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Interview with Dorien Zandbergen about her Smart City film

By Geert Lovink, October 27, 2015

By Geert Lovink On September 10 2015, a film documentary on the ‘smart city’ premiered in Amsterdam. The film was made by the Dutch antropologist Dorien Zandbergen, in collaboration with film maker Sara Blom. Dorien interviewed me for the film but the footage somehow didn’t make it into the film. Whatever. Dorien invited me to [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink for La Repubblica (Italian daily)

By Geert Lovink, October 16, 2015

Interview with Geert Lovink by Francesca De Benedetti for La Repubblica FDB: Since “Networks Without a Cause” was published, in early 2012, have new spaces of dissent been created? Or do we get stuck in social networks that are more oriented towards conformism and “narcosis”? GL: Here, at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, our small research centre [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink on Social Media & the Arts

By Geert Lovink, September 17, 2015

Max Ryan is an RCA student researching the use of feedback and social media in arts institutions. Max Ryan: How do you think museums and institutions borrow from the stack or from the defunct Web 2.0? Is this beneficial to their critical positions? Geert Lovink: Most museums have now woken up and their marketing departments [...]

Interview with Geert Lovink on Social Media & Education

By Geert Lovink, September 9, 2015

Interview with Geert Lovink for the European InfoNet Adult Education By Markus Palmén Markus Palmén: Thinking about Web 2.0 and social media, what kind of learning space do you consider it to be, especially for adults? Geert Lovink: I hope I do not disappoint if I say that social media (mainly Facebook and Twitter) have [...]

First Announcement: Social Media Abyss by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, June 12, 2015

Available early 2016: Social Media Abyss–Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation By Geert Lovink Polity Press (English), Transkript Verlag (German), EGEA (Italian). For rights of translations in other languages, please contact the author (geert@xs4all.nl). Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. [...]

Conversation on Digital Archiving Practices

By Geert Lovink, April 17, 2015

Conversation on Digital Archiving Practices With Geert Lovink By Davide Giorgetta & Valerio Nicoletti DG/VN: The scanning of texts — for instance of out-of-print books — and their subsequent storage as digital files has developed a new figure: the amateur librarian. Which are the features, responsabilities and limits of this figure? GL: I do not [...]

On the ABC of Tactical Media & Workspace Manifesto (1997)

By Geert Lovink, March 17, 2015

Interview with Geert Lovink for Digital Manifesto Archive by Matt Applegate & Izzy To This email interview was conducted for The Digital Manifesto Archive (http://digitalmanifesto.omeka.net). The idea was to talk about the (digital) manifesto genre and tactical media. The questions were raised by Matt Applegate, the archive’s creator and Assistant Professor of English and Director [...]

Cecilia Guida & Geert Lovink: Art in Public Space—a Dialogue

By Geert Lovink, March 3, 2015

“Secrets are Lies” and “All That Happens Will be Known” are slogans in Dave Eggers’ The Circle, a Google meets Facebook novel that deals with the manufacturing of ‘social needs’. To me the saga reads like a cheap update of Orwell’s 1984. It’s a one-dimensional artefact that nonetheless manages to spark controversies, for instance in [...]

Q & A on the History of CD-ROMs in the Arts with Marie Lechner

By Geert Lovink, February 4, 2015

Marie Lechner from Paris approached me with a few questions about CD-ROMs. She will use the material for a publication related to the coming exhibition at IMAL in Brussels called Welcome to the Future! the floppy cd-rom revolution or the short life of born-digital art (March 19  till April 26, 2015). Welcome to the Future [...]

Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens: The Bitcoin Experience (part I)

By Geert Lovink, January 28, 2015

The Bitcoin Experience (part I) by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens OUR BANKER WHO ART IN CYBERSPACE SATOSHI BE THY NAME THY BITCOIN COME DOLLAR BILLS BE GONE IN OUR POCKETS, AS IT IS ONLINE GIVE US THIS DAY OUR CONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS AND FORGIVE US OUR DOUBLE SPENDING AS WE ALSO HAVE FORGIVEN TRENDON SHAVERS [...]