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June 2026
Amsterdam
The INC Exit Fest conference and party celebrates the departure of the 22 year-old Institute of Network Cultures from the HvA polytech to become an indy-autonomous centre as NGO/cultural organization. OT301, Spui25 & online, 24-26 June. [1]
Berlin
For more than five decades, Gabriele Stötzer has been grappling with questions of justice, gender and self-determination. Her own body often plays a central role in her work – not as an object, but as a site of resistance and feminist self-assertion. Opening at Gropius Bau on 18 June, Dabei sein und nicht schweigen (Showing up and Not Remaining Silent) will be the artist’s largest institutional solo exhibition to date. 19.6.-6.12.
Spreeklänge is a contemporary music festival taking place along the Spree River in Charlottenburg from 25–28 June, organised by the Academy of Arts. The Time to Listen – Multispecies Creativity in Music and Sound conference takes place on 26–27 June.
The 18th edition of Miss Read continues the exploration of decolonising art book fairs, with a special focus on bibliodiversity, at silent green from 26–28 June. Conceptual Poetics Day is scheduled for Saturday 27 June and will explore the imaginary border between visual art and literature.
Brno
Distorted Image. Chapters from the beginnings of video art explores video art in former Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, including experimental film, recordings of performances and actions, early animations, video magazines, installations and sculptures. House of Arts, 29. 4. – 16. 8.
Dortmund
Robotron. Working Class and Intelligentsia, HMKV, 14. March - 26. July. Bringing together works by more than 20 artists; the exhibition explores the transformation of the industrial landscape in East Germany. It addresses themes such as cybernetics and bureaucracy, espionage and reverse engineering, the promises of automation and labour in ‘real existing socialism’, cleanrooms and environmental destruction, the decline of once-significant production sites, and the re-industrialisation of the Dresden region as ‘Silicon Saxony’. Interview.
Hamburg
FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons presents a series of public art commissions dealing with the political, ecological, and spiritual reading of fire in the times of political urgency. Opening weekend: 20. – 21.6. Exhibition: 21.6. – 21.9., St. Nikolai Memorial.
Linz
FMR, Festival for Art in Digital Contexts and Public Spaces. 3–7 June.
Prague
The fourth edition of the Biennale Matter of Art presents art as a necessity that our society cannot do without. The three-month exhibition and accompanying program, subtitled Necessary Wishes, will take place from June 12 to September 13, at the National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace, GAMPA – City Gallery Pardubice, and the Tusculum Prague art center. The public opening ceremony will take place on June 11, and the opening weekend program will continue until Sunday, June 14, with performances, guided tours, and other events.
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File:Brewing Collectives How to Start a Permacomputing Collective 2026.pdf
"This is a guide brewed from conversations with initiatives in London (UK), Berlin (DE), Prague (CZ), Philadelphia (USA), Rotterdam (NL), Vienna (AT), Lutruwtia (Tas/AU), County Mayo (IE) and a community from Middle America gathering on servers. This text can support you when starting a permacomputing collective. It isn’t a strict recipe but more of a loose framework that can be freely modified to suit local tastes and conditions. Many actions are cyclical and can be seen as opportunities to revisit or re-purpose later."
Brewing Collectives was initiated by Aymeric Mansoux and Brendan Howell with support from Error 417 Expectation Failed. Text written by anna andrejew, Brendan Howell and Ola Bonati, based on interviews with Ana Meisel (London Permacomputing Club), Archipiélago I, Colm O'Neil (Wilderland permacomputing group), crunk and d1 (rotterdam.permacomputing.net), Brendan Howell (Berlin Permacomputing Meet Up), Michal Klodner (Node9), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Autoluminescence Institute), Simon Repp (permacomputing Vienna), and Steve McLaughlin (Philly permacomputing + solar punk meetups at Iffy Books, hosted together with Dave Slinger).
Brewing Collectives: How to Start a Permacomputing Collective permacomputing.net, January 2026 16 pages PDF, PDF booklet
2026-2-9
File:Careful A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice 2025.pdf
"Large Language Models have, in a sense, created the ultimate (un)ideal readers for electronic libraries. By treating e-libraries as vast training datasets, algorithmic scraping has become both the fulfilment and the ruin of a core dream in public library culture: that access to books should be free and unlimited for all. AI systems read everything and nothing, at inhuman scale and speed — extracting patterns and selling what they pretend to know as consequence. What once symbolised a democratic promise now risks feeding extractive logics that empty reading of meaning.
So, why should we care — and if we do, how can we put that care into practice?
The ‘Careful VS Careless’ exhibition centres a new conversation between custodians of radical public libraries, known as ‘shadow libraries’. Organised around that conversation are a mixture of symbolic and tactical gestures that help people to think and act carefully in relation to the infrastructures of public knowledge systems."
Published on the occasion of Careful vs Careless: Library Custodians and Artificial Readers and Library Making as Practice at distro, Basel, 5–17 November 2025. With the Library of Inclusions and Omissions, Monoskop, The Piracy Project, Public Library / Memory of the World, a.o. Organised by Lucie Kolb and Maria Maddalena Lenzi.
Compiled by Dušan Barok, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Nick Thurston
Careful: A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice distro, Basel, November 2025 [134] pages PDF (22 mb)
2025-11-5
File:Vertical Atlas 2022.pdf
"How to navigate the rapidly changing digital geopolitics of the world today? How do we make sense of digital transformation and its many social, political, cultural, and environmental implications at different locations around the world?
