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Socrates Stamatatos

Socrates Stamatatos uses slowness as a subversive response to the elitism and exclusion embedded in accelerationist thought.… Read More

Socrates Stamatatos is an independent curator and transdisciplinary artist based in Athens. Their curatorial, artistic and theoretical pursuits engage deeply with the queer experience and the philosophy of caring, focusing on the empowerment of marginalized communities through the use of digital technologies for connectivity and community building. They hold a BA in Theory and History of Arts. They have shown their work and contributions of various disciplines independently and in collaboration with a variety of art and cultural institutions, including Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, Aksioma in Ljubljana, panke.gallery in Berlin, Onassis ONX/AiR in Athens and die Angewandte University of Applied Arts in Vienna-to name a few. They are also a Culture Moves Europe 2025 fellow.

Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 1: Girlboss, Through the Years

In this inaugural episode of Thinking Face Emoji, Margarita Osipian and Sjef van Beers from The Hmm, are joined by Sam Cummins, of Nymphet Alumni, to discuss the girlboss.… Read More

Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 2: Sigma Male, or How Incel Terms Went Mainstream

In this episode Salome Berdzenishvili, from the Institute of Network Cultures, and Sjef van Beers, from The Hmm, talk to Dr. Daniël de Zeeuw, from the University of Amsterdam, about how terms originally associated with incel and femcel communities seem to have reached the mainstream.… Read More

Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 3: Gigachad, or the Surge of Nu-genics

In the third episode of Thinking Face Emoji, Margarita Osipian from The Hmm and researcher Mita Medri, are joined by writer and cultural commentator Ana Sumbo, to discuss the online phenomenon of looksmaxxing.… Read More

Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 4: Sock, the Bushwick enby

In this episode, Maja Mikulska from The Hmm and Anielek Niemyjski from the Institute of Network Cultures are joined by Maya B. Kronic – co-author of Cute Accelerationism – to discuss all things Sock.… Read More

Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 5: Post-Soviet Girl, or the Sad Girl Trope

In the fifth episode of Thinking Face Emoji, Margarita Osipian from The Hmm and Anielek Niemyjski from the Institute of Network Cultures are joined by writer and independent researcher SalomeRead More

Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 6: The Future of Girlhood

In the sixth and last episode of the season we delve into the future of girlhood in online culture. Since 2023, the so-called “year of the girl” with trends likeRead More

Data Centre Tour 2024

Presentation Marloes Presentation Lars Presentation Leo Jitsi call Please fill out our survey Subscribe to our newsletter Follow and join the Hmm on:📷 Instagram👔 LinkedIn📬 Telegram👾 Discord Unrelated to theRead More

Introduction

How did we end up with our current feeds?… Read More

I’ve Got the Need — the Need to Feed

Jason Scott

Historian of technology Jason Scott dives into the history of the feed… Read More

Jason Scott is the founder of TEXTFILES.COM, a 25 year old library of BBS history. He’s also the software curator of the Internet Archive, one of our favourite places on the web.

The Perfect Feed workshop results

The outcomes of the workshop we did with RGBdog… Read More

Beyond Named Interactions

Yehwan Song

Web artist Yehwan Song presents new interaction models in her Image Contribution to this dossier… Read More

Yehwan is a web artist and designer who creates anti-friendly, nonuser centric, unconventional, and diverse independent websites and tries to flip the general understandings of web design and subvert users’ behaviors. She believes that digital discomfort comes from a lack of consideration of diversity and the deprivation of care. Link

The Hmm’s Data Centre Field Trip – Files & Links

🚌 Please fill in our survey 👾 The Hmm @ REBOOT 🗞️ Subscribe to our email newsletter   🤳 Follow us on Instagram 💬 Join our Discord server  📬 SubscribeRead More

Inside the Metaverse Experiments of Babusi Nyoni

Sjef van Beers interviews Babusi Nyoni about his experiments creating a decentralised metaverse. … Read More

Instructions for The Hmm IN Gaming Spaces

We’re excited to have you joining for The Hmm IN Gaming Spaces on Wednesday. ٩(◕‿◕。)۶ During this tour we’ll explore the social impact, possibilities, and power of gaming spaces by touring differentRead More

Introduction

What are the consequences of being financially dependent on creating content on social media for both the people and the content in this ecosystem? … Read More

The rules for influencers in the updated Media Act

The Dutch Media Authority explain how they implement regulations and oversee media broadcasters and providers.… Read More

Models for culture producer communities

Jak Ritger

Jak Ritger shares models that define the digital cultural economy and the production systems underpinning it. … Read More

Jak Ritger is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and activist based in Allston, Massachusetts. Ritger’s practice uses photography to expose hidden structures underneath the built environment and systems of power shaping everyday life. Working within online art and politics collectives, Ritger uses data-visualization, drawing and essay writing to model emerging social patterns and information flows. As an organizer, he works to catalyze digitally distributed collective art and discourse projects, such as, CODEX NM Y2K20, a compendium of the first year of the Covid-19 “syndemic”, as seen through the NEW MODELS discord group. Find his published writing at Do Not Research and NEW MODELS.

Behind the scenes of the creator economy with Cesar Majorana

Cesar shares his own experience with the creator economy and how he makes money off of social media. … Read More