{"id":1688,"date":"2022-12-01T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2022.uroboros.design\/?post_type=events&p=1688"},"modified":"2025-04-04T19:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:10:14","slug":"shedding-the-skin-with-feral-synthetic-creatures","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/2022.uroboros.design\/cs\/events\/shedding-the-skin-with-feral-synthetic-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Shedding the Skin with Feral & Synthetic Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shedding the Skin with Feral and Synthetic Creatures<\/strong> is a two-day symposium featuring artist talks, workshops, performances, and an exhibition exploring possible ways of designing with \/ for change.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playing with tensions and connections between the feral<\/em> and the synthetic<\/em>, the block-chained<\/em> and the un\/bound<\/em>, the premeditated<\/em> and the unconscious<\/em>, this event brings together creative practitioners across various eco-socially focused projects to share their transformational methods, approaches, and reflections. The program presents co-creative experiments with feral care, synthetic sensing, algorithmic mysticism, and ocean literacy offered as a 2-days flow of workshops, talks, sharing circles, films, and an exhibition. The daylight program is accompanied by a convivial nocturnal encounter to celebrate the coming hibernal solstice, inviting all present creatures to become feral, synthetic, and everything in-between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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The event is set up as a collaboration between the .zip and Uroboros collectives and the CreaTures EU project and is conceived as a continuation of the Uroboros 2022 festival program that took place in Prague earlier this year. This time, the program brings together Rotterdam-based artists and initiatives exploring embodied, technological and otherwise situated experiencing of eco-social change. Uroboros is an annual multi-species gathering of creative practitioners using diverse and diversely situated ways of knowing and doing to reflect on contemporary social and environmental troubles. .zip is an artist-run project space based in Rotterdam Noord. Shaped as an interdisciplinary testing lab, .zip explores the roles of facilitation and fabrication within our digital society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Join us on the pre-solstice weekend of 17th – 18th December in the .zip space <\/a>\u2013 1e Pijnackerstraat 75 3035 GN Rotterdam<\/a> \/\/ Free entry \/\/ Details below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TIME TABLE (descriptions underneath time table)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


SATURDAY<\/strong> | Shedding the Skin with Feral creatures
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12:00 \u2013 12:30 Introduction to Shedding the Skin<\/strong>
By Erik Peters & Mark\u00e9ta Dolej\u0161ov\u00e1\u00a0
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12:30 \u2013 14:30 Feral Gifts, Creatures, Care\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>
Artist talk + exhibition\u00a0by Mark\u00e9ta Dolej\u0161ov\u00e1<\/a><\/em><\/em> and <\/em>Jaz Hee-jeong Choi<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A leap into feral ways of knowing, doing, and becoming eco-social change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


14:30 \u2013 15:00 SHEDDING BREAK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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15:00 \u2013 16:00  How to do a Z\u00f6operation
<\/strong>Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Het Nieuwe Instituut<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zo\u00f6peration (or Zo\u00f6p, in short) is a cooperation with zo\u00eb (Greek for \u2018life\u2019). Zo\u00f6p is an organization model for collaboration between humans and other-than-human life, that serves the interests of all life. The Zo\u00f6p model makes the interests of other-than-human life part of the decision making of an organization. In principle, any organization can adopt the Zo\u00f6p model. Zo\u00f6p is a governance practice, a learning process and a basis for collaboration between different organizations. Zo\u00f6ps work on the constant improvement of their ecological integrity. Their aim is to become symbiotic with the ecosystems they participate in. Together they work on the fostering of a regenerative economy (or zo\u00f6nomy), an economy that supports all life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:30 \u2013 17:30 Liminal synthesis
<\/strong>By Victor Evink, Emilia Tapprest and Camilo Garcia \u00c1., Liminal Vision<\/em>

What do incense clocks, symbolic archetypes and technoecologies of sensation have to do with each other? Victor Evink and Emilia Tapprest (Liminal Vision) will talk about their creative shift from a focus on prototyping near-future worlds towards inner paradigms and ways to transcend them, illustrated by two films presented as part of Hybrid Landscapes: ‚Embodied Ambitopias‘ (2021) and ‚Scent of Time‘ (2022). After the break, Sxmbra (Victor Evink), will build on themes of the talk with a soundcollage DJ performance exploring an inner journey between these different worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:30 \u2013 19:00 A drop is not a river<\/strong>
By Yannik G\u00fcldner, Anne Vera Veen and Leon Lapa Pereira<\/em>, Wasteland<\/em>

Wasteland will give a short presentation of its organization and curatorial framework of streams followed by a short workshop on the subjectivity of waste and its applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOCTURNAL ENCOUNTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19:00 \u2013 00:00 Drinks and music<\/strong>
Line-up: S X M B R A, Kaarst, So… Much\u2026 Emotions\u2026
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SUNDAY<\/strong> | Shedding the Skin with Synthetic creatures <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

