Posts By: Inte Gloerich

Citizen D podcast 042: James Bridle and the new dark age

By Inte Gloerich, April 2, 2019

By Državljan D. (Citizen D) We sat down with James Bridle who was visiting Ljubljana to give a talk at the Aksioma gallery to talk about the evergrowing problem of technodeterminism and the way future is being predicted by the machines. Listen to the podcast here. What’s the role of humanities in the information society, [...]

Out now! State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art

By Inte Gloerich, March 19, 2019

About the book: Today, we live in a world where every time we turn on our smartphones, we are inextricably tied by data, laws and flowing bytes to different countries. A world in which personal expressions are framed and mediated by digital platforms, and where new kinds of currencies, financial exchange and even labor bypass [...]

Extracting Computerized Desires – a Review of Clickmine

By Inte Gloerich, February 5, 2019

By: Tim Brouwer On the website clickmine.click visitors stumble upon a computer-generated grassland, which one can only interact with by clicking it. This browser-based game, developed by artist and software engineer Sarah Friend, is called Clickmine (2017) and invites players to engage with the realm of virtual currencies and experience mining them. Alongside her work [...]

Call for entries: Self as Actor – Colonising Identity (NeMe)

By Inte Gloerich, November 8, 2018

See original call here. Our State Machines partner NeMe is pleased to announce this open call for the selection of 10 applicants to be represented in the exhibition with one work each. Each of those selected will be paid a small fee. In addition, one applicant will be selected as the featured artist who will [...]

My Name is Janez Janša (film screening) 17 November 2018, 8 pm

By Inte Gloerich, October 16, 2018

Documentary screening + AFTER-TALK/Q&A with the artist 17 November 2018, 8 pm Veem House for Performance Van Diemenstraat 408-410, Amsterdam Buy your tickets here A name. Everybody has one. Individuals, artists and academics from all over the world share their thoughts about the meaning and purpose of one’s name from both private and public perspectives. [...]

Crypto Design exhibition in Cyprus – the pictures

By Inte Gloerich, July 4, 2018

Between 10 March and 7 April of 2018, the Crypto Design exhibition traveled to NeMe gallery in Limassol, Cyprus. Here are some of the pictures of the show: Patricia de Vries gave a presentation at the opening of the exhibition: And a video of the show is available here: New Imaginaries for Crypto Design from [...]

Keep Calm and Carry on Monitoring the Media: a Review of Monitorial Citizen

By Inte Gloerich, June 27, 2018

By Chrystalleni Loizidou Keep calm and carry on monitoring the media: a review of Monitorial Citizen NeMe (Cyprus), 9th December 2017, part of the State Machines programme One couldn’t have wished for a more grounding response to contemporary media anxieties than this event. I don’t mean that the conference was all rainbows and lolkittens. I [...]

Publication by Daniël de Zeeuw: Notes from the Excluded Middle

By Inte Gloerich, June 4, 2018

Our partners in the State Machines project, Aksioma, present the following publication: Daniël de Zeeuw: Notes from the Excluded Middle PostScriptUM #30Series edited by Janez JanšaLanguage: English Is the idea of society as the totality of individuals the only way of envisioning human sociality, or is it only a historically determined construct? What other dimensions [...]

Crypto Design workshop @ Aksioma, Ljubljana

By Inte Gloerich, March 13, 2018

On March 6th and 7th, the Crypto Design project traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia. The INC organized a workshop for design students in collaboration with Aksioma, one of our partners in the State Machines project. Patricia de Vries, Anthony van der Meer, Tim Brouwer and Loes Bogers were at the University of Ljubljana Academy of Fine [...]

Exhbition: New Imaginaries for Crypto Design, at NeMe, Cyprus

By Inte Gloerich, February 28, 2018

On Saturday, 10 March 2018, at 7.00pm the Institute of Network Cultures and NeMe invite you to a talk by Patricia de Vries and the opening of the exhibition New Imaginaries for Crypto Design. Find out more here. Have you ever sent an email through webmail? Have you ever paid your share of a dinner [...]