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In the The WIRED article Showler explores how browsers not only serve as gateways to the internet but also influence the way we think, act, and are surveilled online. It examines how features like tabs and private search, initially intended to enhance user experience, reflect and shape our fractured attention spans and desire for privacy. However, the browser’s underlying mechanics, such as tracking and personalized responses to user behavior, expose the tension between browsing as a free, casual act and its deep ties to commercial and surveillance interests. Ultimately, it argues that browsers subtly dictate how we interact with digital spaces, challenging notions of neutrality and autonomy in online environments. +
In form of a short research paper, Maughan explores the evolution and potential of hand gestures in human-computer interaction, particularly in the context of emerging spatial computing technologies. The paper reflects on the historical significance of hand representations, such as ancient cave paintings, and examines how our hands have co-evolved with tool use over millennia. It critiques the current design of hand gestures in technology, like Apple's double tap, as mere extensions of existing interactions, and advocates for reimagining hand-based interactions to fully harness the capabilities of spatial computing. +
In "Swiping Dichotomies," Akseli Manner critically examines the swiping gesture in digital interactions, particularly in dating apps. It explores the origins of swiping, its tactile and psychological effects, and its role in shaping user autonomy. The thesis questions how algorithmic design influences decision-making, reducing complex human interactions to binary choices. By analyzing swiping's cultural and technological significance, Manner highlights the tension between agency and automation in digital interfaces. The work ultimately seeks to reclaim more intentional, nuanced interactions in a world increasingly driven by frictionless, habitual gestures dictated by platform logic and commercial interests. +
PoetiCal is an experimental, collaborative publication only accessible through a calendar app.The only way to access this publication is through a calendar app. +
What does it mean to be human in an age where experience and behaviour are mediated and regulated by algorithms? The Disintegrator podcast is a limited series that explores how artificial intelligence affects who we are and how we express ourselves. Roberto Alonso Trillo and Marek Poliks talk to artists, philosophers, scientists and social theorists at the forefront of the human-AI relationship about the intersections of technology and politics, and the modes of performance and reconsumption through which humans traverse and embed themselves in digital space. +
This paper explores the idea of a "feminist server stack," which challenges traditional, centralized internet infrastructure by proposing alternative, community-driven digital spaces. It draws from feminist principles to rethink how digital tools and networks are designed, governed, and used—prioritizing care, consent, and collective control over data. The paper critiques dominant, profit-driven tech ecosystems and imagines new ways of structuring servers, storage, and communication that align with ethical and inclusive values. Ultimately, it advocates for a reimagined digital landscape where technology empowers marginalized voices and fosters more equitable, decentralized, and self-sustaining digital communities. +
DaisyWold MAG has reinvented itself as DAISYWORLD CAL, an ongoing anthology that follows the ancient Japanese calendar of 72 micro-seasons, a system that intricately maps time by recording subtle changes in nature. In this rhythm of fleeting moments, the micro-seasonal online calendar becomes a poetic bridge between the digital and the organic, celebrating the ephemeral permanence of life. It is a tribute to the capricious beauty of nature, an ode to all that blooms, withers and returns to the earth - an eternal cycle of impermanence and renewal. +
In Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards, Floriane Fo Misslin opens up a path toward an intersectional feminist citational practice for visual references. The essay rethinks mood boards—often dismissed as simple inspiration tools—as sites for thoughtful and politically engaged feminist work. Misslin shows how they can map connections, surface overlooked voices, and challenge dominant narratives in design and education. Through intentional curation, mood boards become spaces for reflection, citation, and imagination—offering ways to practice solidarity, build collective knowledge, and foster more inclusive and critical modes of working, especially in creative and pedagogical contexts. +
Archive of Patchy Studies is a living, diagrammatic platform by Noam Youngrak Son that maps knowledge through a rhizomatic, non-extractive interface. Designed as a motherboard of interconnected nodes-ranging from essays and images to links and notes-it visualizes conceptual, aesthetic, and affective relations without relying on rigid taxonomy. The archive grows organically, shaped by conversation, intuition, and resistance to capitalist tempo.
Rather than simply storing information, it proposes an alternative infrastructure: one where artistic labor circulates relationally and ethically, inviting slower, situated forms of engagement and meaning-making over time. Some content remains open; other nodes are accessible via subscription. +
In Becoming the Product Morgane Billuart traces the evolution of critical internet research, examining the work of figures such as Geert Lovink, Joshua Citarella, Alex Quicho and Sophie Public. Exploring how researchers navigate the demands of the attention economy, the book reflects on the tension between critique and commodification as it traces the shifting strategies of critical research under pressure to perform, produce and build a brand. What happens to critique when intellectual labour becomes part of the content economy? What does it mean to think critically and sustainably online? +
Vanish Pointer is a web-based project by Hyunseo Cho that reimagines the digital interface as a three-dimensional, perspective-based space. Designed as both a web extension and a standalone platform, this tool establishes an analogy between our perception of web interfaces and the visual system of perspective. Users can shift the vanishing point to explore websites from new angles, transforming flat webpages into dynamic spatial environments where citational elements — such as sources, authors, dates and internal references — become central structuring forces. Users can invert hierarchies, reveal hidden relationships, and explore multidimensional connections by changing their viewpoint — including curvilinear, panoramic, and spherical perspectives. Vanish Pointer thus encourages critical and sensory engagement with the knowledge architectures that shape online content. +
A conversation between photographer Gil Anselmi and Studio Halia’s Melisa Yalcinkaya tracing the creative, ethical, and aesthetic stakes of working with AI. Anselmi reflects on using AI not as shortcut but as medium—training models on his own work to retain authorship and blur the lines between tool and technique.