Vertical Atlas brings together the insights of a diverse group of internationally renowned artists, scientists and technologists from different backgrounds and places. From an investigation into the lithium mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to maps of the fiber-optic submarine cables in the Atlantic and the ride-hailing platforms of China.
Vertical Atlas is not a classic atlas that depicts the world in a uniform manner and it is not a simple collection of traditional maps. This book is a tool that enables comparisons, connections and contradictions between different and diverse visions, realities and worlds – through newly commissioned diagrams, interviews, essays and works of art by leading experts from around the world."
Contributions by: Sophia Al Maria, Heba Y. Amin, Lotte Arndt, Benjamin H. Bratton, Kévin Bray, James Bridle, Ingrid Burrington, Adriana Bustos, Ben Cerveny, Guo Cheng, Chimurenga, Cristina Cochior, Sounak Das, Data Justice Lab (Philippa Metcalfe, Fieke Jansen), Pablo DeSoto, Alex Destoop, Marjolijn Dijkman, DISNOVATION.ORG, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Cao Fei, Shuang Lu Frost, Maya Indira Ganesh, Pélagie Gbaguidi, GCC Group, Geocinema (Asia Baz Qudyrieva, Solveig Suess), John Gerrard, Oulimata Gueye, Camille Henrot, Femke Herregraven, Yuk Hui, Sanneke Huisman, Victoria Ivanova, Vladan Joler, Isaac Kariuki, Francois, Knoetze, Srinivas Kodali, Bogna Konior, Lukáš Likavčan, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Svitlana Matviyenko, Emo de Medeiros, Metahaven, Dorine Mokha, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Edmond Musasa, Leu N’seya, Katja Novitskova, Trevor Paglen, Alice Piva, Chen 'Stanley' Qiufan, Nii Quaynor, Elia Rediger, Tabita Rezaire, Lucas Rolim, Bassem Saad, Nanjira Sambuli, Georges Senga, Nzilani Simu, Andrej Škufca, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Suzanne Treister, Unknown Fields, Jordi Vallverdú, Richard Vijgen, Sarah Waiswa, Zhan Wang, Kedolwa Waziri, Mi You, Qiu Zhijie, Dan Zhu.
Edited by Leonardo Dellanoce, Amal Khalaf, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Nanjala Nyabola, Renée Roukens, Arthur Steiner, Mi You
Vertical Atlas Publisher ArtEZ Press, Arnhem, and Hivos, 2022 ISBN 9789491444692 357 pages PDF (65 mb)
2025-11-3
File:Deborder Bollore 2025.epub
"Une publication multiformat coéditée par plus d’une centaine d’éditeurices indépendant·es, disponible à la vente en librairie et en libre diffusion sur deborderbollore.fr aux formats web, EPUB et PDF.
Dans le contexte de la campagne Désarmons Bolloré, et en emboîtant le pas au boycott appelé par les « libraires antifascistes », nous, éditeurices indépendant·es, coéditons collectivement cette publication multiformat pour prendre part depuis notre secteur à la réflexion générale sur le démantèlement de l’empire Bolloré.
Les contributions mettent en avant la pensée de chercheureuses, d’imprimeureuses, d’éditeurices et de libraires qui analysent et/ou subissent les dynamiques de concentration et d’extrême droitisation du marché. Chacun·e tente de formuler, depuis sa position respective, des réponses à cette question urgente : comment faire face au libéralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre ?
En tant qu’éditeurices indépendant·es, nous sommes indirectement visé·es par le projet totalisant de Bolloré car nos structures sont des espaces qui permettent la fabrique de contre-récits et la circulation de voix minoritaires. Face à de grands groupes monopolistiques qui filtrent les récits, il nous faut lutter pour préserver ces espaces essentiels de résistance et qui — n’en déplaise aux prophètes·ses du « grand remplacement » et aux croyant·es du « lobby LGBTQ+ » — se font rares.
La forme de cette publication multiformat part du constat suivant : si, à lui seul, Vincent Bolloré se montre capable de mobiliser des moyens logistiques et médiatiques colossaux pour mener sa « guerre civilisationnelle », alors nous devons, de notre côté, mobiliser l’entièreté de notre réseau d’éditeurices, de diffuseurs, de libraires et de relais médiatiques pour y résister. Face à la concentration par les grands groupes, faisons jouer la multiplicité et la singularité caractéristique du monde du livre indépendant.
Bolloré, par l’intermédiaire d’Hachette, est un acteur majeur de la concentration capitalistique du milieu éditorial, mais il n’est pas le seul instigateur de cette dynamique. C’est la structure même du monde du livre qui permet à de grands groupes de s’accaparer 90 % du marché de l’édition. Ainsi avons-nous décidé de « déborder Bolloré », c’est-à-dire de dépasser la figure, certes exubérante du personnage, pour comprendre, dans un premier temps, les mécanismes avec lesquels il opère et comment, dans un second temps, les déjouer depuis nos positions d’acteurices de l’édition indépendante."
Déborder Bolloré: faire face au libéralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre Collectif éditorial Déborder Bolloré, 2025 Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License ISBN 978-3-0361-0138-5 EPUB, Web, PDFs, Markdown
2025-7-23
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