In-Between Media: Hybrid Tactics in the Crisis Era
10:00 - 18:00
March 9, 2023, at Spui25
March 10, 2023, at Framer Framed 
Amsterdam

The Covid pandemic has catalyzed experimental approaches to hybrid cultural programming and togetherness, mixing online, offline, and everything in-between. How can we translate the lessons learned into ways of dealing with post-pandemic urgencies? Can we use hybrid tactics in response to violent displacement, physical impairments, and the war in Ukraine? What kind of tactical media can exist within these (new) digital spaces, and which potential for resistance do they have? Data and information used as a tool for power might not be new, but some of the strategies being looked at in this conference—hopefully—are. 

During the first day of this conference, at SPUI25 and online, we’ll have panels, talks, and round table conversations about precisely these questions. Starting off with TikTok as a research subject, we dive into its nature and qualities which lends itself to a specific user attitude: both engaged and not, both within each other’s space, and not. Furthermore, we’ll hear some hands-on testimonies about streaming resistance and look at practices that both critique and use (mainstream) platforms as a method, or even a weapon. Ending the day, we strive to find strategies for dealing with the locative media that is tracking us everywhere, as well as the techno-capitalist narratives underlining our technologies. How can anarchists—or simply users—tactically misuse online platforms?

On the second day, at Framer Framed and partly online, we invite you to join several workshops, expert sessions, and plenary talks. We’ll discuss the possibilities of event reporting through a whole new workflow, how online visitors can impact a physical space, whether or not living archives are even truly ‘alive’, how to squat the cloud, setting up quick and dirty live streams, and what to think of when looking at the (hybrid) future.

Register your free tickets for the conference via this link, or check the complete program and timetable on our website. For more information about the Going Hybrid project click here. 

There's also an afterparty to the conference, free of charge, titled Noises of the In-Between, which takes place at OT301, Amsterdam, from 21:00 till 03:00. We'll have (live) DJ sets ranging from ambient to hyper pop and electro. All are welcome, no need to sign up!

 

Blurring The Format
Expanded Publishing for Practice-Based Research
February 7, 2023 at Rietveld, Room FL101, Amsterdam
Presentation and discussion: 16:00 - 18:30
Screening and exhibition: 18:30 - 19:30
Drinks from 18:30 onwards

In research publications, more often than not media production—be it audiovisual or any other form of artistic practice that isn't writing—is still seen as somehow inferior; mere support material. A figure that accompanies the text, the main act, and that fails to be considered as a form of research itself. Producing, distributing, and consuming media is not about illustrating previously existing research or knowledge, but about doing things: working with media is actively doing research. In this sense, we should try and facilitate both tools and means for practitioners of this practice-based research, currently not or at least underrepresented in the publishing industries. To put it concisely: what is the role of publishing within practice-based research?

With THE VOID (a new research project set up by INC), over the past year, there has been tons of research and experimentation with audio-visual production and distribution. To do so, THE VOID team decided to approach the topic by starting the production of their own content, in collaboration with artists. 

This event is co-organized with Timeis.capital, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and the Centre of Expertise for Creative Innovation (CoECi). Find more info here. If you'd like to register, please do so via info@networkcultures.org. There are only a few spots left!