During tonight’s event we’ll be joined by eight researchers, artists, designers, and makers who will take us through their digital worlds and their intersections and interactions with internet culture.
We’re excited to have curator and researcher Ilga Minjon helping us put together a powerful program tonight. In Ilga’s work she aims to weave together and facilitate future imaginaries from artistic practices that speculate on the senses and (networked) relations, as well as queer, decolonial and feminist re-writings of belonging.
Can’t join us in person in Amsterdam? Or just want to watch from the comfort of your laptop or phone? All of our events are hybrid so you can also buy a ticket to join The Hmm @ CBK Zuidoost online via our livestream website.
🗓 Date: Wednesday 14 June 2023
📍 Location: CBK Zuidoost, Anton de Komplein 120, 1102 DR Amsterdam
Where can I safely post/sell nudes? How much can I sell my underwear for? How can I use my body to scam patriarchy? Can scamming white men online be a form of reparations? These are just some of the questions that Marly, a creative director, speculative writer and facilitator, will be exploring tonight. Her work explores the inner worlds and survival strategies of Black women—curating spaces of possibility, pleasure, and unraveling. Tonight she’ll be joining us to talk about OnlyFans and her exploration of subversive spaces of scamming and sexuality online. Link
Benjamin McMillan
Can processes of automation influence the design of typefaces? Benjamin is a designer and type designer based in Amsterdam who is hosting, as well as running, Full Auto Foundry (a workshop based open-source type foundry) and releasing a scruffy typeface from time to time. Tonight he’ll be talking about the Full Auto Foundry, why he initiated it, and where he hopes to go with it in the future. Link and Link
Natasha Tontéy
Natasha is an interdisciplinary artist based in Indonesia. Her artistic practice explores the fictional accounts of the history and myths surrounding ‘manufactured fear.’ She observes any possibilities of other futures that are projected from the subtle and personal struggle of the outcasted entities and beings. Tonight she will talk about her ongoing research and pilgrimage on her ancestral kinship rituality in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, Indonesia and the method of queering the ritual and reclaiming ancestral collective memory through speculative fiction and ancient technology. Link
Hamilton Chango Harris
Hamilton is a multi-disciplinary artist with over 20 years of international experience as a creative entrepreneur. Using marginalization through personal experience as a theme, his mission is focused on empowering people through self-development. In his work he teaches students how to access and apply their ‘unique voice’ via storytelling in the form of music, art, and film. He’ll be joining us tonight to talk about the shift in how we communicate through technology. Link
Taneesha Sijmons
Through the deeply transformative concepts and arts of sensuality, intimacy, embodiment, movement and eroticism, Taneesha guides and empowers souls to deepen the relationship with themselves, their partner(s), their bodies and sexuality and their sensual self-expression. She’ll be joining us tonight to talk about Instagram’s censorship—specifically censorship of nude and sensual bodies and particularly of black and brown bodies. She’ll share her experiences of being shadowbanned many times but also how she’s learned to navigate through the censorship without being deleted. Link
Dija Kabba
Dija is an audio production enthusiast who, with her sister, founded Studio Kabba, a music and podcast production company with a strong focus on the QTBIPOC communities. Dija’s academic background lies in Cognitive Science with a major in Artificial Intelligence. Passionate about the intersection of audio, storytelling, and AI, she strives to bring diverse voices to the forefront, as she explores the power of audio in amplifying underrepresented narratives. Tonight she’ll share how AI, Podcasts, storytelling, language processing, and entrepreneurship, in her experience, all converge through audio. Link
Zella Vanié
Zella is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in New York City, whose
work centers the idea that personal and collective imagination are a powerful tool for liberation here and now. They create unique imagery of protest and Black queer identities, often drawing from autobiographical experiences, dialogue with their community, and precolonial Guro animism. Tonight they’ll be taking us through a mini film festival of Black Twitter and sharing snippets of their bookmarks and tabs that have brought them joy. Link
Yehwan Song
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. Tonight she’ll be talking about anti-friendly design and how by revealing discomfort, and making non-general Web interfaces, she illuminates the inequality in the digital environment. Link
