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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! Gait Glitch: A workshop on resisting surveillance technologies
DESCRIPTION:In an era when technology is increasingly being used to classify\, order\, and analyse the body\, can we become unpredictable beings together? This workshop\, initiated by interdisciplinary artist\, researcher\, and educator Soyun Park\, explores how collective playfulness can exceed algorithmic legibility—proposing unpredictability as a shared political and poetic gesture. \nUnder the pretext of “safety”\, predictive surveillance has gradually been embedded in ordinary spaces like grocery stores\, framing customers as potential risks before any crime has occurred. Gait recognition\, a form of biometric surveillance that identifies individuals by the way they walk\, takes this a step further by decomposing the body into data points such as stride length\, speed\, and rhythm. Used by police forces in China and piloted in airports and public spaces elsewhere\, artificial intelligence then generates models of “normality” based on these metrics. Yet from nineteenth-century criminal physiognomy to contemporary airport scanners that flag transgender bodies as “anomalies\,” biometric classification has consistently produced discrimination alongside security. \nWorkshop Structure\nThis workshop invites participants to collectively explore how bodies can become unpredictable in spaces shaped by surveillance. We will begin the workshop with Soyun sharing her year-and-a-half-long research on surveillance algorithms. This will be followed by a talk from Ruben van de Ven\, a digital artist and researcher of software culture. He will be sharing his research on surveillance algorithms that order human gait and gestures\, and on the reciprocal relation between the algorithm and the individual. \nIn the second part of the workshop\, we will activate our bodies\, guided by dancer and choreographer Olympia Kotopoulos. Beginning with a simple awareness exercise of “normal” walking\, we will collectively break gait down into elements such as stride\, tempo\, posture\, and rhythm\, exaggerating or disrupting each variable to reveal how easily movement becomes standardised. By making playful movement scores together\, participants will be able to experiment with confusing pattern recognition and algorithmic systems as they expand their bodily vocabulary. \nAt the end of the workshop\, we will collectively travel to the Beurs van Berlage public square in Amsterdam\, which has a live webcam\, to activate these scores—liberating our bodies from normalcy and turning collective weirdness into a joyful gesture of resistance. \nThis workshop invites participants to join as co-researchers in an artistic investigation into how resisting gait recognition and surveillance can activate bodies collectively and question how we regulate our bodies in public space. The workshop will be recorded for research and documentation. Participants can indicate if they prefer not to be filmed\, and videographers will avoid filming them\, or their image will be blurred. \nThe Hmm experiments…\nThis event is part of a series of programs the we are developing with The Hmm\, where we give space in our studio for our community to explore new ideas and experiment with workshops as part of our public program. \n\nWhat you need to know\n\n📅 Date: Saturday 28 March 2026\n🕗 Times: 14.00 – 17.00 CET\n📍 Location: The Hmm’s studio\, NDSM-plein 125\, 1033 WC Amsterdam\n🎟 Tickets: €5\n\nAs these workshops are more intimate sessions\, there is a limited supply of tickets available. You can find information about physical accessibility at The Hmm’s studio here. \n\n💚 This programme is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL
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SUMMARY:Soooo cute ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა
DESCRIPTION:Cuteness has always been part of the internet\, lately appearing on even more screens than before. \nFrom the self-infantilisation trends we explored last year\, like the viral phrase This is who you’re being mean to accompanied by a cute animal\, to viral capybaras\, baby cats\, and uwu-filters\, cuteness is everywhere. How does it work so well online\, and what does it do with us? \nIn their book Cute Accelerationism (2024)\, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic describe cute as a powerful force that seduces us through softness. Cuteness offers another way of thinking through change\, through pleasure\, vulnerability\, and shared joy as opposed to apocalypse and collapse. \nWe’re excited to welcome Amy and Maya to Amsterdam for a workshop\, followed by a performance-lecture. We’ll be exploring a deceptively simple question: how is cuteness so powerful\, and what does it do with us? \nDefining cute: a workshop\nThis hands-on workshop revolves around a central question: How can we define cute? How many forms can it take and to what sensory domains does it belong? And where does it begin and end? \nWe will map how cuteness moves through bodies\, images\, sounds\, and emotions through listening exercises\, participatory drawing\, and collective reflections. \nThe power of cute: a performance-lecture\nIn an A/V performance based on Cute Accelerationism\, Amy and Maya dive deep into the strange life of cute — its history\, biology\, psychology\, and cultural power. They explore cute as a feeling\, visual style\, social strategy\, and a seductive force giving shape to contemporary culture. Moving through its sensory\, erotic\, and symbolic dimensions\, they open up the hidden spaces behind the phenomenon that has such an irresistible grip on the internet\, and in turn\, us. \nWhat you need to know\n📅 Date: Wednesday 18 March 2026\n🕗 Times:\n\n\n16:00 – 18:00 Defining cute (workshop) @ post-office\n18:00 – 19:30 Dinner break\n19:30 – 21:00 The power of cute (performance-lecture) @ post-office and online\n\n📍 Location: post-office\, Hoofdweg 403 Amsterdam and online via The Inbetween\n🎟 Tickets: workshop €12\,50 (students €9\,50); performance-lecture €8 (students €5\, interactive livestream €5) \n\n\n💚 This programme is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL\, and the Nieuwe Instituut International Visitors Programme.
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! Preserving Practices #4: Automated Archiving
DESCRIPTION:AI tools promise to save us time by taking care of the tasks we keep postponing\, and archiving is usually the first to sink to the bottom of the to-do list. But what actually happens when we let automated algorithms touch our archives? Do they fill in the gaps and make our collections more complete? Or do our archives become training data\, letting the algorithms decide for us? \nAutomated Archiving is the fourth and last session of How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices\, a four-part workshop series on digital archiving that gives creators and makers the tools they need to archive their own practice. \nIn this fourth session\, we dive into how algorithmic tools can support knowledge archiving\, unpack how these systems work\, and examine their pitfalls. Through these conversations\, we want to raise questions about when algorithmic tools are actually useful\, and what we should be conscious of. \nThe afternoon starts with a presentation by artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz and her studio partner Delali Vorgbe. Together\, they have been working on a model that acts as an indigenous knowledge system repository and living archive of the Serer cosmology—the worldview of the Serer people of Senegal\, the Gambia\, and Mauritania. Linda and Delali will share insights into the art of building archives for model training. \nNext\, early internet artist Martine Neddam will briefly explain how the archive of her iconic artwork Mouchette (1996) formed the basis for a new project in which one can chat with Mouchette. Get a sneak peek into the work-in-progress. \nThe day will end with a working session led by artist and designer Leo Scarin\, who will teach the practice of scraping. Learn how to extract data from online archives or even your own website. What does this reveal about how machine learning models are made\, and which tactics can be used to keep work from being crawled by large-scale models? \n  \n📅 Date: Thursday 12 February 2026\n🕗 Time: 15.00 – 17.30 CET\n📍 Location: The Hmm’s studio\, NDSM-plein 125\, 1033 WC Amsterdam and online\n🎟 Tickets: €5 per workshop (onsite or online) \nAs these workshops are more intimate sessions\, there is a limited supply of tickets available. The workshops can be joined both onsite and online. You can find information about physical accessibility at The Hmm’s studio here. \n  \nNote for passepartout ticketholders: \nWith a passepartout ticket\, you can join all four sessions onsite or online. We ask that you email us at info@thehmm.nl in advance to let us know which workshops you would like to attend\, and your mode of presence. \n  \nHow to Archive Better: Preserving Practices\nArtists\, designers\, and makers often struggle with processes of archiving their own work. This is especially true for individuals or collectives who work digitally or who have more intersectional and social practices. Archiving your own work can often feel like a lonely task\, and one that gets left behind\, forgotten\, moved to the end of the to-do list. How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices is a four part workshop series on digital archiving that gives creators and makers the tools they need to archive their own practice. The workshop series made in collaboration between The Hmm and Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD)\, a growing network of museums\, creators\, archives\, designers\, researchers and collectives who have combined forces to make design and digital culture archives visible\, accessible and future-proof. \nThis four-part series encourages us to move from individual practices to collective archiving—practicing ways to support one another acts of archiving. With this in mind\, the sessions will include knowledge sharing combined with a practical collective working session. Each workshop will begin with a talk from an artist\, designer\, or researcher\, sharing their own archiving practice and experience as inspiration\, followed by a more hands-on workshop where an invited guest (researcher\, artist\, archivist) teaches a specific set of skills or approach to archiving. Following the workshop\, time will be dedicated to work on archiving your own practice as an extension of the tools or ideas shared in the session. \nThe sessions will be hybrid and participants can join onsite or online. The onsite sessions will take place either in Amsterdam at The Hmm’s studio in the NDSM Loods or Rotterdam at Nieuwe Instituut. Please check the session you would like to join for the specific onsite location.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/preserving-practices-4-automated-archiving/
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! Preserving Practices #3: Materialities of Archiving
