Mecenaat is in opkomst in de Nederlandse beeldende kunst. Van een paar tientjes tot vele miljoenen, gulle gevers strooien met geld en goodies. Succesverhalen en excessen halen vaak de krant; een grote prijs, een geliefd standbeeld, een geval van belastingontduiking. Maar over de grotere structuren van …

Over the past two months, the Going Hybrid Publishing group has convened for two days of design sprints. The discussions we had during these sprints were informed by our previous state-of-the-art analysis and survey of relevant tools and practices. This blog post is a recap of two design sprint days, …

Seeing the wild amount and variety of experimental publications brought to the world, it is hardly possible to claim that any of them is a ‘best practice’. But some of them are certainly highly interesting in terms of formal experiment, quality, or redefinition of the reading experience. Below, you find …

Heeft zelforganisatie zelfstandig werkenden in de kunst geholpen het hoofd tijdens de pandemie boven water te houden? Een stand van zaken aan de hand van praktijkvoorbeelden op het gebied van tentoonstellingsruimtes, kunstverkoop en woon-en werkruimte.

A visual podcast on the history of social art policy in the Netherlands (1949-2012) and the lessons we can draw from it.

An introduction of the Hybrid Publications group of the research project Going Hybrid. The blog-post discusses affiliated researchers and organizations, working questions, expert opinions, and previous work done by partners.

Artists and other cultural workers have tried to create stable, long-term collective income systems for themselves forever. In 2004, an American tech entrepreneur launched one of the most ambitious redistribution schemes up to date, the Artist Pension Trust (APT). The idea was to give artists not just …

The Institute of Network Cultures and the Learning Community Critical Making are proud to present the Post-Precarity Zine, a toolbox for beginning artists. Times have changed. The art world and the creative economy are no longer the ones we used to know. The digital economy, the pandemic, and the cuts …

Veel afstudeerders van kunstacademies ervaren een harde, stressvolle landing op de arbeidsmarkt. In deze onzekere tijd verdienen zij meer grip te krijgen op hun eigen toekomst. Academies zouden studenten beter moeten voorbereiden