Conflux Festival
Amid ongoing and expanding conflicts between humans, nature, and machines, Conflux Festival once again aims to serve as a platform for envisioning new models of coexistence and synergy. It seeks to develop symbiotic techno-natural ecosystems that respect diverse modes of understanding and critically engage in conversations about them.
Conflux Festival 2024’s conference programme gathers thinkers, theorists, artists, and performers from the festival to reflect on the theme of Symbiotic Realities. With a special focus on the interconnected nature of perception and reality, the conference presents alternate ways of understanding our diverse and interdependent world, highlighting the symbiotic relationships between humans, machines, plants, and animals. Along with the academic speakers Bogna Konior, Thomas Moynihan and Tessa Verhoef, there will be artist talks by Lavender Suarez, Heleen Blanken and Zalán Szakács.
The one-day conference programme will be happening on Saturday 21 September at Debatpodium Arminius.
11:30 – 12:00 doors open
12:00 – 12:30 Introduction Eric Parren / Cecile van Bruggen
12:30 – 13:00 artist talk: Heleen Blanken
13:00 – 14:00 Bogna Konior
14:00 – 15:00 Tessa Verhoef
15:00 – 15:30 break
15:30 – 16:00 artist talk: Zalán Szakács
16:00 – 17:00 Thomas Moynihan
17:00 – 17:30 artist talk: C. Lavender
More information about the conference programme and its speakers