Welcome to the spider-web garden. Although on second thought it is very small, so maybe it’s more like an allotment or a patio or a balcony, suspended by a tight net.
Holly Zijderveld is living-and-working-together in the place typically referred to as ‘The Netherlands’, as well as on this folded up reality that we call ‘the internet’, which is living in an incredible but definite number of places. She/they are in fact, me, hey˗ˏˋ ˎˊ˗!
I am usually working on themes such as connection, synthesis, and computing. I am writing poems, publishing, editing, ink stamping, and sometimes working with textile. I am currently writing poems about our relationships with computers and each other, creating Issue 0 of Edges, doing ethnographic research for pre-school pedagogies in Mumbai, and making other zines and publications.
These themes also play into my work as a humanities research technician, where I manage two community archives (Culture Capsule and an archive for sports in Curaçao, coming soon) and produce podcasts for the Re/Presenting Europe project.
In the past, I have studied anthropology and ethnography, and conducted research about academic discourse around sex robots & open source machine knitting practice. Currently, I am reading Frank O’Hara and thinking-together about self-models. I am hoping to read Mary Shelley, and once again come back to music.
garden opening hours:
everything is mulch, the seeds are planted, but there is currently nothing concrete planned.
five most recent entries:
2026 ✪ Machine knitting, and knowing each other through (cyber)space, in Needlebound Vol. 3
2026 ✪ Wordsearch for World Telecom Day, in Orb Speaks Issue 0.5 <3
2026 ✬ Facilitating HTML day at the Internet Archive Europe (although, entirely organised by Zinzy who listed the participants here!!)
2026 ★ Cyberia Radio, as part of Fanon Radio’s 12 hour opening marathon
2026 ✪ A Eulogy for Mii, written with Tommi for Sevgi’s Resurrecting Networks workshop at the Internet Archive Europe
You can email me at hollyzijderveld [at] fastmail [dot] com. Find me on the Fediverse, at holly@pan.rent. You can also find me on are.na.
This site can be dialed on the Internet Phone Book. Dial 20!
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and so i suppose we prepare to fall into deep slumber. these pixelated versions of us fall asleep in their server-beds, as we fall asleep in ours. in my mind you don’t have a real name
as of 26 September, 2026, this website is two years, nine months, and twenty-two days old.