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Interview with Geert Lovink for L’Unita by Teresa Numerico

By Geert Lovink, April 3, 2016

A month after Il Manifesto a second interview by Teresa Numerico (Rome) was published on April 2, 2016. Here is the text, in Italian. Sorry but there is no English original txt of this one. In the intro Teresa explained what we discussed in the days before, during the lecture and the class at Roma3. [...]

Beyond the Critique of Social Media–Interview for Il Manifesto

By Geert Lovink, March 3, 2016

(A short version of the interview below was published–in Italian–by the newspaper Il Manifesto in the March 3, 2016 edition. Thanks Teresa, for organizing all this! /geert) Operating Systems for the Metamorphoses Interview with Geert Lovink Rome, March 1, 2016 By Benedetto Vecchi and Teresa Numerico Q: Recently, it’s been impossible to avoid the conflict [...]

Report from the DIEM25 Launch in Berlin

By Geert Lovink, February 15, 2016

(See also the thread on the nettime-l list where this report was posted on Friday February 12, 2016, which caused a lot of interesting responses: https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1602/threads.html#00014). Notes about the DIEM25 Launch in Volksbühne/Berlin, February 9, 2016 by Geert Lovink Last weekend I paid a visit to Berlin where I combined my participation in the Transmediale [...]

Merijn Oudenampsen on the Hermetic Contemporary Arts Discourse

By Geert Lovink, February 12, 2016

Dutch Critique of the Hermetic Contemporary Arts Discourse Interview with Merijn Oudenampsen By Geert Lovink The Dutch sociologist and activist Merijn Oudenampsen) recently published an essay about the “incomprehensible art discourse.” It was Mieke Gerritzen, director of the Museum of the Image in Breda (NL), who pointed me to the piece, written in Dutch. The [...]

3 things to do with social media in 2016

By Geert Lovink, January 26, 2016

Hi, I’m Josue Valles, the Content Marketing Strategist of Social Quant. I’m putting together an expert roundup on Social Media Marketing and wanted to reach out to you. The question is: If you could only do 3 things with social media this year, what these 3 things would be? The point is to show readers [...]

Interview about the Berlin net.art scene in the early 90s (in German)

By Geert Lovink, January 24, 2016

Interview mit Geert Lovink im Rahmen des Projekts ‘Frühe Netzkunstszene in Berlin der frühen 90er Jahre’ Von Laura, Lara, Denise und Nicole A group of students at the University of Arts Berlin that are part of the seminar Genealogy of MediaThinking of Professor Siegfried Zielinski sent me a few questions, in German, on the early [...]

Q & A on alternative social networking services

By Geert Lovink, January 10, 2016

Q & A with Geert Lovink By Jessica Koerts, Jasper van Huizen, Hugo Blacquière, Daniil Naumetc and Youngmu Chang. We are an international group of students studying “Information & Innovation” at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen. This course is part of the study program “Information Services and Management”. Now we are working on [...]

Kolozsvár Calling: The Fate of Media in the Internet Age

By Geert Lovink, November 11, 2015

Interview with Geert Lovink by István Józsa István Józsa works at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj/ Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, in the Northwestern Romania, and is a member of the Hungarian Academy in Budapest (Hungary). István first interviewed me at the offices of the newspaper Szabadság in Kolozsvár, after my residency in Kolkata in early 1992. In 1996 [...]

The Cost of Internet Freedom–For Bassel Khartabil

By Geert Lovink, November 9, 2015

Dedicated to the Syrian imprisoned internet activist Bassel Khartabil, written for the Cost of Freedom booksprint as part of a global campaign to free Bassel. Download here as pdf or epub. The Cost of Internet Freedom by Geert Lovink “Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of [...]

Two Questions for Rebecca Breuer on Fashion Theory

By Geert Lovink, November 4, 2015

Two questions for Rebecca L. Breuer (AMFI/HvA) I posed during her public PhD defense of her thesis Fashion Beyond Identity–The Three Ecologies of Dress at the University of Amsterdam on November 4, 2015 by Geert Lovink. 1. Let me first of all congratulate you with this interesting and very accessible theory exercise that successfully provides [...]