EventsThe New Social Environment#1361

Tromarama: Upon a Machine

Featuring Febie Babyrose, Herbert Hans, Ruddy Hatumena, and Stefanie Hessler

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 11 a.m. Eastern / 8 a.m. Pacific

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Artists Febie Babyrose, Herbert Hans, and Ruddy Hatumena from the Indonesian art collective Tromarama join curator Stefanie Hessler for a conversation on Zoom at a special time of 11am ET. 

Tromarama

A photo of Tromarama on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Tromarama is an artist collective based in Indonesia, founded by Febie Babyrose, Herbert Hans, and Ruddy Hatumena in 2006. Their work explores the connections between technology, society, and everyday routines. Using video, installations, and interventions with everyday objects, their projects often examine the blurred line between labor and leisure within online platforms. They are interested in how digital platforms reshape social behaviors and economic practices, while revealing the tensions and contradictions within this evolving landscape. They live and work between Bandung and Jakarta.

Stefanie Hessler

A photo of Stefanie Hessler on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Photo by: Lila Barth

Stefanie Hessler is a curator and writer, and the Director of Swiss Institute (SI) New York. Her curatorial practice centers artists and ideas through new commissions, transdisciplinary collaborations, and experimental formats often focusing on ecological and technological urgencies. At SI, Hessler curated acclaimed solo exhibitions by Saodat Ismailova, Raven Chacon, and Ali Cherri, as well as the East Village-wide exhibition “Energies.” Hessler's recent and forthcoming exhibitions include the Counterpublic Triennial, St. Louis; the Finnish Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale; “Sex Ecologies,” among others. Hessler holds a PhD from the University of Westminster, London. She is the author of Prospecting Ocean (MIT Press) and has edited over a dozen volumes.

 

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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