For Love of the World Festival: Claiming the Story

Programme

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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, will explain how Irish Sign Language is marginalized through linguistic imperialism. Author and researcher Shivant Jhagroe argues for an “eco-just society” and criticizes sustainability as a “green pacifier” that impedes fair and dramatic systemic transformation. TU Delft researcher, designer and artist Grace Turtle explores how processes of disidentification can transform algorithmic modelling to better reflect complex, interdependent life worlds.

Madelaine Ley, a spiritual environmentalist and philosopher, will lead a meditation on silence. Joost Vervoort, with the help of meditation teacher Rosa Lewis, will guide everyone in a process developed to get people in touch with a kind of spiritual inner wildness.

In collaboration with the architecture student association Argus, Tess Wilschut and Zuzanna Jastrzebska have built The Tripod, a large-scale installation, especially for 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*Body by Floris Schönfeld uses techniques from special effects in film to suggest a new morphogenesis, one in which the digital and natural become indistinguishable. AICON and the Feminist Generative AI Lab present Julia Luteijn’s artwork ‘Kilo-girls’: a collection of computer-generated poems that reflect programmed gender biases, while paradoxically reminding us of women’s historical role in computing. Visitors can talk to a spiritual chatbot created by Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes and learn about the use of artificial intelligence in safeguarding traditional wisdom and other alternate timelines. 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.

Made by students

Like last year, several student clubs and associations are bringing unique perspectives, art, and activities to the festival. Expect debates, language games, student made art, and poetry readings by VOX, the Debating Club, and Hesiodos. The student-run initiative Kaleidos will provide a space that challenges you to turn the constraints language gives us inside out. Explore with your hands, by doing and making.