Institute of Network Cultures Blog
Video Vortex 3: 10-11 October in Ankara, Turkey
Posted on Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 10:00 am by sabine
On October 10-11 2008, Bilkent University Department of Communication and Design, in cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures, will organize the 3rd Video Vortex event in Ankara, Turkey. Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition will feature a two-day international conference, an evening program, live performances and a new media art exhibition. The program will be [...]SoftWhere 2008: Software Studies Strategy Round-Table
Posted on Sunday, 6 July 2008, 10:11 pm by anne
Day two of SoftWhere 2008 was an invite-only strategy round-table session that aimed to address several questions on the formation of a new field of studies. What is Software Studies? Is it an intellectual movement, a paradigm, a school or field? According to the Software Studies Initiative directors Lev Manovich and Noah Wardrip-Fruin it is whatever we [...]Recent pictures
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German translation of Zero Comments out now
Posted on Saturday, 9 August 2008, 9:33 pm by geert
I am proud to announce that the (integral) German translation of my last book Zero Comments (Routledge, 2007) has just been published by the Bielefeld publishing house Transcript Verlag. More info in German here. The German title is Zero Comments, Elemente einer kritischen Internetkultur. Thanks a lot to Andreas Kallfelz and his team who did [...]Review of Gail Pool and her Plight of Book Reviewing in America
Posted on Monday, 16 June 2008, 4:03 pm by geert
Gail Pool, Faint Praise, The Plight of Book Reviewing in America, Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 2007, reviewed by Geert Lovink. For a long-term reader of the New York Review of Books like me it came as a surprise to read about the decline of book review culture in America. Of course, in the Land of [...]
