BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Hmm - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thehmm.nl X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Hmm REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261024T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261024T170000 DTSTAMP:20261014T160430Z CREATED:20260909T123242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T160430Z UID:10049-1792839600-1792861200@thehmm.nl SUMMARY:Symposihmm 📡 Capture & Control DESCRIPTION:With our second Symposihmm of the year\, Capture & Control\, we’ll be exploring the entanglements between processes of physiological and geological capture. How can we make sense of this paranoid era in online platforms? And how are our minds and our planet being captured\, rendered\, and manipulated?\n\nIn the 2000s\, Stanford University taught ‘captology’\, a course on computers as persuasive technologies. It’s perhaps no surprise that Mike Krieger\, who went on to create Instagram\, took this class. Over the past twenty years\, social media platforms have continued to perfect the tools of persuasion. They have figured out with extreme precision how to grab and hold our attention\, while simultaneously becoming the main source of information for many people. Following these shifts online\, artist and researcher Trevor Paglen has argued that these platforms are the perfect place for “influence operations”\, referring to the psyops (psychological operations) of secret services. Whereas back in the day no one on the internet knew you were a dog\, today you can’t tell who’s a bot\, troll\, or CIA agent.  A notion that can feed into conspiratorial thinking and schizoposting. For Paglen\, we are currently moving from surveillance capitalism into an era of psyops capitalism\, where our behaviour is not only being tracked for profit\, but also manipulated and steered. Others are calling this era\, and the online visual culture in its wake\, “pysop realism”\, pointing to conspiracy minded posts rooted in distrust and paranoia.\nWhile we comment\, post\, and scroll our way through social media—externalising our thoughts for data capture—the rampant digitisation and replication of the earth and biological life is quietly taking place. Companies like Quixel\, with over 18\,000 3D assets that they’ve captured—plants\, rocks\, logs\, coral reefs\, forest floors—sell our earth back to us to be used in gaming and other industries. Google Maps has led to Google Earth has led to the end-goal of digitally capturing the entire planet in order to create digital twins\, train AI world models\, ‘preserve’ habitats and monuments on the brink of collapse\, and build predictive systems. Palantir thrives on this data hoarding\, using it to analyse and create connections within disconnected data sets for militarisation and surveillance purposes. In the US\, Flock cameras scan around 20 billion license plates every month\, tracking the movement of people within cities and between states. And surveillance is expanding even further\, onto our own bodies\, with Meta selling over 7 million pairs of their Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025\, a huge jump from previous years. The processes of capturing\, connecting\, and analysing every element on earth is no longer a paranoid delusion\, it’s unfolding in front of our eyes. \n📋 Program\n11.00 – 12.30 \n\nWelcome and introduction\nTalk by DaniĂ«l de Zeeuw\nTalk by Sophie Publig & Mikkel RĂžrbo\n\n12.30 – 13.15 \n\nLunch break\n\n13.15 – 15.00 \n\nHalf-Earth Socialism: A Planetary Crisis Game with Francis Tseng\nThe Internet is a Horrible Place and I’m Here to Make it Worse: A workshop with Noura Tafeche (online host)\nAmbitopian Sonic Un-Realism: A workshop with SĂžren Siebel \n\n15.15 – 17.00 \n\nConversation with Marina Otero Verzier (online speaker)\nOne pixel\, many worlds\, lecture-performance by Emilia Tapprest & SĂžren Siebel\n\nThroughout the day there will be an exhibition with works by Nick Vyssotsky\, Constant Dullaart\, and Tewa Barnosa. \nDuring the lunch break San Serriffe will have a pop-up bookshop selling publications from the speakers and artists and other books connected to the symposium’s themes. \nPlease note that the activities between 13.15 and 15.00 won’t be broadcast on our livestream. Upon arrival at A Lab you can sign up for one of the activities on a first-come-first-served basis. \nFor Noura Tafeche’s and SĂžren Siebel’s workshops\, you will need to bring a laptop with you. \nPlease note that Noura Tafeche’s workshop includes discussion and analysis of implicit violent imagery and representations of rape culture\, child abuse\, and self-harm. \nWhat you need to know\n📅 Date: Saturday 24 October\n🕗 Time: 11.00 – 17.00 CEST\n📍 Location: A Lab and livestream on The Inbetween\nđŸŽŸïž Tickets: Onsite €27\,50/Student €20/Livestream 7\,50 \n♿ Accessibility\n\nAt the venue\, a wheelchair-accessible ramp is available\, as well as a wheelchair lift. The lift needs to be arranged in advance\, so please email us at info@thehmm.nl\, at least 3 days before the event\, to let us know if you will need it. This allows us to make sure everything is ready and accessible upon arrival.\nA Lab has an accessible MIVA (wheelchair-accessible) toilet that meets the applicable accessibility requirements.\nDuring 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.\n\nđŸ©” This programme is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL\, AFK and hosted by A Lab. URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/symposihmm-%f0%9f%93%a1-capture-control/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://thehmm.nl/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/V1-600.