Vacancy: Visual Communication 2026
The Hmm is a platform for internet culture. We explore and celebrate what people do online, and take a critical look at how this is influenced by the technology weRead More
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Links The Archive and the Audience
Publication Preserving Practices – The Archive and the Audience: https://etherport.org/publications/workshop/Preserving_Practices_2/ The workshop pad: https://etherport.org/w/workshop::Preserving_Practices_2::Avery_Dame-Griff_Lecture.md Login to etherport via: https://etherport.org/manage/ Password: PreservingPractices2025
8 tips to make a fun livestream!
Based on our experience organising hybrid events and livestreams, as well as insights gathered through experimentation and audience feedback, we have identified ten practical lessons for creating engaging and inclusiveRead More
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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 uses slowness as a subversive response to the elitism and exclusion embedded in accelerationist thought.… Read More
Quiz: Assigned Gender By Algorithm
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
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
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
Vacature: Zakelijk Productie Lead
The Hmm is een platform voor internetcultuur. We onderzoeken en vieren wat mensen online doen, en kijken kritisch naar hoe dit beïnvloed wordt door de technologie die we gebruiken. WeRead 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: 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.
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
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