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Technology

AI, biotechnology, information technology and neurosciences have become part of our lives. Technology is taking over the world. In this series you can find projects that try to comprehend what technological developments mean for art and humanity.
AI, biotechnology, information technology and neurosciences have become part of our lives. Technology is taking over the world. In this series you can find projects that try to comprehend what technological developments mean for art and humanity.

In Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley in 1818 already describes the currently relevant collision between curiosity and the idea of progress, and the deep-rooted fear of technological advancement. In 2018 we organized together with Museum Twenthe the Frankenstein Festival with workshops, lectures, performances, presentations.

Video recordings

Video recordings were made of this event, so you can watch the lectures and workshops below. The one-day event is part of a series that ArtEZ Studium Generale programmed between 2011 and 2018.

The guests:

Peter-Paul Verbeek, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Pinar & Viola, Michel van der Aa, Anouk Wipprecht, Kris Verdonck, Andros Zins-Browne, Jonathan Reus, Marloeke van der Vlugt, Judith van der Elst, Joris Weijdom, Tin Men & the Telephone, Chagall, Peter van Bergen, Johan van der Kreij, Amalia Kallergi, Karien Vermeulen, CREW, Maya van Leemput, Derya Zenginoglu, Jeroen van der Meij, Juha van ‘t Zelfde, Saar Slegers, Elize de Mul, Sander Veenhof, Jacintha Lucia Scheerder, Frank van der Weij, Oscar Kocken, Saar Slegers, Sander Veenhof, Arie Altena and many others.
video – 06 nov. 2015

Joris Weijdom: Het theater van de toekomst

Het theater van de toekomst, een lezing van Joris Weijdom. Joris Weijdom is onderzoeker, 3D-computeranimator en hoofd onderzoeksgroep Virtueel Theater bij onderzoekscentrum Theatrale Maakprocessen.

video – 06 nov. 2015

Pinar & Viola: future scenarios, image making and political engagement

Pınar & Viola (Pınar Demirdağ and Viola Renate) is an independent graphic design duo who make cutting-edge contemporary images which set the fashion of today’s visuals. They create custom-tailored highly aesthetic visual narratives that are timeless for their socially relevant conceptual content.

video – 06 nov. 2015

Lezing van Juha van ’t Zelfde: Dread – The dizziness of freedom

Lecture: Dread – The dizziness of freedom van Juha van ‘t Zelfde (DJ/promoter/writer/curator). A personal anthology of artists whose work looks critically at the consequences of technological advancement.

video – 06 nov. 2015

Saar Slegers met column “Het reddende varken”

Het reddende varken, column door Saar Slegers (antropoloog / redactie De Volmaakte Mens), in het kader van het Frankenstein Festival op 6 november 2015 in Enschede.

video – 06 nov. 2015

Jacintha Lucia Scheerder: lezing “2050”

Deze lezing laat zien hoe onze wereld er in 2050 uit zou kunnen zien. En wat dit mogelijk betekent voor de mensheid en het mens-zijn.

video – 06 nov. 2015

Peter-Paul Verbeek & Yvonne Droge Wendel: Human Things

Analysis by Peter-Paul Verbeek (philosopher) of the relationship between humans and objects, followed by a demonstration of the relation that objects and humans have by artist Yvonne Droge Wendel.

video – 06 nov. 2015

Maya van Leemput (futurist), lezing: Technologische mutatie

Technologieën worden verheerlijkt en verguisd, ze maken het leven zoals we dat vandaag leven, mogelijk en tegelijk haast onmogelijk.

video – 06 nov. 2015

Performance by Chagall

Vocalist, songwriter and electronic music producer Chagall, member of the mi.mu team demonstrates at Frankenstein Festival, on humans and technology, on the 6th November 2015 in Enschede.

agenda

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one day festival

Frankenstein Festival

A three-day festival on man and art in a technological future

06 nov. 2015
Enschede