[spectre] DEAF2014 Biennale Rotterdam 21-24 May

[Emma O'Hare]

DEAF2014 BIENNALE ROTTERDAM WEDNESDAY 21 - SATURDAY 24 May

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Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) serves as a public forum and meeting
place for young creative talent as well as established professionals,
scientists and business stakeholders whose work focuses on our contemporary
technological culture.



THEME

The DEAF2014 biennale festival theme is *The Progress Trap. *Progress has
become a means to an end in itself and has been decoupled from the
cultural, ecological and social advances that it was supposed to help
achieve. However seductive quick gains from technological solutions are,
their temporary victories in the short term may cause much worse and bigger
problems in the long run, luring us into *The Progress Trap*.



PROGRAMME

During this 10th edition of DEAF exhibitions, keynotes, seminars,
workshops, evenings of ..., films, performances and a satellite programme
invite you to come and explore the theme "The Progress Trap".



DEAF2014's thematic exhibition addresses the unsustainable character of our
current notion of progress by contrasting the lure of technology with
artistic responses to our techno-centric notion of progress and attempts to
escape the trap it results in.



DEAF2014 also offers keynotes from three special guests: Alexa Clay, Adam
Greenfield and Ronald Wright, of whom the latter coined the term "progress
trap" in his bestselling book *A Short History of Progress*.



The theme will be addressed in a rich program of seminars organized by Het
Nieuwe Instituut. How can one prevent from becoming programmable? What is
programmable behaviour? These questions will be explored during the
*Unprogrammable
Behaviour *seminar.



These are only a few of the many seminars, performances, artists,
installations and artworks that DEAF2014 has on offer.



LOCATION AND PARTNERS

Main location and main partner of DEAF2014 is Het Nieuwe Instituut. DEAF
and Het Nieuwe Instituut have entered this partnership in the conviction
that together they can further increase and deepen the impact and meaning
of DEAF: both have a critical outlook towards innovation, act on the basis
of a cultural context and want to think and work beyond the boundaries of
the classical creative disciplines.



V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, an interdisciplinary centre for art
and media technology, has been organizing DEAF since 1994. Since 2012 DEAF
has become independent with V2_as a partner.



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