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#1 Please present and describe your activities Since 2004 I...

Q & A for Les Bains Numériques (France)

By Geert Lovink, April 23, 2012

#1 Please present and describe your activities Since 2004 I am heading the Amsterdam Institute of Network Cultures. We organize decentralized research networks around emerging topics such as urban screens, search, online video, Wikipedia. By bringing together programmers, designers, artists and research we believe that we can narrow the time gap between innovative concepts developed [...]

The retro living rooms of Video Vintage

By Geert Lovink, April 15, 2012

There was something strange about the Video Vintage exhibit at the Paris Centre Pompidou (open till May 7 2012). The show covers the first twenty years of video art (1963-1983). The canon of this decisive period was already written when I was introduced to video art around 1985 at places like Montevideo, TimeBasedArts and the [...]
(I posted these remarks almost a week ago to the...

What do you make of Piotr Czerski’s “We, the Web Kids”?

By Geert Lovink, April 11, 2012

(I posted these remarks almost a week ago to the nettime list but for some (technical?) reason it didn’t get through) We, The Web Kids Freedom of Speech – Piotr Czerski http://falkvinge.net/2012/02/25/we-the-web-kids/ Dear Nettimers, this piece has been praised across the Web because it catches a certain Lebensgefuehl of a generation that grew up with [...]
Sens Public Séminaire “Nouvelles formes d’éditorialisation” En partenariat avec l’IRI...

“Réseaux sociaux, contribution et participation” avec Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, April 11, 2012

Sens Public Séminaire “Nouvelles formes d’éditorialisation” En partenariat avec l’IRI La séance d’inauguration se tiendra jeudi 12 avril à 17h30 dans la salle Triangle du Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France) Débat animé par: Gérard Wormser, directeur de Sens Public Créé en partenariat avec le laboratoire InVisu (INHA-CNRS) en 2009, le séminaire Sens Public soutenu par [...]
The launch event of my new book Networks Without a...

Launch of my new book Networks Without a Cause

By Geert Lovink, April 4, 2012

The launch event of my new book Networks Without a Cause happened on Wednesday March 28 2012 at my school where the Institute of Network Cultures is based (HvA). My former student, photographer and blog expert Anne Helmond held a great speech, which you can read here. We also put it on the INC website. [...]
Clicktivism debate on Russia Today (RT): “Is clicktivism a real...

Clicktivism debate on Russian television (rt.com)

By Geert Lovink, April 2, 2012

Clicktivism debate on Russia Today (RT): “Is clicktivism a real game-changer? Or does it create an illusion that you really change something? Can clicktivism replace real social activism? If you click on something, does it mean you will engage in something positive? Is the role of facebook and twitter overestimated when it comes to revolutionary [...]
(This essay, written in Dutch, on the philosophy of “squatting...

Kraken als Anti-Historie: Ode aan de Creatieve Negativiteit

By Geert Lovink, March 3, 2012

(This essay, written in Dutch, on the philosophy of “squatting as anti-history, dedicated to creative negativity” was written for the God Save the Queen–Squatting, Punk, Art (1977-1984) exhibition in the Utrecht Centraal Museum which opened on March 2, 2012. The piece was published in the catalogue that came out as a special issue of the [...]
(Krzysztof Gutfranski is editor of Alternativa Editions  in Gdansk (Poland)...

Interview with Geert Lovink (by Krzysztof Gutfranski/Alternativa Editions)

By Geert Lovink, January 13, 2012

(Krzysztof Gutfranski is editor of Alternativa Editions  in Gdansk (Poland) which is part of the visual arts festival Alternativa (hosted by the Wyspa Institute of Art) . The interview was conducted for the “Labour and Leisure” issue, with texts by Hannah Arendt, Miklos Haraszti, Cornelius Castoriadis, Boris Arvatov, Stanley Aronowitz, Yochai Benkler and others) KG: [...]
http://networkcultures.org/theoryondemand/titles/no-10-beyond-ict4d-new-media-reseach-in-uganda/ Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda is a...

Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda (TOD #10)

By Geert Lovink, December 20, 2011

http://networkcultures.org/theoryondemand/titles/no-10-beyond-ict4d-new-media-reseach-in-uganda/ Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda is a collection of ethnographic reports from diverse perspectives of those living at the other end of the African ICT pyramid. Crucially, these texts refocus on the so-called “ICT4D” debate away from the standard western lens, which depicts users in the developing world as passive receivers of [...]
/blog/publications/issue-no-9-geert-lovink-my-first-recession/ In My First Recession, Geert Lovink maps the transition...

My First Recession (V2/NAi, 2003) now out as pdf & PoD (ToD #9)

By Geert Lovink, December 20, 2011

/blog/publications/issue-no-9-geert-lovink-my-first-recession/ In My First Recession, Geert Lovink maps the transition of critical Internet culture from the mid-1990s Internet craze to the dot-com crash, the subsequent meltdown of the global financial markets, and 9/11. In his discussion of the dot-com boom and bust cycle, he lays out the challenges faced by critical Internet culture today. In [...]