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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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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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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
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240404T220000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20231206T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20231206T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20231115T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20231115T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20230912T095359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T081426Z
UID:6766-1700078400-1700085600@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:The Hmm @ REBOOT
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe Hmm @ REBOOT brings together eight artists\, designers and researchers across generations\, who are working with and reflecting on digital tools\, online identities\, and the deep impact of internet culture. During this special program in collaboration with Nieuwe Instituut\, we’ll be highlighting three generations of makers. From the exhibition REBOOT\, we invite the pioneers of digital art (1960-2000)\, and present-day makers who responded to their works. Finally\, we present emerging young artists\, designers\, and makers from our Hmm FYI Emerging Digital Maker Program. \nJoin us for this intergenerational scroll through the long arc of internet culture and digital art!  \nCan’t join us in person in Rotterdam? 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 @ REBOOT online via our livestream website. \nWith your ticket you get free access to the REBOOT exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut on the day of the event. The exhibition is open on Wednesday 15 November from 10:00-19:00. \n🗓 Date: Wednesday 15 November\, 2023\n📍 Location: Nieuwe Instituut\, Museumpark 25\, 3015 CB\, Rotterdam \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 with captions. If you are joining online via our livestream\, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes. Accessibility information for Nieuwe Instituut can be found here. \n💜 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industry Fund.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-reboot/
LOCATION:Het Nieuwe Instituut\, Museumpark 25\, Rotterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230923T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230923T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20230614T173839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T144153Z
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SUMMARY:*Sold out* The Hmm’s Data Centre Tour
DESCRIPTION:A Walk around Google and Microsoft’s Hyperscale Data Centre in the Wieringermeerpolder \n\n\n\n\nData 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 communities that live there? And what impact are data centres already having on the global environment? Data centres use huge amounts of power and water resources\, although they are only required to publish these usage numbers starting from 2024 in the EU. What resources are necessary for our online infrastructures\, and who gets to decide how they are implemented? \nDuring this very special field trip we will take a tourbus from Amsterdam to the industrial park Agriport in the Wieringermeerpolder\, which houses Google’s and Microsoft’s hyperscale data centres. During our hike around these huge constructions\, we will take a look at how they came into existence\, their infrastructure\, and contemplate our relationship with data centres and what possible alternatives we could imagine taking place in these landscapes. \nWe are proud to introduce  Marloes de Valk\, a software artist\, writer\, and PhD researcher\, who co-organised this event with us. She has been following the development of the data centres in the Wieringermeerpolder for a long time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n🗓 Date: Saturday 23 September 2023\n🕗 Program starts: 1 PM CEST\n🕗 Approximate return time: 5.30 PM CEST\n📍 Bus pick-up and drop-off location: NDSM-plein\, Amsterdam\n🎟 Tickets: standard €35 / student discount €25 \n\n\nThe series is kindly supported by the Creative Industries fund\, VSB fund\, and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. \nThis event has already been SOLD OUT\, but an audio registration will be made available afterwards. Keep an eye on this page!
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmms-data-centre-tour/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230614T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230614T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20230519T134338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T112525Z
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SUMMARY:The Hmm @ CBK Zuidoost
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe’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 and facilitate future imaginaries from artistic practices that speculate on the senses and (networked) relations\, as well as queer\, decolonial and feminist re-writings of belonging. \nTonight’s event will take place within the exhibition currently on show at CBK Zuidoost\, Knights in Shining Armour (reappropriating the appropiated)\, curated by Claudio Ritfeld. \nCan’t join us in person in Amsterdam? 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 @ CBK Zuidoost online via our livestream website. \n🗓 Date: Wednesday 14 June 2023\n📍 Location: CBK Zuidoost\, Anton de Komplein 120\, 1102 DR Amsterdam \n⏰ Doors open: 7:30PM CEST\n🕗 Program starts: 8PM CEST\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €8\,- / on-site student discount €5\,- / online livestream €5 \n💜 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industry Fund and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-cbk-zuidoost/