The interview moves between critique and curiosity: raising questions around beauty standards, authorship, and the homogenising pull of AI-generated aesthetics. Anselmi approaches AI as both collaborator and constraint—highlighting the labour behind prompts, the ecological impact of image generation, and the ongoing tension between intuition and automation. +
After the personal realisation that she unconsciously and unwillingly reproduced sexist patterns in the way she spoke and thought, Feline Artz initiated a project began as a series of consciousness-raising meetings about sexist language. Over time, the meetings themselves became part of the inquiry, and the project developed into an ongoing collection of speech tools and experimental methods. The cards support conversations around language and hierarchies, with the aim of revealing the often invisible power dynamics that influence conversations and encouraging a more conscious way of speaking. +
Encrypted Embroidery is a digital tool by Sophie Nadel that turns a message into a pattern for embroidery. Users can generate a coded design, save it, and reveal the key needed to stitch and decode it. The tool offers a way to explore how information can be encoded and kept offline through a personal, material object. +
Textum Club is a research group dedicated to practices and publishing in fashion criticism. Its fashion criticism archive introduces books and articles related to critical fashion, alongside essays, interviews, book reviews, and exhibition reviews. Textum Club also invites people to recommend books and topics related to fashion and take part in its activities, ranging from workshops to exhibitions. +
'Of Techne and Logos' is a thesis project by Anna Trevisan that explores the cyborg as a condition of digital life and a lens through which to examine gendered power. Across a series of essays, Trevisian considers how digital identity emerges in relation to bodies, images and platforms. The Cyborg Condition, examines the promises of control, belonging and escape offered by online self-presentation, as well as the ongoing work of curation, consumption and self-surveillance that these promises require. 'Programmed to Perfection' expands upon this investigation by examining Ex Machina and Her, tracing the persistence of female cyborg ideals across visible bodies and disembodied voices, reinforced by costumes, interfaces, and atmospheres. A tactile prologue and epilogue contextualise the research as situated practice, and the independently published website extends the inquiry into digital form. The study also acknowledges its limitations, particularly its underdeveloped attention to race, class and genderqueerness. +
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Originating with the city’s counterculture and free spaces, Amsterdam Alternative stands for collective actionand radical political debate, for the sake of a desirable future for the many, not the few. In 2015 we started this trajectory by publishing a joint newspaper and website.
Amsterdam Alternative does not rely on one doctrine, slogan or statement. Different perspectives, ideas and backgrounds exist side by side, without the need to mold them into one homogeneous party line. We are not looking for a clear cut definition of ‘the alternative,’ but fight for a future urban culture that is in line with the open, emancipative aspects of Amsterdam’s heritage as a free city. We are a platform for political movements and activists looking for effective tools against the city’s perpetual devastation by the rich and powerful. +
The Future Sketches group explores software as a medium for art and design, as well as how toolkits and pedagogical approaches can help inform a new generation of computational craft. In our work and courses we focus on computational sketches, often engaging with the past, as a way of suggesting different possible futures. In addition, we are focused on tools for creative coding, both in tools that currently exist and designing, building, and supporting new tools for computational artistic expression. Today's tools help shape tomorrow’s art. Current research explores generative form, machine learning, and augmented reality with a specific focus on how we can understand the essence of these technologies and use them in unexpected and poetic ways. +
Hackers & Designers is a non-profit workshop initiative organizing activities at the intersection of technology, design and art. By creating shared moments of hands-on learning H&D stimulates collaboration across disciplines, technological literacy, and different levels of expertise. +
Index provides space for the exchange of knowledge and tools. We nurture trust within the creative community through generosity and abundance of ideas and care.
We are a community of designers, poets, technologists, aesthetes, joke tellers, readers, eaters, artists, commies, freaks, and friends. What unifies us is our belief that creativity isn’t diminished when shared — that generosity and care are integral to our creative practices.
Founded during the pandemic, Index is a space where the public can come and teach, learn, converse and share. We produce digital and occasionally physical programs that bring people together to learn about things like creative coding, architecture, and animation — as well as programs that bring people together simply for the sake of being together, like our collective readings and group meditations. +