Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters: Book Launch with Joanna Walsh

​Habbo Hotels, Tumblr likes, MySpace custom HTML. The internet used to be fun, and now it's, well, something else.

What was once a site of uninhibited creativity has become cultural currency, financialised clickbait, platform capitalism. How did we get here? Where are we going?

​Joanna Walsh, author of Amateurs!, joins us on Thursday, 13th November, to examine how and why creativity became the price of digital existence.

​This event is supported by the EU and Culture Ireland.

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​Joanna Walsh a multidisciplinary writer for print, digital and
performance. The author of twelve books (several co-written with DIY AIs that she coded), her publishers include Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury and Verso. She is the creator of the digital narratives, seed-story.com and miss-communication.ie. Her work has been performed/exhibited at venues including IMMA, the ICA, BETA Festival Dublin, and Sample Studios Cork. She founded and directed the online activist projects @read_women (2014-18), and @noentry_arts (2019_2024). She was the 2020 Markievicz Awardee for Literature in Ireland, the 2017 UK Arts Foundation fellow for literature; the Anthony Burgess Centenary Writer Fellow at the University of Manchester in 2017 and the 2024 DAAD Artists in Berlin awardee for literature (refused in solidarity with Palestine).

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