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Program

Institute of Network Cultures Exit Fest

June 22-24, 2026

Starting with a University of Amsterdam Humanities faculty event on Wednesday night at Spui25, we will gather for a two day event in the former Amsterdam squat OT 301 for a two day conference plus additional programs such as a book fair and a closing party on Friday night.

The INC Exit Fest is a community gathering and party that celebrates the departure of our 22 year-old research group from the Amsterdam HvA-polytech to become an autonomous centre/NGO/orgnet/Dutch cultural organization. The move was instigated by the mandatory retirement at 67 on September 1, 2026 of its founder Geert Lovink. INC did not want to run the risk of being taken over by outsiders with a different agenda that would, for instance, close down the website. We would more budget cuts, force to work on AI ethics and thus kill the spirit and vision that was forged over the past decades. Any form of appropriation would be the end of a precious legacy we’re proud of. Instead, the team decided, already in 2024 to step into an open, yet uncertain, future–one in which will look for new partners, coalitions, and funding possibilties. We believe in the power of metamorphosis and new beginnings. It is the strong desire of the wider INC community to continue our ever-changing INC ways to bring together critical research with speculative experimentation.

The three-day program has grown organically, curated by the current core team. Due to limited funds and the special occasion, this event does not have the usual aim to create a network that will intervene in one specific emerging field. In the past these were, for instance, search, online video, net porn, urban sceens, art criticsm, Wikipedia, urgent publishing, precarity in the arts, or crypto. Instead, we have chosen to give an overview of the issues that we have been working on lately such as digital sovereignty, streaming, girl theory, AI refusal, digital publishing strategies and Internet Core aesthetics. Most of all, we want to come together and celebrate our unique tribe with the aim to decide where to take INC next. Last but not least, we do all this inside the psychedelic green screen and close off, as we’ve often done in the previous years at OT301, with a performance evening and party INC style.

Timetable: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bNz0cq1HuLQYNZnnIvvziYH9gYVLxiLLD8-cCSZa4Ow/edit?usp=sharing

Full Program: https://networkcultures.org/geert/events/incs-exit-fest/

Locations:

(Day 1) Spui25: Spui 25, 1012 WX Amsterdam

(Day 2-3) OT301: Overtoom 301, 1054 JL Amsterdam

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

20.00-21.30

@ SPUI25/Online

19:30 pm πŸ”“ Doors open

20.00-21.30 (Spui25) 🎀Critique Under Pressure: Platform Power(Session + Q\&A)

Speakers: Ned Rossiter, Tiziana Terranova, Yuk Hui, Anna-Verena Nosthoff.

Introduction: Marc Tuters and Geert Lovink.

Chair: Jernej Markelj.

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Thursday, June 25, 2026

10:00-19:00

@ OT301/Online

9:30 am πŸ”“ Doors open

10.00 - 12.00 (Studio/Online) 🎀 Mapping the Current Net Culture Condition (Session + Q\&A)

With: Vladan Joler, Rosa Menkman, Lesia Kulchynska, Cade Diehm, Miriam Rasch, Silvio Lorusso.

Chair: Geert Lovink

13.00 - 14.30 (Studio/Online) 🎀 Streaming Vortex: Video, Publishing and Tactical Media (Session + Q\&A)

With: Andreas Treske, Michael Dieter, Antonia HernΓ‘ndez, and Konfluxus Collective.

Chair: Tommaso Campagna and Jordi Viader Guerrero.

13:00 - 14:30 (Cinema) 🎀 Politics of Digital Sovereignty (Session + Q\&A)

With: Gianmarco Christofari, Annalisa Pelizza, Sebastian Giessmann and Klara Debeljak.

Chair: Geert Lovink.

15:00-16:30 (Studio/Online) πŸ“Ί VHS Archival Session (Screening + Presentations)

Curated by Giovanni Rossetti.

16:30 -17:00 (Cinema) 🎭 Weaving Through Screens (Performance).

Curated by Laura Mrksa and Slutty Urbanism Collective (Letizia Chiappini and Valeria Ferrari)

17:00 - 19:00 (Studio) πŸ™‹πŸ» INC General Assembly on the Future of INC (Open Discussion)

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Friday, June 26, 2026

10:00-03:00

@OT301/Online

9:30 am πŸ”“ Doors open

10.00 - 11.45 (Studio/Online) 🎀 Gendered Desire & Resentment on the Platform: Can we Queer Alienation into Belonging? (Session + Q\&A)

With: Kate Babin, Francesco Barchiesi, Dunja Neőović and İdil Galip.

