Latest Version of the Sad by Design/We Are Not Sick Performance

By Geert Lovink, January 26, 2022

New version of my ever-changing music-theory performance under fluctuating names Sad by Design and We Are Not Sick, this time at Neme Gallery in Limassol (Cyprus), December 11, 2021, as part of their Through the Mesh: Media, Borders and Firewalls exhibition. Thanks to Patrick Lichty for the invitation and to Yiannis Colakides for the careful [...]

Q&A with Business Consultant Maik Baumgaertner

By Geert Lovink, January 11, 2022

Email interview with Geert Lovink by business consultant Maik Baumgaertner (late 2021) Maik Baumgaertner: Thinking specifically about the intersection of the internet and culture, what’s on the horizon for 2022? What are you excited or scared about? Geert Lovink: We’ve never been scared, otherwise you cannot take up the fight with titans. We need to believe in [...]

Lars Spuybroek THE GRACE MACHINE Seminar

By Geert Lovink, November 17, 2021

THE GRACE MACHINE Seminar is an experiment that challenges the distinction between the humanities and technology by using a form of thinking based on what Roland Barthes called “gymnastic figures.” Five such figures—standing, jumping, hanging, floating, and falling—epitomize certain aspects of grace that enable the crisscrossing of various disciplines such as architecture, art history, media [...]

Korean We Are Not Sick Video Lecture by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, September 20, 2021

http://whatdomuseumsconnect.kr/programs/1/sad-by-design-we-are-not-sick In this presentation, Geert Lovink discusses the dark side of the net. The mental state of internet users is tragic. Instead of empowerment and self-organization, what we mostly see around the internet is anger and despair. How did we end up like this? This lecture will zoom in on the widespread techno-sadness that is [...]

Call for INC Theory on Demand on Ethics Washing in AI

By Geert Lovink, July 19, 2021

Call for Chapters/INC Theory on Demand Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI and Digital Culture Edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Monique Mann, and Declan Kuch Who funds research into the ethics of AI technologies? How does AI ethics relate to issues of power? And how does an industry-sponsored ethics agenda impact [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink/We Are Not Sick by Jess Henderson/Band of Burnouts

By Geert Lovink, July 6, 2021

Jess Henderson from the No Fun blog (hosted on the INC site) and the Band of Burnouts exhibited in Zurich her own version of the materials generated by We Are Not Sick (me and John Longwalker). This consists of music tracks, texts, slides and videos. Here you can read an email interview she did with [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink by Petar Jandrić

By Geert Lovink, June 27, 2021

Petar Jandrić: In a 2012 interview for Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, you said: “Internet, by and large, has not affected democratic culture, at least not in the West.” You made this statement five years before the election of Donald Trump and the rapid (online) proliferation of post-truth and fake news. Can you please [...]

La Repubblica interview: From Sad by Design to Zoom Fatigue

By Geert Lovink, June 8, 2021

Interview with Geert Lovink by Annarita Briganti For La Repubblica, May 31, 2021 Italian online version: https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2021/06/08/news/geert_lovink_viaggio_nello_stress_da_iperconnessione_la_tecno-tristezza_si_verifica_quando_e_tutto_troppo_e_dobbiamo_smet-304844326/ Italian version as pdf: Lovink interviee 06_08_21 Original English email version: Annarita Briganti: What are Zoom fatigue and techno sadness? Geert Lovink: In 2019 the Italian translation Nichilismo digitale came out with Bocconi Editore in which I wrote about ‘sad [...]

MoneyLab #12 Wellington (NZ): Viral Tokenization

By Geert Lovink, June 4, 2021

04/06/2021 - 05/06/2021 @ All Day - Wellington (NZ) & online, June 4/5, 2021 Special event website: http://moneylab-wellington.nz/ Saturday 5 June conference programme: 9:30am-10am – Welcome (mingling/networking) 10am-10:30am – MoneyLab #12 intros with Geert Lovink & Denise Thwaites 10:30am-12pm – Non-Fungible Token-isms; moderated by Walter Langelaar 12pm-1pm – lunch 1pm-2:30pm – The Token-conditional Social; moderated by Jennifer Ferreira 2:30-4pm – Māori/Indigenous Self-Sovereign [...]

“Social Media are not the New Smoking”: Interview with Geert Lovink by Juan Íñigo

By Geert Lovink, May 13, 2021

Published in Spanish in the Latin-American online edition of Jacobin: https://jacobinlat.com/2021/05/13/las-redes-sociales-no-son-el-nuevo-tabaquismo/. English original below. Juan Íñigo: In a recent article you talked to several theorists about “zoom fatigue,” a term that has become popular lately. What makes a video conference so demanding and psychologically exhausting during covid? Geert Lovink: Video conferencing has quickly become the [...]