The Mutant Cute: Meitu, the Selfie, and the Rewriting of Global Identities

By Inte Gloerich, October 5, 2017

Author: Patrick Lichty In technologically-enabled society, the selfie has become the intersection between digital narcissism and fungible identity. Famous images of throngs with their backs to famous paintings and presidential candidates underscore the necessity for proving one’s existence through tagging the moment with the photographer’s face. However, with the rise of “augmentation” (AR-based props and [...]

Videos of Fear and Loathing of the Online Self

By Inte Gloerich, July 20, 2017

Videos of the lectures of the conference that was held last May in Rome (together with John Cabot University and Roma Tre University) are gradually coming in. Watch the first ones here. Including presentations by Biella Coleman, Franco Berardi, and Jodi Dean. Topics include online subjectivity theory, going behind and beyond the selfie, artistic practices [...]

RaiNews reporting on Fear and Loathing of the Online Self

By Inte Gloerich, June 28, 2017

Click here to read The Anonymous mask and the selfies of Isis (in Italian) by RaiNews including interviews with Biella Coleman and Geert Lovink.

Event: Karakters en maskers, de gezichten van het online zelf

By Inte Gloerich, June 19, 2017

27 Juni 2017, 17:00 – 18:30 Spui25 (Spui 25-27, Amsterdam) Sprekers: Daniël de Zeeuw, Patricia de Vries en Kim de Groot. Moderator: Geert Lovink MELD JE AAN VIA DEZE LINK ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.’ De nineties-droom, waarin het internet door haar eerste profeten werd verkondigd als parallel universum, een cyberwereld waarin [...]

Tutte le emozioni dentro un «like»

By Inte Gloerich, June 13, 2017

Written by: Teresa Numerico, 23.05.2017 (first published in Il Manifesto) Vivere al tempo del selfie: un convegno a Roma intorno al racconto di sé. L’autoritratto è sempre esistito, ma la tentazione compulsiva all’«essere guardati» è più recente. La scelta (politica ed etica) di Anonymous decide per l’indisponibilità, si sottrae alla vita «esposta» Selfie è stata [...]

The Militarized Selfie and the #selfiewithdaughter Campaign

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 13, 2017

22 May 2017, Session 1: Behind and Beyond Selfies, John Cabot University Rebecca Stein talked about how social media became militarized in the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territories and Jillet Sara Sam discusses the empowerment in the digital political field, influenced by the digital-self-as-citizens in the #selfiewithdaugther campaign. Rebecca Stein: The Militarized Selfie and [...]

From Selfies to Biometrics and Playing at Diminished Reality in East-Jerusalem

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 12, 2017

22 May 2017, Session 1: Behind and Beyond Selfies, John Cabot University Olga Goriunova describes that self hood and truth are linked by a distance, in which the factual and the fictional are re-arranged. The face become material for algorithmic analysis, that forms the debate of indexical truth and algorithmic objectivity. Fabio Cristiano and Emilio [...]

Maintenance Pornography

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 9, 2017

23 May 2017, Art and Multimedia Projects, Roma Tre University By Antonia Hernandez Maintenance Pornography is part of an in-progress research that looks into amateur sexcams, particularly the American website chaturbate.com, and explores domestic life in the context of Platform Capitalism. Through a performative installation, this project asks about the role of habits and maintenance [...]

Between Facebook and 4chan: Flights From and Toward Anonymous Online Spaces

By Inte Gloerich, June 8, 2017

Interview with Daniel de Zeeuw by Monica Lungeanu Monica Lungeanu: If nature is often portrayed as a beautiful woman, technology’s visual interpretation is that of a rather grotesque, deformed body. What are your thoughts about this? How is technology represented? Daniel de Zeeuw: We tend to think of media technology as disembodied and immaterial, but [...]

The World Behind Your Back

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 6, 2017

22 May 2017, Session 1: Behind and Beyond Selfies, John Cabot University Ana Peraica’s presentation focused on the selfie and self-images in regard to the places their recorded in. She approaches the selfie as a way to report the world behind ones back. Ana starts her keynote with a personal story of her grandfather who [...]