INC Newsletter June #2 – 2022

This workshop follows the extensive research and the accompanying method of Pascal Gielen entitled The Artistic Biotope.

As the working life of the cultural worker is interwoven with their personal life (more than in other types of work), it’s often difficult to analyze and specify the different elements that cause precarity. This workshop offers a means to reflect on and understand this many-faced precarity. The participants will learn what solidarity can mean as an answer to this: to better the socio-economic position for both themselves and their peers. By showing what solidarity can offer to your working position, we will dive into two different ‘bottom-up’ policy instruments in the Dutch cultural sector: the Fair Practice Code and the Guideline for Artist’s Fees.

This workshop will take place on July 9. Read more and sign up here

Plokta and the Institute of Network Cultures invite you to develop a film programme, from A to Z, that explores the limits of technology.

In this workshop, you will create a film programme with footage that you find across the internet – with news items, TikTok content, instructional videos, screencasts, commercials, GIFs, movie scenes, family videos, live streams, and more. We especially invite hoarders of online video for this workshop, to bring their Youtube longlists and bookmark folders.

This workshop will take place on July 7. Read more and sign up here

Technologies such as NFTs can’t be canceled. Once they exist, they are here to stay.
Since the popularisation of NFTs a little over a year ago, they have affected all levels of the art world.
The culture of smart contracts quickly became a space of brotherhood, theft, and chaos, and the technology is now deeply ingrained into our conversations with our peers.
Some artists made ‘a quick buck’, while others tried their hands at becoming entrepreneurs or curators. All the while, artists saw their art get plagiarised and art history got rewritten.

GM!*w/NFTs*WAGMI ? is a workshop on NFTs for beginning artists and cultural workers. Basic knowledge of NFTs is required to participate.

This workshop will take place on July 8. Read more and sign up here

THE VOID is a new audiovisual publishing format by INC. Click on the video to learn more!

Tactical Media Room initiative intends to bring together media- and tech specialists, journalists, and policymakers from the media outlets of the Netherlands, Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus to discuss the shaping of Europe’s digital public domain. It is the first debate on this issue that includes internet activists and journalists directly involved in war-news production and delves deeply into the arguments on the levels of both technical, and content-related aspects.

The evening will consist of two parts. Starting with an update on the current status of internet infrastructure and journalism in the conflicted areas, followed up by a debate.

This event will take place on 30 June. Read more and sign up here