Posts By: Inte Gloerich

Review of Iedereen een Kunstenaar by Ruben Jacobs

By Inte Gloerich, December 15, 2014

In Iedereen een Kunstenaar (Everybody an Artist), Ruben Jacobs takes a look at the history of the idea of authenticity, tracing it all the way back to Rousseau’s Romanticism. The reason for his exploration is the seemingly paradoxical incorporation of creativity and authenticity in capitalism in recent years. That the creative industries are celebrated as [...]

Documentary Film: Pitching, Digitization and Authorship

By Inte Gloerich, December 1, 2014

After the more theoretical and conceptual reflections of the early morning of the first day of MyCreativity Sweatshop, the Documentary Film discussion session offered a practical insight into the consequences of a heavily changing field in the creative industries. The specifics of the case study cluster around issues of finance cuts and cultural and technological [...]

Introducing MyCreativity Sweatshop speakers: Maria Tarantino

By Inte Gloerich, November 10, 2014

Brussels is Maria Tarantino’s hometown and muse. The city is also the main character of her latest documentary film project, Our City. The film’s style echoes the cult classic Amsterdam Global Village by her fellow MyCreativity Sweatshop panelist Pieter van Huystee. In this movie, director Johan van der Keuken lets his camera drift through the [...]

MyCreativity Sweatshop program booklet online

By Inte Gloerich, November 6, 2014

The MyCreativity Sweatshop program booklet is now available as a download. Design: Hendrik-Jan Grievink

Introducing MyCreativity Sweatshop speakers: Ela Kagel

By Inte Gloerich, October 20, 2014

Ela Kagel is an independent cultural producer and curator working in the art and technology scene in Berlin. She has worked with organisations such as Upgrade! Berlin, the Free Culture Incubator and Transmediale. She’s also the director of SUPERMARKT in Berlin, a coworking space for freelancers with a political agenda. Compared to the late ‘90s [...]

Introducing MyCreativity Sweatshop speakers: Pascal Gielen

By Inte Gloerich, October 1, 2014

Although considered irreconcilable in many respects, the sociologist Pascal Gielen points to a key feature capitalism and communism share: they are societal constructs that identify the economy as the pivot around which our world revolves. Ever since Adorno and Horkheimer’s critique of cultural industries and capitalist mass produced cultures, the arts and creative production have [...]

Introducing MyCreativity Sweatshop speakers: Mark Fisher

By Inte Gloerich, September 19, 2014

When the Sex Pistols released their song God Save the Queen in 1977, they became an emblem of the punk movement and of contemporary political resistance. The song declares that there is “no future for you, no future for me,” and calls for the reassessment of the idea of the present and the future. Franco [...]

Introducing MyCreativity Sweatshop speakers: Zach Blas

By Inte Gloerich, September 8, 2014

In his work, artist and writer Zach Blas reflects on modern surveillance strategies and methods of resistance such as online anonymization (e.g. through Tor) and the masks used by Anonymous protesters. He explores the different techniques used by social movements to make the self opaque as a form of political resistance in the face of [...]