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INC Newsletter April 2022
In this April newsletter, we have a lot of exciting news for our readers. We announce a call for proposals for Our Creative Reset Conference in July, as well as ac all for speculative theory for our upcoming Critical Meme Reader #2. In addition we announce our new research project Going Hybrid. Scroll down for more… |
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Call for Proposals – Our Creative Reset Conference
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During the Our Creative Reset Conference, experts and (beginning) cultural workers explore how to take agency over their own education, collective organization, and income. The Institute of Network Cultures invites theorists, (artistic) researchers, journalists, artists, activists, designers, and others interested in rethinking professional practice and labor relationships during the crisis, to propose a contribution for:
Our Creative Reset: A Conference on Work in the Dutch Cultural Sector through and after the Pandemic
The one-day conference takes place at Framer Framed in Amsterdam on Friday 1 July 2022, 10 [removed] – 4 [removed] In the same week, we organize policy debate (in Dutch) and three related workshops for Netherlands-based students and recent graduates. Continue reading… |
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Call for Speculative Theory: Critical Meme Reader #2: Memetic Tacticality
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After the success of the Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image, the Institute of Network Cultures is publishing a second reader. The Critical Meme Reader #2: Memetic Tacticality will be edited by Chloë Arkenbout, Geert Lovink and Laurence Scherz. For this reader we are looking specifically for theorists to share their work on the state of the art of meme [removed];Topics could include, but are not limited to:
- Political or philosophical discourses
- Experimental speculative theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Art, visual culture and image analysis
- Social media and communication, internet and network cultures, platform (capitalism)
Deadline for proposals: 10th of April
Acceptance or rejection of proposals: 15th of April
Contributions can be between 500 and 5000 words and should be in essay form.
Submissions: Questions: See more… |
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New Project – Going Hybrid
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Going Hybrid is a 24 month-long research project into the future of hybridity for the cultural field. Where will hybrid events take us? Which platforms are best practices to host a cultural event without Zoom fatigue? How can hybrid publications be developed, or even living archives, sharing these experimentally broadcasted events with a (potential) audience?
All of this is researched with the focus on a long-term vision of a high-quality, hybrid program, aiming to serve new and existing audiences after the Covid reset. We will develop tools, research (the use of) existing platforms, gather expertise, and subsequently share this with the public through articles published here, presentations, a conference, and finally a publication to be published at the end of 2023. Visit the page
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Towards an Interactive FutureBy Laurence Scherz
Every since the Covid-19 ‘reset’—a re-evaluation of workflows, business models, and ways in which events are organized—the cultural field has continuously tried to innovate itself, compensating for temporary breaks in programming along with financial losses. Out of this reset, a new attitude was formed regarding digital exhibition formats, live broadcasting… continue reading
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A Hybrid StartBy Laurence Scherz
And so it begins… With a hybrid kick-off on January 19th the long-term research project Going Hybrid, which will continue until December 2023, has entered its initial phase: figuring out what exactly ‘hybrid’ means to all of us as partners, and for the cultural field in general… continue reading
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Open Call – Amplifying Voices from Inside the Ukrainian War Zone
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The Institute of Network Cultures is in solidarity with those affected by the Russian invasion in Ukraine. We are open to any form of reflections, tactical tools, notes, witness material and reports from or connected to the war zone. INC wants to amplify the artistic, activist, academic and critical voices of all those influenced by the Russian attacks. Please send an email to
Please read these submitted diary entry and reflections below |
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Open Letter of Dmitry Pilikin, Russian Artist, Curator, Art Historian
Dear friends and colleagues, I want to write important thoughts for me.
It is very difficult for me to talk about culture and art at a time when war is going on. The official Russian authorities call what is happening in Ukraine “a special military operation by Russian servicemen to protect Ukraine from militarization and nationalism… continue reading
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Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 7 By Svitlana Matviyenko
On the 33rd day of the Russia-Ukraine war, I continued receiving media and speaking requests to address a so-called “crisis in [removed]#8221; It is almost surprising, or maybe not at all, that Russian propaganda is so pervasive that it imposes a false caution on someone who’d think that despite the ongoing full-scale destruction and erasure of a culture, the word “war” might be a little too extreme to use… continue reading
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New Dependencies
by LUKAS ENGELHARDT
It seems that many people today experience a space problem. This applies to the physical world where living spaces in the city become less affordable by the day as wages continue to stagnate. And this is also the case for the digital spaces we inhabit, where governments and software conglomerates lock us into walled gardens and spend every single one of their considerable resources in order to sell us [removed];But while spatial activism in the physical world is battle-tested and well-established… continue reading
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In the Time of Refuge. A Collection of Writings and Reflections on Art, Disaster and Communities
Edited by DAVID PLEDGER and NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS
In this timely collection of essays and artistic works, we gain a spherical perspective on the role of the arts in addressing the challenge of climate change through the concept of refuge. This book follows from a pioneering five-year program of artistic experimentation and community action called… continue reading
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INC Books
You can order a free paper copy of our latest publications:
- INC Reader #15 Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image
- VideoVortex Reader III
- Let’s Get Physical. A Sample of INC Longforms.
- Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing
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Bunk Debunkers: Warfakes as Russian War Participatory Propaganda
By Karyna Lazaruk
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AFTER EXTRACTIVISM: Open call by the Berliner Gazette
By Chloë Arkenbout
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Irregular Ukraine Linklist
By Geert Lovink
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STRP Scenario #17: Crypto Therapy for Mixed Crypto Feelings
By Inte Gloerich
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UKRA))i((NATV streaming on Twitch from Krakow
By Sepp Eckenhaussen
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Response to Western Leftists from the Ukrainian Battlefield
By Svitlana Matviyenko
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Adventurous Writing at the Domein voor Kunstkritiek Lab Days
By Laurence Scherz
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Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 6
By Svitlana Matviyenko
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It’s a Military Coup-Political Reflections from St. Petersburg
By Anonymous
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The Ukraine War and the Costs of the Metaverse by PJ Gamez Cersosimo
By Geert Lovink
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Collaborative Link Filtering: Contexts of the Invasion of Ukraine
By Geert Lovink
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Ben Peters: Ukrainian Reflections from Tulsa, Oklahoma
By Geert Lovink
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Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 5
By Svitlana Matviyenko
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Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 4
By Svitlana Matviyenko
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“Worlds of Networks”-Centre Pompidou/Ircam exhibit & conference
By Geert Lovink
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My Digital Armpits Stink
By Kateryna Polevianenko
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Notes of Lev Manovich, February 24/March 6, 2022
By Lev Manovich
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Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 3
By Svitlana Matviyenko
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Pulsations of Dis/information: Diary of Kateryna Kobzdar, Lviv-Berlin, part 2
By Kateryna Kobzdar
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