Geert Lovink (1959, Amsterdam), studied political science at 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 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). Since 1991 he has
lectured media theory in Eastern Europe and participated there
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) and a 'cultural ambassador'
for 'de Waag', the Society for Old and New Media. Regular contributor
of Andere Sinema (Antwerpen) and member of the editorial board
of ARKzin (Zagreb).
He co-organized the 'Wetware Convention' (Amsterdam, 1991), 'The
Next Five Minutes', a 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, 1994-6), '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 the spring of 1995, together with Pit Schultz, he founded
the International 'nettime' circle which is promoting 'net criticism'
www.desk.nl/nettime). Nettime is both a mailinglist, a series of gatherings (The
Beauty and the East, Ljubljana, 1997) and also appears in paper
(Netzkritik, Edition ID-Archiv, Berlin, 1997 and ZKP 1-4). Among
his publications are Adilkno's 'Empire of Images' (Amsterdam,
1985), 'Cracking the Movement' (Amsterdam, 1990/Berlin, 1991/New
York, 1994) on the squatter movement in Amsterdam, 'Hoer zu oder
Stirb'
(Berlin, 1992) on free radio, 'Medien Archiv' (Amsterdam 1992/Mannheim
1993/New York 1997), 'Der Datendandy' (Amsterdam/Mannheim, 1994)
and 'Elektronische Einsamkeit' (Koeln, 1997)
More Information: http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet
Geert Lovink
Zandstraat 2-b
NL-1011 HK Amsterdam
tel/fax ++ 31 20 6203297
geert@xs4all.nl