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 …

Measures such as ‘ethical AI’ and ‘good data’ will not bring about social justice, end racial capitalism or forestall climate disaster. How to channel discontent and counter-hegemony into an actual transfer of power in the late platform age?

Over the past two months, the Going Hybrid Publishing group has convened for two days of design sprints. The discussions we had during these sprints were informed by our previous state-of-the-art analysis and survey of relevant tools and practices. This blog post is a recap of two design sprint days, …

Seeing the wild amount and variety of experimental publications brought to the world, it is hardly possible to claim that any of them is a ‘best practice’. But some of them are certainly highly interesting in terms of formal experiment, quality, or redefinition of the reading experience. Below, you find …

Heeft zelforganisatie zelfstandig werkenden in de kunst geholpen het hoofd tijdens de pandemie boven water te houden? Een stand van zaken aan de hand van praktijkvoorbeelden op het gebied van tentoonstellingsruimtes, kunstverkoop en woon-en werkruimte.

A visual podcast on the history of social art policy in the Netherlands (1949-2012) and the lessons we can draw from it.