The Hmm @ BAUT

Roel is the face of the YouTube-channel “Voxpop” and the online video series “Roel in de regio” (AD.nl). He also works for De Speld and is a reporter for Avrotros. In a recent interview with the VPROgids he spoke about the future of television, watching Ali G as therapy, and why we need more experiment on TV. We liked the sound of that, so we invited him to share his thoughts on the future of television with us.
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Looking at the faces available to him through the Emoji-alphabet, Dong bin started imagining the emoji-maker as a hunter, capturing emotions in “face_positive”, “face_neutral”, “face_negative” etc. Feeling these categories weren’t sufficient, and resisting being trapped and defined by the Unicode Consortium, Dong bin set out to create a sub-group of face-emoji called “face-unidentified”.

Kate is a writer and journalist who became widely known for her analysis of Melania Trump’s Instagram-account. In the series “Social spy” (Financieele Dagblad) she analyses the social media accounts of public figures. What story do their pictures tell?
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Arna heads the Architectural Design department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and is one half of Studio L A, which was last year awarded the Maaskant Prize for Young Architects. Arna’s work often relates to the subject of collective memory and more in particular deals with the role of architecture in the creation of inclusive cities. Her book Mortal Cities & Forgotten Monuments, for instance, explores the cultural heritage of former Yugoslavia and new ways of rebuilding destroyed cities.
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Facial recognition software is booming. You can use it to recognise people in pictures (Facebook), identify registered drivers (Uber), keep a tally of churchgoers (Churchix), find people online who you’ve seen in the physical world (FindFace), analyse emotions (Microsoft) and if you really want to go all out you can use it to profile someone’s personality (Faception). Ruben’s work explores expression analysis technologies and the assumptions that underlie it. In particular, tonight he’ll be speaking about what it means to digitize emotions into 38% surprised or 52% joyful.
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In what seems like a heartbeat Glamcult Magazine became the leading force in independent, trend-defying, adventurous, bold, nonconformist publishing. Tonight Glamcult’s editor-in-chief, Leendert, will talk about what it means to curate visual culture in 2018.
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Tim is a portrait photographer and a punk-rock drummer. He stumbled upon one of the most curious homepages on the internet and covertly turned it into a book. He will tell you more about his obsession with one unknown man’s mission to create The List Of All Things. Please keep it a secret.
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A recurring question in Juhee’s work is: ‘What does space mean?’ In Korean, the literal translation is ‘between emptiness’. By mixing symbols, Juhee creates a mixed spatial experience between digital and physical space.
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Nicky is part of the Macular Art Collective and part of the curatorial team of Sonic Acts. As an artist she operates at the cross-sections of art, technology, science and perception. Tonight we’ll explore her new kinetic light installation ‘The Abysses of the Scorching Sun’.
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“The new east in contemporary visual culture is not a reflection of a real space but more a multi-layered myth. It’s linked to photographic representations of post-Soviet cities and Nineties aesthetics and built on various iconic images.” Tonight we’ll dive behind the myth with visual artist Katerina Gaidamaka.
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