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Program Day 3
Friday, June 26, 2026
10:00-03:00
@OT301/Online
9:30 am 🔓 Doors open
10.00 - 11.45 (Studio & Online) 🎤
SessionGendered Desire & Resentment on the Platform: Can we Queer Alienation into Belonging?
With: Kate A. Babin, Francesco Barchiesi, Dunja Nešović and İdil Galip
Chair: Chloë Arkenbout
What do the manosphere & incels, femcels, and queer reality TV fans have in common? In this panel, we will discuss multiple identity processes and narratives around them, that are shaped inside of the platform; from those who are encouraged to hate women ‘in the name of loving women’, women who resent men and use that to their advantage, and queer women loving queer women who are affected by heteronormative stereotypes. But mostly: how do we remain caring as these processes unfold? How do we queer them to foster a sense of belonging rather than alienation?
↓ Talk Descriptions ↓
PresentationHeteropessimism, incel culture, and the fourfold of heteronormative failures
Kate A. Babin and Francesco Barchiesi
Framing incel culture within it, we present a brief genealogy of heteropessimism — examining how incels, femcels, heteropessimistic prophets and redpill gurus exist under the same discursive conditions of patriarchal heteronormativity. Through this exploration, we consider how queer thought and theory can break open these paradigms.
PresentationThe pink elephant in the room: Lesbian ambiguity, reality television and transmedia narrative production
Dunja Nešović
This presentation examines how ambiguous lesbian representation in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills serves as a motor for transmedia narrative production and consumption. By tracing this narrative across different media sites and tellers, I will address the aesthetic, discursive, and economic frameworks underpinning its narrativization.
PresentationFemcel Ressentiment and Girltheory Optimism
İdil Galip
This short talk reads two opposed affective publics that have taken shape in contemporary women’s digital cultures: femcel imaginaries, an inward-looking world of nihilistic ressentiment, and girltheory, a radically optimistic palliative to anti-politics. Holding both against recent accounts of the digital “mirror-worlds” (Klein; Tolentino; Banet-Weiser and Kay), I ask whether we can treat these publics as containers of experiential knowledge of patriarchy, as moral categories of better and worse ways of being, or as the chaotic reflections of (post)post-feminism.
10:00 - 12.15 (Cinema Bar) 🙋🏻
WorkhshopCreative Resistance Against AI Assembly (Workshop)
Facilitated by Eke Rebergen and Jordi Viader Guerrero
⚠️ Registration Required (Check the online program)
With a focus on the Dutch landscape of activism, refusal, and counter-experimentation, we invite everyone to co-conspire and strategize. How to strengthen the somewhat scattered but defiant field of creative resistance?
As new developments amount to violent military technologies, further ecological destruction, techno-fascist cyberbosses, and much AI slop and hype bullshit, let’s together sketch out the richest and boldest possible vision of creative resistance, map different strands and radical positions, and recombine and reinforce practical tactics. We will bring sketchy maps, loads of zines, existing efforts and schemes. Please bring yours too!
And let’s look ahead. What does this field need? For legitimization? For organizing? So it’s sustainable? For better care? For new forms of radicalisation? And who to engage? What should be next targets to fight?
13:00 - 14:00 (Studio & Online) 🎤
SessionGoodbye Poverty Jetset: MoneyLab Lessons for Creative Work
With: Inte Gloerich, Alessandro Y. Longo, MACAO (Virginia Roghi, Emanuele Braga, Federico Aldovisi),and Patricia de Vries
Chair: Sepp Eckenhaussen.
We hone in on one of the INC’s top priorities: the struggle against the precarity of artistic work and the design of new economies. With MoneyLab, MyCreativity, and Creative Reset, we have closely followed the developments in cultural politics, crypto, and the gig economy, always looking for the next big thing. At the Exit Fest, we continue this productive critical attitude. We explore the three areas where we see the most organizational energy today: basic income, cultural cooperativism, and artist-run media.
By the way… this session celebrates the publication of three books: Sepp Eckenhaussen’s Goodbye Poverty Jetset: How Art Workers Make Solidarity Economies, Inte Gloerich’s Imaginaries of Immutable Truth, and MACAO’s Archiving the Ungovernable. You’ll hear more about this momentous MoneyLab material from the authors, and you can pick up your copies at the Mini Book Fair.
13:00 - 13:30 (Cinema) 🎭
PerfromanceRecovering Digital Agency: Internet Core and the Resurgence of the Handmade Web on Neocities (Performance)
With: Laura Subiratsand Diana Milán
As centralized digital platforms homogenize the online experience, old-web aesthetics such as Internet Core and Webcore are re-emerging. Far from mere netstalgia, this research proposes understanding this return as a form of cultural critique and an act of resistance.
