net critique blog by Geert Lovink
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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By sabine, October 13, 2004
By Sabine Niederer Under Delusion, Maartje Fliervoet, ‘t Hoogt Utrecht Yesterday evening (October 12, 2004) Amsterdam based video artist and photographer Maartje Fliervoet guided a crowd through here constructed misty worlds, inspired by cinema classics like Les Temps du Loup (Michael Haneke 2003), Il Deserto Rosso (Antonioni 1964) and Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972). Ruud Bakker, [...]
First slide of Rob van Kranenburg’s presentation (October 13, 2004) on E-culture in the Netherlands. Quotes from ads (varying from shampoo ads to internet shopping ads) all focusing on ‘safety’. Image by Serena Williams
Globalisation, academic flexibility and the right to research: A call for a European network of precarious/temporary researchers and for the free circulation of knowledge.
By sabine, October 12, 2004
By Rob van Kranenburg As I walk up to the check-in at Capetown Airport, the man looking at my documents nods and says: I have only one question, I saw you writing a long letter on your computer, what were you writing? Oh, I said, you will like it. It is about how amazed I [...]
As seen in Redfern Sydney the day after the Howard government got re-elected for a fourth term. (Geert)
By sabine, October 8, 2004
The second speaker in the (Dutch spoken) lecture series Nieuwe Media in Nederland (New Media in the Netherlands), was Arjen Mulder (October 8, 2004). Arjen Mulder had the assignment to speak about interactivity in Dutch architecture, and focus specifically on the work of Dutch architect Lars Spuybroek (Nox Architects). Arjen Mulder, being both a biologist [...]
By sabine, October 6, 2004
www.designtimeline.org & A Decade of Web Design We would like to invite you to contribute to the online collective web design history timeline. This project wants to map your first encounters with the world wide web. It is part of a larger project entitled A Decade of Webdesign that culminates into an international conference in [...]
