Geert Lovink. Blogging and Critical Internet Culture. 2007 1/8

http://www.egs.edu/ Geert Lovink presenting a foundation of critical internet culture and talking about blogs, blogging, blogging philosophy, activism, social networks, network theory, audiences, growth and markets. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007. Geert Lovink Geert Lovink, born 1959 in Amsterdam, is a media theorist, net critic and activist, who studied political science on the University of Amsterdam (MA) and holds a PhD at University of Melbourne. In 2003 he was a postdoc fellow at University of Queensland in Brisbane. 2004 he was appointed research professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam for Interactive media and associate professor for New Media at the University of Amsterdam. His position was renamed as the Institute of Network Cultures. In 2005 his institute organized four international new media conferences: one on the history of webdesign, one on alternatives in ICT for Development, another on urban screens and the Art & Politics of Netporn. In 2005-2006 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, the Centre for Advanced Study in Berlin where he finished the third volume of an ongoing research on Internet culture, to be published by Routledge New York.
Lovink was a member of Adilkno, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, a free association of media-related intellectuals established in 1983 - the Agentur Bilwet.From Adilkno the following books appeared: Empire of Images (1985), Cracking the Movement (1990) on the squatter movement and the media, Listen or Die (1992) on free radio, the collected theoretical work The Media Archive (1992 - translated into German, English, Croatian and Slovenian), the collection of essays The Datadandy (1994 - in German) and the book/CD Electronic Solitude (1997). Most of the early texts of Lovink and Adilkno in Dutch, German and English can be found online at his text archive.
He is a former editor of the media art magazine Mediamatic (1989-94) and has been teaching and lecturing media theory throughout Central and Eastern Europe. He is a co-founder of the Amsterdam-based free community network 'Digital City' and the support campaign for independent media in South-East Europe Press. He was the co-organizer of conferences such as Wetware (1991), Next Five Minutes 1-3 (93-96-99), Metaforum 1-3 (Budapest 94-96), Ars Electronica (Linz, 1996/98) and Interface 3 (Hamburg 95). In 1995, together with Pit Schultz, he founded the international 'nettime' circle which is both a mailinglist (in English, Dutch, French, Spanish/Portuguese, Romanian and Chinese), a series of meetings and publications such as zkp 1-4, 'Netzkritik' (ID-Archiv, 1997, in German) and 'Readme!' (Autonomedia, 1998). From 1996-1999 he was based at De Waag, the Society for Old and New Media where he was responsible for public research. Since 1996, once a year he has been coordinating a project and teaching at the IMI mediaschool in Osaka/Japan. A series of temporary media labs was started in 1997 at the arts exhibition Documenta X in Kassel/Germany called Hybrid Workspace which continued in Manchester (1998) and Helsinki, in the contemporary arts museum Kiasma.
In 2002 The MIT Press published two of his titles: Dark Fiber, a collection of esssays on Internet culture (translated into Italian, Spanish, Romanian, German and Japanese) and Uncanny Networks, collected interviews with media theorists and artists. V2 in Rotterdam published his most recent study on Internet culture, My First Recession, in 2003 (trans. in Italian). The first large public event of the Institute of Networkcultures in January 2005 has been the Decade of Webdesign conference. His inaugural speech in February 2005, The Principle of Notworking, has been published by Amsterdam University Press.

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