A little over five years ago Kylie Jenner enthusiastically posted a video to her Snapchat Story in which she proclaimed that the release of her latest Lip Kit had "broken Google". She meant Google Analytics, which tracks visitors to her website in real time, not the search engine, but it's quite the achievement nonetheless. TheRead More
This event is a collaboration with affect lab and MU. "Let’s be beatific in our leaky and limitless contagion. Usurp the body. Become your avatar." wrote writer and curator Legacy Russell in her book Glitch Feminism. She describes the possibilities that digital tools had opened up for queer identity and marginalised people in general. WhenRead More
This event is a collaboration with affect lab and MU. How can we take back the narrative of the metaverse, which companies like Facebook are trying to co-opt and own? The metaverse, often described as 'persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces', doesn't quite yet exist, but that hasn't stopped big companies from trying to capitalise onRead More
If you ask CEOs of Big Tech companies or trend watchers, the metaverse is the next phase of the internet. Both Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft's Satya Nadella think that the next phase of the mobile internet will be the so-called 'metaverse'—a term often used to describe the concept of a future iteration of theRead More
During this hybrid workshop we're exploring the possibilities of live networking technologies in hybrid cultural events. As an online visitor to cultural events, you can often do little more than ask a question in chat, and chat with other online visitors. How can online visitors feel seen, become more involved in or even have agencyRead More
Since their inception, video games have brought people together. From arcade halls to multiplayer games on consoles to LAN parties to massively multiplayer online role-playing games. During the lockdown, online get-togethers in gaming spaces increased and attracted more new players. Gaming spaces also became much more visible, as streaming platform Twitch surged in popularity andRead More
With new media and digital technologies, there is the underlying assumption that newer is always better. We are primed to always want more—the newest iPhone, the highest resolution videos, the biggest screens. Despite the ephemeral metaphors of ‘the cloud’ and the aura of immateriality surrounding digital technologies, the digital ecologies that we are part ofRead More
What happens when we view artificial intelligence through an occult lens? And how can we use found images to create new visuals and narratives? These questions, and many other topics, about online and digital culture will be explored on Wednesday March 22nd at Collectie De Groen in Arnhem during our next event. This evening we'llRead More
Memes, GIFs, and endless streams of TikTok videos. Our digital lives are often saturated with visual culture, but there is so much more that makes up our internet ecosystem. In 2022, around 650 million new tweets were posted on a daily basis and it's estimated that each day 100 billion messages are sent via WhatsApp.Read More
🚦 We are sold out on tickets for this workshop, please send us an email to eva@thehmm.nl if you want to be put on the waiting list. Tickets for the evening program are still available, they can be purchased here 🚦 Talking with AI chatbots can take an eerie turn, like when a chatbot declaredRead More
AI technologies have been around for a long time, but it is only recently that we’ve had a chance to experience some of these tools ourselves in our daily lives. ChatGPT, an advanced and exponentially popular AI chatbot has helped us write code, made crochet patterns, written cover letters for job applications, and given usRead More
During tonight's event we'll be joined by eight researchers, artists, designers, and makers who will take us through their digital worlds and their intersections and interactions with internet culture. We're excited to have curator and researcher Ilga Minjon helping us put together a powerful program tonight. In Ilga's work she aims to weave together andRead More
A Walk around Google and Microsoft’s Hyperscale Data Centre in the Wieringermeerpolder Data centres are a crucial part of our internet infrastructure, and yet they remain black boxes in the landscape and highly invisible structures we don't think about often enough. But how do these data centres impact the places in which they are built and the communitiesRead More
With The Hmm we're often looking at the latest developments and trends in internet culture. But for tonight's event we're going to take a look back at digital art and how the internet has shaped culture from the 1960s until today. The Hmm @ REBOOT brings together eight artists, designers and researchers across generations, whoRead More
A number of newspapers are currently negotiating with Open AI to license the use of their articles. Their news stories have been used for years to train services like ChatGPT, as AI tools like these need a lot of input “to learn” how to formulate language. But how does an AI chatbot actually learn? ARead More
What data is being used to train ChatGPT? Is AI really coming for your job? And how does DALL·E know how to paint? The Hmm Hotline is here, to answer all your questions, speculations, or anxieties regarding AI. Join us during our live radio show, where a panel of experts—from artists to philosophers to researchers—willRead More
During this event we'll be joined by eight researchers, artists, designers, and makers who will take us through their digital worlds and their intersections and interactions with internet culture. We're excited to have philosopher of science, educator and researcher Sabine Winters helping us put together a powerful program for this night. Sabine is the founderRead More
Join us at The Hmm @ De Blokhuispoort, an evening on what happens in different corners of the Internet, and how some users in and around the Friesland region approach the web. During this event we’ll be joined by eight artists, researchers, and makers who will take us through their online interests and practices, rangingRead More
The Hmm is celebrating liberatory internet usages, empowering users to take back their online and offline autonomies. With this in mind, we would like to ask: What do you want to see on your feed? Our social media feeds have changed quite a lot over the past 15 years. What started out as updates ofRead More
What can the past tell us about photography's future? Join us Wednesday 11 September on The Hmm’s livestream platform for Photography is... reflective, the first of the Foam x The Hmm: Photography is... event series! Building on photography’s inherent reflective nature, sometimes it's worth 'looking backward to the future'—to examine our past as a wayRead More