Interview in Corriera della Sera

By Geert Lovink, May 21, 2012

Last week the Italian edition of Networks Without a Cause came out. It has a preface of Vito Campanelli and was translated by Bernardo Parrella and published by AGEA in Milano. In Italian it is called L’OSSESSIONE COLLETTIVA (THE COLLECTIVE OBSESSION). Mid June I will do a small book tour in Torino, Milano and Bologna. [...]

Last Saturday an interview with me appeared in Der Tagesspiegel,...

Facebook IPO Frency

By Geert Lovink, May 16, 2012

Last Saturday an interview with me appeared in Der Tagesspiegel, a Berlin daily, and was conducted in German. The conversation somehow reflects the common uncertainty what to make of the unprecedented popularity of this social networking site. The piece is called Facebook is Conservative, a title that refers to way in which Facebook deals with [...]

Code Bunker at Rollercoaster Exhibition (MOTI Breda)

By Geert Lovink, April 29, 2012

This is me inside the ‘code bunker’. The installation was designed by Marjolijn Ruyg for the Rollercoaster exhibition that opened in the Breda Museum of the Image (NL) on April 29 and runs till September 2, 2012. Writer Joost Zwagerman and MOTI director Mieke Gerritzen invited me to submit an image “that defines the 21 [...]

#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 [...]