Amsterdam

Initiatives

Venues

• 11, club
• ADM, squat, *1997
• De Appel, contemporary arts centre, *1975
• Bajesdorp, neighbourhood, *2003
• De Balie, theatre, socio-cultural centre and restaurant, *1982
• Boekie Woekie, books by artists, *1986
• Bologna.cc, project space
• Butcher's Tears, micro-brewery and event venue, *2013
• Casco Amsterdam, club and café, *2016
• Cinetol, cultural venue, *2014
• Concerto, record store, *1955
• EYE, film museum, *2010
• fanfare, platform for independent design, art and spatial practices, *2014
• Filmhuis Cavia, *1983
• Framer Framed, exhibition space, *2014
• Galerie A / Multiples.nl, artists' books and photography gallery, *1976
• Galerie van Gelder, *1985
• GROND, art space, *2024
• Hackers & Designers, art, technology and design coop, Noord, *2019
• Het HEM, home for contemporary culture, Zaandam, *2022
• ImagineIC
• Joe's Garage, autonomous socio-political centre, *2005
• Kriterion, cinema, *1945
• Kulter, gallery, *2009
• Lab111, media café
• LAG, hacklab, *2013
• Lely, urban resort, *2017
• LI-MA, *2013
• Loods6, creative centre, *1996
• Lumen Travo, *1985
• Marwan, artist-run project space, *2016
• Mediamatic, bio art and tech venue, *1983
• De Melkweg, music venue and cultural centre, *1970
• NASA, *2012
• NDSM Art City (Kunststad), *2007, [1]
• De Nieuwe Anita, concert venue, *2005
• Nieuw Dakota, platform for contemporary art, *2010
• No Other Option, artist-run neighborhood workshop, *2024
• OCCII, event venue, *1984
• OT301, alternative centre, *1999
• P/////AKT, exhibition space, *2003
• Paradiso, music venue and cultural centre, *1968
• Perdu, poetry bookstore, *1984
• Plan B, gallery, *2006
• Plantage Dok & Dokhuis Galerie, *1998
• De Punt, art and project space, *2014
• Red Light Records, second-hand record store for rare and obscure music, *2007
• Rongwrong, space for art and theory, *2011
• Rozenstraat, project space, *2017
• De Ruimte, concert venue & café restaurant, *2012
• San Serriffe, art bookshop, *2011
• De School, multifunctional space, *2016
• Spui 25, academic-cultural centre
• STEIM, studio for electro-instrumental music, *1967
• TAAK, art centre
• TAG
• Technologia Incognita, hackerspace, *2012
• Torpedo Theater, small-scale theatre, formerly Parooltheater, *2001
• Veem House for Performance, *1986
• Vintage Voudou, record store, *2010
• Vondelbunker, autonomous centre, *2011
• W139, exhibition space, *1979
• Waag Society, institute for art, science and technology, *1994
• West Wednesdays
• Zone2Source, art/nature/tech exhibition platform, *2014

• Association: MOKER - Verenigde Beeldende Kunstinstellingen Amsterdam (*2019).

• Past spaces: Side Room (2014-2016), Lost Property gallery (2012-2013), Outpost artist-run space (2009-2013), Smart Project Space (-2012), Quarantine Series (2003-2004), ASCII hacklab (1999-2006), Desk.nl media lab (1994-1996), Montevideo / Time Based Arts / NIMk (1978/1993-2012), The Living Room gallery (1981-1993), Other Books and So artist-run bookstore (1975-1979) and archive (1979-1989), In-Out Center artist space (1972-1974), Art & Project gallery (1968-2001).

Other initiatives

• Critical Infrastructure Lab, *2023, [2]
• DFM, freeform radio
• Future Ruins, *2013
• The Hmm, platform for internet cultures, *2016
• Institute of Artificial Art Amsterdam
• If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, *2005
• Institute of Network Cultures, *2004
• Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, online radio
• LAPS, research institute for art and public space
• Nettime-nl, mailing list, *1996
• Neverneverland foundation, *2016
• Perdu, *1984
• perform doc, *2018
• Platform BK, *2012
• Roma Publications, art book publisher, *1998
• Urban Resort, *2007
• Valiz, art book publisher, *2003
• xs4all, *1993

• Past initiatives: Redmond intersectional feminist collective (2013-2017), Netband, European Cultural Backbone (*1999), SKOR (*1999), The Dutch Thing (*1996), De Digitale Stad (*1994), Hacktic Network (1992-1995), Virtueel Platform (1996-2012), Mediamatic magazine (1986-2007), Hack-Tic (1989-1993), Radio 100 pirate radio, Patapoe pirate radio, Vrije Keijzer pirate radio, XyberTag BBS, Adilkno / Bilwet (1983-1999), Suck magazine (1969-1974).

Events

• 2.Dh5, annual festival for the exchange of radical ideas, strategies and practices by grassroots campaigns, collective projects and direct action campaigns, since 2018
• Atrabilious Experimental Filmfest, *2015
• Amsterdam Girl Geek Dinner, *2008
• Dead Darlings, *2005, [3]
• DNK, concert series, *2005
• Fiber Festival, *2011
• Hackers & Designers, *2013
• In-Between Media: Hybrid Tactics in the Crisis Era, conference, 2023
• Lost & Found, festival, *1997
• Other Futures, festival, *2018
• Sonic Acts, festival, *1994
• Sounds of the Underground (SOTU), music festival, *2012
• (tbd), hacker camp, *2018, 2023, 2024
• WhyNot, contemporary dance & performance festival, *2010

• Event listings: Amsterdam Alternative, Amsterdam on radar.squat.net.

