INC Exit Fest

On 24, 25, and 26 June 2026, the Institute of Network Cultures organizes the INC Exit Fest, 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 center/NGO/org-net/Dutch cultural organization. The move was instigated by the mandatory retirement at 67 on September 1, 2026 of its founder Geert Lovink. Already in 2024, the team decided to step into an open, yet uncertain, future–one in which will look for new partners, coalitions, and funding possibilities. 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.

Program:

9:30 am - 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 Nešović and İdil Galip.
Chair: Chloë Arkenbout.

10:00 - 12.15 (Cinema Bar) - Creative Resistance Against AI Assembly (Workshop - Registration Needed (Link tba))
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 Milán.

14:00- 14:45 (Studio/Online) - 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, Chloë Arkenbout, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Giovanni Rossetti and Geert Lovink.

20:30-22:00 (Studio/Online/Cinema) - Weaponised Media: Streaming Performances
Politics of Filtration by Ksenia Ryback and Dasha Hetmanova (Lecture Performance)
Fannypack Music by Martina Raponi (Music Performance)
School of the Image: Constellations by Donatella Della Ratta, Noura Tafeche and THE VOID (Live Video Essay Performance)
Field (Before and After) by Gabriel Vigliensoni  (Live Coding Music Performance)

Book Fair / Exhibitions / Screenings / Side Activities / Suggestions

/////  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)
V.I.B.E.
Playground — On teaching in the time of forced automation

///// 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

/////  Breaks 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 VHS
And more…