For the 6th episode of Art in Permacrisis, we talk to Inte Gloerich. Inte is a critical media and technology researcher, and a colleague at the Institute of Network Cultures. She is one of the core people behind the research community MoneyLab. Inte also just finished a PhD on feminist blockchain imaginaries. …

This repository is based on the media art and research networking conference MetaForumX - PermaCrises, co-organized by Flóra Barkóczi, Geert Lovink, Áron Lődi, Diana McCarty, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi and János Sugár. The event was held from October 25-26, 2024, at Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest …

We kick off a new season of Art in Permacrisis with a short special episode. From the 25th until the 26th of October, we were in Budapest for a conference of media artists and researchers called MetaForumX: PermaCrises. One of the contributions to MetaForum was a podcast created by media artist Constant …

Over the past decade, the Institute of Network Cultures has led several applied research projects about new (digital) publishing models: the Hybrid Publishing Toolkit, Urgent Publishing and Going Hybrid. Time and again, publishers, designers, coders, authors, and readers bring up the same problem: the …

In recent times, conversations I’m having with fellow art workers tend to spiral into fantasies of escaping the art institutions. A far-right government has taken power in the Netherlands a few months ago, and everyone expects a crackdown on counter-hegemonic culture. In anticipation of the blows to …

This is the fourth episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the …

Every few years, the question reappears: Whatever happened to institutional critique? Is today’s art capable of critiquing the injustices perpetuated within the art system, without becoming entirely subsumed into the system itself? In 2020, Karen Archey, an in-house curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, …

This is the third episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the …

This is the second episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the …

‘Non art is more art than art art’, Allan Kaprow claimed in 1972. He concluded: ‘Artists of the world, drop out! You have nothing to lose but your professions.’ Are we ready to move on? From the 6th until the 9th of June 2024, an international group of art workers gathered at Floating Berlin to explore …