¿ Online language ≠ Online image ?
An afternoon with filmmakers, poets and thinkers engaging with the internet.
13:00 - 15:00 internet cinéma session
0nty reads from the forthcoming second CoreCore book, followed by collective reflection.
Work and discussion session on the new publication from Becoming Press, 'Dialogues on Internet Cinema' (2026), in which editor, thinker and filmmaker 0nty discusses some of their contributions, connecting online writing, online image and the question of an ontology for internet cinema.
The concise history of internet cinema encompasses the rise of global network culture in the 2000s, forms of popular resistance in the Middle East, spontaneous mass avant-garde montage practices (CoreCore) and artistic collectives such as Open Secret.
In this session we attempt to confront internet cinema with the boundaries of montage, image and text.
with 0nty and Becoming Press
15:00 - 17:00 writing about/with the internet
A conversation with poets and thinkers who engage with the internet. Afterwards, they read from new and old work, and from work-in-progress.
How do you write about/with the internet? How do you name something as abstract as data flowing through fibre optic cables?
With Maxime Garcia Diaz, Dominique De Groen, Zindzi Tillot Owusu, and Persis Bekkering.
about
0nty is a writer and artist. Their work is focused on the relationship between the internet and the moving image. 0nty served as chief editor for Dialogues on CoreCore & the Contemporary Online Avant-Garde (Becoming Press, 2024). Their audiovisual works have appeared in venues such as The Wrong Biennale, Forum Stadpark, Foreign Objekt, and Millennium Film Workshop. As part of the Open Secret program, their work has toured international cities including New York, London, Hong Kong and Bogotá.
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Becoming Press entered the world through the foam that forms on the surface of agitated waters, and so—thusly mirroring the birth of Venus—Becoming Press was born in Cyprus. Operated primarily by just two sailors, the way the machine manoeuvres is sporadic and unpredictable, sometimes to the point of frustration, yet the miracle is that the machine really can move. Becoming currently deals in several forms of matter: materials (books, printed matter), immaterials (essays, articles, interviews), music (albums, performances, radio shows), and film (video art, animation, cinema).
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Maxime Garcia Diaz (1993) studied Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. In 2019, she won the NK Poetry Slam. She made her debut in 2021 with Het is warm in de hivemind (It's warm in the hivemind), a collection that was received with acclaim and awarded the C. Buddingh' Prize, the prize for the best poetry debut of the year. Garcia Diaz's work has previously been published in De Revisor and Deus Ex Machina and on Samplekanon, De Internet Gids, Yes The Void and De Optimist. Garcia Diaz is Dutch and Uruguayan and lives in Amsterdam. Her new collection Het netwerk moet gebouwd worden (The network must be built) is both an autobiography and a biography of the internet, just like her, born in the 1990s.
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Dominique De Groen (1991) is a writer, visual artist and co-founder of Marktcorruptie, a label for DIY publications. She has published the poetry collections Shop Girl (2017), Sticky Drama (2019), Offerlam (2020) and Slangen (2022), which were awarded the Jan Campert Prize and the Culture Prize of the City of Ghent, among others. Her poems, fiction and essays have appeared in various magazines, both online and offline. Her novel Corpus Britney will be published in March 2026.
Zindzi Tillot Owusu (1997) lives in Brussels and studies word art. She is a member of the feminist writers' collective Hyster-X and editor at the literary platform Kluger Hans. In recent years, she has mainly worked as a poet. Nowadays, she also engages in prose, video art and performance. In addition to art and literature, she has a keen interest in social equality, video games, fashion, film, philosophy and internet culture. Her work could be described as melancholic fever dreams with sharp edges.
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Persis Bekkering (1987) is a literary critic for NRC Handelsblad and writes columns, prose and essays for De Gids, Mister Motley and De Nederlandse Boekengids, among others. In 2018, she made her debut with the novel Een heldenleven (shortlisted for the ANV Debutantenprijs).
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