LOCATION:CBK Zuidoosst\, Anton de Komplein 120\, Amsterdam\, 1102 DR\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230519T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230519T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20230419T074436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T082345Z
UID:6250-1684526400-1684533600@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:The Hmm ON Co-Creation with AI
DESCRIPTION: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 us ideas for home-cooked meals. Similarly\, AI image generators such as DALL-E and Midjourney have helped make illustrations for texts\, put art on our walls\, and created hilarious memes. Now that we have had the opportunity to personally collaborate with AI through these image\, text and audio generating tools\, ethical and socio-political questions have started to surface about what it means to co-create with AI. How will these advancements in AI technologies reshape and reconfigure our daily lives? \nDuring this special full day program it is time to reflect on AI and take on some new approaches to co-creation. Join us for a workshop with artist\, researcher\, and filmmaker Martijn van Boven\, followed by an evening prompt battle and lecture with Mariana Fernández Mora and Liza Federmesser. \nEvening Program: Prompt Battle & Lecture\nEver thought to combine the joy of generating images with the thrill of a rap battle? Enter the prompt battle. Instead of coming up with pulverising bars about your opponent\, a prompt battle challenges you to generate an image using AI text-to-image software that goes way harder than your rival’s. During this event seven artists\, designers\, writers\, and researchers\, and one lucky member from the audience\, will battle it out on stage to see who can create the most original\, funniest\, or weirdest AI generated image. Before the onslaught of prompts begins\, we will have a lecture by researcher Mariana Fernández Mora. She will speak on AI and intimacy\, co-writing with algorithms and the notion of co-production of knowledge with large-scale language models. Mariana’s talk will be accompanied by ad-lib prompted slides by Liza Federmesser. \nThis program will be live-streamed\, so join us at SPUI25 or from the comfort of your home. If you join us on-site you can enter the lottery to participate in the prompt battle and test out your own skills. \n🗓 Date: Friday 19 May 2023\n⏰ Doors open: 7:30PM CEST\n🕗 Program starts: 8PM CEST\n📍 Location: SPUI25\, 1012 XA\, Amsterdam\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €8\,- / on-site student discount €5\,- / online livestream €5 – / evening program and workshop €20 \n👀 Watch back our event here: https://live.thehmm.nl/CoCreation-AI-Pr0mptB4ttle \nThe Hmm ON …\n\nThe Hmm ON is a series of hybrid focus events in which we reflect on playful\, serious\, and sometimes disturbing developments in internet culture.  \n💜 This event is developed by The Hmm in partnership with the Institute of Network Cultures\, and is kindly supported by the Creative Industries fund and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. \nThe Prompt Battle Format was originally developed by Florian A. Schmidt & Sebastian Schmieg with the design students at HTW Dresden. For more info see promptbattle.com.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-on-co-creation-with-ai/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230519T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230519T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20230419T073903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231030T123850Z
UID:6227-1684504800-1684519200@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:The Hmm ON Co-Creation with AI: Workshop
DESCRIPTION:🚦 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 🚦 \nTalking with AI chatbots can take an eerie turn\, like when a chatbot declared its love to a New York Times columnist and tried to convince him to leave his wife. But it is important to understand that these digital entities aren’t humans with thoughts and feelings. In fact\, a lot of AI chatbots 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.  \nDuring this special full day program it is time to reflect on AI and take on some new approaches to co-creation. Join us for a workshop with artist\, researcher\, and filmmaker Martijn van Boven\, followed by an evening prompt battle and lecture with Mariana Fernández Mora. \nWorkshop: Meet Your Stochastic Sloth\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. Join us to broaden your own practice with experimental approaches to co-creating with AI. \nWe encourage participants from a wide-range of artistic backgrounds\, who are already incorporating or thinking about incorporating these tools into their practice\, to join. Basic programming knowledge and experience with tools such as DALL·E\, Stable Diffusion\, and ChatGPT is a bonus\, but not required to take part. \nThis workshop is for a maximum of 15 participants. ☕ Snacks and drinks will be provided throughout the day 🍪 \n🗓 Date: Friday 19 May 2023\n🕢 Time: 14.00 – 18.00\n📍 Location: SPUI25\, 1012 WX\, Amsterdam\n🎟 Tickets: workshop €15\, – / evening program and workshop €20 \n🚦 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 🚦 \nThe Hmm ON …\n\nThe Hmm ON is a series of hybrid focus events in which we reflect on playful\, serious\, and sometimes disturbing developments in internet culture.  \n💜 This event is developed by The Hmm in partnership with the Institute of Network Cultures\, and is kindly supported by the Creative Industries fund and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. 
