Celebrating Radical Modernism in NL Design

By Geert Lovink, March 2, 2009

Going through 1980s postmodernism, I learned to acknowledge the violent aspect of modernism, in particular the destructive character of its urban planning. But what I never ‘reconstructed’ is my admiration for the historical avantgarde art of the interbellum decades. And many with me, nearly a century later, just look at Lev Manovich’s Language of New [...]

Discussing the Crisis in New Media Art @ ARCO Madrid

By Geert Lovink, February 16, 2009

Between Fields, New Media Art Between Isolation and Integration, Inter-disciplinarity and Media Specificity Contemporary Arts Experts Forum, ARCO, Madrid, Sunday February 16, 2009 (chair: Domenico Quaranta) I was the third in this series of talks, each during an hour, one after the other. After me Inke Arns, Regine Debatty, Zhang Ga and Joasia Krysa spoke. [...]

Blogging from the ARCO Forum on African Contemporary Arts

By Geert Lovink, February 15, 2009

Custom Markets. Custom Alternatives: Perspectives on Contemporary Practice in Africa Blog Notes from ARCO, Madrid by Geert Lovink, February 14, 2009 African art: Are we there (yet)? asks the Princeton art scholar Chika Okeke-Agulu, when he finds himself speaking at the 7th ARCO Contemporary Arts Expert in Madrid. In Africa there are art collectives, and [...]

Tim Tempelaars from the Utrecht School of Journalism sent me...

Dutch Q & A on the difficult blogs vs. newspapers relationship

By Geert Lovink, February 10, 2009

Tim Tempelaars from the Utrecht School of Journalism sent me a couple of questions for his thesis on the future of government subsidies for Dutch newspapers in relationship to the rise of internet culture. I answered them, in Dutch. Here it is, stored on my pages.

On January 22, 2009 an interview with me appeared in...

Interview with the German weekly Jungle World

By Geert Lovink, February 7, 2009

On January 22, 2009 an interview with me appeared in the German leftist weekly Jungle World. It was conducted in German on the phone by Dora Akrap, in response to what I had said a week a few days before on a panel discussion in the Berlin HAU theater that dealt with the future of [...]

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:22:04 -0500 From: Julio Huato...

stunning ‘first things first’ mentality amongst marxists

By Geert Lovink, January 30, 2009

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:22:04 -0500 From: Julio Huato <juliohuato@gmail.com> Subject: [lbo-talk] New list for Marxists / Nueva lista para Marxistas To: Louis Proyect <lnp3@panix.com>, pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu, Lbo Talk <lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org> I’d like to announce the birth of a new list for Marxists. Mutual help, political cooperation, and comradely debate focused on issues and challenges, political [...]

Just Out: Digitofagia–Brazilian Tactical Media Anthology

By Geert Lovink, January 29, 2009

It’s been such long time in the making for this publication. Amazing that it’s out now. Thanks to all the efforts of Giseli Vasconcelos (Belem) the Digitofagia tactical media anthology that Gisele edited together with Ricardo Rosas finally came out last November. Plans for this reader went back to 2004/2005. When I visited Sao Paolo, [...]

On the Empyre list Sean Cubitt posted the following response...

Response to Seven Resolutions for 2009

By Geert Lovink, January 29, 2009

On the Empyre list Sean Cubitt posted the following response to my (blog) posting, two days ago: Hey geert All good, though we might differ on specific cases (!) Your resolutions 2, 3, 4 and 7 2. Renaissance of theory, radical texts that appeal to young people and help them to dream again 3. Dismantling [...]

The text below was written in Dutch for the upcoming...

Standard Discontent

By Geert Lovink, January 28, 2009

The text below was written in Dutch for the upcoming Who Sets the Standard? exhibition, opening on February 28, 2009, in the Graphic Design Museum in Breda (NL) where Mieke Gerrritzen was recently appointed director. The English translation (from Dutch) is available here, on my blog pages. Below is tge rough, Dutch first draft. The [...]

(Empyre list moderators asked me to join their January debate:...

Seven Resolutions for 2009

By Geert Lovink, January 27, 2009

(Empyre list moderators asked me to join their January debate: Resolution for Digital Future 2009. Here my contribution. /geert) Geert Lovink Seven Resolutions for 2009 1. Radical makeover of Indymedia into an irresistible network of networks, aimed to link local initiatives, worldwide, that aim to bring down corporate capitalism. In order to do this Indymedia [...]