Past events

• Iterations, creative coding symposium, 2021
• Making Public, conference, 2019
• DNK Days, festival, 2018
• Printing Plant: Art Book Fair, 2018
• As If: The Media Artist as Trickster, exhibition, 2017
• The Society of Post-Control, conference, 2017
• Idiotic Code, 2015
• Radical Software [4], 2014
• Interference, festival, 2014
• Unlike Us, 2012
• Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman?, conference festival, 2012-2013
• GLI.TC/H, 2011
• The Art of Hacking, exhibition, 2011
• The Second Act, 2011
• Amsterdam SuperCollider Users Group, 2011
• Cinema Clash Continuum conference-festival, 2011
• Soundart festival, 2011
• Transnatural, festival, 2010-2012
• ElectroSmog, festival, 2010
• Critical Point of View, 2010
• Society of the Query, conference, 2009, 2013
• Eclectic Tech Carnival, 2008
• Walled Garden, conference, 2008
• VX:mission, 2008
• Economies of the Commons, conference series, 2008-2012
• Video Vortex, exhibition, 2007-2008
• Mobile Music Workshop, 2007
• Culture 2.0, 2007
• Recalling RFID, 2007
• New Network Theory, conference, 2007
• C'lick Me, netporn festival, 2007
• The Art and Politics of Netporn, conference, 2005
• Incommunicado, conference, 2005
• Victorian Circus, festival, 2005-2008
• Urban Screens, 2005, 2009
• An Archaeology of Imaginary Media, 2004
• E-Culture Fair 2, 2003
• World-Information.Org, 2002
• E-Culture Fair, 2000
• Net.Congestion, 2000
• Tulipomania DotCom, conference, 2000
• That Media Thing 1+2, symposium, 1999
• Browser Day, 1998-2002
• P2P Conference, 1997
• Doors of Perception, conference, 1993-2002
• Next 5 Minutes, 1993-2003
• Wetware Convention, 1991
• Decolonization of Imagination, 1991
• Art meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy, 1990
• The Seropositive Ball, 1990
• Galactic Hacker Party, 1989
• Talking Back to the Media, 1985
• World Wide Video, festival, *1982
• Works and Words, 1979

Art workers

• Alina Lupu (1985)
• Amran Anjun
• André Avelãs
• Anja Groten
• Anne Helmond
• Annet Dekker
• Annette Wolfsberger
• Arie Altena
• Arjen Mulder
• Arnisa Zeqo
• Balázs Bodó
• Bas van Koolwijk
• Bernhard Rieder (1976)
• Cãlin Dan (1955)
• Caroline Nevejan
• Christina Della Giustina (1965)
• Claudia Roeck
• Constant Dullaart (1979)
• Cristina Garriga
• Debra Solomon
• Donna Metzlar (1969)
• Elisabeth Klement
• Eric Kluitenberg (1965)
• Erik Borra (1981)
• Esther Weltevrede
• Felicia von Zweigbergk
• Gaby Wijers
• Geert Lovink (1959)
• Gert-Jan Prins (1961)
• Irad Lee
• Isabelle Vigier (1963)
• Ivo Bol
• James Beckett (1977)
• Jan Simons
• Jarl Schulp
• Jaromil
• John Haltiwanger
• Jonas Lund
• Jonathan Reus
• Joost Rekveld (1970)
• Joris van Hoboken
• Josephine Bosma
• Juha van 't Zelfde
• Juli Laczkó
• Karl Klomp (1979)
• Karl Moubarak
• Katja Novitskova (1984)
• Lara Khaldi
• Lilian Stolk
• Lonneke van der Velden
• Louwrien Wijers (1941)
• Marc Stumpel
• Maria Hlavajova
• Mariana Lanari (1976)
• Marije Baalman
• Mark Bain
• Marleen Stikker (1962)
• Martijn Comes (1979)
• Martijn Tellinga (1974)
• Martine Neddam (1953)
• Martijn van Boven (1977)
• Maxigas
• Menno Grootveld
• Michel Waisvisz (1949)
• Michelle Kasprzak
• Nuraini Juliastuti
• Ñusta Nina
• Olga Sezneva
• Paul Keller (1974)
• Pieter Verbeke
• Radboud Mens
• Remco van Bladel (1977)
• Renée Ridgway
• Richard Rogers
• The Rodina
• Rosa Menkman
• Sanneke Huisman
• Seamus Cater
• Sebastian Scholz (1977)
• Sepp Eckenhaussen (1993)
• Sher Doruff
• Sjoerd Leijten (1983)
• Sujata Majumdar (1976)
• Sophie Berrebi (1973)
• Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
• Thomas Poell (1973)
• Tjebbe van Tijen (1944)
• Tom Demeyer
• Vesna Manojlovic
• Viljam Nybacka
• RIP: Harold Schellinx (1956-2025), Ulises Carrión (1941-1989).

Publications

• Caroline Nevejan, Presence and the Design of Trust, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 2007. PhD thesis. [5]

• Caroline Nevejan, Alexander Badenoch, "How Amsterdam Invented the Internet: European Networks of Significance, 1980–1995", in Hacking Europe: From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes, eds. Gerard Alberts and Ruth Oldenziel, Springer, 2014, pp. 189-217.

• Maarten Reijnders, De Hackers die Nederland veranderden, Amsterdam: Podium, 2023, 352 pp. Publisher. (Dutch)

• Pak Mokum Terug: woonstrijd in een krakende stad, Amsterdam: Spookstad, with Starfish Books, 2023, 363 pp. Publisher, [6]. (Dutch)
  • Take Back Mokum: Squatting and the Housing Struggle in Amsterdam, Amsterdam: Spookstad, 2024, 353 pp. Publisher.

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