Giulia Timis: Media Responsibility or How Not to Get Stuck in the Indie Bubble

By Geert Lovink, January 8, 2023

Since November 2022, I have been collaborating with UKRAiNATV, an independent webcasting initiative that supports a network of Ukrainian artists. I first met with Roman Dziadkiewicz, a researcher at the ASP art academy in Kraków and the mind behind UKRAiNATV, while I was searching for support to exhibit at Milan Digital Week. The project was [...]

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 [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 14

By Svitlana Matviyenko, November 16, 2022

August 29 – November 12, 2022 On August 29th, the Ukrainian army launched a spectacular counteroffensive towards the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv. Western media mobilized, I received several requests for comments and interviews from Canada, but did not have the energy to follow through with it all. “What did you feel about the [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 13

By Svitlana Matviyenko, November 1, 2022

After clocks are set back one hour, Olya and I are more comfortable running at 6am: we leave while it’s still dark – no streetlights, of course, in the times of blackout – but already within next ten-fifteen minutes, when both of us reach our meeting spot near the park, the darkness is gone. By [...]

Violence is an Image: Weaponization of the Visuality During the War in Ukraine

By Lesia Kulchynska, October 26, 2022

Can an image be a weapon? By the word weapon I mean not the device that helps you win, but an instrument of violence — a device (in this case, a symbolic device) that can inflict harm and damage. This question was invoked during the first months of the full-scale invasion when we (the consumers [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 12

By Svitlana Matviyenko, September 29, 2022

June 26 – August 30, 2022 I have been resisting to return to writing this dispatch for more than two months. Notes – yes, constantly. Writing – occasionally, but not so much. When the tenth dispatch was published in June, I suffered from a two-week-long depression, dark enough I confessed to our School’s Director that [...]

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 [...]

Endangered Profession

By Elmaz Asan, July 28, 2022

This is the transcript of the speech Elmaz Asan gave during the Tactical Media Room Meetup at Spui25 on the 30th of June, 2022. Read the report on the debates here. Good evening, dear participants and journalists of such an important event. I am honored to be among you. Until 2014, as a journalist, I [...]

Fighting Disinformation: We’re Solving The Wrong Problems

By Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak, July 26, 2022

Tackling disinformation and misinformation is a problem that is important, timely, hard… and, in no way new. Throughout history, different forms of propaganda, manipulation, and biased reporting have been present and deployed — consciously or not; maliciously or not — to steer political discourse and to goad public outrage. The issue has admittedly become more [...]

Weaponized OSINT: The New Kremlin-Sponsored Participatory Propaganda

By Marc Tuters and Karyna Lazaruk, July 22, 2022

Image credit: Karyna Lazaruk. ‘Warfakes’ (“Война с фейками”) is the name of a popular Russian Telegram channel at the centre of an entire network of related channels that emerged in the opening days of the current Russian invasion of Ukraine. Along with its English language website Waronfakes. com, these channels present themselves as a network [...]