For Love of the World Festival: Claiming the Story

Programme

Programme Update: Festival’s Speakers Announced on external page of Studium Generale TU Delft. 

Imagination, sustainability, language, and technology are just a few of the topics covered by the talented artists, musicians, and presenters at the For Love of the World Festival.

Dr. John Bosco Conama, Director of the Centre for Deaf Studies and a keynote speaker, will discuss the difficulties of Irish Sign Language and linguistic imperialism. Author and researcher Shivant Jhagroe, who is also a keynote speaker, argues for an “eco-just society” and criticises sustainability as a “green pacifier” that impedes fair and dramatic systemic transformation.

Madelaine Ley, a spiritual environmentalist and philosopher, is leading a meditation on silence, and Joost Vervoort, who studies how social infrastructures might sustain mystery and imagination, is another important contributor.

In their interactive performance titled “The Pen Test,” artists Jesse Allison, Derick Ostrenko, and Vincent Cellucci cast doubt on the efficacy of massive language models. Futures scholar Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes investigates the use of artificial intelligence in safeguarding traditional wisdom and other alternate timelines.

n collaboration with the architecture student association Argus, Tess Wilschut and Zuzanna Jastrzebska created The Tripod, a large-scale installation that is a unique addition to the festival. With its Y-shaped construction and 800 cardboard rings, this exhibit divides the human experience into three primary domains: the natural world, human society, and the metaphysical. The video installation NATURA by Floris Schönfeld, talks about artificial intelligence as a new kind of intelligence by TU Delft researcher Yke Bauke Eijsma, and Julia Luteijn’s AI-generated poetry project Kilo-Girls, which investigates biases in computational creativity, are just a few of the thought-provoking works featured in each section.