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Geert Lovink is the speaker for our second keynote address, the following is a summary of his lecture. Geert founded the Institute for Network Cultures (http://www.networkcultures.org/portal/) in 2004. He has a forthcoming book from Routledge called *Zero Comments: Kernels of Critical Internet Culture*. In this book he has a chapter entitled "Blogging the Nihilist Impulse" which is a study of the blogging phenomenon. A second details what he refers to as "the crisis of media arts" called "The Cool Obscure." In "The Substance of Internet Time" Geert details a failed attempt by Swatch to institute its own form of "internet time." The book ends with studies of four concepts rather than critical essays. These four chapters are entitled, "Updatig Tactical Media," "Theory of Free Cooperation," "Distributed Aesthetics," and Organized Networks."