TecTalk - A kaleidoscopic deep dive into artistic crossover praxis

Frederik De Wilde introduces and screens recent work, talks about EU/(S+T)*ARTS projects and explains about his method, concept, technology, speculative vs science fiction etc.

Thursday October 3 - starts 19:00 sharp, doors open / coffee 18:30
The Meetup is free, English spoken, with Q&A.

Frederik De Wilde’s artistic praxis situates itself on the interstice of art, science and technology exploring notions of the inaudible, intangible and invisible in digital and physical spaces. De Wilde critically examines the impact of technology and the role of art in our increasingly hyperconnected, -automated, -polarised world but which potentially offers a new model, new aesthetic with new consequences and organisation.
“I am fascinated by dark ecologies and invisible territories, and like to examine the radical shifts technology imposes on society and our “environment”, sometimes on the side of the technological, often in the conceptual, perceptual, sensorial and human register. My artistic praxis is grounded in the interaction between complex systems and processes resulting in post-minimalist and techno-poetic aesthetics. Moreover, the indistinct, diffuse, ‘fuzzy’ area where the biological and technological overlap and commingle is a productive and favoured ground for my projects. I consider art not only a mirror to reflect on society with a critical lens, but also a hammer to shape it.” – Frederik De Wilde
Frederik currently holds a position as affiliated artist at the University of West-England in the The Unconventional Computing Laboratory founded by Prof Andy Adamatzky in 2001 as a response to an urgent need to develop computers for next century (https://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/people/) and exploring complex dynamics of non-lineair systems.