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Introduction: What Was I Looking At Again?

It’s 2026 and if you’re feeling overwhelmed, you’re not alone. Over the past decade, the structure of social media has changed completely.… Read More

Job application for you, bitch!

Tara Kelton

Tara Kelton does a deep dive into Job Job Job Sahur, the AI-slop character born from TikTok comments telling Italian brainrot creators to “get a job”… Read More

Tara Kelton is an Indian-American artist based in Bangalore whose practice centers on informal digital labor in platform economies – the invisible human effort that sustains supposedly automated systems. Kelton embeds herself within the platforms she critiques: from co-creating with image production studios in India, to collaborative experiments with Uber drivers, to reimagining how search engines function. Kelton’s work has been featured and supported by Hyundai Artlab, New Museum, ZKM Karlsruhe, distant.gallery, Institute of Network Cultures, Tiat, ICA Singapore, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Kelton is a Y12 member at NEW INC, in collaboration with Rhizome, and she is co-editor of Silicon Plateau, a publishing series that explores the intersection of technology, culture and society in Bangalore.

The Hubris of Vagueposting

Marios Moros

Marios Moros states that vagueposting—the deliberately unclear content people have started complaining about online—isn’t always about going viral. In this essay he reframes it as a pushback against overly polished content, meant to include some people and exclude others on purpose.… Read More

Marios Moros is a writer, content marketer, and researcher from Greece. He studied Communications, Media, and Culture in Athens, and completed his MA on New Media and Digital Culture in Amsterdam. His research interests lie at the intersection of online discourses, digital subcultures, and war narratives.

I Unlocked My Wallpaper So I Could See My Life, But Then I Unlocked My Life So I Could See My Wallpaper

Livia Giannotti

Every day, when Livia Giannotti opens her laptop, she gets interrupted. Before she can even reach for her phone while it loads, there it is: her daily Windows wallpaper… Read More

Livia Giannotti is a journalist and writer currently based in London. Her journalistic work has appeared in The Guardian, Huck Magazine, the New Statesman Media Group publications, Noctis Magazine, and more. She also writes for Airwars, where she works on assessments of civilian harm in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Iran. As an independent writer, she writes about music, silence and reality
 well, realities.

Respite: an interactive essay

Livi Wilmore

In this interactive essay, Livi Wilmore takes a satirical deep dive into our need for mindless soothing respite from information overload and the tensions we feel between wanting to be informed and wanting to rest. … Read More

Blurring the lines between contemporary art, participatory installation, and public service announcement, Livi Wilmore uses gamified essays, installations, and speculative fiction to explore nostalgia, escapism, and the internet to gain an understanding of the societal impact of information overload and the internet. Livi gives reverence to the World Wide Web by exploring it as a physical location that we visit and have the choice to either consciously or unconsciously navigate around. She also looks at the spatial metaphors and environments of the web as a mirror world—from exploring cyberspace and creating GeoGities to Gen Z’s affiliation with liminal spaces mirroring the IRL death of the highstreet.

Glossary: What Was I Looking At Again?

This glossary, connected to our year theme, maps the infrastructure of how meaning moves online through the language of now. … Read More

🍭🍬 Order your candy! 🍬🍭

Your feed is designed to be just as addictive as candy. To celebrate our upcoming symposium The New Orality, we’re putting together free candy goodie bags. Order your candy here,Read More

Open Call: What Was I Looking at Again?

With our year theme What Was I Looking At Again?, we want to explore the dizzying, attention-scattering effects of algorithmically driven online experiences.  Through this open call, we aim to amplify: We welcomeRead More

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

☁ 🚌 Data Centre Tour – 21 May 2026

Program 12:15 PM – Board the bus at NDSM plein 90 in Amsterdam North12:45 PM – Departure and introduction by The Hmm + en route to Agriport in the Wieringenmeerpolder12:50Read More

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

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 beĂŻnvloed 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. 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