Since the 1990s, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of communication. With a new, scintillating philosophical history of the internet out from Verso, Spike contributor and former “Theory of Style” columnist Joanna Walsh kicked off her tour for Amateurs with a reading and conversation with Spike editor Isabella Zamboni about the fuzzy space between digital creativity and art.

Books remain available for purchase at our Berlin office; write to isabella.zamboni@spikeartmagazine.com to reserve a copy and schedule a pick-up.

Spike Berlin
Goebenstr. 22
10783 Berlin
7–10pm

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JOANNA WALSH is 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 and exhibited at venues including IMMA, Dublin; the ICA, London; BETA Festival Dublin; and Sample Studios Cork. She founded and directed the online activist projects @read_women (2014–18), and @noentry_arts (2019–24). In 2024, she was awarded the DAAD Artists in Berlin residency for literature, which she refused in solidarity with Palestine.

The book was funded by the European Union and the Irish Arts Council. The event is co-funded by Culture Ireland.