I just got back from two intense days in Spain....

Talks in Madrid and Seville

By Geert Lovink, March 30, 2008

I just got back from two intense days in Spain. On Thursday March 28 2008 I gave a talk in a series on Open Knowledge at the Circulo de Bellas Artes the impressive old style Madrid art institution, right in the centre. Before the event I gave a number of interviews that will be published [...]

Speed Interview with Geert Lovink for Digimag Magazine #32, March...

interview for digimag: free cooperation and p2p networks

By Geert Lovink, March 7, 2008

Speed Interview with Geert Lovink for Digimag Magazine #32, March 2008 By Maresa Lippolis (NABA, Milano) Italian translation: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1085 English email conversation: http://espanz.noblogs.org/post/2008/03/07/i.iv-geert-lovink During the January session of Video Vortex, organised by the Institute for Network Cultures in Amsterdam, a big community of networkers met to discuss how video and contents are being shared nowadays [...]

Today I presented the oulines of the booklet that Jodi...

Blogging the Truth of Illusion conference (Einstein Forum, Potsdam)

By Geert Lovink, February 8, 2008

Today I presented the oulines of the booklet that Jodi Dean and I are writing about ‘blog theory’. I am at a conference on The Truth of Illusion at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, south of Berlin. I spoke here before, at the Future of Character conference in summer 2007, where I heard Eva Illouz [...]

The British writer Jeanette Winterson recently gave the Belle van...

Internet vs. Art? A Response to Jeanette Winterson

By Geert Lovink, January 31, 2008

The British writer Jeanette Winterson recently gave the Belle van Zuylen lecture in Utrecht (NL) on December 13, 2007 entitled The Cup, the Knife, the Compass, the Remedy. She was the third one, after Nelleke Noordervliet en Hans Magnus Enzensberger. You can download the MS-Word file of the lecture here. There is also a Dutch [...]

After a preparation from over a year, the Videovortex conference...

Report on Videovortex 2 (Amsterdam, Jan. 18-19, 2008)

By Geert Lovink, January 28, 2008

After a preparation from over a year, the Videovortex conference took place from January 17-19, 2008. Here at the Institute of Network Cultures we’re very glad with the outcome. The project already started in Brussels, on October 5, 2007, with a one-day conference, co-organized by Argos (video documentation). It then moved on as a series [...]

This weekend the database of the Dictionary of War project...

dictionary of war – conceptual person

By Geert Lovink, January 26, 2008

This weekend the database of the Dictionary of War project has grown again with 25 entries to 125 concepts. I attended the fifth Novi Sad edition. It was my first encounter with the format. Here a few observations. Dictionary of War ought be positioned within the theatre context and is a critical cultural project, not [...]

The Liberation interview has triggered more media interest for my...

Speed interview for Technikart Magazine (and more publicity)

By Geert Lovink, January 25, 2008

The Liberation interview has triggered more media interest for my work in France. On my pages I posted another speed interview, this time with the Technikart magazine for a piece on micro celebrity. This is remarkable as none of my books have been translated in French (only one or two essays). At the moment I [...]

Cyrill De Graeve of the French magazine chronic’art sent me...

Speed interview conducted by Cyrill De Graeve (chronic’art)

By Geert Lovink, January 16, 2008

Cyrill De Graeve of the French magazine chronic’art sent me five questions. I tried to answer them as good as I could, given the time restrictions, in the midst of the last preparations of the videovortex event that starts tomorrow, here in Amsterdam. You can find this next in a series of ‘speed interviews’ here [...]

Before the end of 2007 I did a lengthy email...

Interview for Libération, by Marie Lechner

By Geert Lovink, January 14, 2008

Before the end of 2007 I did a lengthy email interview with Marie Lechner for the Ecrans supplement of the French newspaper Libération. The interview appeared in the January 12, 2008 edition. On my pages you can read the original (not copy-edited) version in English. The main part of the dialogue deals with blog theory, [...]

The MyCreativity conference, organized in November 2006 by the Institute...

Creative Industries Research: the MyCreativity Reader is out!

By Geert Lovink, January 13, 2008

The MyCreativity conference, organized in November 2006 by the Institute of Network Culture, brought together scholars from around the world who are doing critical research into ‘creative industries’. The event generated so much interesting material that Ned Rossiter and I, who put together the program, decided to bring out a reader. We sent out a [...]