I will be giving a presentation on my research in combining body percussion and live-electronics and performing my new piece for the same, “Body, bend” at Stroom Den Haag — both on 12th December, 2025.
RSVP Link: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/day-2-universal-language-i-human-computer-interaction-tickets-1974970713569?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
From the website:
Human-Computer Interaction marks the start of the annual Universal Language programme, part of Stroom's multi-year Entangled Codes programme line , which explores the role of contemporary technology in relation to public space and social life.
During a two-day program—supplemented by online events and resources—artists, scientists, researchers, and creatives will explore some of the histories of electronic and digital systems that emerged outside the perceived center of the 20th century. They will do so in relation to contemporary forms of creative computational practices.
By pointing to the many alternative mathematical forms, theories, and digital infrastructures that already exist, albeit often in latent form, the speakers—Aslı Nur Mahmutoğlu, Evelyn Wan, Gary Stewart, Kathleen Ditzig, Nyokabi Kariũki, and Rodrigo Ochigame—show how limited and arbitrary current technological means and research methods actually are.
Simultaneously, the program emphasizes the crucial role of art and poetry in developing digital systems that respond to social and ecological life. Moreover, it also challenges the idea that these systems have inevitable, fixed frameworks—anchored in the dichotomy of code and data, and driven by beliefs in absolute certainty and unbridled growth.
From the website:
Overview
Human-Computer Interaction is a two day gathering marking the start of the annual Universal Language programme, part of Stroom's multi-year Entangled Codes programme line , which explores the role of contemporary technology in relation to public space and social life.
Day 2: Patterned Behavior
The second day of Universal Language I focuses on the Language of mathematics, movement, and how visual memory fold together in contributions that speculate on meaning-making’s many forms. Cybernetic systems conveyed through futurist art in South-East Asia join with space-time collapsing records of rhythm keeping over centuries throughout the African Continent, and nodes that synthesize a language in latency offer a model to view language development in both living beings and A.I. that is multidimensional and constantly in change.
During the day, presentations by Nyokabi Kariũki, Kathleen Ditzig, and Aslı Nur Mahmutoğlu are followed by a second all-group discussion. In the evening, Kariũki performs Body, Bend, the new solo composition by the musician exploring memory and knowledge through “embodied percussion.”
RSVP Day 2: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/day-2-universal-language-i-human-computer-interaction-tickets-1974970713569?aff=ebdsoporgprofile