Posts By: Geert Lovink

A Short Philosophy of UKRAiNATV by Gleb (Hlib) Dovzhuk & Sofia Reznichenko

By Geert Lovink, July 29, 2025

In this distributed, low-bandwidth ecology, something unexpected begins to happen. Without banners, budgets, or official roles, the stream begins to carry messages across borders — not just content, but atmospheres, gestures, silences in straggle, fragments of life. In this way, streaming becomes a kind of cultural diplomacy, but not the institutional kind. There are no [...]

JOIN THE 24-HOUR LIVE STREAM OF UKRAINATV, FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By Geert Lovink, February 23, 2025

LET|S REMEMBER THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN FULL-SCALE INVASION OF UKRAINE IN HYBRID TOGETHERNESS JOIN THE 24-HOUR LIVE STREAM OF UKRAINATV, LIVE FROM KRAKOW AND ITS STREAM ART NETWORK PARTNERS START: FEBRUARY 23, 2025 23.00 CET – FEBRUARY 24, 2025, 23.00 CET 24.F3B.25 3RD ANNIV3RSARY OF FULL-SCAL3 WAR IN UKRAIN3 Organized by the Stream [...]

The Origins of UKRAiNATV: Interview with Roman Dziadkiewicz

By Geert Lovink, January 9, 2025

There are few email interviews I conducted that have been worth waiting for as much as this one. Here is my dialogue with the Polish artist, teacher, organizer  and founder of UKRAiNATV, Roman Dziadkiewicz. Soon after we discovered this stream art channel on YouTube in the spring of 2022, I contacted Rom. We met soon [...]

Echoes of Tactical Media – Premiere of CDI-TV on July 10th, 2024

By Geert Lovink, July 8, 2024

On Wednesday July 10, 2024, the Centre for Digital Inquiry (Warwick Uni, UK) will present a livestream, hybrid conversation with Alexandra Barancova, David Garcia and Eric Kluitenberg on the legacies of tactical media since the 1990s, alongside reflections on emergent trajectories today for media aesthetics and activism in pursuit of the common good. Today, we [...]

Launch of the Ukranian Decolonial Glossary

By Geert Lovink, May 7, 2024

Ukrainian Decolonial Glossary is a compilation of concepts from de- and post-colonial theories, featuring examples specific to the Ukrainian context. The first edition of this glossary will showcase 20 terms, each contributed by diverse Ukrainian researchers, writers and artists. Curatorial team of the project: Yullia Elyas, Anastasiia Omelianiuk, Iva Naidenko, Nadiia Koval. Project Goals and [...]

UKRAiNATV MANIFESTO

By Geert Lovink, October 5, 2023

UKRAiNATV MANIFESTO HOPECORE MANIFESTO  GREEN-PINK NOISE MANIFESTO  STREAM ART MANIFESTO MANIFESTO OF HYPERACTIVITIES 1. When war crashed the social system, UKRAiNATV emerged as a small source of hope to power it up as a collective, a meeting spot, the poorest and weirdest TV around, a vibe, and an aesthetic. We call it #HOPECORE. Every Thursday [...]

Overview of Recent UKRAiNATV Live Webcasts (#EFIR 52-56)

By Geert Lovink, May 22, 2023

(please visit their website for more information: https://ukrainatv.streamart.studio/) —   LIVE FROM KRAKOW — UKRAiNATV X CHICKS ON SPEED AV SHOW #~EFIR 56 MAY 21, 2023 OVERVIEW OF UKRAiNATV #EFIR 55 HOPECORE, MAY 19, 2023 🩸💉DISSECTING AND 🌹💪DISARMING VIOLENCE💥🔫 1. 🎶BLAKE AND LISTOPAD🎶 (concert) In the chronosynclastic swirl of the evening, love and disappointment found a [...]

Konrad Wojnowski: Broadcasting (and) Cleansing-Review of UKRAiNATV’s 24hr Live Stream

By Geert Lovink, March 7, 2023

1 If my neural network was capable of producing a holographic representation of the hybrid performance/ritual I witnessed last week, both in the flesh and via video streams, what would it look like? What is the mental spectre left in my mind after sinking in the events of STANDBY – ЧАТУВАННЯ – CZUWANIE, “an experimental, [...]

Support Campaign for the UKRAiNATV Network: Krakow <-> Kyiv & More

By Geert Lovink, December 21, 2022

Since March 2022 an artist-led online video initiative started to operate from the art academy in Krakow called UKRAiNATV. Earlier, we posted an announcement of them, here on this blog. I met its founder, Roman, in Warsaw, late June 2022 and we started to make plans. Since a few days there is now is an [...]

Sandro Mezzadra & Toni Negri: Join the Global Fight against the Regime of War

By Geert Lovink, August 9, 2022

(Authorized translation by INC. The Italian original, Lottare contro il regime di guerra a livello globale, was published August 7, 2022 on the Euronomade website: http://www.euronomade.info/?p=15117) As the Italian election campaign gets underway during the hottest August on record, it is not only climate change that is essentially ignored in the political debate. Silence also seems [...]