DESCRIPTION:Artists\, designers\, and makers often struggle with processes of archiving their own work. This is especially true for individuals or collectives who work digitally or who have more intersectional and social practices. Archiving your own work can often feel like a lonely task\, and one that gets left behind\, forgotten\, and moved to the end of the to-do list. How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices is a four part workshop series on digital archiving that gives creators and makers the tools they need to archive their own practice. \nDigital archiving can often seem quite ephemeral\, with our projects\, files\, and even the artworks themselves stored on servers\, external hard drives\, and the cloud. But when we archive our work in the cloud or on external hard drives\, is it even safe? What happens when the platforms that a work was originally made on don’t exist anymore? And how can we create new ways of caring for digital work together? In our third session\, Materialities of Archiving\, we’ll focus on the materiality of digital archiving\, thinking about what it means to archive a website\, an online project\, or a browser-based work. In this session we’ll explore digital archiving tools and processes and learn about decentralised\, autonomous\, and self-hosted approaches to archiving digital work. \nThe session will begin with a talk from Kelani Nichole\, a technologist and exhibition maker who founded TRANSFER\, an experimental media art gallery. She has been exploring decentralised networks and virtual worlds in contemporary art for over a decade. Kelani will be joining us to talk about her own practice and her latest initiative TRANSFER Data Trust\, a decentralised artist-owned archive whose mission it is to cooperatively maintain artworks in perpetuity\, ensuring their preservation and access across generations. Backed by a network of care\, this model offers a new approach to media art valuation\, conservation\, and governance. \nThe talk will be followed by a hands-on workshop led by Karl Moubarak and Heerko van der Kooij\, who are both part of the Hackers & Designers collective. For this workshop we’ll be exploring strategies to archive web and code-based projects using digital archiving processes and tools. The workshop will start with a practical hands-on overview on how to use Git\, a version control system used to store\, share\, and work together with others to write code. Together we’ll engage with the various tool ecosystems around Git and focus on the archiving-publishing possibilities embedded in collaboration on code projects. We will also explore more autonomous and self-hosted approaches to archiving code projects. \n📅 Date: Thursday 15 January 2026\n🕗 Time: 15.00 – 18.00 CET\n📍 Location: Nieuwe Instituut\, Museumpark 25\, 3015 CB\, Rotterdam and online\n🎟 Tickets: €5 per workshop & €15 for all 4 workshops (onsite or online) \nAs these workshops are more intimate sessions\, there is a limited supply of tickets available. They are also available to follow simultaneously online. You can find information about physical accessibility at Nieuwe Instituut here. \n  \nNote for passepartout ticketholders: \nWith a passepartout ticket\, you can join all four sessions onsite or online. We ask that you email us at info@thehmm.nl in advance to let us know which workshops you would like to attend\, and your mode of presence. Please scroll further for the specific location of the session(s) you would like to join onsite. \n  \nAbout How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices\nHow to Archive Better: Preserving Practices is a workshop series made in collaboration between The Hmm and Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD)\, a growing network of museums\, creators\, archives\, designers\, researchers and collectives who have combined forces to make design and digital culture archives visible\, accessible and future-proof. \nThis four-part series encourages us to move from individual practices to collective archiving—practicing ways to support one another in acts of archiving. With this in mind\, the sessions will include knowledge sharing combined with a practical collective working session. Each workshop will begin with a talk from an artist\, designer\, or researcher\, sharing their own archiving practice and experience as inspiration\, followed by a more hands-on workshop where an invited guest (researcher\, artist\, archivist) teaches a specific set of skills or approach to archiving. Following the workshop\, time will be dedicated to work on archiving your own practice as an extension of the tools or ideas shared in the session. \nThe sessions will be hybrid and participants can join onsite or online. The onsite sessions will take place either in Amsterdam at The Hmm’s studio in the NDSM Loods or Rotterdam at Nieuwe Instituut. Please check the session you would like to join for the specific onsite location. \nYou can join for all four sessions with a passepartout ticket\, or choose one or two to take part in. \nUpcoming workshops in the series (tickets already available via ticket link):\n🔷 12 February 2026: Automated Archiving\nOnsite location: The Hmm’s studio\, NDSM-plein 125\, 1033 WB\, Amsterdam\n \nIn this workshop we want to explore if\, and how\, we can use AI and other tools for automated\, and even speculative archiving. Can these tools make our archiving processes better? And what is the value of the archive in the face of these fast-paced developments in AI?
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/preserving-practices-3-materialities-of-archiving/
LOCATION:Het Nieuwe Instituut\, Museumpark 25\, Rotterdam\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Preserving Practices #2: The Archive and the Audience
DESCRIPTION:Many artists and makers\, especially those working with digital technologies\, have interactive aspects to their work where the audience also becomes an important part of the work itself. When working on an interactive project\, how do you archive the audience and their experiences? And what are ways to experiment with forms of collective archiving? \nThe Archive and the Audience is the second session of How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices\, a four part workshop series on digital archiving that gives creators and makers the tools they need to archive their own practice. \nDuring this second session\, we’ll explore how to archive an audience\, discussing and immediately experimenting hands-on with ways to do this collectively. One of our guests is Avery Dame-Griff\, author of the book The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet and founder of the Queer Digital History Project. Avery will share his experience with archiving what people do on the internet and why this is important. At the same time\, he’ll also be sharing how to take people’s privacy into account when archiving often personal experiences. \nWe will collectively archive and report Avery’s presentation\, by using the open-source and free-to-use publishing tool Etherport. Etherport is a tool for experimental\, multi-voiced\, and non-linear cultural event reports\, developed by Open Source Publishing and the Institute of Network Cultures in the context of the research project Going Hybrid. Gijs de Heij from Open Source Publishing and Tommaso Campagna from the Institute of Network Cultures will join us to introduce us to Etherport and share how it allows for the creation of hybrid publications developed through a collective process with space for audience participation. \nAfter this session\, you’ll not only learn about how to bring together the archive and the audience\, but also take home a practical tool for quickly and collectively publishing hybrid publications. \n📅 Date: Thursday 11 December 2025\n🕗 Time: 15.00 – 18.00 CET\n📍 Location: Studio at Nieuwe Instituut\, Museumpark 25\, 3015 CB Rotterdam and online\n🎟 Tickets: €5 per workshop and €15 for all 4 workshops (onsite or online) \nAs these workshops are more intimate sessions\, there is a limited supply of tickets available. The workshops can be joined both onsite and online. You can find information about physical accessibility on the Nieuwe Instituut website here. \n  \nNote for passepartout ticketholders: \nWith a passepartout ticket\, you can join all four sessions onsite or online. We ask that you email us at info@thehmm.nl in advance to let us know which workshops you would like to attend\, and your mode of presence. Please scroll further for the specific location of the session(s) you would like to join onsite. \n  \nHow to Archive Better: Preserving Practices\nArtists\, designers\, and makers often struggle with processes of archiving their own work. This is especially true for individuals or collectives who work digitally or who have more intersectional and social practices. Archiving your own work can often feel like a lonely task\, and one that gets left behind\, forgotten\, moved to the end of the to-do list. How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices is a four part workshop series on digital archiving that gives creators and makers the tools they need to archive their own practice. The workshop series made in collaboration between The Hmm and Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD)\, a growing network of museums\, creators\, archives\, designers\, researchers and collectives who have combined forces to make design and digital culture archives visible\, accessible and future-proof. \nThis four-part series encourages us to move from individual practices to collective archiving—practicing ways to support one another acts of archiving. With this in mind\, the sessions will include knowledge sharing combined with a practical collective working session. Each workshop will begin with a talk from an artist\, designer\, or researcher\, sharing their own archiving practice and experience as inspiration\, followed by a more hands-on workshop where an invited guest (researcher\, artist\, archivist) teaches a specific set of skills or approach to archiving. Following the workshop\, time will be dedicated to work on archiving your own practice as an extension of the tools or ideas shared in the session. \nThe sessions will be hybrid and participants can join onsite or online. The onsite sessions will take place either in Amsterdam at The Hmm’s studio in the NDSM Loods or Rotterdam at Nieuwe Instituut. Please check the session you would like to join for the specific onsite location. \nYou can join for all four sessions with a passepartout ticket\, or choose one or two to take part in. \nUpcoming workshops in the series (tickets already available above):\n🔷 15 January 2026: The Materiality of Archiving\nOnsite location: Nieuwe Instituut\, Museumpark 25\, 3015 CB Rotterdam\n \nDigital archiving can often seem quite ephemeral\, with things stored on servers in the cloud. In this session we want to focus on the materiality of digital archiving\, thinking about how to archive a website\, online project\, or browser-based work. \n🔷 12 February 2026: Automated Archiving\nOnsite location: The Hmm’s studio\, NDSM-plein 125\, 1033 WB\, Amsterdam\n \nIn this workshop we want to explore if\, and how\, we can use AI and other tools for automated\, and even speculative archiving. Can these tools make our archiving processes better? And what is the value of the archive in the face of these fast-paced developments in AI?
