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ohyay! ohyay! ohyay! A platform that lets you define your own interactions

Lilian Stolk

Lilian Stolk visits the virtual office of Andrew Lin, one of the founders of ohyay.… Read More

Korean makeup tutorial

Soyun Park

Soyun Park creates a Korean makeup tutorial with a twist. … Read More

Soyun Park is a multidisciplinary artist and designer living in The Hague. She is also a founder of RGBdog, a studio bridging technology, and sound with visual arts. Park is interested in the question of how technology influences human functioning, from the individual level (physical movement and relationships) to the social level (architecture and politics). Often in collaboration with sound artists, her work takes the shape of videos, installations, and audiovisual performances. By making use of new media and technology, Park’s work investigates the border between the digital world and reality, which is getting thinner every day.

Enter: a friendly and experimental digital space

Interview with Florian van Zandwijk, project manager Enter… Read More

10 thoughts on the future of the internet

Lilian Stolk

Lilian Stolk interviews philosopher and developer Jan Hein Hoogstad… Read More

Mastodon explained

During The Hmm ON Alternative Platforms Roel Roscam Abbing & Aymeric Mansoux told us about Mastodon, on Mastodon. … Read More

Reclaiming Power

A list of artists that move outside of the typical use of a certain platforms.… Read More

Introduction

How does TikTok re-write the world?… Read More

The Gazing Machine

Lilian Stolk

Lilian Stolk diving into TikTok’s machine learning recommendation algorithm.… Read More

The Great American Meme Off – Democrats vs. Trumpists on TikTok

Josephine Oettle

Josephine Oettle exploring how the 2020 US elections shaped the new meme war on TikTok. … Read More

Josephine Oettle is a freelance writer and communication specialist, who completed her master’s degree in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam in 2020. As a researcher in new media and digital culture, she specializes on TikTok, popular & youth culture and (political) subcultures online.

From #witchtok to #mushroomtok: Marieke Kuypers’ favourite TikTok niches

Marieke Kuypers

Marieke Kuypers’ exploring the many different sides of TikTok… Read More

Perfect Sync: Mapping TikToks through video collage

Sjef van Beers

Sjef van Beers creating video collages to map the world of TikTok. … Read More

Sjef van Beers is an artist whose work focuses on technology and the internet. He looks for loopholes in the digital media we use on a daily basis to dissect and rearrange them. 

Introduction

What makes Facebook so powerful?… Read More

Going Public: How we can get off Facebook and control our own data

Margarita Osipian

Margarita Osipian interviews Joel Galvez to talk about the power of public data and creating distributed event calendars.… Read More

Why we’re the French fries in Facebook’s fast food restaurant

Lilian Stolk

Lilian Stolk interviews internet policy consultant Joe McNamee on Facebook’s content moderation.… Read More

The Family Man as CEO: Mark Zuckerberg Instagram Analysis

Kate Imbach

In this article writer Kate Imbach analyses Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram account.… Read More

Kate Imbach is an American writer living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her work has appeared in Quartz, The Toronto Star, FD Persoonlijk and many other publications. Previously, she worked at a number of technology startups in Boston and Silicon Valley.  She completed a Master’s in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the New York University Writer’s Workshop in Paris in 2019. 

Thanks to Facebook…

Margarita Osipian & Lilian Stolk

An article that highlights the potential of Facebook’s platforms, including interviews with Lisa Gliederpuppe, The Kissenger Twins and an analysis of @calloutdutchartinstitutions… Read More

Introduction

What does the increase in the use of facial recognition systems mean for our society?… Read More

Can AR filters protect us against facial recognition technology?

Lilian Stolk

In this article Lilian Stolk is questioning if the tool that obscures our faces is also protecting us against facial recognition systems.… Read More

Asymmetrical Power: The intransparency of the Dutch Police

In this interview with Jair Schalkwijk and Naomi Appelman, we try to bring some transparency to the use of facial recognition technologies in law enforcement. … Read More

The Self Design Committee: How a face filter might or might not democratize self-design

Noam Youngrak Son

In our image contribution, designer Noam Youngrak Son moves away from the selfie as an individual experience and explores the creation of a multiplicious identity. … Read More

Noam Youngrak Son inscribes myths for the underrepresented in various mediums, from books to performances to 3D printed sex toys. They are excited about the unexpectedness that a well-designed fiction can open up, and the critical political discussions that it may cultivate. They use their capability as a designer to visualize and materialize the setup for the technological & ecological bodies in their fiction to play roles in.