12:00 \u2013 14:00 Sensing the Synthetic \u2013 Experimental Visualisation Session<\/a><\/strong>
<\/strong>Group experience led by Lenka H\u00e1mo\u0161ov\u00e1, Uroboros<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What role do embodiment and emotions play in human-AI co-creation? How can we make the most of our physical selves during AI-media synthesis? Join us for a short talk by Lenka, who will present the latest research from the Uroboros Loops: Sensing the Synthetic program. Afterwards, she will guide us through an experimental visualization session where we’ll collectively explore the negotiation between human bodies and AI algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:00 \u2013 15:30 Poetic AI <\/strong>(online)
By Kwan Suppaiboonsuk and Abdo Hassan<\/em>, AIxDesign<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Poetic AI workshop is an invitation to create new worlds with AI, exploring alternate human-machine choreographies. Poetry is an essential artform, with its urgency extending to spaces of reclamation, self expression and explorative imagination. During the workshop, we will invite participants to collaborate with a generative machine learning model to write a poem. Instead of taking the outputs of the AI for granted, we will be in conversation with them; exposing their bias at times, and provoking them at times. The result of the collaboration will then be fed to text-to-image model, which will then give us a chance to animate the textual worlds in visual ones.

15:30 \u2013 16:00 SHEDDING BREAK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:00 \u2013 17:00 Love your Journey, bestie<\/strong>
By Derk Over, `Queer Arcana<\/em>

17:00 \u2013 19:00 Blockchain chaos<\/strong>
By Michal Ku\u010der\u00e1k<\/em>, Uroboros

During the session, we will focus on blockchain narratives and explore what ideas and inspiration they can offer for transformative design and artistic practice. We will approach the \u2013 seemingly contrasting \u2013 concepts of community building, algorithmic mysticism and techno-solutionism to look at creative art worlds from the perspective of decentralized thinking and action. The session will be followed by a co-creative exercise using the lense of blockchain narratives to think with ocean ecosystems.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19:00 \u2013 20:30 Open Feedback Loops<\/strong>
By Erik Peters<\/em>, .zip<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open feedback loops is kind of like an open mic night x elevator pitch. During this session we will create space to present each other with (un)finished projects, ideas or research trajectories we are or will be working on. Anyone is invited to present their idea in under 5 minutes, followed by a small open feedback loop with the audience. Need any feedback, suggestions or new collaborators? This is the moment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EXPO and FILM PROGRAM
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Ongoing
Hybrid Landscapes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With contributions from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lance Laoyan, Cyanne van der Houten, Ymer Marinus, Martyna Miller, Deborah Morah, Roos Groothuizen, Liminal Vision, The Feral Gift, Bianca Carague and Erik Peters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EVENTS DESCRIPTIONS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Feral Gifts, Creatures, Care\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>
Artist talk +<\/em> exhibition\u00a0by Mark\u00e9ta Dolej\u0161ov\u00e1<\/a><\/em><\/em> and <\/em>Jaz Hee-jeong Choi<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A co-creative experiment in feral ways of understanding, doing, and becoming an eco-social change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walkthrough Hybrid Landscapes<\/strong>
Guided walk through the exhibition (details below) by Erik Peters<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Liminal Synthesis
<\/strong>By Victor Evink and Emilia Tapprest \/\/ Liminal Vision<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do incense clocks, symbolic archetypes and technoecologies of sensation have to do with each other? Victor Evink and Emilia Tapprest (Liminal Vision) will talk about their creative shift from a focus on prototyping near-future worlds towards inner paradigms and ways to transcend them, illustrated by two films presented as part of the ongoing film program: ‚Embodied Ambitopias‘ (2021) and ‚Scent of Time‘ (2022). After the break, Sxmbra (Victor Evink), will build on themes of the talk with a soundcollage DJ performance exploring an inner journey between these different worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A drop is not a river<\/strong>
By Yannik G\u00fcldner, Anne Vera Veen and Leon Lapa Pereira \/\/ Wasteland<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wasteland will give a short presentation of its organization and curatorial framework of streams followed by a short workshop on the subjectivity of waste and its applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sensing the Synthetic \u2013 Experimental Visualisation Session<\/a><\/strong>
Group experience led by Lenka H\u00e1mo\u0161ov\u00e1<\/em><\/em> <\/em>\/\/ Uroboros <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What role do embodiment and emotions play in human-AI co-creation? How can we make the most of our physical selves during AI-media synthesis? Join us for a short talk by Lenka, who will present the latest research from the Uroboros Loops: Sensing the Synthetic program. Afterwards, she will guide us through an experimental visualization session where we’ll collectively explore the negotiation between human bodies and AI algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poetic AI <\/strong>(online)
By Kwan Suppaiboonsuk and Abdo Hassan<\/em> \/\/ AIxDesign<\/a><\/em>

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Love your Journey, bestie<\/strong>
By Derk Over \/\/ Queer Arcana<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blockchain chaos<\/strong>
By Michal Ku\u010der\u00e1k \/\/ Uroboros<\/em>
During the session, we will focus on blockchain narratives and explore what ideas and inspiration they can offer for transformative design and artistic practice. We will approach the \u2013 seemingly contrasting \u2013 concepts of community building, algorithmic mysticism and techno-solutionism to look at creative art worlds from the perspective of decentralized thinking and action. The session will be followed by a co-creative exercise using the lense of blockchain narratives to think with ocean ecosystems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open Feedback Loops<\/strong>
By Erik Peters<\/a><\/em> \/\/ .zip<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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