Introducing EtherPort

By Giulia Timis, November 16, 2023

The cultural sector is stuck in event overkill. Openings, symposiums, workshops, artist talks, and conferences follow each other in rapid succession. Each one puts an even more important matter on the agenda than the previous one. More often than not these events position themselves as offering a start of something. But what happens when the [...]

Airtime Screentime Facetime: a Live-Publication

By Carolina Pinto, October 25, 2023

We are happy to announce the launch of the final publication, celebrating the end of the two-year cycle through questioning hybrid experiments and strategies in the cultural sector. Screentime Airtime Facetime is in itself a hybrid experiment: a live-publication, where event is book, book turns from event, a live that will then be transcribed. On [...]

The Hmm, MU, and Affect Lab launch ‘Toolkit for the In-Between’

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 21, 2023

The Toolkit is an online space full of experimental experiences, fresh examples, and multidisciplinary knowledge on hybrid events. It is a means to inspire the cultural sector to produce creative hybrid events and get them started in this inbetween space, connecting online and on-site audiences. Contrary to what you might expect, this toolkit does not [...]

Framer Framed Podcast: A Deep Dive into Cultural Publishing

By Ashley Maum & Ebissé Wakjira, September 11, 2023

What is the relevance of hybrid publishing experiments to small and medium-scale cultural organisations? Ashley Maum and Ebissé Wakjira, who participate in the Hybrid Pubs Research Group on behalf of Framer Framed, share their experiences and visions. Below, you can listen to their conversation, or read the transcript. Ashley Maum [00:00:12] Welcome to the Framer [...]

Online Critical Reflection, a Fable from the Past?

By Ania Molenda, August 20, 2023

Digital publishing is an inseparable part of our everyday lives. At the same time, it has become a weapon in the battle for attention, clicks, and political influence. Information overload and obscure mix-ups between commerce, content, and political manipulation give a headache to readers, content producers, and publishers. In times when most content is cheap [...]

MozFest 2023: Report

By Carolina Pinto, July 11, 2023

The Mozilla Festival, which had been for a few years streaming online only, came to an IRL setting, in the Toolhuistuin in Amsterdam between the 20th—21st of June. I attended the second day of this conference exploring AI for a healthier, more democratic internet. Creativity, copyright and generative AI with Creative Commons The first session [...]

Event Report Workout: The Ethertoff Edition

By Maria van der Togt, June 29, 2023

Who Reads Event Reports? It’s a daunting question, especially for someone who has written such a considerable amount of them. On most occasions, writing one feels like a mere necessity to justify received funding, an institutional obligation. On rare occasions, someone manages to break the format and create something momentarily interesting. But in reality, the [...]

The Great Idle at Impakt – Report

By Carolina Pinto, June 29, 2023

On the 31st of May, the warm spring evening in Utrecht welcomed visitors in Impakt, entering a dream-like world matching the lilac sky outside. In the events hall, we enter a dark room scattered with pillows and bean bags, facing a projected screen with the title of the interactive performance-game. “The Great Idle” is a [...]

Project Stargaze at Impakt – Report

By Ray Dolitsay, June 22, 2023

How is the human body developing in response to our increased use of technology? How do we embrace our cyborgian nature in a communal way? Can we envision a truly hybrid future in which online participants are at the forefront, and not abandoned behind the screens? “We are on the verge of a new evolutionary [...]

IHWAT 2022 The Event: Wine Flows and Other Things

By Andrej Kapor, June 20, 2023

In some sense, this is amusingly relevant to the concept of the hybrid event; as we become increasingly hybrid, we realise that connections are established and maintained in a combination of groundbreakingly new, as well as many traditional, tried, and tested ways. We arrive by bike at a relatively remote location, the mansion house and [...]