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/preserving-practices-the-archive-and-the-audience/
LOCATION:Het Nieuwe Instituut\, Museumpark 25\, Rotterdam\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Preserving Practices #1: Taking Out the Trash
DESCRIPTION:Artists\, designers\, and makers often struggle with processes of archiving their own work. This is especially true for individuals or collectives who work digitally or who have more intersectional and social practices. Archiving your own work can often feel like a lonely task\, and one that gets left behind\, forgotten\, moved to the end of the to-do list. How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices is a four part workshop series on digital archiving that gives creators and makers the tools they need to archive their own practice. \nIn our first session\, Taking Out the Trash\, we want to explore whether it is necessary to keep everything in the process of archiving your work. With what seems like endless amounts of cloud storage\, and smaller external hard drives with more and more space\, it feels like endless storage is possible. But is it necessary to keep everything? How do you make the choices of what to keep and what to throw away? \nThe session will begin with a talk from Marie Verdeil\, a French designer and artist based in Brussels. Marie will join us to talk about her own archive practices\, getting out of Google’s environment\, the Fediverse\, Low-tech Magazine’s website\, the environmental impact of digital tools and data centres\, and how to make choices and compress content sustainably. \nThe talk will be followed by a hands-on workshop led by Elki Boerdam\, a visual artist\, researcher\, writer\, and photo-editor\, and one of the initiators of Input Party\, an image event where artists share their referential image archives. In this workshop\, which will take the format of the Input Party\, participants will be sharing images and references from their own archives. The images will become a physical tool for the process of sharing—opening up conversations about archiving images and work in general\, digital images as material\, and how they contribute to the construction of work. What should you keep from that abundance of images and references that you collect in the process of making work? How can that act as a way to encapsulate a work in the archive with context? \n📅 Date: 13 November 2025\n🕗 Time: 15.00 – 18.00 CET\n📍 Location: The Hmm’s studio\, NDSM-plein 125\, 1033 WB\, Amsterdam and online\n🎟 Tickets: €5 per workshop & €15 for all 4 workshops (onsite or online) \nAs these workshops are more intimate sessions\, there is a limited supply of tickets available. They are also available to follow simultaneously online. You can find information about physical accessibility at The Hmm’s studio here. \n  \nNote for passepartout ticketholders: \nWith a passepartout ticket\, you can join all four sessions onsite or online. We ask that you email us at info@thehmm.nl in advance to let us know which workshops you would like to attend\, and your mode of presence. Please scroll further for the specific location of the session(s) you would like to join onsite. \n  \nAbout How to Archive Better: Preserving Practices\nHow to Archive Better: Preserving Practices is a workshop series made in collaboration between The Hmm and Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD)\, a growing network of museums\, creators\, archives\, designers\, researchers and collectives who have combined forces to make design and digital culture archives visible\, accessible and future-proof. \nThis four-part series encourages us to move from individual practices to collective archiving—practicing ways to support one another in acts of archiving. With this in mind\, the sessions will include knowledge sharing combined with a practical collective working session. Each workshop will begin with a talk from an artist\, designer\, or researcher\, sharing their own archiving practice and experience as inspiration\, followed by a more hands-on workshop where an invited guest (researcher\, artist\, archivist) teaches a specific set of skills or approach to archiving. Following the workshop\, time will be dedicated to work on archiving your own practice as an extension of the tools or ideas shared in the session. \nThe sessions will be hybrid and participants can join onsite or online. The onsite sessions will take place either in Amsterdam at The Hmm’s studio in the NDSM Loods or Rotterdam at Nieuwe Instituut. Please check the session you would like to join for the specific onsite location. \nYou can join for all four sessions with a passepartout ticket\, or choose one or two to take part in. \nUpcoming workshops in the series (tickets already available above):\n🔷 11 December 2025: The Archive and the Audience\nOnsite location: Nieuwe Instituut\, Museumpark 25\, 3015 CB Rotterdam\n \nMany artists and makers\, especially those working with digital technologies\, have interactive aspects to their work where the audience also becomes an important and large part of the work itself. How do you archive the audience when it’s an interactive project\, or experiment with forms of collective archiving? \n🔷 15 January 2026: The Materiality of Archiving\nOnsite location: Nieuwe Instituut\, Museumpark 25\, 3015 CB Rotterdam\n \nDigital archiving can often seem quite ephemeral\, with things stored on servers in the cloud. In this session we want to focus on the materiality of digital archiving\, thinking about how to archive a website\, online project\, or browser-based work. \n🔷 12 February 2026: Automated Archiving\nOnsite location: The Hmm’s studio\, NDSM-plein 125\, 1033 WB\, Amsterdam\n \nIn this workshop we want to explore if\, and how\, we can use AI and other tools for automated\, and even speculative archiving. Can these tools make our archiving processes better? And what is the value of the archive in the face of these fast-paced developments in AI?
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/preserving-practices-taking-out-the-trash/
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SUMMARY:The Best Version of Yourself 💪 Symposihmm #2
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade or so\, the self-help industry has made the leap from books to online with a rise in gymfluencing\, wellness guru culture\, and all sorts of coaching. Under the auspices of “becoming the best version of yourself”\, there is an endless treadmill of influencers and online communities who are ready to teach you how to eat\, work towards a passive income\, and Svanasana your way to sure success. \nBut who decides what the “best” is exactly? And are you being offered actual alternative paths to happiness and self-actualisation\, or just newly enmeshed ways of conforming to the status quo? \nWith our second Symposihmm\, we explore three areas of so-called self-optimisation: physical\, financial\, and spiritual. Expect deep dives and slow takes on looksmaxxing\, the appropriation and commodification of wellness\, hustlepreneurship\, manifestation\, and more. \n🎃 As this event takes place on Halloween\, we encourage you to come dressed up as the best (or worst!) version of yourself! \n  \nAfternoon programme session — 15:30 – 16:30 \n15:30 – 16:30\, Our Dope Future reading session (content warning in accessibility note below) \n\nWith Annie Goodner\, a writer\, critic\, and educator\, we’ll discuss Our Dope Future\, a short story from Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection written in the form of a fictional Reddit / forum post by a homeschooled hustlepreneur who fumbled his relationship and sanity. Annie will lead a conversation about both the style of the story\, as well as the substance. We’ll discuss questions like: how does your own internet or online literacy impact your reading of the story? Is it a cautionary tale\, a realistic portrayal of a kind of masculinity\, pure satire?\nPlease note that we ask you to read the 19-page text in advance\, which we will share prior to the session.\n\n  \n✦ Start of simultaneous livestream of hybrid programme ✦ \nAfternoon programme talks — 17:00 – 18:30 \n \n17:00 – 17:10\, Opening lecture by The Hmm \n17:10 – 17:50\, Conversation with Fariha Róisín \n\nFariha Róisín in conversation with The Hmm programmer Margarita Osipian about wellness culture and their book Who is Wellness For\, exploring the appropriation and commodification of wellness cultures.\n\n17:50 – 18:30\, Conversation with Mair Underwood \n\nMair Underwood in conversation with The Hmm programmer Sjef van Beers about the impact of online body building and fitness culture.\n\n  \n✦ Break\, 18:30 – 19:30 ✦ \n\n😋 The one and only Toko Nani will be selling dinner during the break! Enjoy delicious Indonesian food at the NDSM Theater before the start of our evening programme.\n\n  \nEvening programme — 19:30 – 22:00 \n19:30 – 19:45\, Performance lecture by Eleni Maragkou \n\nThere Are No Girls on the Internet\, Everyone on the Internet Is a Girl: a Morning Routine in 7 Easy Steps\n\n19:45 – 21:30\, Talks and panel discussion with Günseli Yalcinkaya\, Silvio Lorusso\, and Melis Baş \n\n On three online types of self optimisation: physical\, financial and spiritual.\n\nGünseli Yalcinkaya on looksmaxxing and physical optimisation.\nSilvio Lorusso on online characters such as Hide the Pain Harold\, Patrick Bateman and Maicol Pirozzi\, a parody of the “fuffaguru”\, the Italian hustlepreneur.\nMelis Baş on hijacked critique and radical conspiracism in the womanosphere.\n\n\n\n21:30 – 22:00\, Performance lecture by Ötza \n\nA rewriting of narratives by Ötza\, a 5300-year-old cryodesiccated fanfiction writer from the Neolithic time period.\n\n  \n📅 Date: Friday 31 October 2025\n🕗 Time: 15.30 – 22.00 CET\n📍 Location: NDSM Theater and our custom livestream\n🎟 Tickets: Various categories from €7\,50 to €27\,50. Student and livestream tickets available ✨ \n♿ Accessibility notes and content warning\nThe NDSM Theater is located on the ground floor. Unfortunately\, there is no wheelchair-accessible toilet and the bar is located on the first floor. During the event we can provide live closed captioning for those with hearing impairments and disabilities. Please reach out to us via info@thehmm.nl\, at least 3 days before the event if possible\, if you are joining on-site and have this access need\, so that we can reserve a seat for you within view of the screen with captions. If you are joining online via our livestream\, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes. \nThe story we’ll read and discuss in the reading group is about an all-round aggravating white man who starts a psychologically abusive relationship. \n  \n💪 The Best Version of Yourself is a full-day programme hosted by The Hmm\, a platform for internet cultures\, taking place at NDSM Theater on Friday 31 October 2025. Expect talks\, performances\, workshops\, and more. This second-ever Symposihmm will dive into the intersecting worlds of physical optimisation\, wellness culture\, looksmaxxing\, and hustle culture\, how they manifest\, and are perpetuated online. It is part of This is Who You’re Being Mean To\, The Hmm’s broader 2025 year theme\, exploring gender expression online. \n💚 This programme is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL\, het Cultuurfonds\, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts\, and the Nieuwe Instituut International Visitor’s Programme.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-best-version-of-yourself-%f0%9f%92%aa-symposihmm-2/
LOCATION:NDSM Theater\, Scheepsbouwkade 4-6\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:ai\, ai\, ai: a space to play\, fail and tinker with machines
