elkaar strijden. Playful is een samenwerking tussen hoogt4/’t Hoogt, Universiteit Utrecht, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. De seminar in de eerste [...]
By sabine, November 25, 2004
DEAF04 — Open Alliances: Transfer of Knowledge in Art, Media Technology and Education. Rotterdam, Wednesday November 10, 2004. By Kim van Haaster As a layman in a world called ‘New Media’, guided by my colleague Sabine, I paid a visit to the DEAf04, a conference about digital art in the broadest sense of the word. [...]
By sabine, November 22, 2004
Eveline Lubbers from http://www.spinwatch.org and the Institute of Network Cultures present the screening of the film: Toxic Sludge Is Good For You The Public Relations Industry Unspun Date: Thursday November 25, 2004, at 16:00 Location: HvA Interactive Media, Weesperzijde 190 (next to Amstelstation), Amsterdam, room C 1.02. Free entrance. Laura Miller will introduce the video [...]
By sabine, October 29, 2004
Interview with Jill Magid – By Geert Lovink US-American, Amsterdam-based artist Jill Magid was a ‘must see’ at the 2004 Liverpool Biennial (www.biennial.com). Her work fitted in tightly with the Biennial’s topic of the city and the ‘engagement with place’. The installation, Evidence Locker, shown at the Tate Gallery and the Fact centre for new [...]
By sabine, October 15, 2004
ACTION ALERT: Urgent Action In Support of Indymedia, by Lee Salter “An unacceptable attack on press freedom, free speech, democracy and privacy.” On 7 October 2004 two Indymedia Web Servers were seized from the US-owned web hosting company Rackspace operating in London (UK), at the request of the US Justice Department, which apparently acted at [...]
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