Over the past years we've seen an increase in censorship, shadow-banning, and blocking of accounts across large social media platforms like Instagram. Many artists, designers, and cultural and social organisations, rely on these platforms to connect with their communities and share their stories and their work. But what if we can build our own archivesRead More
Hand-soldered cyberdecks are all over the internet. The cyberdecks we know from cyberpunk fiction and hacker culture were improvised machines—originally appearing in William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer—often built within a narrow and masculine idea of who gets to tinker, hack, and build. The cyberdecks filling our feeds today look different. They're cute. From mermaid-shell RaspberryRead More
During NDSM OPEN, we'll open our studio to present artist Sjef van Beers' project The Cowan Paradox & Other Inconveniences, including a new experimental iteration on it. Within this project Sjef explores the relations between (domestic) labour, (automation) technology and the supermarket through the medium of the self-scanner. The Cowan Paradox, named after historian Ruth Schwartz Cowan,Read More
Townhall: From doom scroll to hope core We've all heard the diagnosis. Algorithms are rotting our brains, shortening our attention spans, and turning us into passive consumers of an endless feed. But what does the evidence actually say? And more importantly: what do we want to do about it? In the last ten years, theRead More