Rietveld Sandberg Research
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Femke Herregraven
Research group Creator Doctus (CrD)

Femke Herregraven (1982) is a graphic designer and researcher. She is interested in the power structures and relationships between financial markets, international law, geopolitical relations, ethics and global climate change. She provides insight into these complex matters in surprising ways and in a playful way opens up viewers to our economically driven and ruthless world. Herregraven is part of TRADE-OFF, an experimental research project on lithium.

During her Creator Doctus (CrD), made possible by Sandberg Instituut and Waag, she will investigate the technological relationships in which we as humans are involved. Her research project The Evacuated focuses on the concept of potential, future disasters and how those moments can be productive in navigating our current biological, political and technological ecosystem. It asks the question: how can the entanglement between languages, codes, bodies and predictive structures create a new protocol, made of new images and worlds?

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie congratulates Femke Herregraven on obtaining the title of Creator Doctus (CrD) on 14 November 2024. CrD is a project developed at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie that seeks to realise a new European third cycle award for higher arts education.

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Creator Doctus (CrD) – In 2024, RADIUS Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology in Delft, presents the year program THE LIMITS TO GROWTH, exploring the relationship between economy and ecology. On November 2nd, they organise an artist talk with Femke Herregraven and Rachel Rakes, framed within the context of the large-scale solo exhibition FEMKE HERREGRAVEN: DIALECT, which is currently presented onsite at RADIUS and has been extended until 23 February 2025.

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In this seminar we will discuss the question of how collective an artistic practice is, and how much of the artistic process is a shared conversation with other makers both human and beyond-human. We will discuss a number of collaborative artistic practices which challenge the notion of authorship while simultaneously producing distinct artistic voices. We will also engage in a collective experiment together.

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mar '22
A public lecture hosted by Femke Herregraven with keynote speaker dr. Rodrigo Ochigame

Deterritorializing Intelligence is a public lecture in the frame of the ongoing Creator Doctus research of Femke Herregraven, which circumnavigates the historical, material and epistemological conditions of artificial intelligence.

Algorithmic Cultures – For this occasion, Femke Herregraven has invited prof. dr. Rodrigo Ochigame who examines unorthodox models of computational rationality, such as nonclassical logics from Brazil, nonbinary Turing machines from India, and frameworks of information science from Cuba. Their research includes digital anthropology, the anthropology of science and technology, and the social dimensions of robotics and artificial intelligence.

The second CrD trajectory started in January 2020 and involves a partnership between Sandberg Instituut and Waag in Amsterdam. Femke Herregraven has been selected for this pilot with her research project ‘The Evacuated’.