Posts By: Kate Babin

In-Between Media Conference Report Collection (Videos and Text)

By Kate Babin, April 11, 2023

Here you will find all the videos from the In-Between Media Conference: Hybrid Tactics in The Crisis Era. The event reports for each individual presentation are linked through the titles. On March 9th Day 1 of the conference was hosted at SPUI25, the videos from this day are separated into 3 parts. Part 1: Introduction [...]

Expert Session – A Living Archive is also a Dying Archive (Conference Report, day 2)

By Kate Babin, March 31, 2023

Starting from research questions surrounding the inherently ephemeral nature of archives that live on the internet, this expert session looked at the structure and classification aspect of an online archive, the care and maintenance it requires, as well as which parameters for curating content lie at the forefront of a truly accessible archive. The session [...]

Trends, Tactics and Aesthetics: The TikTok Limbo (Conference Report, day 1)

By Kate Babin, March 29, 2023

Do you find yourself in TikTok limbo? Ever since the video-sharing app popped up in 2016, TikTok has become an omnipresent media whose discursive content is having impacts well beyond the containment of the platform. Following its predecessors Vine and Musical.ly, TikTok prioritizes short-format videos, self-referential humour, and user duetting. In the absurdity and vastness [...]

Video: Emoji Proxies & Ghost Messengers Workshop

By Kate Babin, March 24, 2023

On March 10th The Hmm and Hackers & Designers teamed up to host a hybrid workshop as part of the In-Between Media Conference: Hybrid Tactics in The Crisis Era that explored the possibilities of live networking technologies in hybrid cultural events. A recording of the livestream segment of this workshop can be found here: https://live.thehmm.karls.computer/emoji-proxies-boo-2  [...]

Hybrid Futures: Drawing Lessons Together

By Kate Babin, March 6, 2023

March 10th, the second and final day of our In-Between Media: Hybrid Tactics in The Crisis Era conference will be closing with a plenary session at 16:00-17:30 titled Drawing Lessons Together. This will be held online and at Framer Framed. Sign up for the Plenary Closing Session livestream or to attend in person here. Full [...]

Data Extraction, Materiality, and Agency

By Kate Babin, March 6, 2023

On March 9th at 10:15 online and at SPUI25 prominent artist-researcher Joana Moll opens up the In-Between Media: Hybrid Tactics in the Crisis Era conference with her lecture titled Data Extraction, Materiality, and Agency. Full conference program here. Register for Joana Moll’s lecture Data Extraction, Materiality, and Agency here. – In her opening talk of the conference, Moll [...]

How-to.computer: A Self-Hosting Guide

By Kate Babin, March 3, 2023

On March 9th as part of the From Tactics to Strategies presentation session within the In-Between Media: Hybrid Tactics in the Crisis Era conference, Lukas Engelhardt will present his strategy of resistance to platform centralization: squatting the cloud a.k.a., DIY server hosting.  At 16:00 at SPUI25 or online you can tune in to his presentation: [...]

Trends, Tactics and Aesthetics: the TikTok Limbo

By Kate Babin, March 2, 2023

Join us from 11:00 to 12:30 on March 9th for the programme Trends, Tactics and Aesthetics: the TikTok Limbo as part of our In-Between Media: Hybrid Tactics in The Crisis Era conference. These presentations, followed by a round-table discussion will be held at Spui25 in Amsterdam as well as online. Do you find yourself in [...]