Posts By: Salome Berdzenishvili

Thinking Face Emoji #1: Girlboss, Through the Years with The Hmm and Sam Cummins

By Salome Berdzenishvili, May 19, 2025

Institute of Network Cultures · Girlboss, Through the Years This is the first episode 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. Hosts Margarita Osipian and Sjef van Beers from The Hmm, are joined by Sam Cummins, [...]

Digital Bodies, Failing Bodies and Longings: Walking Through the DDR Museum

By Salome Berdzenishvili, January 21, 2025

“How Present is Wall”, reads a white panel installed in a grassy park in Berlin, tightly fit with five other layers styled with the same design. Arranged in a zig-zag, the installation ends with: „How Strong is Border“, „How Liberation is Freedom“. None of them end with question marks. One thing strikes me the most [...]

GRWM – in an Attempt to Deoligarchise Georgia

By Salome Berdzenishvili, December 4, 2024

28th October, 2024 2 days after Georgian parliamentary elections How to steal the elections: Georgian edition   My naivety did not let me fully believe the game would be so rigged. The data consists of 2,749,674 eligible voters and, somehow, 3,508,294 ballots are claimed by the Election Administration of Georgia to have been cast. From [...]

Infrastructure that Sticks: Digital Affect Within Sovietcore

By Salome Berdzenishvili, November 4, 2024

Жить тяжело и неуютно Зато уютно умирать (Living is difficult and confining, But dying is liberating) The words written above are an excerpt from the song Sudno (Boris Ryzhy) by post-punk band Molchat Doma from Minsk. These words also often loop over the reels on post-Soviet aesthetics found online – the ones of decayed brutalist [...]