Interview for Lavoro Culturale on Digital Political Economy

By Geert Lovink, May 26, 2016

Interview conducted by Bernardo Parrella, the translator of my new book Social Media Abyss in Italian (Egea, Milan, 2016). http://www.lavoroculturale.org/geert-lovink-interattivita-cooperativa/ BP: Recent controversy about Facebook Trends/Newsfeed: Given that similar issues about its internal mechanisms (and “neutral” algorithms) are flaring up again and again, can we expect a more general backlash against FB in terms of [...]

Just out: Social Media Abyss by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, May 25, 2016

Just Out: Social Media Abyss, Critical Internet Culture and the Force of Negation by Geert Lovink In this fifth volume of his ongoing investigations, Dutch media theorist and internet critic Geert Lovink plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we [...]

Net.art and beyond, an interview with Daniel G. Andújar

By Geert Lovink, April 29, 2016

The Delicate Mix between Technology, Politics and Aesthetics Interview with Daniel G. Andújar For the sexy, full multi-media version, go here: http://www.onlineopen.org/the-delicate-mix-between-technology-politics-and-aesthetics By Geert Lovink In April 2015 I had the honour to receive a private tour by the Spanish artist Daniel G. Andújar of his solo show, Operating System, at the Museo Nacional Centro [...]

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 [...]