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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

Our Addiction to the Feed

Margot Schlögel

Margot Schlögel explores the various features of the feed that make it so addictive, proposing alternative ways to engage.… Read More

Margot Schlögel is about to complete her Master’s degree in New Media and Digital Culture. Her enthusiasm for social media is matched with her critical examination of how media and new technologies profoundly shape the behavior of young audiences. She delves into pressing issues such as the impact of TikTok on body dissatisfaction among Gen Z and the gamification of digital gift-giving.

Introduction

In 2022 the metaverse seemed like the next big thing, but as we make our way into 2023 it looks like AI is on everyone’s minds. … Read More

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

Generative Pre-trained Transforming life and work

What can we do with ChatGPT? The internet seems flooded with possibilities. We asked a few (anonymous) users how they have benefitted from this latest digital tool.… Read More

AI and the Changing Landscape of Work

In this interview with Babusi Nyoni we talk about how AI is changing the landscape of labour. … Read More

Machine anxiety, Tabis and why I should close TikTok (but don’t)

Mariana Fernández Mora

Mariana Fernández Mora reflects on her relationship to technology, co-writing her thesis with AI, and surviving and thriving in a machine-saturated world.… Read More

About Mariana: Mariana Fernandez is an artist, writer, researcher, feminist and the current editor and communications person at ARIAS. Her practice intersects the fields of performance, linguistics, and technology. She is fascinated by fictional archives, piles of stuff, hedges, memes, guinea pigs, and PowerPoints. In her book “Dear Machines”, she explores the potential of natural language processors as companions and co-writers, wondering about authorship, notions of digital kinship, and her own relationship to machines. Currently, she is focused on researching A.I., language and our intimate and sometimes problematic relationship with technology. She is part of the Sandberg A.I. research group, Visual Methodologies at the HvA, founder of the feminist research collective “COVEN”, and she leads the A.I. thematic line at ARIAS Amsterdam. In her spare time, she plots revolutions, plays tennis, and makes critical commentary about reality tv, which she loves.

A Blacker Box

Matthew C. Wilson

In this image contribution, Matthew C. Wilson uses images produced by Midjourney to take us into the realm of bio-engineering, ‘generative’ AI, and the quiet transformation of biological life. … Read More

Matthew C. Wilson is an American filmmaker and artist based in the Netherlands. In his videos, sculptures, and installations viewers meet a range of agents — human, non-human, and inter-subjective — entangled with natural processes and shape-shifting historical forces. His projects utilize research-oriented, site-specific, and methodologically eclectic approaches to track the inertia of modernity through contemporary ecological crises and into speculative futures. Wilson holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. He has been a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program and numerous residencies including Skowhegan, Jan van Eyck Academie, and Tabakalera Artistic Research Residency, among others. His moving image work has been screened on Vdrome.org as well as at IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, and HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Wilson’s most recent exhibitions include Galeria SKALA in PoznaĹ„, PL (solo) and Walk&Talk Festival of Art in SĂŁo Miguel, Açores, PT.

“What the fuck is happening?” An interview with Nadia Piet on our current state of AI

Nadia Piet

In this interview with Nadia Piet, founder of AIxDesign, we explore the intersection of AI and design, try to untangle what is going on with AI today, and discuss the AI worlds that we want to see brought into being. … Read More

Nadia Piet is an independent designer, researcher, organizer, and cultural producer with a focus on AI/ML, data, tech, digital culture and creativity. She’s the founder of AIxDESIGN a community of practitioners & living lab for beyond-corporate AI, holds an MA in Data-Driven Design, and explores playful & purposeful tech through freelance projects and self-initiated experiments. Over the past 10 years, she’s worked as Head of Creative Technology at DEPT a global digital agency, design researcher for emerging technologies at Bit, and across roles and continents with organisations such as Hyper Island, Pi Campus, Forbes, UN, AWWWARDS, DECODED, MOBGEN | Accenture Interactive, Mozilla, and ICO.

In the news lately: Artificial intelligence, VR, accelerated timelines, ethical questions, have you considered taking a job as a dog walker instead?

Alina Lupu and ChatGPT

With image- and text-generating AI tools infiltrating the cultural field, our ways of working are growing more precarious. Writer and post-conceptual artist Alina Lupu takes us on a dark and humorous doom-scroll through the latest AI news. … Read More

Alina Lupu was born and raised in Romania and works as a writer and post-conceptual artist in Amsterdam. Her works were presented, among others, at IMPAKT.NL – Utrecht, VHDG – Leeuwarden, W139 – Amsterdam, Onomatopee – Eindhoven, Hotel Maria Kapel – Hoorn, Drugo More – Rijeka, Room Rheum – Basel, European Lab – Lyon, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – Berlin, and Goethe Institut – Bucharest. She is a board member of Platform BK—an organisation that researches the role of art in society and advocates for a better art policy, a student of the Master Photography and Society at the Royal Academy of the Arts, the Hague, and a former member of the Art and Spatial Praxis research group at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, where she analysed the role of artists in gentrification processes. Alina’s practice was described as follows, by the jury of the Sybren Hellinga Art Prize for which she was nominated: “Alina Lupu is fighting for a fairer world in her work. She consistently examines the ways in which the conditions are set for participation in the economy, or how the economy is shaped, and who is thereby included or excluded and consequently at risk of marginalization. These are topics of great importance for workers’ determination at a time when direct transactions seem to become more accessible, but in reality also ever more elusive.”

ChatGPT is an AI creation designed to assist, educate, and engage users. Trained on a wide range of internet text, it provides information, answers questions, and engages in meaningful conversations on diverse topics. With no personal experiences or emotions, ChatGPT prioritizes privacy and ethics. It continually evolves and is available 24/7 to help with queries or engage in chat, making it a valuable digital companion for those seeking knowledge and conversation. (Disclaimer: this bio was written by ChatGPT on October 9, 2023)

This is the first time that Alina Lupu and ChatGPT have written a text together for The Hmm.

Job Opening for Communication (16 hours a week)

(Scroll down to read the vacancy in Dutch) The Hmm is a platform for internet and digital cultures. Through events, online research dossiers, and educational programmes, we reflect on people’sRead More

Introduction

The metaverse is on everyone’s minds, but what kind of metaverse do we really want to bring into being? … Read More

Architectures to Host the Metaverse: An interview with Marina Otero Verzier

Margarita Osipian interviews Marina Otero Verzier about how we can reimagine the metaverse, it’s architectural underpinnings, and it’s potentialities.… Read More

Inside the Metaverse Experiments of Babusi Nyoni

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

Moving towards the metabody

Guus Hoeberechts

An understanding of your body and its movements is vital for a connection with it. How do we move in the metaverse? … Read More