Watch the keynote live, on April 14th, 10:15am-12pm (EST), here
Watch JENNICAM@THEVOID live, on April 14th, 1pm-5pm (EST), here
April 14th, 2026, will mark 30 years since Jennifer Ringley, then a college student, mounted a digital camera on top of her computer in her dorm room and began streaming online. Ringley’s webcam, known as JenniCam, transmitted nearly uninterrupted for seven years, becoming the most enduring webcam performance of the early Internet. Despite not being recognized as a pioneer during her time, Jennifer Ringley made Internet history by pioneering live self-streaming.
The event/s will be streamed live [April 14th, 10:15am-12pm and 1pm-5pm (EST)] here, on this website


Thirty years later, on April 14th, 2026, we will commemorate JenniCam’s anniversary with a day-long event about and through live streaming practices.
PROGRAM
Morning –
10:15am: 4th Space, Concordia (LB-103)
JenniCam in Context: Keynote lecture by Susanna Paasonen (online), plus an in-situ conversation.
Afternoon –
1pm: Speculative Life Cluster (EV-10.625), Milieux, Concordia
A pop-up live TV studio transmission hosted in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures.
Presentations and in-situ conversations include:
- Geert Lovink (online) on the lives of the online self
- Tommaso Campagna on live streaming as a form of publishing (TheVoid.TV); ;
- Seska Lee on camming and the construction of liveness;
- Lotte de Jong (online) on webcam and art.
- Mark Sussman on pandemic object theatre.
- A live-coding performance!
Presenters
Susanna Paasonen
Susanna Paasonen is professor of media studies at University of Turku, Finland, and most recently the coauthor of Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter (with Jenny Sundén and Katrin Tiidenberg, MIT Press 2026).
Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Sad by Design (2019), Stuck on the Platform (2022) and Platform Brutality (2025). In 2004 he started the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), which will become independent in September 2026 after his (forced) retirement. He’s part of support campaigns for Ukranian artists, in particular UKRAiNATV and the StreamArtNetwork that grew out of the distributed live webcasting experiments.
Tommaso Campagna
Tommaso Campagna is a visual artist, researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) and co-founder of the a/v research platform THE VOID. His practice spans documentary, curatorial projects, and academic contributions on video as a medium for critical inquiry and publishing experimentation. His work has been presented at Locarno Film Festival (CH), Roma Euoropa Festival (IT), Medialab Matadero (ES), among others.
Seska Lee
Seska Lee is a Canadian content creator, performer, writer, and sex work advocate with over 25 years of experience in digital media and online entertainment. An XBIZ Creator Award nominated cam performer and industry pioneer, she writes and speaks on destigmatization, decriminalization, and sex workers’ rights in Canada, and has been featured in publications, on stage, and in media including HBO and CBC Radio.
Lotte de Jong
Lotte Louise de Jong is a new media artist with a background in filmmaking. Her work spans film, installation and online spaces, exploring how digital culture and the economy shape identity, intimacy and desire. She is interested in how these experiences are mediated, staged and commodified through screens, and how underlying social, cultural and economic structures influence our daily lives. Growing up in an environment of homemade computers and early internet culture, she developed a familiarity with digital spaces that continues to inform her practice. Drawing on online culture, early net art and the hidden infrastructures of digital networks, she uses humor, empathy and nuance to create spaces where curiosity replaces moral judgment. By developing her own tools and working across both digital and physical spaces, she makes visible the often concealed mechanisms of mediated life, inviting audiences to reflect on their own participation without moralism or dogma.
She holds a Master’s degree from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy at DogTime, and in 2025 received the Mondriaan Fund artist basic grant. Her projects have also been supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. In 2026 she will begin a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
Mark Sussman
Mark Sussman is a theatre artist and Performance Studies scholar working on the animation of public space, material dramaturgies, puppetry and object performance, and the integration of old and new technologies. He earned MA and PhD degrees from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, receiving the Michael Kirby Memorial Award for his doctoral dissertation on 18th and 19th Century stagings of the new technology of electricity.
Uandha Fernandes Barbosa + Aalok Sud + Tara Halkiw
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**Snacks, beverages, and music will be provided.**

This event would not be possible without the generous and enthusiastic support of
the Digital intimacy, Gender & Sexuality Lab (DIGS), Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Speculative Life-Machine Agencies, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC), COMS Concordia, Institute of Network Cultures, Potential Lab for Art, Sound, and Music (PLASM)




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