Black Box Detox

An invitation to immerse, subvert, and reimagine our relationship with complex technologies; artistic robotics, generative poetics, and devices that reveal rather than conceal. For more info, click Programme and artworks below.

Articles

black_box_detox

Outline

black_box_detox is an invitation to immerse, subvert, and reimagine our relationship with complex technologies. In a world of invisible algorithms and closed devices, artists unbox tech to create new, meaningful relationships that go beyond the paradigms of capitalism and control. Inventing interfaces and tinkering with models, code, and data circumvents blackboxing so that we can rediscover, re-engineer, and reconnect with our invisible and planetary networks. 

black_box_detox explores unseen natural and synthetic forces that shape our lives: neural networks, algorithms, biorhythms, bird calls, fibre optics, and AI-powered mineral prospecting. These collaborations between artists and researchers instil technology with creative care, resulting in artistic robotics, generative poetics, and devices that reveal rather than conceal. 

Artworks by

Louis Braddock Clarke
Matteo Marangoni
Vincent A. Cellucci (TUD/Leiden University)
Emergence Delft (TUD)
Ana Souto Neves & Abdolrahim Tooranian (Leiden University)
MSc Creative Robotics × Cognitive Robotics (TUD)

Presented by

TU Delft Library & Crossing Parallels (TUD Science Centre)

Curators

Vincent A. Cellucci & Teun Verkerk

DH5 Set Design

Momo Danner

Technicians

Sem Wevers and Hanjo Claassen