On November 1st 2024, we organized the third INC Fest, our series of internet culture theory club nights at OT301 in Amsterdam. Speakers and performers from the INC network presented their on-going research in the field of internet culture – from girlmath to cyberfeminist web development, and from to digital psychogeography to hyper-advanced meme theory. In this post, you'll find the full livestream and report of evening full of talks, performances, music, zines and more.
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The Void in action in the fully packed cinema space of OT301. Infrastructure magic by Jordi Viader Guerrero (cameras), Tommaso Campagna (mixing), Salome Berdzenishvili (sound), Laura Mrkša (spatial design), Giulia Timis (photography), and Carolina Valente Pinto (poster design). The main program was curated and presented by Carolina Valente Pinto and Sepp Eckenhaussen, the zinefest by August Kaasa Sundgaard, and the club night by Ray Dolitsay.
STREAM
The programming of our third INC fest was extremely simple: we invited anyone in or around the INC working on an exciting project to come and present a work in progress. The result was an amazing synergy and flow. To convey this experience, below you find the full stream recording (with timestamps to help you navigate):
00:15: StreamArt connection with UKRAiNATV
14:43: Introduction by Carolina Valente Pinto, Sepp Eckenhaussen, and August Kaasa Sundgaard
24:01: Presentation on the new AI Anxiety action research group
35:13: Screening of Diana Millan Pascual‘s video ‘Humanoid Iconography’ + Q&A
52:00: Maisa Imamović presents a cyberfeminist history of webdevelopment + Q&A
01:14:48: Letizia Chiappini presents psycho digital geography
01:31:09: Tommaso Campagna introduces THE VOID and the StreamArtNetwork
01:36:37: Break
01:49:24: Irma Mastenbroek presents girlmath
02:09:34: Lecture by Idil Galip on the lure of memetic autotheory
02:28:31: Q&A with Letizia, Irma, and Idil
02:41:33: Outtro by Carolina Valente Pinto
The spatial design and cloud sofa (called ‘Consuming Time’) were contributed by Laura Mrkša
Zinefest
In the bar area, there was a zine fest with zines by Diana Millan Pascual, Radu-Mihai Tănasă, Noura Tafeche, XPUB, Visual Methodologies Collective, Outline Platform, and Spookstad.
Club Night
As always, the INC Fest continued with a club night, where revenge procrastination met going out. We enjoyed a selection of experimental sounds, deconstructed club, dark electro and gritty bass by Silver Pearl (DJ), human observer b2b Burchhhha (hybrid set), and justin case (DJ), accompanied by the special doom scroll experience — a curated selection of memes to help you unwind.
Event poster by Carolina Valente Pinto