Inte Gloerich
Critical media & technology researcher
Inte Gloerich as guest in the frame of Speculative Economies
From Feminist Finance Zine to Decentralized CurrenciesTursday, Apr 24th, doors open at 6:30 pm
For the past 10 years, researcher Inte Gloerich has been focussing on the cultures and imaginaries around emerging media and technologies, specifically in relation to the kinds of future sociopolitical, economic, and ecological worlds they are claimed to be able to bring about. During this event, she’ll discuss some of her past projects and contribute key references that shaped them to the Au Jus library. On the menu will be: the Feminist Finance Zine (on what the economy could look like if it was based on feminist values and making a collective syllabus); Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (on speculative and creative practices rethinking blockchain as a way to practice different ways of being together); MoneyLab (on experiments with the democratisation of the digital economy); and her PhD project Reimagining the Truth Machine (on the entanglement of histories of rationalism, colonialism technology, and religion and how they shape blockchain culture).
About:
Inte Gloerich is a critical media & technology researcher and cultural organizer. She is interested in the intersection of media and technology, future visions and imaginaries, and sociocultural concerns. She examines the infrastructures that mediate and facilitate contemporary life as part of wider social, cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which power dynamics are at play. This research aims to contribute to a better understanding of the implications of data epistemologies and algorithmic systems in the digital society. It also aims to harness the power of artistic and activist engagements with technology for collectively reimagined futures.
She has been a researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures, a PhD candidate at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University (where she wrote her PhD dissertation Reimagining the Truth Machine: Blockchain Imaginaries between the Rational and the More-than-Rational), and a lecturer at the Media Studies department of the University of Amsterdam. She co-edited MoneyLab Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype (with Geert Lovink and Patricia de Vries, 2018) and State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship (with Yiannis Colakides and Marc Garrett, 2019) and interviewed practitioners for Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations on Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future (2025). She also frequently organises conferences and symposia addressing the crossroads between digital economy, technology, culture, and politics. She collaborated with the research and publishing platform Amateur Cities in conceptualising the Feminist Finance Zine (2020) and writing the Feminist Finance Syllabus (2020).