First of all I would like to thank Incubate for inviting Andrew Keen to the Incubate Innovation Lecture. Andrew Keen gave a clear lecture about his vision on Internet issues. He raised some legitimate questions about the future of western art in a civilization were nobody pays for an artwork. He states that the digital [...]

I’m from an era where the parents taught us to be modest: What you do is only good enough when others notice and compliment you and of course tell others about it.
Then you could conclude that expressing yourself on the internet is something for younger people or not done?
I doubt that! It’s more or less, [...]

Bijgespijkerd posted the first two videos about the Incubate Innovation Lecture with the keynote speech by Andrew Keen. If you want to see the discussion that happened afterwards, just see the other three vids here.

Keynote speech Andrew Keen at Incubate 2009 (part 1 of 5) from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

Keynote speech Andrew Keen at Incubate [...]

Old versus new cultural radicalism from andrewkeen on Vimeo.

Amelia Andersdotter of Sweden’s Pirate Party from andrewkeen on Vimeo.

Dutch Pirates from andrewkeen on Vimeo.
Last week Andrew Keen did his Incubate Innovation Lecture. It was great. Later this week we’ll post the recordings. Keen also interviewed some people. Check them right here.

Yesterday Andrew Keen wrote an essay on why artists are poor. Ernesto Priego gave a very good reaction on it. The outline is:
1. Artists cannot expect to survive in the 21st century without doing their own promotion (this means also giving work for free).
2. This does not mean [...]

It’s great to see that your work has actual effect in the real world. We’ve invited Andrew Keen to do a keynote on the role of cultural institutions in the digital age. We’ve also asked Hans Abbing for the panel. He is an economist, artist and sociologist. He is professor Emeritus in Art-Sociology at the [...]

Andrew Keen is a pioneering Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founding Audiocafe.com in 1995 and building it into a well-known first generation Internet music company. Then on a conference of internet entrepreneurs in 2004, mr. Keen realized that there was a dark side to the Utopian ideas about democratization of culture shared by the other participants in [...]

Andrew Keen will be doing the Incubate Innovation Lecture. At the 140 Characters Conference he did a lecture on Twitter and power. Check it here.