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New publication, Emotive Image Toolkit, MoneyLab events, and much more ...
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INC Newsletter December 2020
In this last newsletter of 2020, you can find our two latest publications together with the new videos of the Tactical Visual Culture project. We are also very excited to announce the first MoneyLab event of 2021 in Berlin. Scroll down for more ...
INC will be closed from December 21st until January 3rd.
We wish you a good holiday!
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OUT NOW: Emotive Images Educational Toolkit  Digital visual cultures come with an abundance of more playful, ironic, and emotive imagery, such as GIFs, memes, and emojis. Just as we have studied the prominence of cat videos in the first edition of Video Vortex, we grant importance to this playful side of digital visual culture. GIFs and memes can be tools in research and education. However, we want to free memes from their dominant use in culture wars and reclaim them as an expressive and tactical tool. Similarly, we would like to address cross-cultural emoji theory, design, and critique.What started as a criticism of the unwillingness of Facebook to implement a dislike button, has grown into a realization of the larger emotional, cultural, and financial value of the emoji. How do users (knowingly or unknowingly) repurpose standardized features to circumvent limitations that go with button features? What are the unseen or suppressed emotions on a platform such as FB and Insta? Is it a masculine drive to measure something that's hard to grasp? What habits of daily life do emoji promote? And are social media fit for the expression of sincerity in the first place? In the context of Emotive Images, we are creating an educational toolkit. In seven knowledge clips, experts and activists present their ideas on the use and future of memes and emojis. More information: https://networkcultures.org/tacticalvisualculture/2020/12/21/out-now-emotive-images-educational-toolkit/ Watch all the new videos here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/7932773 |
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NEW INC Blog - DESKTOPIA by Albert Figurt  |
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Albert Figurt's Desktop Narrative Workshop Video Report  Albert Figurt is an Italian video artisan, independent researcher and VideoVortex member. In this series of videos, whi Will the results of this interplay be up-to-date video-art, meta-fictional madness, covid-inspired indie commentary, frame-within-frame mind games or artsy film-making? Watch the videos here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/7891991 |
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SAVE THE DATE: MoneyLab # 11 Disaster Capitalism
March 26-28, 2021 Berlin This first edition of MoneyLab Berlin was inspired by Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism from 2007. Klein's work centers on the exploitation of crises to establishement controversial and questionable policies, while citizens are too distracted, emotionally and Physically, to engage and develop an adequate response. When everyone is consumed by crises, no energy is left for resistance. More info here: https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/newevents/moneylab-11-disaster-capitalism/ Launch Video: https://vimeo.com/477711853 |
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TOD # 39 Lives of Data
Edited by Sandeep Mertia Lives of Data maps the historical and emergent dynamics of big data, computing, and society in India. Data infrastructures are now more global than ever before. In much of the world, new sociotechnical possibilities of big data and artificial intelligence are unfolding under the long shadows cast by infra / structural inequalities, colonialism, modernization, and national sovereignty. This book offers critical vantage points for looking at big data and its shadows, as they play out in uneven encounters of machinic and cultural relationalities of data in India's socio-politically disparate and diverse contexts. https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/lives-of-data-essays-on-computational-cultures-from-india/
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Dérives in the Digital: Avant-garde Ideology in Hacker Cultures
By Juli Laczkó Picture this. It's 2017, we are the character @observer on one of freenode's IRC channels, while Tz4R4, dchmp and B_All are watching the newest! Mediengruppe Bitnik hack with awe: if you type the title of the the Swiss artist duo's new book into the search bar of a seller's website, it creates a popup window on the site with their name, blocking access. (The title is a code injection.) Nothing could express DADA better, exclaims B_All to Tz4r4, while dchmp is busy copy-pasting lines of script graffiti on Facebook in order to achieve a resemblance to the Gioconda on the (anti) social media platform's feed.https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/derives-in-the-digital-avant-garde-ideology-in-hacker-culture/
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