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261031T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261031T200000 DTSTAMP:20260909T095941Z CREATED:20260803T102122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260909T095941Z UID:9600-1793473200-1793476800@thehmm.nl SUMMARY:The Hmm @ Brainwash Festival DESCRIPTION:The Hmm presents AI\, AI\, AI @ Brainwash festival\nWe use algorithms\, platforms and AI-driven tools every day\, often without really understanding what’s happening behind the screen. The Hmm’s educational programme\, ‘ai\, ai\, ai’\, turns these invisible systems into something you can see\, understand\, question and play with. During Brainwash festival we’re launching our latest workshops—not involving AI\, but about AI—specially designed for children aged 8 and over\, and their parents. You can experience ‘Make your own Slopject’ and ‘Squish the System’ at Brainwash festival Ijzaal. \nMake your own Slopject\nDo you ever stop to think that everything you do online is being tracked? Every ‘like’\, every scroll and every second you spend watching a video tells us something about you. All those little bits of information together are what we call data. Algorithms use that data to try and predict what you like\, so you see more of that sort of content and adverts. Handy\, perhaps\, but is it actually always fair? \nIn the ‘Make your own Slopject’ workshop\, you’ll step into the role of an algorithm yourself. In exchange for handing over your own data\, you’ll receive a token with which you can draw (or ‘buy’) another person’s data profile from the ball machine. What does this person watch? What music do they listen to? What do they search for online? Afterwards\, you’ll design (or mould) a collectable figurine that you’re almost certain the person behind the data profile would want to buy. \nSquish the System: from facts to vibes\nFor a long time\, the rule was: if there’s a photo of it\, it must have happened. We now live in an age where any photo could just as easily have been created by AI. Every day we’re inundated with photos\, videos and memes\, not intended to tell a story\, but to make you feel something: curious\, restless\, in love with a product. Enough to keep you looking\, clicking\, buying something. It’s not just people watching. Algorithms are squishing the world around us into categories they can understand. \nImages\, therefore\, refer less and less to anything\, and increasingly demand something from us. A squishy is the perfect object to explore this. It isn’t made to be looked at\, but to do something with: grab it\, squeeze it\, be unable to let it go. Just like the images around us. \nIn this workshop\, you’re not a consumer of images\, but a creator. You’ll design your own paper squishy with a mission: an object that says nothing\, but triggers a specific sensation. How do you make it go viral? Which aesthetic works for that\, and with which target audience? And what does it need to look like to achieve that? \nAbout The Hmm\nThe Hmm is a platform for internet cultures. We explore and celebrate the creativity that arises from virtual interactions and the interplay with the technologies that make them possible. Through accessible events\, research\, exhibitions and educational programmes\, we offer a curious audience playful and engaging insights into online life. The workshops ‘Make your own Slopject’ and ‘Squish the System: from facts to vibes’ have been developed in collaboration with artist Maria Mombers\, who is also one of The Hmm’s tutors. \nAbout Brainwash Festival \nBrainwash Festival is the place to be for thought-provoking ideas and visions of the future. At Brainwash Festival\, philosophers\, scientists\, artists and writers come together to explore the big questions of our time and challenge the status quo. We bring together established figures and new voices. We celebrate thinking\, doubt and your curiosity. \nBrainwash Festival 2026 takes up the theme ‘the shape of us’\, through which it explores\, from different perspectives\, what it means to live together. \nMore information about the programme TBA. \n📅 Date: 31 October\n📍 Tolhuistuin\n⏱19:10h – 20:10h: Make your Own Slopject\n⏱ 20:30h – 21:30h: Squish the System \nđŸŽŸïž Tickets: via Brainwash\n♿ Accessibility notes\nFind more info on the Tolhuistuin website. URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-brainwash-festival/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thehmm.nl/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Brainwash_cover_website.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261107T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261107T170000 DTSTAMP:20260914T192159Z CREATED:20260826T120831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T192159Z UID:10041-1794056400-1794070800@thehmm.nl SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! Cyberdeck workshop: build your own 'mesh-berry' đŸ« #2 DESCRIPTION:Hand-soldered cyberdecks are all over the internet. The cyberdecks we know from cyberpunk fiction and hacker culture were improvised machines—originally appearing in William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer—often built within a narrow and masculine idea of who gets to tinker\, hack\, and build. The cyberdecks filling our feeds today look different. They’re cute. \nFrom mermaid-shell Raspberry Pis to Hello Kitty makeup cases\, these devices have exploded in popularity over the past