We are thrilled to be partnering with the Netherlands Film Festival to bring you a special edition of The Hmm during the NFF Professionals program on Tuesday October 1. The evening will feature 10 awesome speakers that are working, making, and thinking at the intersections of filmmaking and the internet. In addition to our 10Read More
On Friday October 11th we are excited to be partnering with Beeld en Geluid to put on a special edition of The Hmm during their Dutch Media Week programming. Together we've selected 9 impressive speakers that explore visual culture in all its shapes and sizes, to put together an evening at the intersections between archiving,Read More
On Wednesday November 6th we are excited to be hosted by Fabulous Future, with Polina Medvedeva helping us put together a very special program.
On Wednesday December 4th we're thrilled to be hosted by VondelCS, with interactive artist and designer Klasien van de Zandschulp helping us put together a unique program.
We’re rolling back into the new year, and for our first event of 2020 we’re excited to be hosted at Framer Framed in their beautiful new exhibition space. Researcher, anthropologist, and community collaborator Rita Ouédraogo, from the Research Center for Material Culture will be helping us put together a very special program.
In this time of quarantine we’re Zoom’ing with our colleagues, FaceTiming with friends and family, and binge-watching all the Netflix series’. Our entire social life has become virtual. It seems like the internet is dragging us through the difficult period of self isolation. With The Hmm, we’re always reflecting on our online behaviour, but howRead More
Our first online event last month was a research into live stream platforms. Which platform works best to host a cultural event, like The Hmm? Based on our (and your) experiences, this online event will take place on the most ideal platform possible: one that we built ourselves, in collaboration with Hackers & Designers. OnRead More
Are deepfakes the newest weapon for spreading fake news? Or is it just harmless fun? Deepfake videos, in which two realities are morphed together, are increasingly circulating on the internet. Tonight we will dive into this internet phenomenon through three different perspectives. Do you remember Nancy Pelosi stumbling through a speech? Mark Zuckerberg finally confessingRead More
In 2020, The Hmm is popping up all over the Netherlands. We’re very happy that our first stop, outside of Amsterdam, and our first 'real life' event after the quarantine, will be in The Hague at The Grey Space in the Middle. The project and presentation space merges culture with science, technology, and philosophy —Read More
We all want pretty selfies and a smooth relationship with our devices. Facial recognition software is integrated into our lives more than we even know. We’re embracing these tools when they’re fun and practical, but when is it not okay? Tonight we'll explore what we’re actually giving up when all these devices scan our face. Imagine thisRead More
The Hmm partners up with the Institute of Network Cultures and the Visual Methodologies Collective for a special event where 8 driven and diverse speakers, that are working, making, and thinking around the theme of ‘video witnessing’, share their vision. Sepp Eckenhaussen, researcher and editor at the Institute of Network Cultures, is helping us putRead More
Now that we are extremely online due to the Corona crisis, we are living in Mark Zuckerberg's wet dream. In April 2020, when large parts of the world were in lockdown, Facebook was the most used social media platform worldwide. We were in contact with our family via WhatsApp. On Instagram we saw how ourRead More
With over 800 million active users worldwide, TikTok is one of the fastest growing social media platforms. It’s also the first globally used social media app that has not been developed in America, but instead has Chinese ownership. What are the consequences of this

? TikTok, whose name is a reference to a ticking clock, isRead More
For our first The Hmm of 2021, we're excited to be working in collaboration with IMPAKT, the Utrecht-based media arts organization that presents critical and creative views on contemporary media culture and arts, in an interdisciplinary context. Join us tonight, on our very own live stream, where we'll be bringing together 8 unique speakers to takeRead More
Our internet is broken. In America, CEOs of major technology companies have testified in Congress about their monopoly power. Australia recently "unfriended" Facebook. And in Europe laws that restrict the power of Big Tech are underway. In the meantime, now that we have been extremely online in the past year, we've only increased our useRead More
In April of last year we took our physical events online for the first time with The Hmm in Quarantine, jumping around from one video platform to the next. Tonight's event marks one year of diving deeper into the very very online spaces that we inhabit on a daily basis. We are excited to haveRead More
While 80% of Facebook users are not from the United States, Facebook's policies for content moderation and ‘ethical’ framework are based on North American standards. In 2016, the company started a campaign (remember internet.org?) to rewire the world and ‘connect the unconnected’. That project kind of failed, but most of the digital infrastructures around theRead More
Over a year ago, when events, exhibitions, and performances suddenly had to take place in online spaces, their infrastructures had hardly been developed for this. In the early pandemic, most of the platforms that were used to socialise with each other or to host events were originally intended for business meeting purposes. With the effectRead More
Coming back from our summer break, we're very excited to be partnering with MU Hybrid Art house for our very first experimental hybrid event as part of the Real Feelings exhibition. Emotions are interwoven with every aspect of daily life and technology has begun to engage with our emotions like never before. Real Feelings presentsRead More
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. When, during the Black Lives Matter protests last year, theRead More