DESCRIPTION:The Hmm opens a playful AI lab during Dutch Design Week 2025 to celebrate the launch of ai\, ai ai: a hands-on guide to play\, fail & tinker with machines. This living publication and web project\, on the topic of co-creating with AI\, is developed by The Hmm and Hogeschool van Amsterdam. \nWe are constantly bombarded with AI-generated nonsense—Shrimp Jesus\, muscular oranges (“U Din Din Din Dun”)\, monkeys inside bananas (“Chimpanzini Bananini”)—parading across our feeds. These surreal figures\, often dismissed as mere AI slop\, exist to grab attention\, yet the rise of these brainrot characters shows something more complex at play. Brainrot isn’t just a symptom of attention decay; it has become a collaborative language\, a way of coping with the overwhelming pace and surreal logic of digital life. \nStill\, when we let generative AI do too much of the talking\, it tends to produce sameness and mediocrity. To push beyond that and to create something unexpected\, strange\, and alive\, we need to resist settling for the first result. Real creativity with AI requires engagement\, friction\, and play. \nIn The Poetics of Prompting exhibition\, curated by The Hmm in collaboration with MU Hybrid Art House during Dutch Design Week 2024\, we showcased artists working with AI in precisely this way. They used AI not just as a generator\, but as a material to be pushed\, questioned\, and shaped. \nA year later\, The Hmm is back at MU with a more hands-on approach. We’ve invited some of the artists from the exhibition and a few new faces to share their recipes for working with AI. Make your way through a landscape of brainrot characters to work on developing a meaningful relationship with AI tools at a number of physical play stations. Or join us during one of our lunch sessions for a live AI experiment\, see schedule below. \nPractical information ai\, ai\, ai\n📍 Location: MU Hybrid Art House\, Torenallee 40-06\, 5617 BD\, Eindhoven\n📅 Date: 18 – 26 October 2025\n🕗 Time: 11.00 – 18.00 CEST\n🎟 Free access \nSchedule Lunch sessions\nJoin a live AI assignment\, guided by an artist or instructor from The Hmm. Participants of the lunch sessions get a free copy of the ai\, ai\, ai publication\, filled with 20 assignments aimed at students and creative professionals. A light snack is provided. Bring your own laptop!\n \n📅 Dates: 18\, 19\, 22\, 23\, 24 and 25 October 2025\n🕗 Time: 12.30 – 13.30 CEST\n🎟 €5\, reserve a spot here \n👾 18 October – Code Re-enactment\, by artist Martijn van Boven\nRecreate a historical computer animation by describing it in natural language.\nTake a close look at a short abstract animation. Turn what you see into words\, then let AI help you re-create it in code. This exercise lets you explore how animations are built\, how computers “understand” descriptions\, and how you can rethink what it means to translate creativity into code. \n👾 19 October – Hate it\, Make it\nTransforming a Song You Hate to a Song you Love\nArtists uncover and challenge AI’s hidden structures\, raising urgent questions of ethics and authorship. Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst turn AI into a collective playground with Holly+\, a voice model anyone can use. In this assignment\, remix Herndon’s voice and explore creativity as a shared\, generative experiment. \n👾 22 October – Tracing Patterns Into Noise\nFind the Simplest Outline an AI Image Tool Can Make\nAI image tools start with random noise and gradually turn it into pictures based on your prompt. In this session\, you’ll play with “noisy” prompts—like grainy or pixelated images—to see what surprising results the AI creates. You’ll explore how the AI works step by step\, while your creativity shapes the outcome. \n👾23 October – Brainrot in the algorithmic abyss\nMake your own brainrot character using AI tools and technologies\nThis assignment is inspired by Viraj Khanna’s BRAIN ROT: The Life You Live?\, which transforms the hyper-digital world into playful\, surreal artworks. Italian brainrot emerges from grassroots internet creativity and thrives on remixing\, joy\, and weirdness. In this assignment\, you’ll generate your own AI-powered brainrot characters and contribute to this expanding\, collaborative universe. \n👾 24 October – Step by Step\nA generated stop motion video\nCreating single AI images is easy\, but making a seamless sequence is trickier. For this assignment\, you’ll generate still images to create your own stop-motion video\, exploring how separate frames can flow into a continuous story. It’s inspired by the work of filmmaker Paul Trillo\, who generated nearly 700 clips for The Hardest Part\, a 4-minute continuous music video\, earning the first Golden Nica for AI in Art in 2024. \n👾 25 October – Murder a Dog\, by artist Sander Veenhof\nDiscover the unbeatable optimism of chatbots like chatGPT by adding a radical dramatic twist in your conversation.\nAI chatbots may seem simple\, but there’s a lot happening behind the scenes—and even their creators can’t predict everything. In this assignment\, you’ll explore their limits\, rules\, and safeguards\, discovering their quirks and ways to push beyond their narrow\, “babysat” view of the world. \n  \n♿️ You can find information on accessibility at MU here. \n💙 ai\, ai\, ai is a project in collaboration with Responsible AI Lab at Hogeschool van Amsterdam and is financially made possible by Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industrie and Centre of Expertise Creative Innovation.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/ai-ai-ai-a-space-to-play-fail-and-tinker-with-machines/
LOCATION:MU\, Torenallee 40-06 (Strijp S)\, Eindhoven\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:The Hmm ON the Animal Internet
DESCRIPTION:Who says the internet is just for humans? Some might say that it’s made of cats\, (there’s even a song about it). Sharks swim between internet cables\, the Doge meme has increased breeding of the Shiba Inu\, and petfluencers amass millions of followers whilst spreading animal advocacy. Researchers use AI to decode whale language\, and there’s even prototypes being built for a canine internet\, a space for dog-to-dog connection. \nJoin us at The Hmm ON the Animal Internet at DOA to map the impact of the internet on non-human animals. As the largest pet shelter in the Netherlands\, DOA helps more than 2000 stray cats and dogs per year. In this nurturing environment\, we will be exploring the impact of the internet on our fellow animals\, and even how we can make space for them to surf the web independently. Unfortunately\, a tour of the animal shelter will not be possible as most of the animals are fed and asleep at the time of the event. But no fear\, visdeurbel is here (iykyk\, check the speakers for context). \nWe’re excited to have Jeanine Kornmann\, Senior Communications Specialist at DOA\, helping us to put together a wonderful programme for the evening. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to explore internet culture beyond our own species with six artists\, influencers\, researchers\, and makers. \nLimited in-person tickets available! \n  \nStay posted further down on this page for more information on speakers and the programme. \n🗓 Date: Wednesday 24 September 2025\n📍 Location: DOA\, Ookmeerweg 271\, 1067 SP Amsterdam\, and our custom livestream \n⏰ Doors open: 19.00 CEST\n🕗 Program starts: 19.30 CEST\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €8\,- / on-site student discount €5\,- / online livestream €5 \n♿️ Accessibility note\nThe event location is accessible and has an elevator and an accessible toilet. During the event we can provide live closed captioning for those who need it. Please reach out to us via info@thehmm.nl if you are joining on-site and have either of these access needs so we can accommodate you. If you are joining online via our livestream\, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes. \n💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL\, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts\, and the Cultuurfonds.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-on-the-animal-internet/
LOCATION:DOA\, Ookmeerweg 271\, Amsterdam\, 1067 SP\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Talking Technofeminism: The Hmm @ Design Museum Den Bosch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Talking Technofeminism: The Hmm @ Design Museum Den Bosch\, where we’ll be joined by six artists\, researchers\, and makers who’ll take us through their explorations and interactions with technology\, womanhood\, and online culture. \nFor this event we’re teaming up with the Design Museum as a continued journey into our year theme on online gender expression\, This Is Who You’re Being Mean To. Through their Women as Technology exhibition\, the Design Museum explores the intersections of femininity and technology using pole-dancing robots\, quasi-erotic anatomical models\, and kitchens designed specifically for women. \nStay posted further down on this page for more information on speakers and the programme. \n🗓 Date: Thursday 4 September 2025\n📍 Location: Design Museum Den Bosch\, De Mortel 4\, 5211 HV\, ‘s-Hertogenbosch \n⏰ Doors open: 19.30 CEST\n🕗 Program starts: 20.00 CEST\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €8\,- / on-site student discount €5\,- / online livestream €5 \n♿️ Accessibility note\nThe event location is accessible and has an elevator\, no thresholds in the building\, a ramp at the entrance and accessible toilets. For more accessibility information\, visit the Design Museum’s website. During the event we can provide live closed captioning for those who need it. Please reach out to us via info@thehmm.nl if you are joining onsite and have this access need so we can accommodate you. If you are joining online via our livestream\, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes. \n💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Cultuurfonds. \n  \nImage credits: JJuni SJ on Pixabay
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-design-museum/
LOCATION:Design Museum Den Bosch\, De Mortel 4\, ‘s-Hertogenbosch\, 5211HV\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Girl Online 🎀 Symposihmm #1
DESCRIPTION:Performing as a girl online can be a powerful way to subvert the algorithm. And thanks to the whiplash of the girlboss epidemic\, a meeker and cute self-image is now taking hold. Trends like girl math\, babygirl\, and girl dinner reflect a tendency across genders to self-infantilise\, a growing resistance to industrialized understandings of adulthood\, often tied to economic strains and shifting life expectations\, particularly amongst younger generations. \nAt the same time\, the notion of girlhood itself is being questioned\, reframed\, and adopted in online spaces. As AI isolates our feeds even more by sorting us into predetermined categories\, labels influence how we’re seen—and how we see ourselves. With machine learning gradually influencing more of our daily lives\, how will our online actions and self-understandings change as a whole? \n  \nAfternoon programme — 14:00 – 17:30 \nToday\, we often make ourselves small online. Where the girlboss of yesteryear was on her grind to “have it all”\, we now see a trend of flippantly shirking gendered responsibilities: we’re just girls\, don’t expect us to cook a full meal every night (girl dinner). This trend of self-infantilisation is being embraced by men as well\, who are posting about their boy apartments instead of man caves\, well into their thirties. In a series of short talks and a panel discussion\, we’ll explore online self-infantilisation. What is at the root of this phenomenon? And what are the benefits of this tactic? \nWith Maya B. Kronic\, Mela Miekus and Mita Medri\, and more… \n\n14.00 – 15.30\, Workshop — Ink your Online Identity (few spots left!)\n\nExplore the history of online identity and investigate digital self-presentation. Then design and apply temporary tattoos\, reflecting critically on the digital self.\n\n\n14.00 – 15.30\, Reading group (sold out)\n\nCollective reading session delving into selected passages of Tiqqun’s text “Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl”. No prep needed!\n\n\n16.00 – 17.30\, Panel — Self-infantilisation\, with Maya B. Kronic\, Mela Miekus\, Mita Medri\, and Jernej Markelj\n\n  \n౨ৎ Break ౨ৎ \n  \nEvening programme — 19.00 – 21.30 \nOnline\, ‘girl’ is less a gender than a strategy—playful\, ironic\, and vulnerable behavior performs well under the algorithm. For this part of the program\, we’ll explore ‘girl’ as a marketing tool\, a power move\, a form of desire\, and a proven formula for online success. But is this strictly a product of today’s media environment\, or does it echo earlier representations of girlhood? And what does the future of the girl look like in a world shaped by neural media? \n\nPerformance — Good Girl by Mireille Tap\nInterview — Artist Martine Neddam about the Girl in 20th century media\nKeynote lecture — K Allado-McDowell on the performance of girlhood and identity\nPerformance — djjustgirlythings\n\n  \n\n\n📅 Date: Friday 16 May 2025\n🕗 Time: 14.00 – 21.30 CEST\n📍 Location: SPUI25\, Spui 25-27\, Amsterdam\, and online.\n🎟 Tickets: Various categories from €7\,50 to €27\,50. Student and livestream tickets available ✨ \nFeel free to reach out to us at info@thehmm.nl for solidarity tickets. \nCan’t join us in person in Amsterdam? Or just want to watch from the comfort of your laptop or phone? This event is hybrid so you can also buy a ticket to join Girl Online via our livestream website. \n\n\n♿ Accessibility note \nSPUI25 is located on the ground floor\, there is a threshold at the door that staff are happy to help with. Unfortunately\, there is no accessible toilet. During the event we can provide live closed captioning for those with hearing impairments and disabilities. Please reach out to us if you are joining on-site and have this access need\, so that we can reserve a seat for you within view of the screen with captions. If you are joining online via our livestream\, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes. \n🎀 Girl Online is a full-day programme hosted by The Hmm\, a platform for internet cultures\, taking place across SPUI25 and University of Amsterdam locations on Friday 16 May. Expect talks\, performances\, workshops\, and more. This first ever Symposihmm will dive into girl trends\, self-infantilisation\, girl as a strategy in digital spaces\, and the future of girlhood. It is part of This is who you’re being mean to\, The Hmm’s broader 2025 year theme\, exploring gender expression online. \n💙 This programme is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL\, het Cultuurfonds\, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst\, and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis\, and made in partnership with University of Amsterdam Media Studies and Institute of Network Cultures.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/symposi-hmm-girl-online/
