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 [...]

Mumories at MU Hybrid Art House

By Carolina Pinto, May 5, 2023

Opening on the 5th of May, the exhibition “Hybrid Tales For Hybrid Times: 25 years of radical shapeshifting at MU” is featuring MUMORIES, an audio installation developed by the Living Archives group where visitors are invited to share their memories of MU. These memories are collected and form a living digital audio archive that can [...]

Diary of a Video Editor

By Ray Dolitsay, April 25, 2023

Lately, I have been seeing … things. Without a better explanation, I chose to blame my stress levels and exhaustion for the obscure visions. With my background in media and animation, it was not difficult to imagine myself doing video editing after my BA graduation. Knowing 3D, film and audio production, I naturally landed in [...]

The Hmm @ Tolhuistuin on non-visual internet culture

By Carolina Pinto, April 19, 2023

April 19, 2023 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm - "Memes, GIFs, and endless streams of TikTok videos. Our digital lives are often saturated with visual culture, but there is so much more that makes up our internet ecosystem. In 2022, around 650 million new tweets were posted on a daily basis and it’s estimated that each day 100 billion messages are sent via WhatsApp. [...]

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 [...]

Closing Session – Wrapping Up, Looking Ahead (Conference Report, day 2)

By Dunja Nešović, April 11, 2023

The closing session of the In-Between Media conference took place in Framer Framed and it featured the lectures ‘Archiving the Present’ by Mariana Lanary and Remco van Bladel, and ‘Remote Login Is a Lot Like Astral Projection (Stories from XPUB)’ by Michael Murtaugh and members of XPUB. The session ended with ‘Wrapping Up, Looking Ahead’, [...]

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 [...]

Workshop – Clumsy Devices for Awkward Hybrid Settings (Conference Report, day 2)

By Senka Milutinović, March 30, 2023

Wait. How are hybrid settings actually affecting the way we sense others’ presence in public events? How can we bring intimacy when hybrid media interrupt instead of facilitating modes of togetherness? The workshop Small Clumsy Intimate Devices for Awkward Hybrid Setting was led by Chaeyoung Kim and Erica Gargaglione, two students of the Experimental Publishing Masters [...]

Workshop – Emoji Proxies & Ghost Messengers (Conference Report, day 2)

By Victor Chaix, March 29, 2023

1. Tool Introduction by The Hmm and Hackers & Designers At Framer Framed, our cozy lunch comes to an end and some of us start going to the mezzanine. The heavy rain outside is turning into heavy snow. Is there anywhere for us to go? Yes: many of us have signed up for a workshop [...]

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 [...]