Internet Core arises as an affective and visual response to the hegemony of platform capitalism, defending aesthetics as a form of critique. In this context, platforms like Neocities become living labs of this digital counterculture, allowing users to reclaim creative and technical control over their online spaces.
This presentation will explore these ideas through practice-based research with Neocities, demonstrating how the act of building a “personal webpage” in HTML and CSS has become a political statement and an artistic practice, questioning the role of the user in the age of artificial intelligence and automated content production.
14:00- 14:45 (Studio & Online) 🙋🏻
QuizThe Ultimate MyCreativity & MoneyLab Trivia Quiz
Quizmasters: Inte Gloerich & Patricia de Vries
Do you know your Platform Cooperativism from your Decentralised Finance? Can you answer trivia questions on the INC’s work on Creative Digital Labour, Admin Punk, Universal Basic Income, and the BlokeChain? Put your expertise to the test! Join the one and only MoneyLab & MyCreativity Quiz, celebrating 13 years of radical ideas, critical art, and digital activism. Compete to win the grand prize of $1,000!
15.15 - 17.00 (Studio & Online) 🎤
SessionInternet Aesthetics: Where Are The Thinkers?
With: Morgane Billuart, Sophie Publig, Sofi Xian, and Klaudia Orczykowska
Chair: Ruben Stoffelen & Mela Miekus
So much content flows through our devices–it’s like everything, everywhere, all at once. How can we meaningfully discuss aesthetics when we’re caught in an overwhelming swarm of images at all times? Can we identify some dominant trends and movements within what we are seeing? What cultural conditions do these aesthetics emerge from and push for? From slop to girl online to niche subcultures and SoundCloud rap, we will discuss the current images, personas, and affects that dominate the internet.
↓ Talk Descriptions ↓
PresentationInfluence as Method: Becoming the Monster
Morgane Billuart
Intellectual production increasingly appears unable to exist outside systems of visibility, circulating instead within economies structured by attention and influence. Critical and analytical ideas now move through platforms that reward not only rigor but also speed and visual coherence. This shift calls for a closer examination of the formats and incentives that shape contemporary intellectual production: from short-form content such as Instagram reels, which accelerate visibility and recognition, to long-form essays that sustain depth and critical engagement. Within this evolving landscape, intellectual practice becomes inseparable from mediation and exposure. How are ideas transformed by the formats through which they circulate? What happens when, in attempting to make thought legible to platform audiences, the thinker gradually becomes indistinguishable from the very structures they sought to resist: the monstrous figure produced by the platform itself?
PresentationCute Alien Liquid Intelligence vs. Frutiger Aero
Sofi Xian
Frutiger Aero continues to make its waves online. But why? We examine its relationship with an increasingly legible consumer aesthetic of the AI age: the Cute Alien Liquid Intelligence and challenge the narrative of ‘Frutiger Aero’ as ‘Gen Z nostalgia’ and as an affective collective reminder of unfulfilled promises
PresentationSlop Aesthetics
Sophie Publig
Contemporary discourse treats slop as evidence of platform decay, AI oversaturation, and the exhaustion of visual culture. This talk approaches slop as a productive aesthetic condition that drives the multiplication of fragmented subgenres. Reading slop through multiplication foregrounds emergence, mutation, and genre production as key dynamics of digital cultures.
Moving across fruit slop, weirdcore, religious slop, theoryslop, lore slop, and girlslop, the talk maps slop as a site of aesthetic differentiation. Slop aesthetics reveal how recursive media like memes and brain rot produce new formal tendencies, narrative structures, and even modes of coming-together online.
Presentation𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬, 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒™
Klaudia Orczykowska
Pop on #Adderall explores how contemporary digital culture shapes attention, affect, and self-expression amid constant connectivity and overstimulation. Moving between personal memoir, music culture, and critical theory, the presentation traces how platforms like TikTok and SoundCloud produce new forms of aesthetic circulation, identity performance, and “hyperactive” cultural production. The talk situates these dynamics within everyday media experience, asking what kinds of subjectivity and meaning emerge when life is continuously mediated through algorithmic feeds and accelerated cultural feedback loops.
17:30 -18:00 (Cinema) 🎭
PerfromanceWeaving Through Screens
Curated by Laura Mrksa and Slutty Urbanism Collective (Letizia Chiappini and Valeria Ferrari)
It is an immersive installation and live performance exploring the entanglement of rest, digital consumption, and algorithmic influence on contemporary attention. Weaving Through Screens explores such relationships, interrogating scrolling and weaving as ways to build interconnectedness, networks of care and collective responsibility. Doomscrolling is a form of productive unrest: it engages our attention and distracts us, collectively contributing to an idiotic machine learning process that feeds a chain of algorithms stored elsewhere, owned by someone else. Conversely, weaving can be seen as unproductive rest; as a manufacturing practice, it creates a tangible web that stems directly from our hands. Weaving is simultaneously producing and waiting; it is inefficient production, as it is slow, ancient and silent. While we are supposed to rest in our beds, our brains, fingers, and eyes are magnetised by devices designed for the incessant consumption and production of data. We consume content and time, rotting in bed, our brains in an endless succession of snapshots of pleasure, entangled in addictive screen behaviour.
