Telemagic is at #39c3 ! Find our installation Model Collapse in Hall H 🏩 bonus pic: being filmed and interviewed by Heise :)

Right before the end of the year, we have some fantastic news to share 🌈 .zip received the Professionalisation and practice development Grant from Stimuleringsfonds, which means we can focus on structured programming in the next year! Read the report here: www.stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/news/prof...

Who's at Chaos Computer Club this year? @ccc.de With Telemagic, we're exhibiting Model Collapse, a multi-media installation on the origins of AI. It was on show earlier this year at Tetem, @noorderlichtphoto.bsky.social and @ars.electronica.art ⚡ ⚡ ⚡ Pic by Tessa Wiegerinck for Tetem

Neocities Coding Night is back on December 16! Forget about your to-dos, make a fun personal site with HTML and CSS instead ✨ Starting from 18:00 (open walk-in) at .zip - 1e Pijnackerstraat 75, Rotterdam. More info: zipspace.nl/agenda

Yeah!!! Super proud of team prikbord.page. Out of 60 applications, prikbord is one of the 8 honored projects in Stimuleringsfonds's Grounding the Cloud. prikbord.page is an experimental cultural event calendar for indie venues in Rotterdam. Out in 2026 Q2 🌈 buff.ly/u020adJ

Today is #transdayofremembrance. I've built a browser plugin that allows us to also forget: The JK Removling Tool. With this, every mention of of HP's author disappears completely, even images. 🏳️‍⚧️ Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jk-re... Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/a...

Thomas Walskaar interviewed me for his first Dead Web Club Podcast episode. Listen to us yapping about reclaiming digital agency, unsexy extinct elephants (talking about you, Mastodon!) and carrying your digital front door to a birthday party. buff.ly/U9lMrzu Thanks @w4lz44r.bsky.social !

Mon, November 10 is Neocities Coding Night again! Build your personal Neocities site, aka digital garden, and work on your html/css skills. We start from 6pm at .zip (1e Pijnackerstraat 75) Bring your own laptop and food More info: zipspace.nl/agenda

Doomsday Dopamine Karaoke Machine reflects on how social media profits off our most extreme emotions, not caring about content but generating addictive dopamine instead. Sing karaoke while live news is streaming in the background. Tonight is Museum Night in Amsterdam. See you there! www.bigdada.nl

I'm making a new work for Big Dada, opening Oct 31st at Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam. Reflecting on how Instagram and other platforms are profiting from our most extreme emotions, you can sing your heart out at my karaoke, while streaming 24-h news. More info: buff.ly/FUqbhow

Who is really watching in Rotterdam?? I will give a presentation at @nieuweinstituut.nl on Oct 28 during Centre of BOLD Cities' Kick-Off Event 'Start Making Sense' -- a new university research on cameras in public space. More info here: buff.ly/Y9vGaYE thx @ingejanse.bsky.social

Give @sickhouse-nl.bsky.social a home! 🏡 My super cool friends in Enschede have finally gotten the keys to a permanent place after an involuntary nomadic life. And of course nothing comes easy in the cultural world. Everything needs to be renovated and there is no money. Help them out by donating!

Neocities Code-A-Thon was such a success, that we turned it into a monthly recurring event! 🌐 Join us every month to work on your personal site and master your HTML+CSS skills. 📶 More info: zipspace.nl/agenda Some cool results from last event. By: nikilia.neocities.org & debizon.neocities.org

HONK HONK! 📢 @nastiacistakova.bsky.social and I are hosting another QUIZ. Join us October 11th at V2_, 8-9pm. During Engage Festival 9-12 Oct, V2_ is organizing an event programme called Technologies of Solidarity. Passe-partout is €6. More info: buff.ly/SfA4HTh Photo: Angeline Swinkels.

