Rietveld Sandberg Research
Photo: Christa Romp
Photo: Christa Romp

Inte Gloerich

Inte Gloerich is a researcher focussing on the cultures and imaginaries around emerging media and technologies, specifically in relation to epistemologies and power dynamics.

She received her PhD from the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University in 2025 with a dissertation on blockchain imaginaries. Until 2020, she was a researcher and coördinator at the Institute of Network Cultures, primarily working on projects at the intersection of the digital economy and the creative industries. She co-edited MoneyLab 2: Overcoming the Hype (2018), State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art (2019), Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance (2020), and Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations on Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future (2025). Her engagement with emerging technologies is always based in decolonial, feminist, and ecocritical scholarship and is concerned with the interplay between material and discursive aspects of how technology develops — and how to reschape these processes towards radically different, emancipatory, decolonial futures.

Between November 2024 and March 2025, the research group Plot(ting), part of the Lectoraat Art & Spatial Praxis, hosted Tactics of the Plot: Reimagining Tools and Methods for Resistance & Collective Futures. This project, a collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, brought together a diverse group of makers, researchers, activists, and those working across disciplines whose practices can be examined through Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot. Participants included Inte Gloerich, Elisa Guiliano, Wouter Stroet, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Mayis Rukel, and Lina Bravo Mora.