year\, thanks to women teaching each other to build artistic\, hyper-feminine computers online. \nCyberdecks push back against the sleek\, sealed\, and extractive technologies we rely on every day. While most consumer computers lock us into systems that are becoming increasingly unethical\, from non-consensual surveillance to automatic AI integration no one asked for\, cyberdecks are hacked together. Often built with femininity and sustainability in mind\, they’re personalised with cute and colourful items that would otherwise be thrown away. In an age of mass-produced devices\, cyberdecks turn technology into a form of self-expression. \nMake your personalised ‘mesh-berry’! đŸ«\nIn this workshop\, you’ll build your very own\, personalised ‘mesh-berry’ đŸ« device: a local chat tool that runs on a mesh network. You don’t need WiFi\, internet\, or anything Big Tech related. To keep things accessible\, we won’t build a full computer\, but focus on a working chat tool you can actually take home and use\, change\, or build upon. \nGuided by web developer and artist Heerko van der Kooij\, you’ll learn how to hand-solder your own motherboard and how to style your chat program. Lilian Stolk from The Hmm will go a bit deeper into the aesthetic side of things\, looking at how (and why) to design a personal case for your device \nAfter the workshop\, you’ll walk away with a working mesh-berry that you can use to chat with other mesh-berry owners nearby. If your friends couldn’t make it to this workshop\, you’ll have picked up the skills to build one for them yourself. \nRequirements and Prep\n\nYou don’t need to have any experience with coding to join this workshop. The ticket price includes all the hardware you’ll need: a screen\, keyboard\, battery\, and speaker. We’ll provide some basic crafting materials\, but we ask you to bring your own case that is at least 5x7cm (a bag\, box\, tin\, or anything else you’d like to turn into your device’s shell) and extra bits and pieces to personalise it further. Think of stickers\, fabric\, beads\, paint\, or anything else that makes it yours. The workshop will be conducted in English. Please feel free to join us\, but don’t wait to long. Our first workshop sold out fast. \nSize hardware:\n– screen (including outside): 8\,5 x 5 x 1 cm (size of the screen is 6\,5 x 4\,9 cm). It needs a bit of extra space for the battery\, the speaker and cables.\n– keyboard: 8\,4 x 5\,3 cm\nCheck for an image in the speaker carousel. \nThe Hmm experiments
\nThis event is part of a series of programs that 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 26 September 2026\n🕗 Times: 13.00 – 17.00 CEST\n📍 Location: The Hmm’s studio\, NDSM-plein 125\, 1033 WC Amsterdam\n🎟 Tickets: €55 regular\, €51\,50 students (this is including €47\,50 for hardware material)\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 URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/cyberdeck-workshop-build-your-own-mesh-berry-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://thehmm.nl/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/gif_meshberry.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261112T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261112T213000 DTSTAMP:20261015T121134Z CREATED:20261014T161240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261015T121134Z UID:10259-1794513600-1794519000@thehmm.nl SUMMARY:You Might Like This @ RADIUS\, Delft DESCRIPTION:Join us for You Might Like This @ RADIUS in Delft\, where six artists\, researchers\, and makers will share their explorations of and encounters with social media and algorithmic systems. We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary this fall by reflecting on the algorithmic feed\, which is turning 10 as well. This event explores how how algorithms shape our online environments. \nFor this event\, we’re setting up shop in Delft\, a city we haven’t visited before\, but one with a strong connection to algorithmic systems thanks to Delft University of Technology. We’re very excited to have Seda GĂŒrses as our guest programmer. Seda is Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft. Her research focuses on privacy engineering\, protective optimisation technologies\, software engineering and the political economy of computational infrastructures. She is examining how technical systems intersect with social justice and governance.  \nStay posted further down on this page for more information on speakers and the programme. \nWhat you need to know\n🗓 Date: Thursday 12 November 2025\n📍 Location: RADIUS\, Kalverbos 20\, 2611 XW Delft\n⏰ Time: Program starts at 20:00 CET\, doors open at 19:30 CET\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €8\,- / on-site student discount €5\,- / online livestream €5 \nâ™żïž Accessibility note\nDue to the historic nature of the building the Water Tower is unfortunately non accessible for persons with disabilities. \nđŸ©” This programme is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and Het Cultuurfonds. URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/you-might-like-this-radius-delft/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://thehmm.nl/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Delft_Gif.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261125T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261125T213000 DTSTAMP:20261015T083853Z CREATED:20261008T141638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261015T083853Z UID:10171-1795636800-1795642200@thehmm.nl SUMMARY:The Hmm TO the Chinese Internet DESCRIPTION:What does the Chinese internet look like from the inside?