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SUMMARY:Circulating\, distributing\, smuggling: the power of the small file
DESCRIPTION: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 the possibilities within constraint—creating and celebrating a new kind of small file aesthetics? \nIn the last years there has been a huge increase in streaming\, data hoarding\, and the training and use of generative AI. The ecological burdens of these shifts in how we are using the internet and digital technologies are becoming ever more visible. Demands for data—which require cheap electricity\, high bandwidth\, and seemingly infinite digital storage—are starkly political—creating a divide between what are often called “data rich” and “data poor” countries. This digital divide can determine who has access to what\, where\, and when; creating an asymmetrical sharing of data like video\, texts\, and images. \nThis evening brings together 5 short films that were selected by The Hmm during the 2024 Small File Media Festival (SFMF). These films are not just short\, but also small: not more than 1.44MB per minute\, the storage capacity of a floppy disk. As the SFMF writes “Small files are media for the whole world. Traveling easily on 2G networks\, they arrive intact in lightly infrastructured regions (that is\, where most folks in the world live) and where networks are threatened by war and siege.” \nTo contextualise the film program\, we’ll be joined by filmmaker Minoo Iranpour Mobarakeh and artist and scholar Radek Przedpełski to discuss the creative and political uses and potentialities of the small file. And artist Nestor Siré will be contributing to the event with a special interactive version of his offline curatorial project !!!Sección ARTE\, that will link Amsterdam and Cuba through an informal\, offline\, data sharing network. If you want to take part in Nestor’s project please bring a USB stick or hard drive with at least 1GB! 💾 \n🍿Short film line-up\nRestore — Minoo Iranpour Mobarakeh\nIs Every Republic Constructed on Flat Earth? — Clint Sleeper\nWalking through a Nile Codex — Mena El Shazly and Omnia Sabry\nTHE RIVER — Anabela Costa\nI do not have enough money to buy new underwear — Jayson Sloan \nFounded in 2020\, the SFMF aims to raise awareness of the high carbon footprint of streaming media\, and proposes alternative solutions for media practice\, as well as creating new modes of thinking. These films\, ranging from humorous animations to politically censored content that was damaged and then restored\, encompass the power and possibilities of the small image. \n📅 Date: Wednesday 26 March 2025\n🕗 Time: 20.00 – 21.30 CET\n📍 Location: Het Documentaire Paviljoen\, De Spiegel; Vondelpark 3\, Amsterdam🎟 Tickets: €12 regular\, €6\,50 student\, Cineville; available via Het Documentaire Paviljoen
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/circulating-distributing-smuggling-the-power-of-the-small-file/
LOCATION:Het Documentaire Paviljoen\, Vondelpark 3\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:e-Kondō remix 💅 : Digital Cleanup Day!
DESCRIPTION:Ever thought about therapy for your laptop and/or smartphone? After all\, they have stuff to process too! \nIf you’ve been with us for a while\, you’ve probably heard of our famous e-Kondō workshops\, where we walk you through a digital declutter. On 15 March\, Digital Cleanup Day 2025\, we’re opening up this opportunity to you\, our public! \nWith new media and digital technology\, we often want as many pixels or as high definition quality as possible. The bigger and sharper\, the better. Big tech companies have labeled the places where we store our photos and documents the “cloud”\, seemingly light and immaterial. In reality\, these are huge datacenters that have a disproportionate impact on the global climate and even our direct surroundings. \nIn the e-Kondō workshop\, we reevaluate low-res. We will also take a closer look at the impact of our digital lives. Participants will say goodbye to unnecessary data\, à la Marie Kondō the declutter queen. Which desktop items still “spark joy”\, and what can be discarded? Deleted data will be translated into a clay sculpture or polymorph keychain; a physical mascot to remind you not to collect unnecessary digital 💩. \n  \n📅 Date: Saturday 15 March 2025\n🕗 Time: 14.00 – 16.00 CET\n📍 Location: The Hmm’s studio\, NDSM-plein 125\, 1033 WB\, Amsterdam\n🎟 Tickets: Reserve a free place here \n  \n💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/e-kondo-remix-%f0%9f%92%85-digital-cleanup-day/
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SUMMARY:Metaphormaxxing: A Mapping Game
DESCRIPTION:What meaning do we assign to images on the internet? And to what extent do we identify with them?  \nIn the offline world\, our physical traits generally influence how people perceive us. The online sphere offers more flexibility in how we can express our identity. Photography\, emojis\, stickers\, GIFs\, and memes have become a language of their own\, helping us express emotions\, ideas\, and how we see ourselves. Through digital self-expression\, we can also share various experiences of gender. In the past years\, this has increasingly been based on more traditional gender norms. We recognize this in the rise of terms such as girlboss\, tradwife or sigma male.  \nThese shifts have also impacted the images we use to express ourselves online. We use images to communicate and convey meaning\, but how are these images interpreted by others? Do we truly understand each other? The Hmm\, in collaboration with Foam\, has created an online mapping game and a physical installation to explore this: Metaphormaxxing. The title refers to how online images are used as a metaphor for ourselves. The Hmm and Foam invite you to examine the collective meanings we assign to images. Do we share similar interpretations of these images\, or do we associate completely different meanings with them? \nFive different contributors have created their own maps based on a gender-related sub-theme of their choice\, selecting images from their own digital environments. Every three weeks a new guest contributor’s map will be showcased in the exhibition space at Foam. On the interactive map in the center of the wall\, you can move the images yourself\, sharing your interpretation of what you see\, and even placing yourself on the map. Online\, you can create your own map entirely\, browse the contributor maps\, and compare them with other visitor-made maps.  \nThe digital tool Metaphormaxxing: A Mapping Game was created and developed by The Hmm in collaboration with Foam. You can also experience its physical manifestation at Foam throughout the duration of the exhibition.  \n🕗 Opening: 23 January 2025\, 18.30 – 21.00 CET (register here)\n📅 Exhibition duration: January 23 – May 11\, 2025\n📍 Locations: Foam Photography Museum and online \n  \nThis presentation is made possible with the generous support of Cultuurloket DigitALL.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/metaphormaxxing-a-mapping-game/
LOCATION:Foam\, Keizersgracht 609\, Amsterdam\, 1017 DS
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241211T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20241112T204413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241224T202919Z
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SUMMARY:Photography is... surreal
DESCRIPTION: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 of photographic expressions that emerge from the internet\, embracing the changing medium in all its weirdness and surreality. \n\n\nTraditionally\, the photographic medium has held a certain claim on the truth. From its invention\, a photo was seen as the ultimate document of reality\, even though early on manipulation and framing were part of the medium. Fueled by digital technologies\, the possibilities to edit\, alter and construct images grew exponentially and embedded itself within internet cultures. Manipulating\, appropriating\, and even generating visual material is very much part of the language of the internet\, diverging more and more from any original meaning or reality. What is the impact of such imagery\, that is increasingly harder to connect to something that exists in the world? \nTonight we’ll be joined by five artists\, researchers\, and makers who’ll take us through the surreal dimensions of photography. \n\n\n📅 Date: Wednesday 11 December 2024\n🕗 Time: 20.00 – 21.15 CET\n📍 Location: The Hmm’s online livestream platform\n🎟 Tickets: €5\, available via Foam \n  \nPhotography is…\n“Photography is…” is a series of online events by Foam and The Hmm that delve into the ways in which internet culture permeates and alters the field of photography—expanding and extending it exponentially. How does our relationship with the photographic image shift and change to the internet’s cultural and technological developments? Designed for everyone curious about the medium’s evolution in the digital age and for anyone intrigued by the future of visual culture online. Join us as we examine photography’s changing face in our image-saturated world.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/photography-is-surreal/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241206T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241206T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20241112T113321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241209T145817Z
UID:8127-1733515200-1733522400@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:The Hmm @ No Limits! Art Castle
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Hmm @ No Limits! Art Castle\, where we’ll be joined by six artists\, researchers\, and makers who’ll take us through their intersections and interactions with internet culture. \nThis event is connected to Boujloud Beats: Rhythms of Plurality\, the group exhibition now on view at No Limits! Art Castle\, in which artists explore the boundaries of art and identity\, inspired by the Moroccan Boujloud ritual. The title Boujloud Beats: Rhythms of Plurality refers to the way people constantly shift between different layers of their personality\, and how these layers sometimes come together or clash. The identities of the artists and how they navigate through society\, expressing themselves in various forms\, are just as important as the artworks themselves. Just as the Boujloud ritual breaks aesthetic conventions\, the exhibition does so as well by celebrating plural identities and self-expression. \nWe’re excited to have Simomo Bouj\, curator of Boujloud Beats: Rhythms of Plurality\, and artist Rex Collins helping us put together a powerful program for this night. \n🗓 Date: Friday 6 December 2024\n📍 Location: Sexyland World\, Noordwal 1\, 1021 PX Amsterdam \n⏰ Doors open: 19.30 CET\n🕗 Program starts: 20.00 CET\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €9\,- / on-site student discount €7\,- / online livestream €5 (👉 Please note: this ticket includes the €3 Sexyland World membership. If you already have a membership email us at info@thehmm.nl) \n♿️ Accessibility Note\nDuring the event we can provide live closed captioning for those with hearing impairment. Please reach out to us if you are joining on-site and have this access need\, so we can reserve a seat for you within view of the screen with captions. If you are joining online via our livestream\, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes. \n💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL\, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts\, and the Cultuurfonds.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-no-limits-art-castle/
LOCATION:Sexyland World\, Noordwal 1\, Amsterdam\, 1021 PX
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241121T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20241111T210856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241118T112742Z
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SUMMARY:Prompting Questions: Hotline for AI Advice
