Helping Scholars and Students At Risk

By 11111 &23%#719, June 9, 2022

In the spring, a picture of a person sitting right in the trenches and giving online talks became viral on the Internet. Wearing a Ukrainian military uniform, a full battle dress with an automatic rifle over the shoulder, the soldier, as it turned out, is a teacher, who was lecturing the students of Uzhhorod National [...]

Argumentation Map: Pros and Cons of the Blockade of RT and Sputnik News in the EU

By 11111 &23%#719, June 3, 2022

AMS-IX , one of the largest Internet exchanges in the world, and ECP | Platform for the Information Society, have published an argument map about the European internet blockade of propagandist media Russia Today and Sputnik as a result of the panel discussion between various scholars, NGO’s, and entrepreneurs. The map is an overview with all the [...]

Tactical Media Meetup #2: SPECIAL SOLIDARITY SCREENING WITH KYIV BIENNIAL

By 11111 &23%#719, May 31, 2022

TMR is proud to host a solidarity screening in collaboration with the Emergency Support Initiative by the Kyiv Biennial and HomeCinema to raise funds for Ukraine. The event will be a hybrid video broadcast, both physically screened and online broadcasted via http://homecinema.video accompanied by a talk on Media Witnessing in times of crisis by [...]

‘We Are Not Doing Anything Illegal, Why Be Anonymous?’ — Interview with Maxim Kondratiev from Avtozak LIVE

By 11111 &23%#719, May 26, 2022

Maxim Kondratiev is a coordinator of Avtozak LIVE, an independent media that covers protests and the violations of rights in Russia. Avtozak LIVE is mostly active on Telegram, where their channel has almost 51.000 followers. We talked with Maxim in early May via Zoom. He is currently residing in a migration centre in the Netherlands, [...]

Tactical Tech – In the loop Ukraine edition

By Maria van der Togt, May 11, 2022

🄸🄽 🅃🄷🄴 🄻🄾🄾🄿Ukraine special edition Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. Their vision is a world where digital technologies can contribute to a more equitable, democratic, and sustainable society. To enable this change, they investigate how digital technologies [...]

Vasyl Cherepanyn on the Aftermath of the Revolutions

By 11111 &23%#719, May 4, 2022

The first edition of the Kyiv Biennial named The School of Kyiv took place in 2015. By adapting, or rather reappropriating the well-known and highly commercial format of the international exhibition, Vasyl Cherepanyn, one of the organizers of the Biennial, sought to reflect the Maidan revolution in a thematic format of education. The school epitomized [...]

Reflexions on Navigating (Dis)information

By Maria van der Togt, May 3, 2022

We met around 8, on a Thursday evening[1]. Welcomed by the smell of homemade soup. Courtesy of Mirror Soup Kitchen Lviv. Hackers, artists, researchers, journalists, and passerby’s filled their bellies with the very same soup that’s providing essential sustenance a mere 1.362km away. The very same recipe, cooked on the very same day. It tasted [...]

Petition in Help of Sasha Skochilenko

By Maria van der Togt, April 25, 2022

Sign petition here. On April 13, a Saint Petersburg court sent the artist/musician to a pre-trial detention center. She faces between 5 and 10 years of imprisonment because, on March 31, she swapped price tags with stickers containing information about the actions of Russian soldiers in Mariupol in the “Perekrestok” supermarket. She is now accused [...]

Mark Deuze in Conversation with Ukrainian Journalists

By Maria van der Togt, April 14, 2022

Mark Deuze is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In light of current events, he initiated a series of Zoom interviews with Ukrainian (and East European) journalists working in Ukraine. Below you can find the first two interviews. Or you can watch them on Mark Deuze’s YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrAM_FOAyARuhku_HHVRFgQ. [...]

Irregular Ukraine Linklist, part 2

By Geert Lovink, April 9, 2022

(thanks to all that started to contribute to this act of collaborative filtering /geert) Mariupol computer museum destroyed (via Patrice) https://kbd.news/Mariupol-computer-museum-destroyed-1327.html Ukranian Dispatches https://newfascismsyllabus.com/category/contributions/ukrainian-dispatches/ Essay and Zoom interview with Ukranian film maker Oleksyi Radynski (via Alex) https://www.e-flux.com/journal/107/322782/is-data-the-new-gas/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/55/60303/maidan-and-beyond-part-i/ https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/#/de/veranstaltungen/diskussionsveranstaltung-ukraine-4 (German, English) Russian prosecutor requests harsh sentences for editors of student-run magazine DOXA https://cpj.org/2022/04/russian-prosecutor-requests-harsh-sentences-for-editors-of-student-run-magazine-doxa/ What is the [...]