Audio, Text and Reading Today: Interview with Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, April 23, 2021

By Lucia Tonelli & Giorgia Giacomini We’re MA students in Communication and Graphic Design at ISIA Urbino, Italy and we’re researching the act of publishing for Jonathan Pierini’s Graphic Production Techniques class. The task is to provocatively ignore the boundaries of established publishing practices and broaden our field of investigation. Giorgia read I Read Where [...]

Questions from Pablo Gámez Cersosimo

By Geert Lovink, April 2, 2021

Questions from Pablo Gámez Cersosimo “ Wir fragen nach der Technik und möchten dadurch eine freie Beziehung zu ihr vorbereiten. Das Fragen baut an einem Weg, ein Weg des Denkens.” Martin Heidegger The email interview below was conducted by Pablo Gámez Cersosimo for his upcoming book Depredadores Digitales: una historia de la huella de carbono [...]

Samos Calling: Phone Credit for Refugees

By Geert Lovink, April 1, 2021

Samos Calling: refugees receive first phone credit Twenty African refugees living in the Vathy camp on the Greek island of Samos received €12,50 of phone credit from a new initiative named SAMOS CALLING. This initiative of Migrant 2 Migrant (M2M), Radio Patapoe and Stichting Hulpkaravaan aims to bolster the communication capacity of refugees, to make their voices heard and create connections. The first [...]

Invitation to Remix We Are Not Sick’s Sad by Design Album

By Geert Lovink, March 6, 2021

Sad By Design, Remixed We Are Not Sick is proud to announce the availability for immediate remixing of all source material from their album Sad By Design at the Internet Archive. This includes the audio stems of each song, allowing the complete remixing using any element from the original edition. We invite the world to [...]

Geert Lovink/Alexander Estorick: Crypto Art Interview

By Geert Lovink, February 26, 2021

Geert Lovink on the New State of Crypto Art in Conversation with Alex Estorick, Contributing Editor for Art and Technology at Flash Art This is the original transcript of the interview for ‘Towards a New Ecology of Crypto Art’, published on February 26, 2021 here. Alexander Estorick: Flash Art’s column, The Uncanny Valley, specializes in [...]

Interview met Mieke Gerritzen over Help jezelf!

By Geert Lovink, January 6, 2021

Interview met Mieke Gerritzen over Help Je Zelf! De opkomst van self-design Door Geert Lovink “Ben jij een testo-junkie? Ja, Nee.” “Verzin jouw eigen familie”, “Hoe geliefd ben jij?” “De dood is een design issue.” “Besta jij echt?” Een greep uit de talloze vragen en stellingen in Help je zelf! De Nederlandse ontwerper Mieke Gerritzen [...]

Extinction Bauhaus: On von der Leyen’s Proposal

By Geert Lovink, December 16, 2020

By Geert Lovink, first published by the Berlin magazine The Arts of the Working Class, here. EU president Ursula von der Leyen wants Europe to tap into its inner avant-garde. In her inaugural State of the Union speech from September 16, 2020, she pledged to revive the historical Bauhaus – the experimental art school that [...]

The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, November 21, 2020

[First published by Eurozine on November 2, 2020, you will find the original version here. The text is, in part, the result of exchanges on the nettime mailinglist in the first part of July, 2020. Thanks to all who collaborated to this ‘chorus’ essay.] “The body has been drained of its sedimented meanings through the [...]

Noise vs. Control: A Parable Against Modelling the Future by Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter

By Geert Lovink, November 21, 2020

[Shorter German version published in Timo Daum (Hrg.), Die unsichtbare Hand des Plans, Berlin, Dietz Verlag, 2021. For more context see Ned Rossiter’s website: https://nedrossiter.org/?p=490] “People find themselves seemingly unable to create the conditions for a radical bifurcation—not the disruptive ‘radical innovation’ of the kind claimed by those startup entrepreneurs who present themsevles as ‘new [...]

Principles of Stacktivism

By Geert Lovink, November 10, 2020

(this essay was published first by tripleC in the non-peer-reviewed Reflection section of the journal here) Principles of Stacktivism by Geert Lovink “One of the last frontiers left for radical gesture is the imagination.” David Wojnarowicz Those that define internet standards shape our thinking and hold the key to our freedom of communication — no [...]