DESCRIPTION: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 Hmm’s Hotline for AI Advice. Now\, we’re gathering all those questions\, curiosities\, and concerns to spark a lively discussion. The script for the finissage is\, therefore\, in the hands of the exhibition’s visitors. \nCouldn’t visit the exhibition to leave a question in person? 📞 Call our hotline anytime to leave an anonymous voice message with your thoughts\, concerns\, or aspirations for AI in the weeks leading up to the live show. \nThis event is part of the public program for the Poetics of Prompting exhibition\, a collaboration between The Hmm and MU Hybrid Art House. Poetics of Prompting brings together 21 artists and designers who explore the languages of the prompt from different perspectives and experiment in multiple ways with AI. In their work\, machines’ abilities and human creativity merge. Through new and existing works\, interactive projects\, and a public program filled with talks\, workshops and film screenings\, this exhibition explores the critical\, playful and experimental relationships between humans and their AI tools. \n📅 Date: 21 November 2024\n🕗 Time: 20.00 – 21.30 CET (doors open 19:00\, you can visit the exhibition)\n📍 Location: MU Hybrid Art House\, Torenallee 40-06\, 5617 BD\, Eindhoven\, and online\n🎟 Tickets: Available via MU (€6 regular\, free for students) \n💜 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industry Fund and Cultuurfonds.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/prompting-questions-hotline-for-ai/
LOCATION:MU\, Torenallee 40-06 (Strijp S)\, Eindhoven\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241114T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241114T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20241105T105203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241111T203929Z
UID:8108-1731610800-1731621600@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:Prompting Polyphonic Futures
DESCRIPTION: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 ‘digital twin’ or voice clone that can make calls for you and sit in on your meetings? When it comes to voice AI\, we need to explore the value systems that underpin its development. What data is the model trained on and what gets left behind in these training processes? How will voice AI reshape language and how we speak? During this evening program we’ll engage with these questions and experiments with voice AI technologies through performances and talks. \nVisual artist and polyglot Salim Bayri will be sharing his work Hadra Collider—a speculative voice-to-text machine that he developed\, in collaboration with Tayeb Bayri and Megan Hoetger\, from imagining a particle accelerator (Hadron Collider) that functions inside someone’s throat. Hadra here can be 8adra (الهضرة)\, which in Moroccan Darija means ‘talk’\, or it can be 7adra (حضرة)\, which means both presence and procession. In this shift from ‘talk’ to ‘presence’ to ‘procession’ the Hadra Collider brings to the surface the misheard\, accidental\, and discarded to be able to see beyond intention amidst the chaos of algorithms. \nJonathan Reus\, a transmedia artist and musician\, will be performing iː ɡoʊ weɪ\, part of his ongoing practice of hybrid voice work. In this performance Jonathan plays with the tension between his biological voice\, augmented and transformed by real-time voice transfer models—creating a voice that celebrates the unraveling of voice as a marker of individuality and identity connected to a specific body. \nThe program will be punctuated by short performances from Onuitgesproken that emerged from workshops with Salim Bayri and Jonathan Reus during the day\, and will conclude with a conversation with Salim and Jonathan\, moderated by Margarita Osipian\, further exploring their work\, voice as data\, and the emerging questions around voice AI. \nThis event is part of the public program for the Poetics of Prompting exhibition\, a collaboration between The Hmm and MU Hybrid Art House. Poetics of Prompting brings together 21 artists and designers who explore the languages of the prompt from different perspectives and experiment in multiple ways with AI. In their work\, machines’ abilities and human creativity merge. Through new and existing works\, interactive projects\, and a public program filled with talks\, workshops and film screenings\, this exhibition explores the critical\, playful and experimental relationships between humans and their AI tools. \n📅 Date: 14 November 2024\n🕗 Time: 19.00 – 22.00 CET\n📍 Location: MU Hybrid Art House\, Torenallee 40-06\, 5617 BD\, Eindhoven\n🎟 Tickets: Available via MU (€6 regular\, free for students) \n💜 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industry Fund and Cultuurfonds.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/prompting-polyphonic-futures/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241113T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241113T211500
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20241029T151546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241224T203231Z
UID:8081-1731528000-1731532500@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:Photography is… text
DESCRIPTION: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 internet’s 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 learning algorithms are trained on large datasets of text-labeled photographs and with the recent rise of AI image generating tools\, a photorealistic image can be created online through a simple textual prompt.\n\nWhat do these fast-paced developments in image-making techniques—when text literally becomes the image—mean to the photographic landscape? How are AI systems codifying large datasets of photographs through text? And how does textual bias in large language models influence image outcomes and the visual landscape as a whole? Photography is… text explores the impact of text on our understanding of photography online.\n📅 Date: Wednesday 13 November 2024\n🕗 Time: 20.00 – 21.15 CET\n📍 Location: The Hmm’s online livestream platform\n🎟 Tickets: €5\, available via Foam \n  \nPhotography is…\n“Photography is…” is a series of online events by Foam and The Hmm that delve into the ways in which internet culture permeates and alters the field of photography—expanding and extending it exponentially. How does our relationship with the photographic image shift and change to the internet’s cultural and technological developments? Designed for everyone curious about the medium’s evolution in the digital age and for anyone intrigued by the future of visual culture online. Join us as we examine photography’s changing face in our image-saturated world. \nUpcoming events in the series \n11 December 2024: Photography is… surreal\n(Re)interpreting reality in photography
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/photography-is-text/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241109T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241109T173000
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20241004T061727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241031T113608Z
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SUMMARY:The Hmm's Data Centre Tour
DESCRIPTION:A walk along Google and Microsoft’s hyperscale data centres in the Wieringermeerpolder. \n\n\n\n\nAfter last year’s sold-out Data Centre Tour\, we’ve decided to return to Agriport this year with an updated program. \n\nThis year\, we’ll be looking at the energy consumption of AI\, amongst other things. Over the past year\, Microsoft for example has been implementing their Copilot AI in their software products\, and tech companies’ carbon emissions as a whole have increased in order to keep up with the AI boom. After all\, Shrimp Jesuses have to be processed somehow\, somewhere. \nFor this very special field trip\, we will take a tour bus from Amsterdam to the industrial park Agriport in the Wieringermeerpolder\, home to Google’s and Microsoft’s hyperscale data centres. Data centres are a crucial part of our internet infrastructure\, yet they remain black boxes in the landscape—highly invisible structures we don’t think about often enough. \n\nDuring our hike along these huge constructions\, we will take a look at how they came into existence\, their infrastructures\, and contemplate our relationship with data centres and the possible alternatives we could imagine taking place in these landscapes. \nHow do these data centres impact the places in which they are built and the communities that live there? What impact are data centres already having on the global environment? And what resources are necessary for our online infrastructures\, and who gets to decide how they are implemented? \nThis event is co-organised with Marloes de Valk\, a software artist\, writer\, and PhD researcher. She is a long-time follower of the development of the data centres in the Wieringermeerpolder. \nMore speakers will be announced soon! \n  \n\n🗓 Date: Saturday 9 November 2024\n🕗 Program starts: 13.00 CET\n🕗 Approximate return time: 17.00 CET\n📍 Bus pick-up and drop-off location: NDSM-plein\, Amsterdam\n🎟 Tickets: standard €35 / student discount €25 \n  \n♿️ Accessibility Note\nThe live closed captioning that we usually offer for those with hearing impairments\, is unfortunately not available for this event. It will be included in the audio report that will be uploaded to our livestream platform afterwards.\nThe walk along the data centre is approximately 2\,5 km and takes about 45 minutes. The rest of the program is seated\, on the bus\, and in a lunchroom. We can offer a car to ride along the length of the data centre for those not able to do the walk. Please reach out to us if you’d like to make use of this. \n\n\n💙 This event series is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL\, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts\, and het Cultuurfonds.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmms-data-centre-tour-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241016T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241016T211500
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20240922T205109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241029T151647Z
UID:7933-1729108800-1729113300@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:Photography is... hoarding
DESCRIPTION: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 ‘the cloud’ are real\, physical technologies. The storage of these vast amounts of data requires extensive energy and infrastructure\, contributing to carbon emissions while we mindlessly save every moment from our phones to the cloud. \nYet\, this abundance of digital imagery also serves a vital social purpose. Photographs have become powerful tools for social justice\, serving as a witness of human rights abuses and environmental crises. Activists and citizen journalists wield their cameras to document injustices and share vital information online\, often putting their safety on the line in the process. The act of saving and sharing these images\, in the face of censorship or erasures\, amplifies voices and preserves important narratives that might otherwise be silenced. \nThis duality raises pressing questions: What is the value of a single photograph in a flood of digital images? How do we balance the need to document significant events with the environmental impact of our digital habits? How will we store and preserve these large quantities of visual data? \n📅 Date: 16 October 2024\n🕗 Time: 20.00 – 21.15 CEST\n📍 Location: The Hmm’s online livestream platform\n🎟 Tickets: Available via foam (€5 per event\, €15 for all 4 events) \n  \nPhotography is…\n“Photography is…” is a series of online events by Foam and The Hmm that delve into the ways in which internet culture permeates and alters the field of photography—expanding and extending it exponentially. How does our relationship with the photographic image shift and change to the internet’s cultural and technological developments? Designed for everyone curious about the medium’s evolution in the digital age and for anyone intrigued by the future of visual culture online. Join us as we examine photography’s changing face in our image-saturated world. \nUpcoming events in the series\n13 November 2024: Photography is… text \nExploring text as an image-making technique \n11 December 2024: Photography is… surreal \n(Re)interpreting reality in photography
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/photography-is-hoarding/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241010T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241010T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20240910T125003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T143959Z
UID:7848-1728586800-1728594000@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:Motion Prompting: What if AI understands human movement better than we do?
