If you're interested, read my bio below. Sorry about the length.
I've been interested in film theory since the early 1980s. Together with
Basjan van Stam, as the Dutch theory collective Bilwet (Adilkno in English)
in 1985 we published The Empire of Images, a mass-psycho-semio-schizo
reading of Paris, Texas, The Day After and The Right Stuff. Unfortunately
this book is only available in Dutch. It's a wild theory book, written under
the spill of the early eighties Cold War nuclear missile crisis. It also
contains a mix of general traffic theory and earlish media theory. Since
then Adilkno has published occasional film analyses. I rent lots of films in
the local video store, here in Sydney, so I am sort of up to date with
what's going on. I also see lots of crap films in planes which I usually do
not watch with much interest.
The high level of intellectual commitment within film theory has been a
great inspiration for me to demand--and practice--a sophistic theory of new
media and the Internet, my current field of study/practice.
Ciao, Geert
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Geert Lovink (1959, Amsterdam), media theorist, net critic and activist,
based in Sydney, studied political science on the University of Amsterdam
(MA) and will hold a PhD at University of Melbourne (early 2003). He is
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
texts of Adilkno in Dutch, German and English can be found at
http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet. 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' (http://www.dds.nl)
and the support campaign for independent media in South-East Europe "Press
Now" http://www.dds.nl/pressnow. He was the co-organizer of conferences such
as Wetware (1991), Next Five Minutes 1-3 (93-96-99) http://www.n5m.org,
Metaforum 1-3 (Budapest 94-96) http://www.mrf.hu, Ars Electronica (Linz,
1996/98) http://www.aec.at and Interface 3 (Hamburg 95). In 1995, together
with Pit Schultz, he founded the international 'nettime' circle
http://www.nettime.org 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 (http://www.waag.org) 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
http://www.iminet.ac.jp. A series of temporary media labs was started in
1997 at the arts exhibition Documenta X in Kassel/Germany called Hybrid
Workspace (for archive see http://www.medialounge.net which continued in
Manchester (1998) and Helsinki, in the contemporary arts museum Kiasma
(http://temp.kiasma.fi). A recent conference he organized was Tulipomania
Dotcom conference, which took place in Amsterdam, June 2000, focussing on a
critique of the New Economy www.balie.nl/tulipomania. In early 2001 he
co-founded www.fibreculture.org, a forum for Australian Internet research
and culture which has its first publication out, launched at the first
fibreculture meeting in Melbourne (December 2001). Since 2000 he is a
consultant/editor to the exchange program of Waag Society (Amsterdam) and
Sarai New Media Centre (Dehli). His latest conference he co-organized is
Dark Markets on new media and democracy in times of crisis (Vienna, October
2002, http://darkmarkets.t0.or.at/). Two books document his collaboration
with the Dutch designer Mieke Gerritzen which he co-edited: Everyone is a
Designer (BIS, 2000) and Catalogue of Strategies (Gingko Press, 2001).
Together with Mieke Gerritzen in 1998 he co-founded the Browserday events
(www.browserday.com), a competition for new media design students. In 2002
The MIT Press will publish two of his titles: "Dark Fiber", a collection of
esssays on Internet culture and "Uncanny Networks", collected interviews
with media theorists and artists. Online text archives: www.desk.org/bilwet
and www.laudanum.net/geert.
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