With our second Symposihmm of the year, Capture & Control, we’ll be exploring the entanglements between processes of physiological and geological capture. How can we make sense of this paranoid era in online platforms? And how are our minds and our planet being captured, rendered, and manipulated? In the 2000s, Stanford University taught 'captology', aRead More
The Hmm presents AI, AI, AI @ Brainwash festival We use algorithms, platforms and AI-driven tools every day, often without really understanding what’s happening behind the screen. The Hmm’s educational programme, ‘ai, ai, ai’, turns these invisible systems into something you can see, understand, question and play with. During Brainwash festival we’re launching our latestRead 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
Join us for You Might Like This @ RADIUS in Delft, where six artists, researchers, and makers will share their explorations of and encounters with social media and algorithmic systems. We're celebrating our 10th anniversary this fall by reflecting on the algorithmic feed, which is turning 10 as well. This event explores how how algorithmsRead More
What does the Chinese internet look like from the inside? The Hmm’s Chinese Internet Tour takes you on a guided trip through China’s social media ecosystem, led by media anthropologist Dino Ge Zhang whose research focuses on emotions and aesthetics on the Sinophone internet. We'll visit destinations like the face-filter app Meitu (美图公司) andRead More
Earlier this year, the internet was briefly filled with the hope that 2026 might become the new 2016. In quasi-historical fashion, users resurfaced early Instagram filters and interfaces, Tumblr-motivational quotes, old memes, and other fragments of a supposedly simpler internet. Collectively, it became a meditation on how social media used to be better, or atRead More