DESCRIPTION:Join our livestream here: https://live.thehmm.nl/M0ti0nMoti0n \nCurrent 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\, we’re exploring a future of “Motion Prompting”. What will happen when AI enters our physical world?\n  \nMotion prompting is transforming the way AI understands and reacts to human movement. By tracking gestures and identifying patterns in motion\, AI systems are opening up new possibilities for creativity\, and gaining a broader understanding of how they can be implemented. From decoding subtle emotional cues to predicting complex movement sequences\, this technology is set to revolutionise fields as diverse as healthcare\, performing arts\, and human-computer interaction. For example\, an AI system could detect a change in your walk\, identifying an injury long before you notice it yourself.\n  \nThis event brings together two artists\, a technologist\, a founder and a researcher for an in-depth discussion on the communication between AI and our bodies. Through the lens of two innovative\, groundbreaking S+T+ARTS AIR projects: SYMBODY by Natan Sinigaglia and Monolith by Uncharted Limbo Collective\, we’ll explore how AI interprets and responds to human movement. We will unveil the current capabilities of motion prompting technology and speculate on its potential futures. What are the limitations of AI tools that are based on language as the central form of communication? What is a “human body” for a neural network? How can AI analyse movement quality? And which motions could ‘hack’ the machine? \n  \nJoin us to explore how AI can understand\, create\, and change human movement. Whether you’re an AI enthusiast\, a movement practitioner or simply curious\, this event will deepen your understanding of generative AI. Come ready to move\, think\, and imagine as we discuss the potentials and challenges of a world where our bodies become the interface to AI.\n  \nCan’t join us in person in Eindhoven? Or just want to watch from the comfort of your laptop or phone? All of our events are hybrid so you can also get a ticket to join online via our livestream website.\n  \n🗓 Date: Thursday 10 October 2024\n📍 Location: MU Hybrid Art House\, Torenallee 40-06\, 5617 BD\, Eindhoven\n⏰ Doors open: 18.15 CEST\n🕗 Program starts: 19.00 CEST\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €5\,- / online livestream (free)\n  \n💙 This event is part of S+T+ARTS AIR. The project is co-funded by the European Union from call CNECT/2022/3482066 – Art and the digital: Unleashing creativity for European industry\, regions\, and society under grant agreement LC-01984767.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/motion-prompting-what-if-ai-understands-human-movement-better-than-we-do/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241125
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20240909T203248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T111000Z
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SUMMARY:Poetics of Prompting: A Crash Course in Speaking Machine
DESCRIPTION: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 do we find ways to write with machines\, not as machines? \nMost of the attention around the spectacular rise of AI-tools has focused on what they enable\, the data they extract\, or the danger that they will take over all kinds of human work\, including that of creative makers. With Poetics of Prompting\, we zoom in on the core of human-machine interaction\, digging deeper into our relationship with the machine. \nBecause whatever you want an AI-tool to do— generate text\, images\, music\, or film—you need to write a set of instructions\, a prompt. Since the launch of ‘AI for all’ just under two years ago\, there has been a proliferation of courses in prompt engineering. Now\, instead of a programming language\, we can communicate with machines through a shared human language. However\, writing prompts well requires more than just a way with words and strong language skills. It calls for the development of a new language that both humans and machines can understand. This process asks us to feedback and feedforward with the machine\, in order to move beyond the predictable\, the mundane\, the cliche. \nPoetics of Prompting brings together 21 artists and designers who explore the languages of the prompt from different perspectives and experiment in multiple ways with AI. In their work\, machines’ abilities and human creativity merge. Through new and existing works\, interactive projects\, and a public program filled with talks\, workshops and film screenings\, this exhibition explores the critical\, playful and experimental relationships between humans and their AI tools. \nThe exhibition features work by Morehshin Allahyari\, Shumon Basar & Y7\, Ren Loren Britton\, Sarah Ciston\, Mariana Fernández Mora\, Radical Data\, Yacht\, Kira Xonorika\, Kyle McDonald & Lauren McCarthy\, Metahaven\, Simone C Niquille\, Sebastian Pardo & Riel Roch-Decter\, Katarina Petrovic\, Eryk Salvaggio\, Sebastian Schmieg\, Sasha Stiles\, Paul Trillo\, Richard Vijgen\, Alan Warburton\, and The Hmm & AIxDesign. \n🎉 Opening 🎉\n📍 Location: MU Hybrid Art House\, Torenallee 40-06\, 5617 BD\, Eindhoven\n📅 Date: 04 October 2024\n🕗 Time: 19.30 – 22.00 CEST\n🎟 Tickets: RSVP here \nPoetics of Prompting: A Crash Course in Speaking Machine is on view from 4 October until 24 November 2024. \nPlease visit the MU website for opening hours and general ticket information. \nYou can find information on accessibility at MU here. \n  \n💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL\, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts\, het Cultuurfonds\, and the Netherland-America Foundation.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/poetics-of-prompting-a-crash-course-in-speaking-machine/
LOCATION:MU Hybrid Art House\, Torenallee 40-06\, Eindhoven\, 5617 BD\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240925T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240925T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20240806T113814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240925T214309Z
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SUMMARY:Mommy or Foe? Mapping Momfluencers
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we celebrate 20 years of the influencer — with the first influencers being moms\, through the highly popular ‘00s mommyblog. Thanks to the mommyblog\, parenthood was able to become\, and often still is\, a “lively\, public conversation”. \nFor many mothers\, the blogosphere became a support network. However\, looking at the mom-o-sphere today\, it seems that things have taken a turn. News outlets report that online channels catering to mothers make them more anxious than reassured. What was once a raw and unfiltered space to make mistakes—and where looking for help while not looking one’s best was encouraged and celebrated—has now been filled with feeds of perfect images of families in idyllic settings that both cater to our desires and feed our anxieties. Have we really reverted to this outdated media landscape\, and where do we go from here? \nFor this event on momfluencers\, The Hmm aims to create a space where we can navigate the joys and controversies of momfluencing throughout time and space. How can we understand it as a core example of the ongoing online shifts in how we network\, socialize\, support one another\, and inevitably are influenced? \nThinking through various forms of support networks\, we want to make this evening a collective space where we will understand\, question\, and map out momfluencing and all its different sub-niches\, across its myriad frictions. Going beyond the usual speaker-audience dynamic\, this will be an evening where we will absolutely need your participation (inspired by our momfluencing muses\, think roundtable discussion meets Tupperware party\, meets soft play area!). We will also have 3 speakers present who will guide us and answer our questions as we move through these frictions. \nNot only do we want to better understand the phenomenon of momfluencing\, but we also want to highlight the networks of care that still exist both online and offline — hopefully inspiring us all to maintain and/or create supportive and inclusive networks in the new ‘global villages’ raising us. \nFor this event\, we are partnering with Vrouw aan het IJ\, a vibrant and progressive meeting and development location where sustainable space is created for the socioeconomic development of women and girls ages 12 and up. \n  \n🗓 Date: Wednesday 25 September 2024\n📍 Location: Vrouw aan het IJ\, Buiksloterweg 7A\, 1031 CC Amsterdam \n⏰ Doors open: 19.30 CEST\n🕗 Program starts: 20.00 CEST\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €8\,- / on-site student discount €5\,- / online livestream €5 \n  \n♿️ Accessibility Note\nDuring the event we can provide live closed captioning for those with hearing impairment. Please reach out to us if you are joining onsite and have this access need\, so we can reserve a seat for you within view of the screen with captions. If you are joining online via our livestream\, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes. \n  \n💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL\, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts\, and het Cultuurfonds.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/mommy-or-foe-mapping-momfluencers/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240911T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240911T211500
DTSTAMP:20260427T064524
CREATED:20240828T154749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240922T205353Z
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SUMMARY:Foam x The Hmm:  Photography is...reflective
DESCRIPTION:What can the past tell us about photography’s future? Join us Wednesday 11 September on The Hmm’s livestream platform for Photography is… reflective\, the first of the Foam x The Hmm: Photography is… event series! \nBuilding on photography’s inherent reflective nature\, sometimes it’s worth ‘looking backward to the future’—to examine our past as a way to look ahead. In our first even we’ll take stock of the current landscape of photography by reflecting on the ways in which internet culture has shaped the medium in the past 30 years. \nIn 1992 the first photo was uploaded to the internet at CERN\, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Since then\, the increasingly dominant presence and influx of mages online has drastically changed the defining borders of the photographic medium. The entanglements between the internet and the photographic image have led us to question what is even considered a photograph and to redefine how photographic images are created\, consumed\, and communicated with online. \nThe entanglements between the internet and the photographic image have led us to question what is even considered a photograph and to redefine how photographic images are created\, consumed\, and communicated online. During this event\, we’ll return to Foam Magazine #29: Curating the Future—an issue dedicated to envisioning the future of the medium. At that time\, nearly thirteen years ago\, the introduction stated that “the digitalisation of the medium brought about fundamental changes that have redetermined our entire visual culture\, utterly transforming what we consider to be a photo”. \nWhat should photography have been like today\, according to the past? Which topics and questions do we return to repeatedly when thinking about the internet’s impact on photography? Which questions are still left unanswered? Together with a handful of the original contributors to the issue\, we will peek back into the past to reflect on what has occurred since to speculate what might come. \n📅 Date: 11 September 2024\n🕗 Time: 20.00 – 21.15 CEST\n📍 Location: The Hmm’s online livestream platform\n🎟 Tickets: Available via foam (€5 per event\, €15 for all 4 events) \n  \nPhotography is…\n“Photography is…” is a series of online events by Foam and The Hmm that delve into the ways in which internet culture permeates and alters the field of photography—expanding and extending it exponentially. How does our relationship with the photographic image shift and change to the internet’s cultural and technological developments? Designed for everyone curious about the medium’s evolution in the digital age and for anyone intrigued by the future of visual culture online. Join us as we examine photography’s changing face in our image-saturated world. \nUpcoming events in the series\n16 October 2024: Photography is… hoarding \nNavigating the endless flood of digital images \n13 November 2024: Photography is… text \nExploring text as an image-making technique \n11 December 2024: Photography is… surreal \n(Re)interpreting reality in photography
