Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink is a media theorist, net critic and activist.
He 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 (interactive media) and
associate professor (new media) at the University of Amsterdam. His
position was renamed as the Institute of Network Cultures. In 2005 his instute 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 is a fellow at the
Wissenschaftskolleg, the Centre for Advanced Study in Berlin where he is
finishing 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 (Agentur Bilwet auf Deutsch). 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 at http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet. Geert
Lovink's recent online text archive is: www.laudanum.net/geert.
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 Now. 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.
In 2004 Lovink was appointed as Research Professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Associate Professor at University of Amsterdam. His recent book titles are Dark Fiber (2002), Uncanny Networks (2002) and My First Recession (2003). In 2005-06 he was a fellow at the WissenschaftskollegBerlin Institute for Advanced Study where he finished his third volume on critical Internet culture, Zero Comments (2007).