We're back! On Wednesday 26 September designer and researcher Anja Groten is helping us put together a refreshing program. We're being hosted by the creative hotbed sQuare for a new The Hmm. Join us there for 10 speakers x 5 minutes on contemporary visual culture!
During Dutch Design Week we organize a special The Hmm event in collaboration with the Creative Industry Fund. The event is by invitation only. Do you want to join? Please send us an e-mail. It’s one year since 24 talented makers from the fields of architecture, design and digital culture, received a Talent Development grantRead More
On Tuesday 6 November pop culture scientist and podcaster Linda Duits is helping us put together a surprising program. We're being hosted by the beautiful Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam for a new The Hmm. Join us there for 10 speakers x 5 minutes on contemporary visual culture!
On Wednesday November 28 game expert Alessandra van Otterlo is helping us put together a surprising program. We're being hosted by the Brakke Grond for a new The Hmm. Join us there for 10 speakers x 5 minutes on contemporary visual culture!
On Thursday February 28th, MU Eindhoven is hosting us for the first The Hmm night of 2019! Catelijne van Middelkoop (Design Academy Eindhoven / TU Delft / Strange Attractors Design) is helping us put together a surprising program. Join us for 10 speakers x 5 minutes on contemporary visual culture.
On Wednesday March 27, fanfare is hosting a new edition of The Hmm. Raul Balai is helping us put together a surprising program with a particular emphasis on architecture. Whereas generally the built environment functions as merely a backdrop for our self-centred content, Raul has chosen to foreground it. From dainty Amsterdam canals to concreteRead More
On Wednesday April 24, A-Lab is hosting a new edition of The Hmm and Rowan Blijd is helping us put together a clever program with 10 great speakers.
On Friday June 7 we organize our first The Hmm event in Arnhem! Motel Spatie is hosting us and Coralie Vogelaar is helping us put together a refreshing program with 10 great speakers. Algorithmic Fitness Exhibition We live in a time where more and more algorithms make decisions for us: what we consume, what weRead More
On Wednesday June 26, NDSM Fuse is hosting our last edition of The Hmm before the summer ☀️ and Femke Dekker is helping us put together an exciting program with 10 great speakers!
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