Geert Lovink
BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Singapore/ *Netherlands 1959 Studied political science at the University of Amsterdam. ........................... PROJECTS / ACTIVITIES ........................... Member of ‘Adilkno‘, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, a free association of media-related intellectuals (in German: Agentur ‘Bilwet‘). He is a radio programme producer and a co-founder of The Digital City, the Amsterdam-based Freenet and 'Press Now', the Dutch support campaign for independent media in former Yugoslavia. Former editor of the media/art magazine 'Mediamatic' (1989-1994). Since 1991 he has lectured media theory in Eastern Europe and participated there in conferences on independant media, the arts and new technologies. Co-founder of the Amsterdam-based internet content providers 'desk.nl' (culture/arts) and 'contrast.org' (politics) and a 'cultural ambassador' for 'de Waag', the Society for Old and New Media. Regular contributor of ‘Andere Sinema‘ (Antwerpen) and member of the editorial board of ‘ARKzin‘ (Zagreb). Geert Lovink co-organized the 'Wetware Convention' (Amsterdam, 1991), 'The Next Five Minutes', an international conference on public access and camcorder activism (Amsterdam, 1993), 'Ex Oriente Lux' (Bucharest, 1993), the first Romanian media/art event, 'Metaforum I/II/III' (Budapest, 1994-96), 'Interface 3' (Hamburg, 1995) on the culture of computer networks, 'Next Five Minutes II' on 'tactical media' (Amsterdam, 1996), and moderated the (net) symposium of Ars Electronica ‘96 on 'memesis'. He was the project coordinator of the Hybrid WorkSpace, which took place during the Documenta X (1997) in Kassel. In the spring of 1995, together with Pit Schultz, he founded the International 'nettime' circle which is promoting 'net criticism' (www.desk.nl/nettime). Nettime is both a mailinglist, a series of gatherings (The Beauty and the East, Ljubljana, 1997) and also appears in paper (Netzkritik, Edition ID-Archiv, Berlin, 1997 and ZKP 1-4). SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ........................... Empire of Images. Adilkno, Amsterdam, 1985 Cracking the Movement. Amsterdam, 1990 / Berlin, 1991 / New York, 1994 (on the squatter movement in Amsterdam) Hoer zu oder Stirb. Berlin, 1992 (on free radio) Medien Archiv. Amsterdam, 1992 / Mannheim, 1993 / New York, 1997 Der Datendandy. Amsterdam / Mannheim, 1994 Elektronische Einsamkeit. Cologne, 1997 |
