Geert Lovink

Since the early eighties, Lovink has been involved in a range of different projects and initiatives in the field of new media.

• 1983 Member of Adilkno
• 1989–94 Editor for the media art magazine Mediamatic[5]
• 1993 Co-founder of the support campaign for independent media in South-East Europe Press Now[6]
• 1994 Co-founder of the Amsterdam-based free community network Digital City[7] (DDS)
• 1994 Co-founder of the internet workspace and content provider for the arts desk.nl.
• 1995 Co-founder (together with Pit Schultz) of the international nettime circle
• 1996–99 Public researcher at the Society for Old and New Media, De Waag[8]
• 1996 Coordinating projects and teaching once a year at the IMI mediaschool[9] in Osaka/Japan
• 2000 organizer of the Tulipomania Dotcom conference
• 2000–08 Consultant/editor to the exchange program of Waag Society and Sarai New Media Centre (Delhi)
• 2001 Co-founder of FibreCulture,[10] a forum for Australian Internet research and culture
• 2002 Co-organizer of Dark Markets,[11] on new media and democracy in times of crisis in Vienna
• 2003 Co-organizer of Uncertain States of Reportage[12] in Delhi
• 2004 Co-organizer (together with Trebor Scholz) of the conference on the art of (online) collaboration Free Cooperation[13] at SUNY Buffalo

On 31 May 2010 Geert Lovink took part in Quit Facebook Day and deleted his Facebook account.[14]

In 2020 two text archives of Geert Lovink were preserved and transferred to the INC website: The Adilkno/Bilwet archive, once hosted by desk.nl (1990-1999): https://networkcultures.org/bilwet-archive/ and the text archive of geertlovink.org (2000-2010): https://networkcultures.org/geertlovink-archive/.

Geert Lovink was one of the key theorists behind the concept of tactical media – the use of media technologies as a tool for critical theory to become artistic practice. As an Internet activist, he describes tactical media as a "deliberately slippery term, a tool for creating 'temporary consensus zones' based on unexpected alliances. A temporary alliance of hackers, artists, critics, journalists and activists."[15] In essence, he believes that these new resources of which audiences could become participants in actions against higher powers became an area in which many different types of people could unite. Lovink also was a founder of the early web mailing list "nettime", as well as a number of other projects.

These are some of the projects Lovink's Institute of Network Cultures is or has been involved with:

• MoneyLab [16]
• Unlike Us, Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives[17]
• Critical Point of View (CPoV):[18] Wikipedia Research Initiative
• Urban Screens:[19] The City as Interface
• Society of the Query:[20] stop searching, start questioning, on the dominant role of search engines in our culture
• Video Vortex:[21] on independent production and distribution of online video content
• New Network Theory:[22] on smart mobs
• MyCreativity:[23] on creative industries
• The Art and Politics of Netporn[24]
• Incommunicado:[25] on information technology for development
• A Decade of Webdesign[26]

• Lovink, Geert. Dynamics of Critical Internet Culture (1994-2001), PhD thesis, English Department, The University of Melbourne, 2002.
• Lovink, Geert. Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture, Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN 0-262-12249-9
• Lovink, Geert. Uncanny Networks, Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.
• Lovink, Geert. My First Recession, Rotterdam: NAi/V2_Publishing, 2003.
• Lovink, Geert. The Principle of Notworking, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005.
• Lovink, Geert. "New Media, Art and Science: Explorations Beyond the Official Discourse", in Scott McQuire and Nikos Papastergiadis (eds), Empires, Ruins + Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art, Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, 2005.
• Lovink, Geert. Tactical Media, the Second Decade, Brazilian Submidialogia, 2005.
• Lovink, Geert and Rossiter, Ned. "Dawn of the organized networks", Fibreculture Journal 5 2005.
• Lovink, Geert. Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture, London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
• Lovink, Geert. Networks Without a Cause: A Critique of Social Media, Cambridge and Malden: Polity, 2012. ISBN 9780745649689.
• Lovink, Geert and Rasch, Miriam (eds), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013. ISBN 978-90-818575-2-9, paperback, 384 pages.
• Lovink, Geert. Social Media Abyss, Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation, Cambridge and Malden: Polity, 2016. ISBN 978150950776-4.
• Lovink, Geert, Tkacz, Nathaniel, and de Vries, Patricia (eds), MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2015. ISBN 978-90-822345-5-8.
• Gloerich, Inte, Lovink, Geert, de Vries, Patricia, MoneyLab Reader 2, Overcoming the Hype, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2017.
• Lovink, Geert, Rossiter, Ned, Organization after Social Media, Brookyn: Minor Compositions, http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=857.
• Lovink, Geert, Sad by Design, Eurozone, January 2019, https://www.eurozine.com/sad-by-design/.
• Lovink, Geert, Sad by Design, On Platform Nihilism, London: Pluto Press, 2019.
• Gerritzen, Mieke, Lovink, Geert, Made in China, Designed in California, Criticized in Europe, Amsterdam: The Image Society, 2019, https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/amsterdam-design-manifesto/.