Chair: ChloΓ« Arkenbout.

10:00 - 12.15 (Cinema Bar) πŸ™‹πŸ» Creative Resistance Against AI Assembly (Workshop)

Facilitated by Eke Rebergen and Jordi Viader Guerrero,

13:00 - 14:00 (Studio/Online) 🎀 Goodbye Poverty Jetset: MoneyLab Lessons for Creative Work (Session)

With: Inte Gloerich, Alessandro Longo, MACAO (Emanuele Braga, Federico Aldovisi), and Patricia de Vries.

Chair: Sepp Eckenhaussen.

13:00 - 13:30 (Cinema) 🎭 Internet Core Performance Lecture (Performance)

With: Laura Subirats and Diana MilΓ‘n.

14:00- 14:45 (Studio/Online) πŸ™‹πŸ»The Ultimate MyCreativity & MoneyLab Trivia Quiz (Quiz)

Quizmasters: Inte Gloerich & Patricia de Vries

15.15 - 17.00 (Studio/Online) 🎀 Internet Aesthetics: Where Are The Thinkers? (Session + Q\&A)

With: Morgane Billuart, Sophie Publig, Sofi Xian, and Klaudia Orczykowska

Chair: Ruben Stoffelen & Mela Miekus.

15:15 - 15:45 (Cinema) 🎭 Weaving Through Screens (Performance)

Curated by Laura Mrksa and Slutty Urbanism Collective (Letizia Chiappini and Valeria Ferrari)

17:30 - 18:30 (Studio/Online) 🎀 INC 2.0 Updates: Enjoy Your Endings (OT301 Studio)

With: Ruben Stoffelen, Mela Miekus, Tommaso Campagna, ChloΓ« Arkenbout, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Giovanni Rossetti and Geert Lovink.

20:30-22:00 (Studio/Online/Cinema) 🎭 Weaponised Media: Tactical Streaming Performances

πŸ”Š πŸ”Š πŸ”Š πŸ”Š πŸ”Š πŸ”Š πŸ”Š

Mini Book Fair (OT301 Cinema Bar)

Friday June 26, 17.00-23:00

With: Outline, HumDrumPress, Nero & MACAO, Xpub, Spookstad, Hothead, Visual Methodologies Collective, Aksioma, Set Margins, Sleepy Press

Installations (Around OT301)

Ben Grosser

V.I.B.E.

Alex Zakkas

Doom Scrolling Room (Cinema)

Weaving Through Screens. Collective Doomscrolling and Productive Unrest. By Slutty Urbanism (Letizia Chiappini, Valeria Ferrari) and Laura Mrksa. Installation bed/fitness balls (woven by Laura). Sound: Gropina – Zeno Poggioni.

Installation available from Thursday, 11:00 am to Friday, 20:30

Screenings (Studio)

INC Archival Material

Beautiful World: A Film by Mieke Gerritzen

P.A.R.K. 4d Tv Cd Rom Twaalf Uur Puur Beeld En Geluid\

Vertical

Reality_Hacking

Cyberpunk

And more…

Suggestions (Around the Netherlands)

Exhibition (Framer Framed, Amsterdam)

Wild Waters | 19 Jun – 30 Aug 2026

From 19 June to 30 August 2026, Framer Framed presents Wild Waters: Dams and Deltas After Modernity, curated by Γ€ngels Miralda. The exhibition examines water as both a life-sustaining resource and an instrument of political power, tracing the ways hydraulic infrastructures have shaped landscapes, histories and systems of environmental exploitation across different geographies.

Link: https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/wild-waters/

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Suggestion for Day 4 (Impakt, Utrecht)

ART & ACTIVISM ON TECH-AUTHORITARIANISM | Saturday 27 June, 19:30–21:00

Artist Talk Paolo Cirio

Art & Activism on Tech-Authoritarianism, artist talk by Paolo Cirio at Impakt in Utrecht. Paolo Cirio is known for his critical investigations into technology, power, surveillance and society. He will discuss how art can expose and challenge hidden power structures embedded in our digital society β€” from facial recognition and the data economy to digital rights and online manipulation.

Link: https://impakt.nl/events/2026/artist-talk/art-activism-on-tech-authoritarianism/

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