A Walk around Google and Microsoftâs Hyperscale Data Centre in the Wieringermeerpolder Data centres are a crucial part of our internet infrastructure, and yet they remain black boxes in the landscape and highly invisible structures we don't think about often enough. But how do these data centres impact the places in which they are built and the communitiesRead More
With The Hmm we're often looking at the latest developments and trends in internet culture. But for tonight's event we're going to take a look back at digital art and how the internet has shaped culture from the 1960s until today. The Hmm @ REBOOT brings together eight artists, designers and researchers across generations, whoRead More
A number of newspapers are currently negotiating with Open AI to license the use of their articles. Their news stories have been used for years to train services like ChatGPT, as AI tools like these need a lot of input âto learnâ how to formulate language. But how does an AI chatbot actually learn? ARead More
What data is being used to train ChatGPT? Is AI really coming for your job? And how does DALL·E know how to paint? The Hmm Hotline is here, to answer all your questions, speculations, or anxieties regarding AI. Join us during our live radio show, where a panel of expertsâfrom artists to philosophers to researchersâwillRead More
During this 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 philosopher of science, educator and researcher Sabine Winters helping us put together a powerful program for this night. Sabine is the founderRead More
Join us at The Hmm @ De Blokhuispoort, an evening on what happens in different corners of the Internet, and how some users in and around the Friesland region approach the web. During this event weâll be joined by eight artists, researchers, and makers who will take us through their online interests and practices, rangingRead More
The Hmm is celebrating liberatory internet usages, empowering users to take back their online and offline autonomies. With this in mind, we would like to ask: What do you want to see on your feed? Our social media feeds have changed quite a lot over the past 15 years. What started out as updates ofRead More
What can the past tell us about photography's future? Join us Wednesday 11 September on The Hmmâs livestream platform for Photography is... reflective, the first of the Foam x The Hmm: Photography is... event series! Building on photographyâs inherent reflective nature, sometimes it's worth 'looking backward to the future'âto examine our past as a wayRead More
This year, we celebrate 20 years of the influencer â with the first influencers being moms, through the highly popular â00s mommyblog. Thanks to the mommyblog, parenthood was able to become, and often still is, a âlively, public conversationâ. For many mothers, the blogosphere became a support network. However, looking at the mom-o-sphere today, itRead More
Language and digital culture have always been intertwined. But with the emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Sora, many of which are based on large language models, the digital takes on a new dimension. But what does it mean to speak the language of the tool well? And how doRead More
Join our livestream here: https://live.thehmm.nl/M0ti0nMoti0n Current generative AI has us used to crafting text prompts. But what if our movements and gestures became the language we use to communicate with AI? In this event, weâre exploring a future of "Motion Prompting". What will happen when AI enters our physical world? Motion prompting is transformingRead More
In 2024, an estimated 1.94 trillion photos will be taken worldwide, with 5.3 billion photos captured daily, or 61,400 per second. With approximately 14.3 trillion photos in existence, and 14 billion images shared daily on social media, it seems like we have a hoarding problem. We often forget that behind the immaterial metaphors of 'theRead More
A walk along Google and Microsoftâs hyperscale data centres in the Wieringermeerpolder. After last year's sold-out Data Centre Tour, we've decided to return to Agriport this year with an updated program. This year, weâll be looking at the energy consumption of AI, amongst other things. Over the past year, Microsoft for example has been implementingRead More
From typing in an image search query to inadvertently helping train machine learning algorithms by 'selecting all images with traffic lights', text can be seen as the internetâs middleman. Whether it's captions underneath social media posts or textual metadata in online image archives, our relationship with images online is largely mediated through words. Machine learningRead More
With OpenAI launching their voice AI model that can create custom voices, and text-to-speech generators developing at hyper-speed, it seems that voice AI technologies are set to reshape how we think about the voice in our daily lives. But what does it really mean to synthesise the human voice? Or to create a âdigital twinâRead More
The Hmm's AI Advice Hotline is back! This time, in collaboration with MU Hybrid Art House. Throughout the Poetics of Prompting exhibition, visitors have been leaving their most pressing AI questions on The Hmmâs Hotline for AI Advice. Now, weâre gathering all those questions, curiosities, and concerns to spark a lively discussion. The script for theRead More
Join us at The Hmm @ No Limits! Art Castle, where weâll be joined by six artists, researchers, and makers who'll take us through their intersections and interactions with internet culture. This event is connected to Boujloud Beats: Rhythms of Plurality, the group exhibition now on view at No Limits! Art Castle, in which artistsRead More
In our image-saturated world, where real images can win an AI image award and fake images are believed to be true, how is the photographic medium surpassing our sense of reality? And how is the medium going beyond its own 'reality', its traditional, two-dimensional forms? The final event of the series explores the variety ofRead More
Ever thought about therapy for your laptop and/or smartphone? After all, they have stuff to process too! If you've been with us for a while, you've probably heard of our famous e-KondĆ workshops, where we walk you through a digital declutter. On 15 March, Digital Cleanup Day 2025, we're opening up this opportunity to you,Read More
Dive into the potential of the small file within the context of digital culture and documentary art during this collaborative evening between The Hmm and Het Documentaire Paviljoen. What does the small file offer us in terms of the circulation, exchange, or even smuggling of information? How does working with small formats open up theRead More