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/foam-x-the-hmm-photography-is/
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SUMMARY:The Hmm ON The Perfect Feed
DESCRIPTION: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? \nOur social media feeds have changed quite a lot over the past 15 years. What started out as updates of what our friends are doing\, became information shared from accounts or pages to us as their followers. Now\, “For You” content shows up on our feeds\, just because algorithms suspect we’ll find it interesting. We’ve also seen feeds go from permanent to temporary\, with concepts like Stories or BeReal popping up. Given that timelines are where many internet users primarily get their information today\, taking a closer look at their development is essential. \n\n\n\n\n\nWe’ve noticed experienced users begin to curate their personalised For You Pages on TikTok independently by emulating what the algorithm registers as interested or uninterested behaviours. Simultaneously\, we’ve seen how important moderation is\, as Twitter rebranded as X and Elon Musk fired tons of moderators\, amongst other staff\, resulting in an amplification of hate speech\, ads that make the platform “feel like a tabloid magazine” and a For You feed that hardly seems to know what you like.  \n\n\n\n\n\nFor all our fellow users of the Internet\, we’ve developed a workshop in collaboration with Soyun Park and Leo Scarin of RGBdog\, that will be available four times across three different locations. Through The Perfect Feed\, we invite you to craft your ultimate social media timeline.  \nSo: How much control would you like over it as a user? What would your “Perfect Feed” look like? This workshop will explore how the content in our feeds is organised from a moderation perspective\, as well as the workings of the (graphic) user interfaces we use to access and interact with our feeds. \n\n  \n🎟 Tickets: €25 regular / €15 discount tickets for students\, artists and other self-employed individuals \nFeel free to reach out to us at info@thehmm.nl for some solidarity tickets we have available. \nA little bonus: Ticketholders for the workshops will also get early access to our new dossier on The Perfect Feed™! \n  \n\nℹ️ Locations\, dates and times: \n\nThe Hague\n\n🗓 Thursday 2 May 2024\n🕗 14.00 – 17.00\n📍 DCR Broedplaats\n🚏 De Constant Rebecqueplein 20b\, 2518RA Den Haag \n\n\n\n\n  \n\nArnhem (2 sessions) \n\n🗓 Thursday 9 May 2024\n🕗 10.00 – 13.00 (sold out) & 14.00 – 17.00\n📍 Shared Workspace Weerdjesstraat 69\n🚏 Weerdjesstraat 69\, 6811JE\, Arnhem\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nAmsterdam \n\n🗓 Wednesday 15 May 2024\n\n🕗 19.00 – 22.00\n🍽️ Optional dinner at 18.30\n📍 The Hmm’s Studio\n🚏 NDSM-plein 125\, 1033 WB\, Amsterdam\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-on-the-perfect-feed/
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SUMMARY:The Hmm @ De Blokhuispoort
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nDuring this event we’ll be joined by eight artists\, researchers\, and makers who will take us through their online interests and practices\, ranging from digital exhibition spaces to intersections of ecology and technology.\n\nThis time\, we are coming to Leeuwarden and are partnering with Kunstinitiatief VHDG and its artistic director Koen Bartijn to curate the event — which will take place at the Blokhuispoort space of dbieb Leeuwarden.\n\nKoen is a dramaturg\, active researcher\, and arts initiator in both visual and performance art. Currently\, he creates his own art productions and is a member and founder of the performance collective Antidot\, alongside directing VHDG\, a contemporary art initiative focusing on experimentation and talent development.\n\n\nCan’t join us in person in Leeuwarden? 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 @ De Blokhuispoort online via our livestream website.\n\n\n\n\n🗓 Date: Thursday 25 April 2024\n📍 Location: dbieb at Blokhuispoort\, Blokhuisplein 40\, 8911LJ Leeuwarden \n⏰ Doors open: 19.30 CEST\n🕗 Program starts: 20.00 CEST\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €8\,- / on-site student discount €5\,- / online livestream €5 \n♿️ Accessibility Note\nDuring the event we can provide live closed captioning for those with hearing impairment. Please reach out to us if you are joining onsite and have this access need\, so we can reserve a seat for you within view of the screen with captions. If you are joining online via our livestream\, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes. \n💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-de-blokhuispoort/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240404T200000
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SUMMARY:The Hmm @ Extrapool
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe’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 founder of Future Based\, interdisciplinary philosophy foundation and the cultural programmer at De Lindenberg Kunst en Technologie. She is currently conducting research as a PhD candidate at the Freudenthal Institute at Utrecht University on the role of imagination in space science. \nCan’t join us in person in Nijmegen? 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 @ Extrapool online via our livestream website. \n🤸 More speakers to be announced soon! \n🗓 Date: Thursday 4 April 2024\n📍 Location: Extrapool\, Tweede Walstraat 5\, 6511 LN Nijmegen \n⏰ Doors open: 19.30 CEST\n🕗 Program starts: 20.00 CEST\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €8\,- / on-site student discount €5\,- / online livestream €5 \n♿️ Accessibility Note\nDuring the event we can provide live closed captioning for those with hearing impairment. Please reach out to us if you are joining onsite and have this access need\, so we can reserve a seat for you within view of the screen with captions. If you are joining online via our livestream\, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes.\nExtrapool has a portable ramp to provide wheelchair users access to their venue. Their gender-neutral toilets unfortunately are not wheelchair accessible. \n💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-extrapool/
LOCATION:Extrapool\, Tweede Walstraat 5\, Nijmegen\, 6511LN\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20231206T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20231206T220000
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SUMMARY:Ask Us Anything: Hotline on AI Advice
DESCRIPTION: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 experts—from artists to philosophers to researchers—will answer all your questions live. Can’t wait to share your worries\, dreams\, or contemplations about artificial intelligence? Then call our hotline and leave us an anonymous voice message during the weeks leading up to the live radio show. \nAs waves of developments in artificial intelligence keep washing over us it can be hard to keep up. And since AI technologies are often presented as untransparent “black boxes”\, and generate what can feel like ‘magic’ results\, they can leave us with many questions. That’s why The Hmm is organising this online radio show and call-in hotline. To demystify AI\, a number of guests will answer your burning questions on this complex\, contentious\, and exciting topic. You can join in person at the PickUp Club\, or listen online via our livestream website. \nMore info on the speakers will follow soon! \nIn tandem with this event The Hmm is also organising the workshop “Meet Your Stochastic Sloth” in the afternoon. Together with artist and researcher Martijn van Boven\, we will dive into the use of artificial language as an artistic toolset. Find more info here. \n🗓 Date: Wednesday 6 December\, 2023\n📍 Location: PickUp Club\, NDSM plein 79\, 1033 WC\, Amsterdam \n⏰ Doors open: 7:30PM CET\n🕗 Program starts: 8PM CET\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €8\,- / on-site student discount €5\,- / online livestream €5 \n♿️ Accessibility Note\nDuring the event we can provide live closed captioning for those with hearing impairment. Please reach out to us if you are joining onsite and have this access need\, so we can reserve a seat for you within view of the screen. If you are joining online via our livestream\, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes. \n💜 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industry Fund and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/ask-us-anything-hotline-on-ai-advice/
LOCATION:IDFA Vondelpark\, Vondelpark 3\, Amsterdam\, 1071 AA\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Meet Your Stochastic Sloth
DESCRIPTION: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 “to learn” how to formulate language. But how does an AI chatbot actually learn? A lot of them are based on Large Language Models (LLMs) that some researchers have labelled “Stochastic Parrots”\, with the algorithm using randomisation to merely remix existing human-authored sentences. \nWhat if we challenge the Stochastic Parrot with its fictional nemesis\, the “Stochastic Sloth”? This practice-based workshop proposes a more intriguing way to approach the rapidly changing technology of LLMs. Together with artist and researcher Martijn van Boven\, we will dive into the use of artificial language as an artistic toolset. But first we will look briefly into the history of similar technological breakthroughs\, such as electronic music\, computational poetry\, and digital arts\, and discuss the applications of LLMs\, such as GPT-4\, and the current possibilities within the creation of digitally native art. You will work in a small group on a hands-on technique or methodology closely related to AI as an artistic tool. Join us to broaden your own practice with experimental approaches to co-creating with AI. \nWe encourage participants to join from a wide-range of artistic backgrounds\, who are already incorporating or thinking about incorporating these tools into their practice. Basic programming knowledge and experience with tools such as DALL·E\, Stable Diffusion\, and ChatGPT are a bonus\, but not required to take part. \nThis workshop is for a maximum of 20 participants. ☕ Snacks and drinks will be provided throughout the day. 🍪 \nIn tandem with this workshop The Hmm is also organising the live radioshow “Ask Us Anything: Hotline on AI Advice” in the evening. A panel of experts will answer a number of burning questions on AI by callers via our hotline. Find more info here. \n🗓 Date: Wednesday 6 December\n🕢 Time: 2:00PM – 6:00PM CET\n📍 Location: The Hmm Studio\, NDSM plein 125\, 1033 WC Amsterdam\n🎟 Tickets: €30 regular tickets / €20 discount tickets for students\, artists and other self-employed individuals \n💜 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industry Fund and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/workshop-meet-your-stochastic-sloth/
LOCATION:IDFA Vondelpark\, Vondelpark 3\, Amsterdam\, 1071 AA\, Netherlands
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