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-on-co-creation-with-ai-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230419T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230419T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20230320T152526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T082612Z
UID:6118-1681934400-1681941600@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:The Hmm @ Tolhuistuin
DESCRIPTION: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. Podcast listeners make up almost 465 million people around the world\, and we haven’t even started to talk about music streaming services and online radio. During tonight’s event we’ll be joined by researchers\, artists\, designers\, and makers who will take us through the world of non-visual internet culture. With our eight speakers we’ll explore alt-text as poetry\, radio gardens\, generative podcasts\, and much more on Wednesday April 19 at Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam. \nLieven Heeremans has helped us put together a very special program as our guest curator for the evening. Lieven is a creative producer and editor specialised in audio\, and the co-founder of the Podcastnetwerk. \nCan’t join us in person in Amsterdam? Or just want to watch from the comfort of your own laptop? All of our events are hybrid so you can also buy a ticket to join The Hmm @ Tolhuistuin online via our livestream website. \n🗓 Date: Wednesday 19 April 2023\n📍 Location: Tolhuistuin (IJzaal)\, IJpromenade 2\, Amsterdam \n⏰ Doors open: 7:30PM CEST\n🕗 Program starts: 8PM CEST\n🎟 Tickets: on-site €8\,- / on-site student discount €5\,- / online livestream €5\n \n🎧 Listen back our event here: https://live.thehmm.nl/n0n-visu4l-1nt3rnet-cultur3 \n💜 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industry Fund and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-tolhuistuin/
LOCATION:Tolhuistuin\, IJpromenade 2\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230322T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230322T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20230220T091932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T082813Z
UID:6003-1679515200-1679522400@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:The Hmm @ De Groen
DESCRIPTION: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’ll be joined by eight researchers\, artists\, and designers who will take us on a high-speed ride through the latest developments and technologies the internet has to offer. \nDonna Verheijden has helped us put together a great program as our guest curator for this event. She is a multidisciplinary maker\, researcher\, and educator\, with a strong focus on video art. Her work combines remix\, collage\, and found footage\, and often incorporates digital heritage material and online video content to create new narratives. \nCan’t join us in person in Arnhem? Or just want to watch from the comfort of your own laptop? You can also buy a ticket to join The Hmm @ De Groen online via our livestream website. Since all of our events are hybrid\, you can decide to join us online or on-site. \nDate: Wednesday 22 March 2023\nLocation: Collectie De Groen\, Weverstraat 40\, Arnhem\nEntrance via the alley between Collectie De Groen and LOFT\, or via the backside at Kleine Oord next to the Bartok Park\nDoors open: 7:30PM CET\nProgram starts: 8PM CET\nTickets: on-site €8\,- (SOLD OUT) / on-site student discount €5\,- (SOLD OUT) / online livestream €5 \n👀 Watch back our event here: https://live.thehmm.nl/d3gro3n026
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-de-groen/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221214T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20221125T115316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T083220Z
UID:5870-1671048000-1671051600@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:The Hmm IN low-low-res
DESCRIPTION: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 of on a daily basis have a big environmental impact—and it’s only growing. \nOur habits\, and the addictive design of streaming platforms\, pushes us to continue to consume video content endlessly. And those of us with the privilege to have access to unlimited (and relatively affordable) high-speed internet often don’t think about the impact of our hours of streaming and video call meetings with colleagues. We’ve been trained to think that the higher the resolution\, the better it is. But how can we turn that thinking around\, and find beauty in low resolutions and in tiny media files? \nEarlier this year we were invited by the Small File Media Festival to be on their jury and select three small file media works that stood out for us during the 2022 festival. We pored over many many very very small media files\, marveling at how much you could make at under 5 megabytes. We finally chose Rachel Stuckey’s film Solid State PSA\, Monique Motut-Firth’s Data Dreaming\, and BiglerWeibel’s work Adhäsion for our selection\, and we’ll be screening those works tonight in conversation with the artists who made them. During this online-only event we’ll also be joined by artist and researcher Rosa Menkman who will give a short talk on the history of compression and tiny files. Join us for discussions on the ecological impact of streaming\, all things compression\, and the power of the small file. \nThe Hmm IN low-low-res will take place online on our very own livestream. The event is free to join\, but donations are welcome (｡•̀ᴗ-). You can join us via our livestream here: https://live.thehmm.nl/t1nyd4t4l0v3erZ \n🕢 Our program will start right at 20.00 🕗 \nThe series is kindly supported by the Creative Industries fund\, VSB fund\, and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-in-low-low-res/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221130T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20221109T173812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T083200Z
UID:5802-1669838400-1669842000@thehmm.nl
SUMMARY:The Hmm IN Gaming Spaces
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDuring 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 and celebrities\, like traditionally non-gaming influencers and politicians\, started showcasing their online gaming sessions on the platform. Hanging with friends in an online game also proved to be a good antidote for Zoom-fatigue. For many people\, playing a game of Fortnite with some friends on a voice chat was more fun than hopping on yet another video call after having to do those all day for work or school. And it doesn’t hurt that having the game to focus on also makes for easy conversation. \nOutside of these online games\, where you and your friends can meet in a closed off environment\, MMORPG’s offer open worlds where you can run into strangers from around the globe. When urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg came up with the principle of the “third place”—social surroundings that are not one’s home (the first place) or workplace (the second place) and are vital to civil society\, democracy and more—examples of spaces that fulfilled this role were churches\, cafes\, public libraries or bookstores. A lot of these traditional third places are now in decline and MMORPG’s could be seen as new\, virtual type of third places which offer an alternative environment to meet new friends\, or even lovers. \nDuring this online event we focus on the social impact\, possibilities\, and power of gaming spaces. What can online multiplayer gaming environments offer that other spaces can’t? How do they compare to other online social spaces such as video meeting platforms or message boards? How are communities created in these spaces? And how can we use avatars to explore our identities in these environments? \nHow does it work?