\n‎\n\nThe Hmm’s Chinese Internet Tour takes you on a guided trip through China’s social media ecosystem\, led by media anthropologist Dino Ge Zhang whose research focuses on emotions and aesthetics on the Sinophone internet. \nWe’ll visit destinations like the face-filter app Meitu (çŸŽć›Ÿć…Źćž) and the Myspace-like relic Qzone (QQç©ș问) to the TikTok-style short-video platform Kuaishou (ćż«æ‰‹)\, where artists\, researchers\, and designers with local expertise show us how these platforms work\, what makes them distinct\, and how to navigate the practical barriers to using them. \n\n‎\nWe often think of the social media platforms we use in the West as global. Yet behind China’s Great Firewall\, a vast and largely separate social media ecosystem has developed\, with platforms that are used by hundreds of millions of people but remain relatively unfamiliar outside the country. These platforms have their own cultures and conventions\, shaped by China’s particular internet landscape. They are also spaces where new trends\, memes\, and visual languages emerge\, many of which eventually make their way onto the global internet\, sometimes months or years later.\n‎\nFor people outside China\, getting a glimpse of these platforms means seeing the internet from a perspective that is rarely available. Many got their first glimpse of this world in January 2025\, when RedNote (氏çșąäčŠ) surged in popularity after the US government threatened to ban TikTok. For a brief moment\, the platform became a possible refuge for TikTok users\, attracting a wave of curious newcomers from outside China. But TikTok was only unavailable for about a day\, and most of these new users remained RedNote day-trippers.\n‎\nThe Hmm’s Chinese Internet Tour picks up where that moment left off. Moving beyond RedNote\, we’ll explore the wider landscape of platforms\, communities\, aesthetics\, and strange digital corners that make up China’s internet\, and get a sense of what it looks like from the inside.\n‎\nWhat you need to know\n‎ Guided by Dino Zhang\n\n\n📅 Date: Wednesday 25 November 2026\n🕗 Times: 20.00 – 21.30 CET\n📍 Location: The Inbetween\n🎟 Tickets: €5\n‎\n\n‎💚 This programme is kindly supported by the Creative Industry Fund. URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-to-the-chinese-internet/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://thehmm.nl/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image0.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261211T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261212T010000 DTSTAMP:20261015T123552Z CREATED:20260917T101913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261015T123552Z UID:10146-1797015600-1797037200@thehmm.nl SUMMARY:Celebrating 10 Years of The Hmm + Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Earlier this year\, the internet was briefly filled with the hope that 2026 might become the new 2016. In quasi-historical fashion\, users resurfaced early Instagram filters and interfaces\, Tumblr-motivational quotes\, old memes\, and other fragments of a supposedly simpler internet. Collectively\, it became a meditation on how social media used to be better\, or at least how much it felt better. Though users relied on a more generalised nostalgia to resurrect the aesthetic of the time\, they were\, in a sense\, correct. The internet really did feel different. 2016 was the year that all news feeds became algorithmic\, and with it our relationship with social media fundamentally changed.\n‎\n\nSerendipitously\, The Hmm was also born ten years ago\, in 2016. Since then\, we have tried to trace\, interrogate and intervene in the forces shaping our online lives\, including the algorithmic feed itself. To celebrate this legacy\, we are throwing a festive evening at W139 in Amsterdam\, filled with performances\, workshops\, drinks and more.\n‎\n‎Suggested For You: Reflecting on a decade in the feed\nThe evening will also mark the launch of our 10-year anniversary publication: Suggested For You: Reflecting on a Decade in the Feed. Part celebration\, part reflection\, the book looks back at the algorithmic feed and the decade of internet cultures that has unfolded around it. Featuring essays\, interviews\, image contributions and artist profiles from Ruba Al-Sweel\, Evelyn Austin and Rejo Zenger\, Jak Ritger\, Soyun Park and Leo Scarin\, Noura Tafeche\, Neema Githere\, Alex Quicho\, Constant Dullaart\, Mamali Shafahi and Ali Eslami\, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley\, K Allado McDowell and Aidan Walker\, the publication brings together a range of perspectives on how the algorithmic feed has come to shape life online.\nYou can already pre-order the book. It will be available to pick-up and purchase at the event.\n‎\nProgram\nSpeakers\, workshops and performances to be announced soon.\n‎\nWhat you need to know\n\n📅 Date: Friday 11 December 2026\n🕗 Times: 19.00 – 1.00 CET\n📍 Location: W139\, Warmoesstraat 139\, 1012 JB Amsterdam & Bar San Francisco\, Zeedijk 40\, 1012 AZ Amsterdam\n🎟 Tickets: Free\, but please register!\n‎\n\n‎💚 This programme is kindly supported by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten and Het Cultuurfonds. Suggested For You is supported by Mondriaanfonds. URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/celebrating-10-years-of-the-hmm-book-launch/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://thehmm.nl/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/placeholder_10Years_Gif.gif END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR