What was that! WOW! The first Hype Studies Conference is now a precious memory... and the beginning of something beautiful!

We had 400 registered participants, 80 presentations in 20 panels, 15 workshops, 8 artworks, and 5 short films. Summarising the diversity and quality of contributions is impossible, but it was just beautiful how young and old, local and international and all these different disciplines intersected:
STS scholars met journalists met psychologists met designers, artists teamed up with engineers, discussing topics from music industry to computer games, from AI to quantum, from Cyberlibertarianism to K-POP Fandom, from shitpublishing to dropping saliva, from TEDIUM to smoke vending machine.

It became apparent that Hype Studies is rich, colorful - and needed. It grows and thrives on interdisciplinary engagement with exchange of topics, perspectives and people from all around the world. And WHAT a beautiful spirit of curiousity, peer-support and fun!

All in all, the whole conference was one of its kind. DIY, Interactive and most of all - rich in participation both in quality and quantity. We are very happy to be part of such an engaging and inspiring community and very grateful for manifesting this thing with you.

AND THIS IS JUST THE START: The pipeline is pumped up with juicy events and actions. We are recovering our energies to be back with a blogpost series, a participant feedback-report, strategic restructuring, the start of a documentary, conference visits, a hype literacy tool for journalists and what not?!

Stay tuned. Hypestudies is on fire. In the wonderful Dadaist prose of H.P. Baxxter: we feel HYPER HYPER!