\nWe’re inviting 5 speakers who will each do a 5-minute talk. Each speaker will be presenting in a different gaming space\, so as a visitor you jump from game to game to view all the presentations. After you bought a ticket\, we will send you more detailed instructions per email on how to follow the program in the days leading up to the event. \nThe Hmm IN…\nThe Hmm IN… is a series of events taking place in various online spaces. During these events we hop from platform to platform\, to explore and experiment with the structure of online events. If you buy a ticket for this event\, we’ll send instructions on how to join the platforms we’re using per email beforehand. \nThe series is kindly supported by the Creative Industries fund\, VSB fund\, and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-in-gaming-spaces/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221126T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221126T163000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20221013T085617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221122T143831Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Emoji Proxies & Ghost Messengers
DESCRIPTION:During this hybrid workshop we’re exploring the possibilities of live networking technologies in hybrid cultural events. \nAs 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 agency over what happens on-site? This is something we’re going to explore during this workshop. \nTogether with Hackers & Designers we’ve developed a tool that makes use of standalone wifi hotspots (ESP32 modules) and live networking protocols (MQTT) that allows online input to be translated into something physical\, and vice versa. For example\, every time an online visitor opens the livestream page\, a spotlight shines in the physical space. There are many use cases possible\, but how can it help an event really be influenced by the presence of an online audience? How can it stimulate interaction between online and on-site audiences? \nThis workshop doesn’t require knowledge of programming. It’s free to join\, but a registration is required. Unfortunately all on-site spots for the workshop are booked. \n\n\nWorkshop set up:\n\n\nWe start at 12:00 with a hybrid session where we show the tool\, test it together and brainstorm about valuable and affective implementations.\nAfter a lunch break we continue at 14:00 with a workshop (on-site only) where you learn to develop this tool yourself and get the chance to experiment with it in multiple ways. Unfortunately all on-site spots for the workshop are booked.\n\nStuff you need to know:\nDate: Saturday 26 November 2022\nTime: 12:00 – 16:30\nLocation: Page Not Found\, Boekhorststraat 126-128\, Den Haag\nWhat to bring: a laptop computer (usb adaptor if your computer requires this) and a smartphone.\nYou can join this workshop for free\, but a registration is required.\n\nThe workshop is part of First\, Then… Repeat. Workshop Scripts in Practice\, taking place from 23 November till 27 November 2022 at Page Not Found\, The Hague. First\, Then.. Repeat is a on- and offline publication that assembles self-published and unpublished workshop scripts that evolved in and around the collective ecosystem of Hackers & Designers. The publication\, installation (built with the fanfare display system) and workshop program are part of the artistic research project of designer\, educator and H&D member Anja Groten at PhDArts Academy for Creative and Performing Arts Leiden and the Making Matters project.\n\nThe workshop Emoji Proxies & Ghost Messengers is organised by Hackers & Designers and The Hmm\, as part of the project Going Hybrid of Institute of Network Cultures.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/workshop-emoji-proxies-ghost-messengers/
LOCATION:Page Not Found\, Boekhorststraat 126-128\, Den Haag\, 2512 CL\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221109T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221109T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20221012T112917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T083418Z
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SUMMARY:The Hmm ON the Metaverse
DESCRIPTION: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 the internet that is made up of persistent\, shared\, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe. \nCurrently\, billions are being invested in its development by companies that benefit from a fully digital future. But while the metaverse seems to be on everyone’s lips\, it’s not here yet. Although the concept of the metaverse dates back to the early 90s\, the term gained a lot of traction and growth during the online-everything shift of the pandemic (with Paris Hilton expressing her love for the metaverse back in April 2021). But is a single unified place called ‘the metaverse’ even possible? Or does it require companies to cooperate in a way that isn’t profitable or desirable? And what will be the ecological and material impact of using so much raw computing power to keep a parallel digital world endlessly online? \nDuring tonight’s event\, together with our three speakers\, we’ll start to unravel these questions and try to take back the narrative of the metaverse\, which companies like Meta are trying to co-opt and own. While the internet came out of public research universities and US government programs\, the metaverse will most likely be developed by commercial platforms and companies. With this in mind\, it’s more crucial than ever that we think carefully about the kind of digital worlds that we want to bring into being. What kind of metaverse do we\, as users\, really want? Will it be open\, privacy-secure\, and decentralised? Or will just become another\, even more embedded\, way for companies to extract our data and sell it back in the form of advertising? Join us as we dive into the complex world of the metaverse to get a better understanding of how it is taking shape around us during this critical moment. \nThe Hmm ON …\n\nThe Hmm ON is a series of hybrid focus events in which we reflect on playful\, serious\, and sometimes disturbing developments in internet culture. The Hmm ON the Metaverse is physically hosted by Pakhuis de Zwijger (Piet Heinkade 179) in Amsterdam and can be followed on The Hmm livestream. The entrance is free\, but donations are welcome (｡•̀ᴗ-). We kindly ask you to register via the ticket link to secure your spot if you’re joining onsite and get the livestream URL sent to you if you’re joining online. \n🕢 Doors open at 19.45 and our program will start at 20.00 🕗 \n👩🏻‍💻 You can join us online via: https://live.thehmm.nl/m3t4v3rse \n💜 This series is kindly supported by the Creative Industries fund\, VSB fund\, and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. 
