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Geert Lovink (NL)
Media Theorist and Journalist
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Born 1959 in Amsterdam Lovink studied Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He is a member of Bilwet/Agentur Bilwet/Adilkno, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, a free association of media-related intellectuals. Lovink is co-founder of 'The Digital City', the Amsterdam-based 'Freenet' and 'Press Now', the Dutch support campaign for independent media in Former Yugoslavia and former editor of the media/art magazine 'Mediamatic' (1989-94). Since 1991 he has lectured media theory in Eastern Europe and participated 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) he also was a 'cultural ambassador' for 'de Waag', the Society for Old and New Media (1996-2000).
A regular contributor of Andere Sinema (Antwerpen) and a member of the editorial board of ARKzin (Zagreb) he 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 spring 1995, together with Pit Schultz, he founded the International 'nettime' circle which is promoting 'net criticism' and is both a mailinglist, a series of gatherings (The Beauty and the East, Ljubljana, 1997) and also appears on paper (Netzkritik, Edition ID-Archiv, Berlin, 1997 and ZKP 1-4). A recent project is the 'Tulipomania' dotcom conference (Amsterdam/Frankfurt, 2000) that focussed on a critique of the New Economy, and of which a reader, edited by Geert Lovink came out in August 2000. He also edited the catalogue of the first international streaming media festival, 'net.congestion' (Amsterdam, 2000).
Publications
Empire of Images (Bilwet/Adilkno, 1985)
 Cracking the Movement (Bilwet/Adilkno, 1990)
Hoer zu oder Stirb (Bilwet/Adilkno, 1992)
Medienarchiv (Bollman Verlag, 1993)
Der Datendandy (Bollmann Verlag, 1994)
Elektronische Einsamkeit (Bilwet/Adilkno, 1997)
Online
The Digital City
http://home.dds.nl
Bilwet/Agentur Bilwet/Adilkno
http://www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet
Contrast.Org
http://home.dds.nl
nettime
http://www.nettime.org
Tulipomania
http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania
net.congestion
http://net.congestion.org
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