Let’s Get Physical: A Sample of INC Longforms, 2015-2020

By Miriam Rasch, August 27, 2020

  For mobile reading, we recommend going directly to the INC Longform webpage. Order a free paper copy by filling out the form below. INC Reader #13 Let’s Get Physical: A Sample of INC Longforms, 2015-2020 marks the five year anniversary of the INC Longform series. Based on research both theoretical and practice-based, INC Longforms [...]
On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practice,...

On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practice, Its History and Politics

By Barbara Dubbeldam, June 23, 2020

On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practice, its History and Politics
A Different Kind of Grief: Learning to Love Our Networks...

A Different Kind of Grief: Learning to Love Our Networks in a Time of Disconnection

By Barbara Dubbeldam, June 12, 2020

A Different Kind of Grief: Learning to Love Our Networks in a Time of Disconnection

Video Vortex Reader #3: Inside the YouTube Decade

By Tommaso Campagna, June 11, 2020

    INC Reader #14 Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade Editors: Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske What is online video today, fifteen years into its exponential growth? What started with amateur work of YouTube prosumers has spread to virtually all communication apps: an explosion in the culture of mobile sound and vision. [...]

Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance

By Inte Gloerich, May 26, 2020

Feminist Finance Zine INC Zine #1 Amateur Cities and the Institute of Network Cultures are proud to present a feminist finance zine titled ‘Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance’. It is a cooperative future-thinking effort from the MoneyLab network, a collective of artists, designers, researchers, geeks and activists dedicated to the task of experimenting with more [...]

Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing

By Barbara Dubbeldam, May 25, 2020

Finally, there it is: your hard-wrought publication that provides all the necessary facts and reflections on a topic that inflamed public debate… two years ago. Time passes quickly and people have moved on, leaving behind the rubbles of badly informed and heavily polarized discussions and an ever more self-referential and hyped-up mediasphere. Or: there it [...]

TOD #33: Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art: A Kierkegaardian Inquiry into the Imaginary of Possibility

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 8, 2020

  Theory on Demand #33 Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art: A Kierkegaardian Inquiry into the Imaginary of Possibility By Patricia de Vries Over the past decade, a growing number of artists and critical practitioners have become engaged with algorithms. This artistic engagement has resulted in algorithmic theatre, bot art, and algorithmic media and performance art [...]

TOD #36: Listening into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, May 15, 2020

  Theory on Demand #36 Listening into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri By Tripta Chandola The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand [...]

The Web. Coronavirus e web 2.0 : domande e risposte della filosofia

By Tommaso Campagna, May 6, 2020

  In questo saggio Lorenza Saettone tratta di distanziamento e di connessioni, di incoerenze e di strumenti con cui leggere noi stessi e la realtà che ci circonda. Le misure del lockdown chiamano a sé ulteriori separazioni, come il digital divide e la divisione metafisica tra virtuale e reale, un dualismo che però non è [...]

Het Beeldenrijk

By Tommaso Campagna, April 6, 2020

  Finally online: the first book of the Adilkno collective, in Dutch (not translated), Empire of Images: Radiation Fear and Space Desire, published in 1985 in Amsterdam by Uitgeverij Raket en Lont. This singular mix of casual theory and every day narratives, closely connected to the autonomous anti-nuclear and anti-war movements of the time, is [...]