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-on-the-metaverse/
LOCATION:Pakhuis de Zwijger\, Piet Heinkade 179\, Amsterdam\, 1019 HC\, Netherlands
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221027T233000
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SUMMARY:METAVERSES CHA-CHA-CHA dance party
DESCRIPTION:This event is a collaboration with affect lab and MU. \nHow 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 on it. It’s this moment\, when the metaverse is just coming into being\, that opens up space for us to bring in our own ideas of the metaverse and shape our own ‘metaverses’—embracing multiplicity and rejecting a singular definition. \nDuring the METAVERSES CHA-CHA-CHA  dance party you’ll dance your way into a new reality. Meet us at MU Hybrid Art House at Torenallee 40-06 in Eindhoven on Thursday October 27 from 19.30. Or join us online and release your virtual dancer on screen.👯‍♂️🕺🏽🥳 \nExpect several metaverse experiments (and experiences!). AR-guru Sander Veenhof will present three of his latest hybrid AR experiments and creative coder Babusi Nyoni is the architect of our dancing metaverses. DJ Vir the Sir will be joining on the decks and weaving together the soundtrack for the night. \n👾AVATAR👾\nDuring the dance party you look best on the dance floor with your own avatar. Did you miss one of the avatar workshops we organised on 10 and 11 October? No problem! In this manual we tell you step by step how to create your avatar\, so you can join the experiment. Don’t forget to upload it to our server before Tuesday\, 25 October! \n💫METAVERSES CHA-CHA-CHA DANCE PARTY!!!💫\nDate: Thursday\, October 27 starting at 20.00\nTime: doors open at 19.30\nLocation: MU Hybrid Art House Torenallee 40-06 Eindhoven. \n🤔 WHAT DO I NEED TO JOIN? 🤔\nIf you’re joining us online you will need a laptop and a smart phone.\nIf you’re joining us onsite at MU then you will need to bring a fully charged phone.  \n🎟 TICKETS 🎟\nTickets are available on a pay-what-you-think-it’s-worth basis for both the workshops and the dance party event on the 27th of October. Grab your tickets right here. \n🫧TOOLKIT FOR THE INBETWEEN🫧\nThis experimental event and workshop series is part of the Toolkit for the Inbetween\, a research project and how-to knowledge base offering tools\, frameworks\, and inspiration for designing a successful hybrid experience where online and on-site audiences come together.The Toolkit for the Inbetween is a partnership between The Hmm\, affect lab\, and MU. Find out more at toolkitfortheinbetween.net
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/metaverses-cha-cha-cha-dance-party/
LOCATION:MU\, Torenallee 40-06 (Strijp S)\, Eindhoven\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221010T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221010T213000
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CREATED:20220919T123332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T120017Z
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SUMMARY:METAVERSES CHA-CHA-CHA avatar workshop
DESCRIPTION:This event is a collaboration with affect lab and MU. \n“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. \nWhen we’re born\, we’re still often identified as either ‘male’ or ‘female’\, which entails all kinds of social consequences and limitations. Our digital identities have the potential to be free from this gender binary thinking\, and the limitations of a physical body—opening up new possibilities. Who would you be if anything was possible? \nDuring this workshop\, we’re preparing ourselves for the METAVERSES CHA-CHA-CHA dance party\, taking place on 27 October 2022\, which you can join at MU in Eindhoven or online. Together with developer Babusi Nyoni\, we’ll guide you to design your own avatar\, with which you will hit the dance floor on the 27th. \n👩🏻‍💻 Don’t forget to bring:\n► your computer (and charger)\n► a handful of photos of found imagery you want to use for your avatar \n📍Location:\nNDSM fuse\, NDSM plein 29 in Amsterdam or online.\nDoors open at 19:15\, workshop starts at 19:30. \nA second workshop\, taking place on-site only will be hosted on Tuesday October 11\, 19.30 – 21.30at MU Hybrid Art House\, Torenallee 40-06\, in Eindhoven. \n**Tickets are available on a pay-what-you-think-it’s-worth basis** \nMore details about the workshop\, especially for those joining online\, will be sent after you’ve registered. \n🫧TOOLKIT FOR THE INBETWEEN🫧\nThis experimental event and workshop series is part of the Toolkit for the Inbetween\, a research project and how-to knowledge base offering tools\, frameworks\, and inspiration for designing a successful hybrid experience where online and on-site audiences come together.The Toolkit for the Inbetween is a partnership between The Hmm\, affect lab\, and MU. Find out more at toolkitfortheinbetween.net
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/metaverses-cha-cha-cha-avatar-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221005T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20221005T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20220711T101605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T083601Z
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SUMMARY:The Hmm ON the Creator Economy
DESCRIPTION: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. The success of her makeup brand is exemplary of the way influencers capitalise on their celebrity nowadays. The days when you could only make money as a content creator by getting a share of YouTube’s advertising revenue if your video had enough views are long gone. Nowadays\, influencers are posting ‘paid partnerships’ on Instagram and YouTubers are taking time in their videos to thank and promote their sponsors. \nIn recent years\, platforms eager to grow such as TikTok and Snapchat’s Spotlight\, have started ‘creator funds’ where the most popular creators get paid for posting videos. Meanwhile\, more established platforms such as YouTube and Instagram have sometimes made it difficult for creators who were already making money\, thanks to large numbers of followers\, by adjusting their terms for being able to ‘monetise’ videos\, or making a change in the algorithm that makes it harder for accounts to grow. There is also a growing a number of podcasters\, writers and other creators who offer exclusive content for their most dedicated fans behind a paywall on platforms like Patreon or Substack. \nThe ways you can make money as a creator on social media have grown and broadened considerably. And with that growth\, the mutual dependence that popular creators and large social media platforms have on each other seems to have only grown more tense.  