Festivals and public presentations – 11 projects selected

STRP Festival 2023 The Art of Listening – Stichting STRP
STRP has been in existence since 2006 and positions itself as a festival that focuses on the relationship between technology, design, art and innovation, where commissioning is central and creates a breeding ground for both makers and interested parties from the creative industry. With the festival The Art of Listening in April 2023, STRP wants to facilitate a dialogue between visitors, artists and speakers about the art of listening. Questions that are central to this are: how can we listen more carefully, empathetically and deeply to each other, to nature, to silence and to voices that need to be heard. And also, what role does technology play in this? The programme consists of an international exhibition with 13 mainly new works commissioned by STRP, four public talks under the name STRP Scenario, an extensive education programme and an experimental music programme. Education partners involved include St. Lucas and Fontys Universities of Applied Sciences. In addition, partners such as Affectlab, the Hmm, Impakt and the Netherlands Film Festival are involved in the programme.

AFFR 2022 – NEW REALITIES – Stichting Architectuur Filmfestival Rotterdam
From 5 to 9 October 2022, the 14th edition of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam will take place. AFFR programmes cinematographically high-quality films in which architecture, the city and the built environment play a central role. With the theme New realities, AFFR explores in film and debate what connects us in the city and the architecture. Are we able to bridge differences and tackle the enormous challenges facing our urban society? Where can we find examples and inspiration? How can we find solutions through design? AFFR has established several programme lines: Hidden Infrastructures, Indigenous Architectures, Through the eyes of the Masters, Grand Urban Visions, Interview with the Architect, and lastly, a special focus on animated film. In addition, there are programme specials such as The Masters with filmmaker Wes Anderson and architecture journalist Olly Wainwright. This year’s new programme component is Best of AFFR on tour, a travelling variant in which a series of three films is offered to all art cinemas and architecture institutes in the Netherlands in the period after the festival.
AFFR aims to reach 8,000 physical visitors. AFFR collaborates with, among others, Independent School for the City, the international Film & Architecture Studio, AIR, Open Rotterdam, Vers Beton and Galerie de Jaloezie, Rotterdam Speciaal, Goethe-Institut, Archined, De Architect, Stylos and Archiprix.

The Overkill festival 2022 – Stichting Guido
The Overkill Festival focuses on art and games and will take place from 28 October to 4 November 2022 in Enschede. In 2021, the festival celebrated its tenth anniversary and has grown in that time into a multidisciplinary festival where playfulness is central. In 2022, the theme is HEAL Royale and within this theme The Overkill will programme interactive installations, indie games, a film programme, experimental performances, talks, discussions and a hackathon. With HEAL Royale, The Overkill explores the way technology and digital culture on the one hand expose humans to a constant stream of input and on the other hand provide space for online expression and healing practices. The festival has named three narratives, each linked to game-character archetypes. Technology and spirituality are linked to Healers, and within this line attention will be paid to traditional healthcare, meditative technology and liberating sessions in which expressing pain, frustration and discrimination also have a place in the healing process. The second narrative Digital commoning is linked to the Witches archetype. In this narrative, through online games, online rituals, glitches and indigenous traditions, alternative and radical ways of replacing the prevailing capitalist and binary systems are sought. With the programme Crowds of Sinner, The Overkill focuses on the possibilities of multi-sensory play. Among other things, it reflects on the problematic aspects of digitization and inclusion. Collaboration partners include Roodkapje Rotterdam, Tetem, Design LAB University Twente and Creative Coding Utrecht.