Political Work in the Aftermath of the New Media Arts Crisis

By Geert Lovink, May 11, 2009

On the event of the Montevideo/Netherlands Media Art Institute 30th anniversary, departing curator Susanne Jaschko put together a one day symposium entitled Positions in Flux. Régine Debatty at We Make Money Not Art blogged about it. Unfortunately, I was only able to attend the morning session. The event on May 8 2009 took place in [...]

In the evening hours of May 6 2009 five blokes...

Discussing Tactical Media in Ljubljana–Using Skype

By Geert Lovink, May 7, 2009

In the evening hours of May 6 2009 five blokes of the nettime circle gathered in a Skype conference call to discuss the whereabouts of tactical media in the age of the financial meltdown. Brian Holmes, Graham Harwood, Konrad Becker, Florian Schneider and me were invited by Marko Peljhan to (remotely) discuss in front of [...]

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The Future After Intellectual Property–A Report from Brussels

By Geert Lovink, April 24, 2009

I made notes at the concluding session of two-day The Future of Intellectual Property conference, organized by the Goethe Institute Brussels. The conference on Friday was attended by 150 people (mostly EU and IP professionals, I suppose). Andy Pratt, geographer and creative industries researcher at the London School of Economics opened his presentation saying “When [...]

Debating German Media Theory in Siegen

By Geert Lovink, April 23, 2009

Is there an exceptional way for German media theory? This was the theme of a public debate at the University of Siegen (between Cologne and Frankfurt in Germany). I was perhaps the young outside rebel on the panel, in part because of my age, my passport, being an “internet pope”, as chairman Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer [...]

Principles of Notworking out in Portuguese & More from Brasil

By Geert Lovink, April 19, 2009

Coinciding with my second visit to Brazil, Thiego Novaes translated my inaugural speech from 2005, the Principles of Notworking, that also made it into French, Dutch and Italian. Here it is. Felipe Fonseca responded to my Creative Commons report on this blog. Giselle Beiguelman sent me a link to a Flickr collection of that evening [...]

Art & Creative Commons Debate in São Paulo

By Geert Lovink, April 15, 2009

I am in Brazil for five days for a number of lectures. On Tuesday April 14 I did a duo presentation and debate with Creative Commons Brazil organizer Ronaldo Lemos. The evening at the theatre next to the PUC university in Sao Paolo was organized by locative media artist and PUC professor Giselle Beiguelman as [...]

Critique of the Creative Industries Event in Vienna

By Geert Lovink, April 2, 2009

In Vienna I took notes at the “Creative Cities, das Versprechen der kreativen Ökonomie” event, organized by the Austrian public broadcaster ORF, curated by Armin Medosch and Ina Zwerger. It was packed. The afternoon was sold out and drew around 300 people. The conference dealt with the whereabouts of the creative industries meme and not [...]

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No Time to Surf — Internet and Water (in German)

By Geert Lovink, March 31, 2009

From: info@berlinergazette.de Keine Zeit zum Surfen oder: Wie die neuen Technologien in uns eindringen [ ] Protokoll: Geert Lovink [1], Medientheoretiker [2] www.berlinergazette.de Im Amsterdamer Zoo “Artis” stand ich zum ersten Mal vor einem Aquarium. Ja, dass muss so gewesen sein. Anfang der sechziger Jahre, als ich dort aufwuchs. Ich habe daran keine Erinnerungen, [...]

http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1503582/ Patrick Dax/ORF.at: Herr Lovink, Sie sprechen in der kommenden...

Krise der kreativen Industrie, Telefongespräch mit Wien

By Geert Lovink, March 27, 2009

http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1503582/ Patrick Dax/ORF.at: Herr Lovink, Sie sprechen in der kommenden Woche auf beim Kongress “Creative Cities” in Wien über die kreative Ökonomie. Welche Rolle spielt das Internet in der Kreativwirtschaft? Lovink: Das Internet spielt eine zentrale Rolle, aber nicht jene, die es spielen könnte. Es ist eine disruptive Technologie und die Prophezeiungen der Gurus haben [...]

Enjoying the Crisis Laboratorium in Amsterdam

By Geert Lovink, March 19, 2009

Last night I visited the third night in a series of nine ‘crisis laboratorium’ events. The context is theatre, but it’s much than that. The Amsterdam Frascati Theatre made March 2009 the Month of Crisis. The series of event is called Crisis in Frascati. The reference here is obviously the credit crisis/economic recession. This time [...]