What are the consequences of being financially dependent on creating content on social media? How do these economic systems shape the content itself? And how do platforms and lawmakers respond to creators monetising their content? During this event we’ll explore these questions and get deep into the creator economy. \nHybrid event experiment\nThis year we’re actively experimenting with a series of hybrid events. The pandemic has shown us that we really have too little knowledge about how we gather and come together in online spaces. Our belief is that zoom fatigue is unnecessary and that digitisation can offer a lot to the cultural sector\, as long as programs are hybrid in nature and designed fundamentally differently than physical programs. With (almost) every event we organise\, we explore a new format or a new tool. \nFor this event we’re experimenting with a very mobile camera setup\, taking not only our physical\, but also our virtual audience along with us through the different rooms of the Youseum. This experiment is part of our research for the Toolkit for the Inbetween\, a project for which we’re collaborating with affect lab and MU. \nThe Hmm ON …\n\nThe Hmm ON is a series of hybrid focus events in which we reflect on playful\, serious\, and sometimes disturbing developments in internet culture. The Hmm ON the Creator Economy is physically hosted by Youseum (Weesperzijde 150) in Amsterdam.  \n🕢 Doors open at 19.45 and our program will start at 20.00 🕗 \n📍 Visiting the event on site at the Youseum? Make sure to bring along your phone (fully charged) and your headphones 🔋 \nThe series is kindly supported by the Creative Industries fund\, VSB fund\, and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. 
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-on-the-creator-economy/
LOCATION:Youseum\, Weesperzijde 150\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220623T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220623T213000
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CREATED:20220525T144347Z
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SUMMARY:The Hmm @ Maastricht
DESCRIPTION:One of the advantages of not having a physical location is that you can travel all across the country. Tonight we travel to the south of The Netherlands for an evening about internet culture in Maastricht! \nWe’re excited to be hosted by the Brandweerkantine. Together with our guest curator Branko Popovic\, co-founder and director of Fashionclash\, and partner Bureau Europa we’re putting together a very special program. More speakers will be added soon.  \nThis year we’re doing research into all kinds of hybrid forms for our events. So if you’re not able to join us at the Brandweerkantine in person\, you can follow the event via our Discord server\, listen into all the presentations\, and chat along with us.   \nLocation: Brandweerkantine\, Capucijnenstraat 21 in Maastricht\nDoors open from 19:00\, program starts at 19:30.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-maastricht/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220525T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220525T220000
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CREATED:20220428T135441Z
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SUMMARY:The Hmm @ Responsible AI
DESCRIPTION:The Hmm partners up with the Responsible AI Lab of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam for a special event where 7 driven and diverse speakers\, that are working\, making\, and thinking around the theme of ‘Responsible AI’\, share their vision. Pascal Wiggers\, associate lector Responsible AI\, is helping us put together this exciting program. \nAI and data-driven techniques play an increasingly important role in the design and development of software. At the Responsible AI Lab\, students learn to apply artificial intelligence in practice and to be critical in doing so. How can AI be inclusive and diverse? What impact does AI have on society now? And what potential does AI offer artists? Tonight\, we’ve invited 7 speakers to answer these questions. \n**Note: This program can only be visited onsite\, at \nBenno Premselahuis 🏠\nRhijnspoorplein 1\n1091 GC Amsterdam \nDoors open at 19:30\nProgram starts at 20:00
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-responsible-ai/
LOCATION:Benno Premselahuis\, Rhijnspoorplein 1\, Amsterdam\, Noord Holland\, 1091 GC
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220428T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220428T220000
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CREATED:20220323T140505Z
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SUMMARY:The Hmm @ 4 locations
DESCRIPTION:In 1964\, Marshall McLuhan wrote about the concept of the global village and that “we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace\, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.” Almost sixty years later we’re still asking how different forms of media can bring us together across time and space\, and tonight we want to explore just that. This event must be one of our most challenging experiments this year and\, as far as we know\, it is the first time something like this has happened in the Netherlands! The Hmm @ 4 locations is a decentralised event that takes place simultaneously at four locations in four provinces in the Netherlands. \nThe idea for this hybrid format emerged during our conversation with live-ness researcher Esther Hammelburg\, who questions the importance of being together in one place in order to create a sense of togetherness. Tonight\, we will investigate whether that is really the case. You can attend The Hmm @ 4 locations in Amsterdam\, Rotterdam\, Utrecht and Eindhoven\, and of course you can also follow the event online. Taking the shape of our Hmm fast events\, we have invited eight speakers to join us across all four locations. Each location will have two speakers physically present there and the other speakers will be followed via a livestream in each location. \nYou can physically join at:\n– Waag\, Nieuwmarkt 4\, Amsterdam\n– Het Nieuwe Instituut\, Museumpark 25\, Rotterdam\n– MU\, Torenallee 40-06\, Eindhoven\n– IMPAKT\, @Theater Berenkuil\, Biltstraat 166\, Utrecht \nIn Rotterdam you can also join the Thursday Bite from 6pm: a bite sized vegetarian or vegan meal\, from the kitchen of chef Manuela Goncalves Tavares and her team. You can book the Thursday Bite via our ticket options up to one day before the event. This ticket is non-refundable. \nLaunch Hmmosphere!