After the devastating national art funding cuts in 2011 the Dutch media art institute NiMK had to close. It was a terrible blow to the media art community. The NiMk had been an important place to meet during exhibition openings, performances, talks and more. In order to bring the community back together and at least revive media art discourse artist Karen Lancel and me initiated Third Nature dinner parties at the new art initiative Zone2Source. Every dinner party had a different theme and the first one, of which you see a photo of the table setting below, revolved around the body in Third Nature. The gatherings took place in 2014 and 2015.
The project was inspired by the work of McKenzie Wark's Hacker Manifesto, in which she speaks of the emergence of a new economy and society through the influence of digital technologies as Third Nature. "Third nature is a world of networking, which makes possible new forms of commodity economy, but also new forms of what Geert Lovink calls ‘notworking’, new modes of association."
