11:00 - 11:30, de Brakke Grond
With Lou Drago

Artist Lou Drago believes in the transformative potential of sound and the importance of deep listening. Whether that is listening to each other, our needs or to the sounds around us. Working across various mediums, they draw connections between the healing potential of sound, the necessity for collectivity and solidarity during neoliberal times, queer-feminisms, and meditation and related theories. Drago will be joining a panel discussion during the context program. They will also host a guided (sound) meditation/visualisation exercise during the morning.

Please be on time. No entry to the meditation after the meditation has started.

11:45 - 12:30, de Brakke Grond
Guest: Dr. Ramon Amaro

In this conversation, we will explore the complex relationship between race and machine learning and offer counter-strategies to current extractive AI systems and the culture(s) they originate from. Dr. Ramon Amaro will discuss his recent book The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being (Sternberg, 2023) where he contemplates the abstruse nature of programming and mathematics and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy. From there, he will extrapolate the alternative futures of generative AI and imagine speculative approaches to contemporary algorithmic practices. To this end, we can ask: How can we move towards a more generative way of living — with each other and productive technologies?

13:15 - 14:25, de Brakke Grond
Guests: Diana Neranti & Jonathan Chaim Reus

Technological capabilities, mostly accelerated by machine learning and AI applications, have made it possible to analyse, simulate, and recombine body-based creation processes. This has led to an explosion of AI content – from rapidly generated films, videos, and music – with the use of black-boxed, style-transfer software. As a counter-reaction to an overload of generic images, several artists are experimenting and performing with AI and the various aspects of the body. We are working from different kinds of knowledge systems and forms of collaboration, where ownership and sharing of datasets and AI technologies is an important given.

14:45 - 15:15, de Brakke Grond

More information will follow soon

15:15 - 16:15, de Brakke Grond
Guests: Libby Heaney & Miha Turšič (More-than-Planet Project)

Is it really possible that we exist in multiple forms in different worlds? What does outer space teach us about our bodies and behaviour? There are physics theories that leave room for this thinking at the quantum level. In these, bodies are at the same time, in different worlds and states. While there’s no proof (yet) of the existence of multiple realities, we can learn a lot about our potential alien relationship with outer space and the quantum level. It challenges one to review the Western-based frameworks of (biological) identities, moving towards new fluid and queer cultures for the 21st century. In this session, we look at how artists and researchers work with scientific research and imagine possible realities.

16:30 - 18:00, de Brakke Grond
Guests: Lou Drago & Camille Barton

With an ever-accelerating technological society, political and economic inequality and the extraction of value through (hidden) labour, bodies and senses are under constant pressure. In this panel, we examine how artists, musicians, and activists are practising the creation of temporary spaces of resistance, escape, and personal care. What artistic and embodied ways are there to deal with the asymmetric powers that impact, and hurt, various bodies? Is it possible to practise new forms of collectivity for sharing healing experiences? What role do embodied practices, sound and mind-expanded resources play in the creation of these spaces?

Our guests will introduce you into their work, and offer different insights in artistic strategies and opportunities for collective listening, feeling, and healing.