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Thinking Face Emoji season 1 is out!

We are excited to share all of the episodes of Thinking Face Emoji, a podcast miniseries by The Hmm, in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, and supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. In this inaugural episode of Thinking Face Emoji, Margarita Osipian and Sjef van Beers from The Hmm, are joined by […]

Slop Cinema: The Work of Art in the Age of Computational Hallucination

Infidels claim that the rule in the Library is not ‘sense;’ but ‘non-sense;’ and that ‘rationality’ (even humble, pure coherence) is an almost miraculous exception. They speak, I know, of ‘the feverish Library, whose random volumes constantly threaten to transmogrify into others, so that they affirm all things, deny all things, and confound and confuse […]

The Vibe-ification of Functional Imagery

There’s something very appealing about a car crash. Morally speaking, that’s a very shitty sentence, but damn, David Cronenberg made a whole movie about it. Outside of rather unfortunate timing in a live situation, one might witness this kind of a scene through highway surveillance footage, old vehicle operating safety videos, or caught by a dashcam. […]