Date/Time
Date(s) - 24/06/2026 - 26/06/2026
All Day
Location
OT301 / Online
Categories
On 24, 25, and 26 June 2026, the Institute of Network Cultures organizes the INC Exit Fest, a community gathering and party that celebrates the departure of our 22 year-old research group from the Amsterdam HvA-polytech to become an autonomous center/NGO/org-net/Dutch cultural organization. The move was instigated by the mandatory retirement at 67 on September 1, 2026 of its founder Geert Lovink. Already in 2024, the team decided to step into an open, yet uncertain, future–one in which will look for new partners, coalitions, and funding possibilities. We believe in the power of metamorphosis and new beginnings. It is the strong desire of the wider INC community to continue our ever-changing INC ways to bring together critical research with speculative experimentation.
On Wednesday the 24th, we start with an evening program at the University of Amsterdam’s cultural event space Spui25. Then, on the 25th and 26th, we will gather in the former Amsterdam squat OT301 for two full conference days, curated by the INC’s current core team. We will showcase and celebrate issues that we have been working on lately such as digital sovereignty, streaming, girl theory, AI refusal, digital publishing strategies and Internet Core aesthetics. Most of all, we want to come together and celebrate our unique tribe with the aim to decide where to take INC next.
To make the Exit Fest into a true community gathering, there will be a beautiful mess of side programs, doomscroll performances, screenings, guerrilla exhibits, and a mini book fair. Last but not least, all main programming takes place inside the psychedelic green screen of THE VOID and, in true INC style, we will end the program with a performance evening and a meme-fueled party night. Come and hang out with us – let’s enjoy the overload and take the INC to a new level together!
Institute of Network Cultures Exit Fest
June 22-24, 2026
⏱️ Timetable: https://etherport.org/publications/inc/ExitFest/chapters/timetable.html
📕 Full Program: https://etherport.org/publications/inc/ExitFest/
📹 Live Streaming: https://etherport.org/publications/inc/ExitFest/chapters/tv.html
— Free Entrance —
(Registration needed for day 1 and workshop on day 3)
Locations
(Day 1) Spui25: Spui 25, 1012 WX Amsterdam
(Day 2-3) OT301 & online: Overtoom 301, 1054 JL Amsterdam
– Studio: Ground Floor
– Cinema: 3rd Floor
– Cinema Bar: 3rd Floor
– Restaurant: Ground Floor
Legenda
🎤 Discursive Program
📺 Screening
🎭 Performance
🙋🏻 Collective Moment
🔊 Music
—- DAY1 —-
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
20.00-21.30
@ SPUI25 & Online
19:30 pm 🔓 Doors open
20.00-21.30 (Spui25) 🎤 Critique Under Pressure: Platform Power (Session + Q&A)
Speakers: Ned Rossiter, Tiziana Terranova, Yuk Hui, Anna-Verena Nosthoff.
Introduction: Marc Tuters and Geert Lovink.
Chair: Jernej Markelj.
‼️ Registration Needed! Register here
The Wednesday evening event is fully booked, but you can still register for the waiting list.
—- DAY2 —-
Thursday, June 25, 2026
10:00-19:00
@ OT301 & Online
9:30 am 🔓 Doors open
10.00 – 12.00 (Studio & Online) 🎤 Mapping the Current Net Culture Condition
With: Vladan Joler, Rosa Menkman, Lesia Kulchynska, Cade Diehm, Miriam Rasch, Silvio Lorusso.
Chair: Geert Lovink
13.00 – 14.30 (Studio & Online) 🎤 Streaming Vortex: Publishing in the Age of Online Video
With: Andreas Treske, Michael Dieter, Antonia Hernández, and Konfluxus Collective.
Chair: Tommaso Campagna and Jordi Viader Guerrero.
14.30-16:00 (Cinema Bar) 🙋🏻 Imagining the Internet(s): Meet-up
Hosted by Anya Shchetvina and Nathalie Fridzema
13:00 – 14:30 (Cinema) 🎤 Politics of Digital Sovereignty
With: Gianmarco Christofari, Annalisa Pelizza, Sebastian Giessmann and Klara Debeljak.
Chair: Geert Lovink.
15:00-16:30 (Studio & Online) 📺 Video Archive Jam Session: On Tactical Media and Barricades (Screening + Presentations)
Curated by Giovanni Rossetti.
16:30 -17:00 (Cinema) 🎭 Weaving Through Screens (Performance)
Curated by Laura Mrksa and Slutty Urbanism Collective (Letizia Chiappini and Valeria Ferrari)
17:00 – 19:00 (Studio) 🙋🏻 INC General Assembly on the Future of INC (Open Discussion)
—-DAY 3—-
Friday, June 26, 2026
10:00-03:00
@OT301/Online
9:30 am 🔓 Doors open
10.00 – 11.45 (Studio & Online) 🎤 Gendered Desire & Resentment on the Platform: Can we Queer Alienation into Belonging?
With: Kate Babin, Francesco Barchiesi, Dunja Nešović and İdil Galip.
Chair: Chloë Arkenbout.
