I have just posted onto the pages of this blog...

Web Aesthetics Interview with Vito Campanelli

By Geert Lovink, May 11, 2007

I have just posted onto the pages of this blog an extensive email interview that I did with Italian media theorist Vito Campanelli. Here it is. Thanks to Henry Warwick in San Francisco for the copy editing! In the interview we discuss what ‘web aesthetics’ could be all about, how the situation looks like in [...]

The editor of the Media-activist Cookbook, Oleg Kireev from Moscow...

Innovazia prize for Media-activist Cookbook

By Geert Lovink, May 7, 2007

The editor of the Media-activist Cookbook, Oleg Kireev from Moscow wrote me the following message: “Media-activist Cookbook” is awarded “Innovazia” prize. “Cookbook” introduces topics of tactical media and incluedes five Appendix articles: David Garcia’s and Geert Lovink’s “ABC of tactical media”, Matteo Pasquinelli’s “Urban Television Manifesto”, “On the use of tactical media in the orange [...]

Google Will Eat Itself announced that their domain gwei.org is...

Call for Support: Link to Google Will Eat Itself

By Geert Lovink, March 22, 2007

Google Will Eat Itself announced that their domain gwei.org is now fully censored on all Google Search-Indexes worldwide. What a scandal! The idea behind GWEI is simple: Google Will Eat Itself generates money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money GWEI automatically buy Google shares. GWEI buys Google [...]

French theorist Jean Baudrillard, who died on March 7, 2007,...

Irony and Sadness–After Jean Baudrillard

By Geert Lovink, March 15, 2007

French theorist Jean Baudrillard, who died on March 7, 2007, has had a major influence on me. His passing away has kept me busy over the week, going back to his texts, reading the orbituaries and postings on lists. The text that stayed with me was written by Arthur Kroker. What is the task ahead [...]

Interest from Italy for my work keeps steady with a...

Speed Interview for Il Manifesto on Blog Theory

By Geert Lovink, February 19, 2007

Interest from Italy for my work keeps steady with a next email interview that digs into my Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse essay. The interview with Nicola Bruna will be translated and is due to be published on February 26. You can find the orginal in English here.

News from Vilnius. Vytautas from web magazine Balsas informed me...

More on the blogging essay

By Geert Lovink, February 17, 2007

News from Vilnius. Vytautas from web magazine Balsas informed me that they published a Lithuanian translation remix of my Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse essay. Also, in the full color magazine of the Italian daily La Repubblica of February 17 2007 there is a short piece that I wrote which summarizes my blogging theory. Here is [...]

Over the last weeks a few interesting responses to my...

Responses to blogging essay

By Geert Lovink, February 8, 2007

Over the last weeks a few interesting responses to my Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse were posted on the Net. First of a all, on the Information Week blog, Stephen Wellmann wrote a small entry called “Hate Your Local Blogger, It’s The Hip Thing To Do”. Wellmann asks: “Are bloggers just agents of nihilism destroying values [...]

As some of you may have noticed I took a...

Blogging and Theory in 2007

By Geert Lovink, January 14, 2007

As some of you may have noticed I took a break over Xmas with family in Sydney. Now I am back at work in Amsterdam, having plenty to report about. First of all a longish interview with me appeared (in three parts) with the German web magazine Netzeitung. It’s in German and deals with Web [...]

On November 17-18 we hosted the MyCreavity conference in Amsterdam....

After the Creativity

By Geert Lovink, November 23, 2006

On November 17-18 we hosted the MyCreavity conference in Amsterdam. Here at the Institute of Network Cultures we’re still recovering from this exciting event. I personally experienced some ups and downs on the first day but truely enjoyed the consistent high level of the second day with the precarity forum, the debate with WIPO representative [...]

On Thursday night November 2 2006, at the Netherlands Architecture...

Freddy: Launch of the Dutch Architecture Website Awards

By Geert Lovink, November 3, 2006

On Thursday night November 2 2006, at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, I attended the first Freddy awards ceremony. The price, in fact three jury prices and one audience price for the best Dutch architecture website was initiated by the Dutch architecture portal Archined. The first price went to Venhoeven CS, the second to [...]