We invite the audience to collective doomscroll and enjoy the installation. The performance is meant to delve into concepts, scroll, reflect, and rest in a space of intimacy in which the imaginarium of a bed is mobilised against the productive unrest and constant production of data. The bed is the stage on which scrolling and weaving take place. The algorithm is whispering while the screens are revealing our deepest and secret desires and addictions…
17:30 - 18:30 (Studio & Online) 🎤
PresentationINC 2.0 Updates: Enjoy Your Endings
With: Ruben Stoffelen, Mela Miekus, Tommaso Campagna, Chloë Arkenbout, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Giovanni Rossetti and Geert Lovink
Many people have asked us what is going to happen with the INC archives, and where the organization is headed in the future. In this concluding session, the current INC core team will try to answer these questions as well as we can. We will first of all give an overview of all the archiving efforts of the past 18 months regarding the Wordpress website, the move of videos from Vimeo to Internet Archive, and the preservation of the website by the Royal Library in the Hague. We will also update you all about the move to the UvA Humanities Venture Lab, early September. But even more important is the collective effort to find funding, which will be related to the outcome of the Spui25 debate and the General Assembly, which we will try to summarize.
20:30-22:00 (Studio, Cinema & Online) 🎭🔊
SessionWeaponised Media: Streaming Performances
With: Ksenia Ryback, Dasha Hetmanova, Martina Raponi, Donatella Della Ratta, Noura Tafeche, Gabriel Vigliensoni and THE VOID.
Moderated by Chloë Arkenbout
Weaponised Media: Streaming Performances brings together lecture performance, live video essay, music and live coding to experiment with different formats for thinking through media, conflict and control. Across the program, artists examine filtration, surveillance, speculative violence, image constellations and geolocated sound archives, asking how images, sounds and data can expose power, disturb dominant narratives and carry memory across unstable conditions.
↓ Talk Descriptions ↓
Lecture🎭 Politics of Filtration (Lecture Performance)
Ksenia RybackandDasha Hetmanov
In October 2023, the Russian Federation established a special border regime for Ukrainian citizens. Since then, individuals attempting to reach their hometowns in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine have only one entry point – Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow. Alongside what have become “routine” border control procedures for visitors traveling through this airport, Ukrainian citizens have to undergo a process of “filtration”, which consists of a series of invasive procedures, such as screening and extraction of their biometric and digital data, conducted by the Russian Federal Security Service. Those rendered ‘suspicious’ during this process risk facing a ban on entry for up to 50 years, resulting in a lifetime deportation from the Russian Federation, and, in turn, from their occupied hometowns. At the same time, the incorporation of filtration practices into supposedly ‘ordinary’ border control procedures has mitigated and softened the violence of Russian technologies of occupation.
This project employs animation, 3D-modeling, and zine-making to test the ways in which grassroots projects situated at the intersection of investigative practices and theoretical reflections could analyze the state’s practices of surveillance and management of life under occupation. In this project, we zoom in and out of a broader network of elements situated far beyond the airport’s interrogation rooms, concealed in the airport’s faceless corridors. Through a performative lecture, we will engage with the video work made collaboratively with a spatial researcher and architect, Natasha Pereverzina, and present the research results, published as a zine created in dialogue with an artist and graphic designer, Stefania Bodnia.
Music🔊 Fannypack Music (Music Performance)
Martina Raponi
Fannypack Music: the most resilient, flexible, portable meta-genre. Minimum Production, Maximum Mess!
Lecture🎭 School of the Image: Constellations (Live Video Essay Performance)
Donatella Della Ratta, Noura Tafeche, Daniel Leix Palumbo (Music) and THE VOID (Live Visual)
A performance lecture in two voices, School of the Image: Constellations explores how images generate meaning through the dynamic relations they establish with one another. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s notion of the constellation, the artist duo inhabits a field/counter-field structure — observing, contradicting, and completing each other — to trace how images think, remember, and connect across time, space and contexts.
Noura Tafeche’s research project is granted by the Italian Council program (14th edition, 2025) and promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Research Project Granted By
Music🔊 Field (Before and After) (Live Coding Music Performance)
Gabriel Vigliensoni
Field (Before and After) is a sound and music performance that uses geolocation coordinates from active conflict zones. Rather than retrieving sounds of war, the piece surfaces recordings of everyday life tagged to those same places in the Freesound community archive. In parallel, fragments from my own music are played, processed, and deformed in real time. These two layers unfold together: sounds from places that are closer than they seem, and a private archive coming apart. Neither narrates the other.