Nerdy Arts Event

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The Network Institute, together with VU Amsterdam and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy are pleased to invite you to the Nerdy Arts event.

About the Project

Between 22 April and 13 May, a group of students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie work and present at VU Amsterdam. These students are part of Nerdy Arts, the experimental, interdepartmental new technology program at GRA.

They are joined by VU students from the Network Institute Academy Projects, which is the program that fosters interdisciplinary projects within the Network Institute’s research themes.

During this time, students will develop and present both new concepts and existing works. The presentations may take the form of poster displays, installations, or small exhibitions.

The project seeks to spark dialogue and collaboration between students at VU and GRA, particularly around the intersections of art, science, and technology. Presentations will take place in the following areas of the NU building (Vrije Universiteit)

  • The street-side corner space
  • The central hall
  • The designated poster presentation space (top of the tall escalator)

Wrap Up

Credit lines for the photographer:
Jelle IJntema
https://jelleijntema.nl/
+31 6 17576153

Closing Event

This presentation is for anyone curious about what happens when art, science, and technology collide. Nerdy Arts brings together students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and VU to explore how artistic thinking can meet research, innovation, and social questions. Whether you’re into AI, sensory experiments, design, or interdisciplinary collaboration, this is a chance to see ideas in progress, meet other curious minds, and be part of a conversation across fields.

Program – Closing Event May 13th 

  • 13.30-14.30 – Theatre 6 NU-4C07: Keynote by Kim Baraka, Assistant Professor in AI at VU, entitled “Perspectives at the intersection between robotics and the performing arts”.
  • 14.30-14.45: Coffee Break
  • 14:45-15:35: Student presentations A
  • 15.35-15.50: Coffee Break
  • 15:50-16:40 – Theatre 7 – NU-4C11: Student presentations B
  • 16:40-17:30: Discussion & drinks

Presentation topics explore the intersections of art, science, technology, and society. Subjects range from artificial intelligence and smell, depression and neuroimaging, location-based audio and performance, and mapping the Dutch colonial empire, to soft-robotics with liquids and gasses, societal issues and news permeation, femme perspectives on artificial intelligence, and computationally supported metaphor analysis.

Credits and Organization
This project is part of a broader emerging collaboration between Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

  • Nerdy Arts is a program by Jojo (Joris) Landman
  • The presentation and closing event are organized in collaboration with Ivano Malavolta and Mauricio Verano Merino of the Network Institute

Many other people and entities both from VU and GRA have helped, supported and  organized the event.