Dear Visitors,

it's time again for a major upgrade of this text archive. Over the next weeks I will put a lot of articles, interviews and essays into this archive. And it's time to update you of my whereabouts.

Ever since early 2006 I have been blogging and archiving on the website of my Institute of Network Cultures that was founded in 2004 when we moved to Europe from Brisbane, Australia.

The URL of my current blog is: http://www.networkcultures.org/geert

After the summer of 2006 we returned from the residency in Berlin at the Wissenschaftskolleg and life resumed in Amsterdam where I work at the HvA Polytechnic (rebranded as the University of Applied Science) as a researcher (in Dutch called 'lector') and teach as an associate prof. in the new media masters program at Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam.

August 2007 my book Zero Comments appeared in English, published by Routledge New York, followed by a translation into Italian and German.

Since then my institute focussed on creative industries research (the MyCreativity project), New Network Theory (a conference organized together with Media Studies/UvA) and a very successfull series of events on online video entitled Video Vortex (including a publication).

In March 2009 our Institute of Network Cultures hosted its biggest project so far, a 'network of networks' gathering in which 12 groups (150 participants) were invited to work -- in meetspace -- on their own issues and discuss sustainable models how the notoriuous informal network culture can be better organized.

Enjoy.

Geert Lovink

http://www.networkcultures.org

nettime November 2005

Explorations beyond the Official Discourse