Mass Psyche of the Net: Fear and Desire on the Data Highway

Geert Lovink

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Biography: Biography born 1959, Amsterdam, studied political science on the University of Amsterdam. Member of Adilkno, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, a free association of media-related intellectuals (Agentur Bilwet auf Deutsch). He is a radio program producer (for Radio Patapoe in Amsterdam and VPRO radio) 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). In the last years he lectured media theory in Eastern Europe and participated in conferences on independent media, the arts and new technologies. Regular contributor of Andere Sinema (Antwerpen) and ARKzin (Zagreb). He co-organized the 'Wetware Convention' (Amsterdam, 1991), 'The Next Five Minutes', a international conference on public access and 'tactile television' (Amsterdam, 1993), 'Ex Oriente Lux' (Bucharest 1993), the first Romanian media/art event, 'Metaforum I/II/III' (Budapest, 1994-6) and '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 'mimeses'. Since the spring of 1995 active in the international 'nettime' circle which is promoting 'net criticism' (www.desk.nl/nettime) Among his publications are Adilkno's 'Empire of Images' (Amsterdam, 1985), 'Cracking the Movement' (Amsterdam, 1990/Bewegungslehre, Berlin, 1991/New York, 1994) on the squatter movement in Amsterdam, 'Hoer zu oder Stirb' (Berlin, 1992) on free radio, 'Medien Archiv' (Amsterdam 1992/Bollmann Verlag-Mannheim, 1993) and 'Der Datendandy' (Amsterdam/Mannheim, 1994). More Information: http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet.
links:
geert@xs4all.nl
http://www.aec.at/meme/symp
http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet
http://www.desk.nl/nettime
http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/zkp/isea95.txt
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