Just a few tickets left! Join us this Saturday 28 March at Gait Glitch: A workshop on resisting surveillance technologies, 14.00 – 17.00 CET at The Hmm's studio.

In an era when technology is increasingly being used to classify, order, and analyse the body, can we become unpredictable beings together? This workshop, initiated by artist, researcher, and educator Soyun Park, explores how collective playfulness can exceed algorithmic legibility, proposing as a shared political and poetic gesture.

By making playful movement scores together, participants will be able to experiment with confusing pattern recognition and algorithmic systems. This workshop invites participants to join as co-researchers and collectively explore how bodies can become unpredictable in spaces shaped by surveillance. .

During Gait Glitch:
🫥 Soyun Park shares her research on surveillance algorithms
🫥 Digital artist and researcher Ruben van de Ven shares his research on surveillance algorithms that order human gait and gestures, and on the reciprocal relation between the algorithm and the individual
🫥 Dancer and choreographer Olympia Kotopoulos guides us through a series of movement exercises. Beginning with a simple awareness of “normal” walking, we break gait down into elements such as stride, tempo, posture, and rhythm, exaggerating or disrupting them to reveal how easily movement becomes standardised.

At the end of the workshop, we will collectively travel to the Beurs van Berlage public square in Amsterdam, which has a live webcam, to activate these scores, liberating our bodies from normalcy and turning collective weirdness into a joyful gesture of resistance. 

Check out more about the program via our website.

Stuff you should know

📅 Date: Saturday 28 March 2026
🕗 Times: 14.00 - 17.00 CET
📍 Location: The Hmm's studio, NDSM-plein 125, 1033 WC Amsterdam
🎟 Tickets: €5, limited spots available

You can find information about physical accessibility at The Hmm’s studio here.

The Hmm experiments…

This event is part of a series of programs the we are developing with The Hmm, where we give space in our studio for our community to explore new ideas and experiment with workshops as part of our public program. Let us know if you have an experiment you would like to share as part of this series. The series is kindly supported by the Creative Industry Fund. 

Open call  — What Was I Looking At Again? Deadline: 29 March

With our 2026 year theme What Was I Looking At Again?, we explore the dizzying, effects of online experiences. Through this open call, we invite critical and playful reflections on making meaning in the flood of online slop, escaping platforms, and navigating the new age of orality emerging through viral short-form video.

Read more about our year theme here.
Or submit your idea via this link.