I am giving two talks at the German bloggers event...

Two Talks at re:publica 2010 in Berlin

By Geert Lovink, April 14, 2010

I am giving two talks at the German bloggers event re:publica. On Thursday morning April 15 I will speak ideas and projects related to critical internet culture; on Friday I will do a lecture at a related event (re:campaign) about net activist strategies in the age of Web 2.0. There was some confusion about it [...]

Restart of the Fibreculture Mailinglist Please join the list and...

Restart of the Fibreculture Mailinglist

By Geert Lovink, April 7, 2010

Restart of the Fibreculture Mailinglist Please join the list and subscribe now! To register, please visit: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/fibreculture_listcultures.org After a period of technical difficulties and uncertainty about its destiny, the Fibreculture (email) list has been revitalized. Founded by David Teh and Geert Lovink the list started in January 2001. The aim of the Fibreculture initiative is [...]

Some texts grow as you travel. Three trends in Web...

New Essay on Eurozine: MyBrain.Net

By Geert Lovink, March 22, 2010

Some texts grow as you travel. Three trends in Web 2.0, as it was called in an earlier version, was first assembled on an early and warm Saturday morning in Brisbane from emails, online interviews, snippets of masterclasses, lectures, and debates I had with many of you. After an intense period of traveling, applications and [...]

I have mentioned this here and there. Now I will...

Let’s End Anonymous Peer Review

By Geert Lovink, March 1, 2010

I have mentioned this here and there. Now I will make a blog entry about it: it’s time to make a public appeal against (anonymous) peer review practice of academic journal articles, PhD proposals, funding applications and so on. I get these requests every now and then and will now make my response public. If [...]

Email interview with Geert Lovink by Daphne Dragona & Ilias...

Exodus Strategies in the Networked Desert

By Geert Lovink, February 26, 2010

Email interview with Geert Lovink by Daphne Dragona & Ilias Marmaras (Athens), February 26, 2010. Conducted for Konteiner, a Greek monthly independent magazine on politics, culture and arts, which is distributed independently and also comes as a supplement of Eleftherotypia, a major and well-known Greek newspaper. DD & IM: Twenty years of networked culture: Networked [...]

Email interview with Geert Lovink, by Rasa Smite (February 2,...

Rapid Response (rr:) on List Culture and Web 2.0

By Geert Lovink, February 2, 2010

Email interview with Geert Lovink, by Rasa Smite (February 2, 2010) Q1. What was your motivation to found Nettime mailinglist back in 1995? The background story can be found in the nettime chapter of my book Dark Fiber. I don’t have much to add to the story that wrote back in 2001. Q2. How you [...]

In October the Australian curator Victoria Lynn came to Amsterdam...

Web 2.0 interview with me by Victoria Lynn for Broadsheet

By Geert Lovink, January 31, 2010

In October the Australian curator Victoria Lynn came to Amsterdam to work on her PhD research. Her topic is the role of archives in visual arts and new media. We did a tour and visited the new Amsterdam municipal archive, the new facilities of the University of Amsterdam special collections and the International Institute of [...]

Verslag van de discussieavond over kunst en engagement gehouden in...

verslag van avond over kunst & engagement

By Geert Lovink, January 28, 2010

Verslag van de discussieavond over kunst en engagement gehouden in het kader van tentoonstelling Niet Normaal in de Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, 27 januari 2010. De openingstoespraak werd gehouden door directeur Fonds BKVB Lex ter Braak. Hij heeft argwaan. Ter Braak verwoordt het gangbare institutionele standpunt in Nederland. Kunst en engagement doet hem denken aan [...]

The impact of the digital revolution art criticism Report of...

state of the art criticism: subjective musings

By Geert Lovink, January 20, 2010

The impact of the digital revolution art criticism Report of an afternoon debate in De Balie (Amsterdam), December 9, 2009 by Geert Lovink I slow-blogged at the Day of Art Criticism the first session of a two-part event organized by the Dutch AICA chapter, the professional society of art critics. Our Institute of Network Cultures [...]

Last Saturday, on January 2010, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine...

Interview with me in the FAZ (in German)

By Geert Lovink, January 5, 2010

Last Saturday, on January 2010, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an interview with me by Thomas Poell. I had completely forgotten about it because it happened late August in Amsterdam when I just got back from the European summer holidays. In retrospect it reads like a summer story. I am optimistic about the [...]