.zipper Lou is organizing an unconference with Anouk Geenen, Julieta Matos Castaño and Gemeente Rotterdam around technology in public spaces, and how to make space for community-centered design. Date: 23 Oct 25, 18.15–21.15h Location: het Timmerhuis, Rotterdam RSVP via mail to [email protected]

Still looking for a game to play this weekend? I've uploaded all the files of the Blue Dungeon to the world wide web. I made the game for GOGBOT's symposium, organised by Planetart and Sickhouse. Happy weekend! buff.ly/nKIpO5K

FInd me at GOGBOT's symposium this Saturday! I'm running The Blue Dungeon, a small world-building tabletop game that I wrote for #GOGBOT, that questions the future of social media in a medieval high fantasy setting 😏 More: buff.ly/GgEF2Jh

Nastia and I hosted our post-chaos knowledge-meets-airhorn quiz at many places, but The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science was a first last Thursday. ⚡ During IS HET KUNST OF MAG HET WEG? we quizzed the audience on artists who turned websites, surveillance footage and memes into art pieces.

Ars Electronica was last week, and it was a blast. Model Collapse was visited bij 9000 people! Thank you Tetem for the incredible production - as well as Telemagic's Cyanne van den Houten and Ymer Marinus. Pictures by Tom Mesic

Steun @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social in hun rechtszaak tegen Meta (en de profilering die ze toepassen op hun social media platforms)! Teken de petitie hier: www.bitsoffreedom.nl/campagnes/st...

Super proud to share that I'm joining 'I Spy with my AI' as a research artist this upcoming year - a research on AI, bodily integrity and biometric surveillance. Led by researcher Rosa Wevers (Hanze University) and @impakt-nl.bsky.social. Made possible with the SIA grant.

I’m hosting an event at .zip again! Join us for Neocities code-a-thon. Polish your html&css skills and let’s all build a cool personal site. More info: buff.ly/Dxom3qW

Telemagic is at Ars Electronica! Find Model Collapse in the room connected to the staircase (when you go down towards the Bunker). Thanks team Tetem 💥

Join our code-a-thon at .zip this Sep 17th. Html newbies & pros welcome! We’ll serve vegan soup :) More info at: zipspace.nl/Neocities-Co...

My friend @zeno4ever.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy is organizing Hackfest in Enschede this Sep 13th - a gathering for hackers and tinkerers to show off their cool builds. Last year, we turned the smart doorbell jumpscare kit into a bumper car 🏎️ . They're still looking for participants! hackfest.nl

Telemagic's model.collapse is currently on show at the @noorderlichtphoto.bsky.social Biennial in Groningen. ✨ model.collapse is a multi-dimensional archive containing texts and visuals on AI's birth, design, needs and future.

Waarom is de gemeentelijke bewakingscamera onze "Big Brother-vijand", maar hangen we massaal slimme deurbellen op? In mijn interview met @danhf.bsky.social gingen we daar op in via het ontstaan van het neo-liberalisme, 1984 en Mission Impossible. www.someoneisatyourfrontdoor.com/de-entrepene...

Ever came across those "creepy smart doorbell compilations" on YouTube? @lauraodbeke.bsky.social wrote about their lore in her essay "The Misanthropy of Doorbell Horror" for Someone is at your Front Door. Read it at:

Volkskrant techredacteur Simoon Hermus ging voor "Someone is at your Front Door" op zoek naar de menselijke kant van de slimme deurbel. Over het schuren tussen wet, burger en politie wordt veel geschreven, maar hoe denkt je vrouw nu anders over je nu er een slimme deurbel is? Lees: buff.ly/Xw9ETRU

.zip is officially an association (vereniging) ✨ It feels very official now!

