Neocypherpunk Summit

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Organization after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019), Stuck on the Platform (2022) and Platform Brutality (2025). In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures (https://www.networkcultures.org) at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), which will become independent in September 2026 after his mandatory retirement. The centre is focused on revenue models in the arts (MoneyLab), social media critique and mapping the Gen Z mental landscape and expanded publishing experiments. INC is part of support campaigns for Ukranian artists, in particular UkrainaTV (Krakow) and the related StreamArtNetwork.