Saturday 8 November 2025 | 14:00 - 17:00 h. 
Arti et Amicitiae . Rokin 112 . Amsterdam
https://www.artscienceforum.nl/forums/the-art-of-hacking-hacking-in-art

As part of the Big DaDa manifestation – where absurdism, technology and language collide in disruptive ways – we present The Art of Hacking – Hacking in Art, an open forum exploring the intersection of artistic subversion, digital systems, and speculative futures.

In an age where algorithms and infrastructures increasingly govern our actions and thoughts, artists, thinkers and technologists gather to ask: how can systems be hijacked, détourned or turned inside out? How can technology be used not just as a tool, but as a mirror, a commentator, or even a dismantling device of the self?

This forum invites an open, evolving conversation – playful, poetic, critical – about the role of art as a hacking practice: a way of questioning dominant structures, injecting absurdity into order, and imagining alternative futures. 

Speakers

•     Roos Groothuizen - media artist advocating for digital human rights
•    Jan Zuiderveld – artist and researcher, working with poetics & aesthetics of neural nets
•     Rop Gonggrijp - hacker and digital civil rights activist    
•     Coralie Vogelaar – interdisciplinary artist exploring algorithmic systems and embodied movement    
•     Sam Nemeth - Human Computer Interaction (HCI) specialist, director and writing journalist
•     Ine Poppe - artist, writer and teacher
Moderator: Katarina Petrović – artist, researcher and founder of ArtScience Forum

Program

14:00 - 14.05 | Welcome by Eva and Arjen + Katarina
14:05 - 14.30 | Performative lecture by Coralie Vogelaar with Q&A

An Evaluation of Affective Design Principles in Smart Object Environments
While reading from corporate interaction design protocols, the artist tests how smart speakers - responsive to her movements and dynamically placed in the space - embody the affective logic of technology. The performance explores how sound design, through embodied cognition, regulates trust and limits agency in human-technology interaction.

14:30 - 15:15  | Symposium (part 1)
15:15  - 15:30 | Break
15:30 - 16:30 | Symposium (part 2)
16:30 - 17:00 | Drinks (Arti club)
17:00 - 18:00 | