The Stockholm release of Platform Brutality
- Release of Platform Brutality in Stockholm
- A conversation between Geert Lovink and Isabel Löfgren and mirko nikolić
What: Bookshop Situation Series
When: Friday 22 May, 18.00–20:00 hr
Where: Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Kungsbrostrand 19, 11226 Stockholm
Organised by: VISTRANS* Digital Transformations initiative, Södertörn Universit
Admission: Free
Language: English
This session will include reading passages from the book and discussion of its pressing themes such as platform politics, the effects on planetary and personal well-being, and the role of art in this equation. Lovink will also talk about the Institute of Network Culture (INC) publishing and streaming practices, and how they are an integral part of performing radical media and art critique.
About the speakers:
Geert Lovink is a Dutch theorist and media critic at the University of Amsterdam. He is the founder of the Institute of Network Cultures (INC) and is the author of several books on Internet Critique.
The Visual Narratives and Planetary Transformations Studio (VISTRANS*) is an artistic research initiative led by artists Isabel Löfgren and mirko nikolić at Södertörn University. Through interdisciplinary dialogue and creative experimentation, the group reimagines the role of art, media, and visual culture in contesting dominant infrastructures and temporalities. It explores artistic and practice-based responses to the entangled ecological, political, and digital conditions shaping planetary life.
This event is supported by the Digital Transformations research platform at Södertörn University.
The Bookshop Situation Series at Index is based on events to present books, magazines, records and other artistic formats. The bookshop situation is a way to test content, to share it, to distribute it, offering situations to be part of a community of experimental producers and users.