During this event we’ll be joined by eight researchers, artists, designers, and makers who will take us through their digital worlds and their intersections and interactions with internet culture.
We’re excited to have philosopher of science, educator and researcher Sabine Winters helping us put together a powerful program for this night. Sabine is the founder of Future Based, interdisciplinary philosophy foundation and the cultural programmer at De Lindenberg Kunst en Technologie. She is currently conducting research as a PhD candidate at the Freudenthal Institute at Utrecht University on the role of imagination in space science.
Can’t join us in person in Nijmegen? Or just want to watch from the comfort of your laptop or phone? All of our events are hybrid so you can also buy a ticket to join The Hmm @ Extrapool online via our livestream website.
🤸 More speakers to be announced soon!
🗓 Date: Thursday 4 April 2024
📍 Location: Extrapool, Tweede Walstraat 5, 6511 LN Nijmegen
♿️ Accessibility Note
During the event we can provide live closed captioning for those with hearing impairment. Please reach out to us if you are joining onsite and have this access need, so we can reserve a seat for you within view of the screen with captions. If you are joining online via our livestream, live captioning will be available as one of the streaming modes.
Extrapool has a portable ramp to provide wheelchair users access to their venue. Their gender-neutral toilets unfortunately are not wheelchair accessible.
Daniela de Paulis is a former contemporary dancer, media artist, and licensed radio operator. Her artistic practice is informed by Space in its widest meaning. Since 2009 she has been implementing radio technologies and philosophies in her art projects. In 2009 she developed the Visual Moonbounce technology in collaboration with international radio operators, and since then she has been working on innovative projects combining radio technologies with live performance art and neuroscience. She joins us to talk about her project A Sign in Space. Link
Frankly Collective
How can we confidently exist as human natives in a systematic digital world? Interdisciplinary storytellers Frankly Collective explores what it means to feel in-between digital and physical space. With their project Post Unicode, they deconstruct the general set of Unicode, which falls between written and visual and physical and digital language, into something messy, human, emotional, and personal. Link
Merel van Slobbe
The moon shines brighter in the metaverse. At least according to Merel’s debut poetry collection of the same name (De maan schijnt feller in de metaverse). Merel van Slobbe is a Dutch writer, who traverses the genres of poetry, essay and prose to explore the internet, intimacy, technology and mysticism. Link
Laura Splan
Laura Splan is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of Science, Technology and Culture. Her recent artworks and exhibitions interrogate technologically mediated relationships to the natural world. Software interfaces, twitter hashtags, weather data, protein databases and death statistics serve as vibrant materialities to explore interconnectedness in the posthuman landscape. Link
Cristina Zaga
How are current narratives shaping the way we design technology? Dr. ir. Cristina is an assistant professor of the Human-Centred Design group and DesignLab at the University of Twente. Her research aims to foster justice, care, and solidarity, with a focus on health care and technology. Cristina also leads the Social Justice and AI networks, working towards mitigating the dehumanising effects of AI. With her project ‘Lekker Résistance: Becoming Partisans to Fight for Socio-Technical Futures Worth Wanting’, she will introduce the audience to futuring and critical design approaches to socio-technical design, using #corecore coded examples. Link
Jesse van den Berg
Jesse van den Berg is an artist who researches queer representation with a focus on intimacy. Their work is an ongoing exploration of queerness around them and within themselves. They look for ways to express their vision and that of collaborators through lens-based media where vulnerability and celebration play important roles. It’s crucial for Jesse to stay aware of the power a camera can hold and how this affects the interaction between ‘the model’ and ‘the maker’. Link
Sarah Chefka
Sarah Chekfa’s work has appeared in Flash Art, Do Not Research, The Drunken Canal, Are.na Annual, The HTML Review, The New York Review of Architecture, and Vogue, amongst other publications. With her presentation she will attempt to answer the question: what is it about candy that makes people think of AI girls? Link
Niels Gräber
Niels Gräber is an artist & maker studying at the department of Design Art Technology at ArtEZ. He is interested in interfaces, relations between the on- and offline, “non-moving nature” and friction in tech, amongst many other things. Spending an average of two hours a day on YouTube, for which he bought a Premium subscription, Niels has a complicated relation with the platform that he’ll dissect during his presentation.
