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Introduction: This is who you’re being mean to

What do current gender expression trends show us about internet culture today?… Read More

SLOWwwww- – . . 

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.

Quiz: Assigned Gender By Algorithm

Senka Milutinović

With this essay in the format of a quiz, Senka Milutinović explores how gender is mediated online and how we as users can resist and subvert where the algorithmic gaze leads our expression of it.… Read More

Bombardiro Bodies: Masculinity, Fascism, Marinetti and a Millennial Transmasc in the Age of Italian Brainrot

Mel Ghidini

In this essay, writer Mel Ghidini explores masculinity and the links between Italian brainrot, fascism, concrete poetry, and Futurism from a transmasc and queer perspective. … Read More

Mel Ghidini would have liked to become a poet, a writer and an artist but never quite understood what all these words meant. Currently, they are part of the Monstrous Futurities programme at Sandberg Instituut and a proud member of the trans led project space Bagnomaria in Milan. Throughout their transdisciplinary artistic and writing practice they’ve been fascinated by the intersections between writing, voice, text and the body (human, non-human and more than human) and have recently been interested in exploring listening and attuning as potential tools for collective resistance and change.

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. DaniĂ«l 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: In the Beginning was the Blog

A history of momfluencing is also a history of online culture. In 2004, dooce.com, a blog about motherhood, mental health, and mundane life struggles, reached its peak at about 8.5Read More

Mapping Momfluencers

For this dossier, The Hmm took on its role of digital anthropologist, hybridly mapping the phenomenon of Momfluencers. We took this on through digital research and a physical community mapRead More

A Mother. An Influencer.

Yu Zhang

In China, a unique community has emerged: a group of mothers and grandmothers who have turned to livestreaming in search of financial independence and/or personal fulfillment. This project, set inRead More

Dr. Yu Zhang has a background in fine arts and design. In her Ph.D. research, she investigates the theory and artistic practice of interactive technologies for public, large-scale installations. Over the past years, she has designed and researched interactive systems that respond to everyday phenomena, environmental concerns, child-system interaction, online collaboration platforms, and uncertainty in data visualization.

Open Call: Momfluencers Image Contribution

Open call! We are looking for imagery that reflects upon momfluencing playfully and critically. This can be in the form of a single image or video, or a series/combination of either/both.… Read 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 long-gone joyful randomness of the internet: an interview with Daniel Pianetti, co-founder of Are.na

On how Are.na’s feed was set up… Read More

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