\nAnd we’ve got another surprise for you! 👃 During this very special event we’ll also be launching our new Hmm scent\, Hmmosphere 🥳 For tonight only we’ve got a special deal where you can get a ticket for the event and a bottle of Hmmosphere for only €30. You can pick up the scent at the event location or have it shipped to your home in the Netherlands (order before Friday April 22nd\, end of day\, to get it in time!) to turn your own space into a The Hmm atmosphere. Read all about our experimentations creating Hmmosphere together with artist Cesar Majorana here.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-4-locations/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220330T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220330T220000
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SUMMARY:The Hmm ON a Lighter Internet
DESCRIPTION:How do we ensure that online film festivals\, live-streamed programs and digital lectures become more accessible? And what does that accessibility really look like? \nOver the last few years there has been increasing awareness about how the internet contributes significantly to the world’s global carbon emissions. In 2020\, every internet user generated an average of 1.7 megabytes of data per second. Online advertising accounts for 25% of the total internet bandwidth today. And all of that data has to be stored somewhere\, like in data centers that use around 1% of electricity worldwide and whose water guzzling cooling facilities are predicted to cause drinking water shortages in the Netherlands.  \nThe growing increase in internet use and the generation of more and more data does not only impact the environment\, it also exacerbates the global digital divide. While the internet has been a solution\, and a lifeline\, to the many problems caused by COVID-19\, it has also made more visible the billions of people worldwide (around 45% of the population according to UNESCO) who lack internet access\, and the even larger number of people who lack access to affordable and fast internet. Those on the wrong side of the digital divide are disconnected from opportunities for education\, employment\, and social interactions. \nThere seems to be a growing tension between increasing connectivity to the internet and the impact of this on the environment. How do we balance these two things with one another? Especially since faster internet\, more digital storage\, and more connectivity are seen as ways to increase development and access to opportunities globally. During this event\, taking place physically and online\, we’ll explore how the current internet experience is influenced by bandwidth access\, and what a lighter internet actually means. \nHybrid event experiment\nThis year we’re actively experimenting with a series of hybrid events. The pandemic has shown us that we really have too little knowledge about how we gather and come together in online spaces. Our belief is that zoom fatigue is unnecessary and that digitisation can offer a lot to the cultural sector\, as long as programs are hybrid in nature and designed fundamentally differently than physical programs. With (almost) every event we organise\, we explore a new format or a new tool. \nWith this event we’re updating our livestream website with different view-modes—high res\, low res\, audio\, and text only—to make it more accessible and to explore what low-tech and low-data internet solutions can look like. And as an extra treat\, we’re offering specially discounted (online) group tickets to stimulate people to watch our livestream together. \nThe Hmm ON …\n\nThe Hmm ON is a series of hybrid focus events in which we reflect on playful\, serious\, and sometimes disturbing developments in internet culture. The Hmm ON a Lighter Internet is physically hosted by Framer Framed (Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71) in Amsterdam.  \n🕢 Doors open at 19.30 and our program will start at 20.00 🕗 \nThe series is kindly supported by the Creative Industries fund\, VSB fund\, and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. Tonight’s experiment is supported by the program Innovatielabs.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-on-a-lighter-internet/
LOCATION:Framer Framed\, Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20211201T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20211201T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T081350
CREATED:20211019T211739Z
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SUMMARY:The Hmm ON Screen New Deal
DESCRIPTION:During the lockdowns that swept the world\, caused by the COVID 19 pandemic\, the internet became our supermarket\, our school\, our gym\, our club\, our cafe. And Big Tech reaped the benefits of this. While restaurants closed their doors and cultural programming halted to a standstill\, the wealth and power of tech billionaires only grew. In the last year\, the five tech superpowers—Amazon\, Apple\, Google\, Microsoft and Facebook—had combined revenue of more than $1.2 trillion. Alphabet\, Google’s parent company\, reported that quarterly sales and profits had surged to record highs this summer and YouTube also saw its advertising revenue almost double from the year before\, to $7bn. What effects will this increasing saturation of online advertising\, infiltrating our work\, social\, and educational spaces\, have on our mental health? \nAt the beginning of the pandemic\, writer and social activist Naomi Klein introduced the concept of the ‘Screen New Deal’ (a pandemic shock doctrine)—arguing that many of the concerns that were emerging about Big Tech\, and its ceaseless infiltration into all spheres of life (education\, transportation\, health) were being swept under the rug. The