Mecenaat is in opkomst in de Nederlandse beeldende kunst. Van een paar tientjes tot vele miljoenen, gulle gevers strooien met geld en goodies. Succesverhalen en excessen halen vaak de krant; een grote prijs, een geliefd standbeeld, een geval van belastingontduiking. Maar over de grotere structuren van …

This book analyses the values and processes that characterise DIY (do it yourself) digital infrastructure, relating networked initiatives to broader tensions in contemporary alternative media production, namely between ideology and practice in cultural and artistic networked initiatives. Adopting immersive …

“Ağ nostaljisine kapılmak istemiyorsak ve uyumlu, kimliği esas alan topluluk inançlarını methetmeyi reddediyorsak, platform mantığından nasıl uzaklaşabilir, beş milyar kullanıcıya ev sahipliği yapan bir medyaya uygun yeni tekno-sosyalliğin biçimlerini nasıl yaratabiliriz?O aşamaya gelebilmemiz …

This is a print publication of the inaugural lecture of Research Professor (Lector) Patricia de Vries at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, in Amsterdam. In this lecture, she elaborated on the research area of her research group Art & Spatial Praxis. The research group Art & Spatial Praxis focuses on artistic …

This book brings together voices from various fields of intellectual inquiry, based on the idea that technological, legal and societal aspects of the information sphere are interlinked and co-dependent from each other. In order to tackle the existing gap in shared semantics, this glossary converges the …

This episode of The Void was written and hosted by Rosa Menkman. It is concerned with the changing role of the library, reading, writing and publishing in a post-digital age. The performance/lecture was based on a presentation at the BiblioTech event, reworked for the Institute of Network Cultures. This …

This book is a journey through coexisting, emerging or speculated about, types of digital value transfer infrastructures. Using digital value transfer infrastructures as a central case study, this thesis is concerned with unpacking the negotiation processes that shape the governance, design and political …

Timeis.capital is an online platform for audio-visual research on self-organisation. It consists of interviews with people who self-organise and the 3D scans of the spaces from which they do this — project spaces, squats and living rooms. It’s aim is to collect practice-based knowledge and strategies …

What is platformization and why is it a relevant category in the contemporary political landscape? How is it related to cybernetics and the history of computation? This book tries to answer such questions by engaging in multidisciplinary dialogues about the first ten years of the emerging fields of platform …