Audio Report: Data Centre Tour
Listen back to our experiences visiting the data centres in the Wieringermeerpolder… Read More
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e-KondÅ time! How can we tidy up our virtual spaces?
With the various platforms and devices we use on a daily basis, it can be hard to start with cleaning them up. Let The Hmm help you out with this handy guide.… Read More
Introduction
The pandemic shifted and re-shaped our societies, but what impact did it have on the monopolisation of Big Tech? … Read More
A change of tone: Social media and mental health
During the pandemic, the online world was unavoidable. In this essay, Guus Hoeberechts asks us to rethink the ways in which we interact online. … Read More
The Googlization of Health: Privacy in the age of Big Tech
Guus Hoeberechts interviews researcher Marjolein Lanzing about contact tracing technologies, privacy, and the domination of Big Tech. … Read More
Humour in Pandemic Times
In this image contribution, Giselinde Kuipers and Mark Boukes trace the global humour cycle of the pandemic through memes.… Read More
Introduction
How do fans organise online? And how do they shape our online culture?… Read More
Online fandom: a troubled history
Sjef van Beers introducing online fandom and stan culture… Read More
Meet three stans: someone from the Rihanna Navy, the A.R.M.Y and a Smiler
What’s it like to be a stan? We asked 3 stans to answer this question.… Read More
Adding up the numbers
Christina Eugenia Puentes illustrates the working life of a fan.… Read More
Paradise: life inside a fanbase
Guus Hoeberechts interviews Oumaima about her life inside the BTS A.R.M.Y.… Read More
The Hmm Hybrids 1: The Joy of Getting ReadyÂ
We’ve really missed the pre-event rituals that seemed to have disappeared with online events. How do we bring them back into the livestreamed experience? … Read More
Why we should not stan: about fandom and the music industry
Lilian Stolk interviews David Turner about why stans, according to David, are one of the worst aspects of the record industry.… Read More
Introduction
How do you create an interesting experience for both physical and virtual visitors? … Read More
âWe are here together nowâ is the crux of every event
Interview with Esther Hammelburg, who is doing her PhD on ‘liveness’, about the essence is of attending an event.… Read More
Sharing Hybrid #01: one year of organising online events
What have we learned after one year of organising online events? We shared experiences with a few other cultural organisations and researchers.… Read More
Sharing Hybrid #02: the first hybrid experiments
Now that physical events can take place again, we reflect on our first hybrid experiences this year.… Read More
Report The Hmm @ Online events
For The Hmm @ Online events we invited 8 artists, cultural organisations and developers to talk about the online event experiments they did.… Read More
The hybrid formats we tested
What hybrid experiments have we tried so far and what can we learn from them? We reflect on three experiences.… Read More
Introduction
What are the causes and impacts of the domination of US tech companies around the world?… Read More