10:00 – 12.15 (Cinema Bar) 🙋🏻 Creative Resistance Against AI Assembly (Workshop)
Facilitated by Eke Rebergen and Jordi Viader Guerrero
⚠️ Registration needed, register here
13:00 – 14:00 (Studio & Online) 🎤 Goodbye Poverty Jetset: MoneyLab Lessons for Creative Work
With: Inte Gloerich, Alessandro Longo, MACAO (Virginia Roghi, Emanuele Braga, Federico Aldovisi), and Patricia de Vries.
Chair: Sepp Eckenhaussen.
13:00 – 13:30 (Cinema) 🎭 (Performance)
With: Laura Subirats and Diana Milán.
14:00- 14:45 (Studio & Online) 🙋🏻The Ultimate MyCreativity & MoneyLab Trivia Quiz
Quizmasters: Inte Gloerich & Patricia de Vries
15.15 – 17.00 (Studio & Online) 🎤 Internet Aesthetics: Where Are The Thinkers?
With: Morgane Billuart, Sophie Publig, Sofi Xian, and Klaudia Orczykowska
Chair: Ruben Stoffelen & Mela Miekus.
15:15 – 15:45 (Cinema) 🎭 Weaving Through Screens (Performance)
Curated by Laura Mrksa and Slutty Urbanism Collective (Letizia Chiappini and Valeria Ferrari)
17:30 – 18:30 (Studio & Online) 🎤 INC 2.0 Updates: Enjoy Your Endings
With: Ruben Stoffelen, Mela Miekus, Tommaso Campagna, Chloë Arkenbout, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Giovanni Rossetti and Geert Lovink.
20:30-22:00 (Studio, Cinema & Online) 🎭🔊 Weaponised Media: Streaming Performances
🎭 Politics of Filtration by Ksenia Rybak and Daria Hetmanova (Lecture Performance)
🔊 Fannypack Music by Martina Raponi (Music Performance)
🎭 School of the Image: Constellations by Donatella Della Ratta, Noura Tafeche and THE VOID (Live Video Essay Performance)
🔊 Field (Before and After) by Gabriel Vigliensoni (Live Coding Music Performance)
🔊 🔊 DAY 3 Club Night 🔊 🔊
22:30-23:30 edj & mdj (Dj)
23:30-00:00 Hunter (Live)
00:00-01:00 Ostrex (Dj)
01:00-02:00 Human Observer b2b Burchhhha (Hybrid)
02:00-03:00 Power Switch (Dj)
— Book Fair / Exhibitions / Screenings / Side Activities / Suggestions —
///// Mini Book Fair ///// (OT301 Cinema Bar)
Friday June 26, 17.00-23:00
With: Outline, HumDrumPress, Nero & MACAO, Xpub, Spookstad, Hothead, Visual Methodologies Collective, Aksioma, Set Margins, Sleepy Press
///// Installations ///// (Around OT301)
V.I.B.E.
Playground — On teaching in the time of forced automation
///// Doom Scrolling Room ///// (Cinema)
Weaving Through Screens. Collective Doomscrolling and Productive Unrest. By Slutty Urbanism (Letizia Chiappini, Valeria Ferrari) and Laura Mrksa. Installation bed/fitness balls (woven by Laura). Sound: Gropina – Zeno Poggioni.
Installation available from Thursday, 11:00 am to Friday, 20:30
///// Breaks Screenings ///// (Studio)
INC Archival Material
Beautiful World: A Film by Mieke Gerritzen
P.A.R.K. 4d Tv Cd Rom Twaalf Uur Puur Beeld En Geluid\
Vertical
Reality_Hacking
Cyberpunk VHS
And more…
///// Suggestions ///// (Around the Netherlands)
IMPAKT (Utrecht)
Saturday 27 June,
19:30–21:00
Art & Activism On Tech-Authoritarianism
Artist Talk Paolo Cirio
Art & Activism on Tech-Authoritarianism, artist talk by Paolo Cirio at Impakt in Utrecht. Paolo Cirio is known for his critical investigations into technology, power, surveillance and society. He will discuss how art can expose and challenge hidden power structures embedded in our digital society — from facial recognition and the data economy to digital rights and online manipulation.
Link: https://impakt.nl/events/2026/artist-talk/art-activism-on-tech-authoritarianism/
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Framer Framed (Amsterdam)
Wild Waters | 19 Jun – 30 Aug 2026
Exhibition
From 19 June to 30 August 2026, Framer Framed presents Wild Waters: Dams and Deltas After Modernity, curated by Àngels Miralda. The exhibition examines water as both a life-sustaining resource and an instrument of political power, tracing the ways hydraulic infrastructures have shaped landscapes, histories and systems of environmental exploitation across different geographies.
Link: https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/wild-waters/
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Internet Archive Europe Borrel (Amsterdam)
Thursday, June 25
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Oudeschans 16,
Amsterdam
Please join the Internet Archive Europe for our Friday afternoon borrel.
There will be drinks and nibbles, interesting conversations and a presentation at 16:00.
We look forward to your presence and hope you will join us.
Link: https://luma.com/j028zbbs?lm_source=embed
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