A smart doorbell just for your cat? Or one with an adjustable camera-arm... or what about a smart doorbell that compliments you while you walk by? --> Some of the concepts created at The Smartest Doorbell workshops at @publicspaces.net and @waag.bsky.social on June 13&14. More info: buff.ly/szaSmfa

Telemagic's model.collapse is at @noorderlichtphoto.bsky.social Biennale, Groningen, July 13. A multi-dimensional archive about AI - while an AI librarian guides you through this 3D and 2D digital environment in search for artifacts.. Amazing work @cyannevdh.bsky.social and Ymer Marinus <3

Can you own a "responsible" smart doorbell? @zeno4ever.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy & I built one. DIY tutorial: open-source hardware, accessible software. Photos + Github repo online. But making your own raises questions about "responsible"...

Two weeks ago I launched "Someone is at your Front Door" at PublicSpaces! 20% of Dutch homes have a smart doorbell and the numbers are growing rapidly. We're constantly quoting "1984", but love this surveillance gadget. WHY?? someoneisatyourfrontdoor.com

It's officially live! "Someone is at your Front Door" is an artistic research on the smart doorbell. -> someoneisatyourfrontdoor.com 💥 Many thanks to @lauraodbeke.bsky.social, @simoonhermus.bsky.social, @zeno4ever.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, @danhf.bsky.social, Stimuleringsfonds & CBK Rotterdam

What would a smart doorbell look like if it was designed with a human-forward mindset? Build the prototype of your dreams at this continuous design lab. On show during: Public Spaces Conference at Pakhuis de Zwijger - Fri 13th 10:00-18:00 Hyperlink at @waag.bsky.social - Sat 14th 14:00-20:00

After a year-long research, I can finally announce the launch of my online smart doorbell publication "Someone is at your Front Door". Featuring Simoon Hermus, @lauraodbeke.bsky.social, @danhf.bsky.social and @zeno4ever.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy . Friday the 13th: buff.ly/7LPR04e

Such an incredible week at Onassis Stegi last week! Cyanne is currently an artist in resident in Athens and I was invited to co-host .zip's Ghost Hardware workshop with them. Participants used old tech trash from streets and flea markets to create buttons, linking them to Processing. 🔘

THU MAY 15 - 19:30 - 21:30 - .zip, Rotterdam Crocs as smart doorbells?? The smart doorbell is everywhere, but sucks as a privacy-forward, security-promising product with shitty manufacturers. We can do better, come craft, discuss and patent the smart doorbell of your dreams! buff.ly/bTUYsu3

.zip's April news letter was written by @cyannevdh.bsky.social and features this really funny testimonial by a dustmite moving out during our spring clean. 🧼 Read the latest & subscribe here: buff.ly/1MiiaGv

Find us at .zip on King's Day!!

This May 1st I'm hosting a new workshop at Waag: The Smartest Doorbell. The smart doorbell is everywhere in NL. We're buying questionable brand products without considering the impact on our neighbors, children or personal data. Come, discuss, and craft the doorbell of your dreams! buff.ly/qP68Q7w

Saw a literal spambot today #spam #manila #robot

What ghosts of social media past are keeping you up at night? Is your inbox filled to the brim with spam? Why did you never reply to that heartfelt picture your aunt sent? We will clear our inboxes together on April 3rd, 20:00-22:00 @ .zip. Hosted by Nicky Liebregts RSVP: [email protected]

Our latest newsletter is out! This month, Remco made Zodimac: A tool that scans your network for devices and tells you their horoscope. Read about it here (or subscribe): buff.ly/qykunLX

Happy International Women's Day ❤️ There's a citizen initiative for the EU parliament going on - that's calling for accessible, legal abortion healthcare throughout the EU. Even in NL abortion is considered illegal, but is allowed in certain circumstances (aka 'gedoogd').

Tomorrow, fellow .zipper Erik Peters is exhibiting their work at Het Archief in Rotterdam west. ✨

Luuk & Tim from BIG HARE just released this very fun surrealist synth pop album on solar cults, renewable energy and dolphins 🐬

The most beloved Dutch smart doorbell - the fish doorbell in Utrecht - is back online again. Watch the livestream to spot any fish and ring the doorbell to let them through the canal lock. They had 20M viewers last year 🐟🐟🐟 www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...