technological and integrated futures these companies were trying to sell us were being re-sold under the branding that they will help us live a pandemic-proof\, no-touch\, life. Klein writes that “[i]t’s a future in which our every move\, our every word\, our every relationship is trackable\, traceable and data-mineable by unprecedented collaborations between government and tech giants.” But now\, more than a year later and with most of the pandemic uncertainties behind us\, how have we changed how we interact with digital technologies and what personal information are we willing to give away in the name of public health and safety? \nTonight\, in this end of the year event\, we’ll look back and reflect on the pandemic and how it accelerated our entanglement with\, and deep reliance on\, Big Tech. The pandemic accelerated many societal shifts\, but what impact did it have on the monopolisation of Big Tech? How have our learning environments and understanding of education shifted? How does the corona app and sharing our private health information publicly impact how we move through our environments and engage in society? And how has our increasing dependence on social media for our social interactions impacted mental health? We’ve invited three speakers with whom we’ll start to untangle and explore these questions. Join us at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam\, or online! \nHybrid event experiment:\nThis fall we actively experiment with a series of hybrid events as we delve even deeper into the internet cultures that shape\, complicate\, and transform our lives—further blurring the boundaries between the ‘online’ and ‘offline’ worlds. We’ve been attending many online events during the pandemic\, but how do we prepare for\, and take active part in these events? Can we do more than just open another tab on our browser\, or slide over from the table to the couch? For our third hybrid event experiment\, we’ve invited artist Annika Kappner to prepare our online audience for this program—linking us together between the digital and the analogue worlds. \nThe Hmm ON …\nWe’re using face filters to make ourselves prettier\, track our daily steps on our iPhones\, and rely on Google Maps to find our destination. But what exactly is the impact of these technologies? With The Hmm ON\, physically hosted by Felix Meritis in Amsterdam\, we reflect on these playful\, serious\, and sometimes disturbing developments in internet culture. \nThe series is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-on-screen-new-deal/
LOCATION:Felix Meritis\, Keizersgracht 324\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20211020T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20211020T220000
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CREATED:20210812T183522Z
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SUMMARY:The Hmm ON Online Fandom
DESCRIPTION:The act of idolizing has long surpassed just hanging some posters on your bedroom wall. With the rise of the internet\, and especially Web 2.0\, fandom has extended onto our screens—allowing fans from all over the world to always be in touch with each other. \nWhen\, during the Black Lives Matter protests last year\, the Dallas police called on people via Twitter to send videos of protesters committing “illegal activities” to their app\, K-pop fans spammed the app with concert videos. This avalanche of videos not only made it difficult for the police to filter meaningful information\, it also caused the police app to crash within a few hours. \nWe often talk about the power of social media platforms\, such as Facebook. Online fans or stans\, named after Eminem’s song from 2000\, show that the power of users should not be underestimated. Online tactics rapidly develop within stan communities and are later mimicked or catered to by institutions\, companies\, and other organisations. Think about Kamala Harris’s “KHive”\, inspired by Beyoncé’s BeyHive\, or how the Marvel strategically places hints in movie trailers for their fans. \nAt the same time\, social media platforms have turned being a fan into something that is not just about joy and community. In his article “How pop music fandom became sports\, politics\, religion and all out war\,” writer Joe Coscarelli describes pop fandom in 2020 as: ‘Competitive\, arcane\, sales obsessed\, adversarial\, amusing and a little frightening.’ On stan Twitter\, possibly one of the most toxic places on the internet\, stans are always working to hit their competitors with the nastiest clapbacks defending their faves\, and stream statistics are compared as if it was a sports competition. This rivalry between stans is fed by mainstream platforms where everyone publicly comes together and where attention is a commodity. \nTonight\, we’ll explore how stans organise and to what extent stan culture shapes our online culture. What makes stans so powerful? And what role do stan armies play in social media activism? Together with our guest programmer and researcher for this event\, Sjef van Beers\, we’ve invited three speakers and three stans with whom we’ll explore these questions. Below you can read more about each speaker. Meet the Rihanna\, BTS and ex-Miley Cyrus stan we’ve invited via these video interviews. \nThe Hmm ON …\n\nWe’re using face filters to make ourselves prettier\, track our daily steps on our iPhones\, and rely on Google Maps to find our destination. But what exactly is the impact of these technologies? With The Hmm ON …\, hosted by Felix Meritis in Amsterdam\, we reflect on these playful\, serious\, and sometimes disturbing developments in internet culture. \nThe series is kindly supported by the Creative Industries fund and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. \nHybrid event experiment:\nThis fall we actively experiment with a series of hybrid events as we delve even deeper into the internet cultures that shape\, complicate\, and transform our lives—further blurring the boundaries between the ‘online’ and ‘offline’ worlds. During this second hybrid experiment we’ll explore the power of the chat. ヽ(o＾▽＾o)ノ
URL:https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmm-on-online-fandom/
LOCATION:Felix Meritis\, Keizersgracht 324\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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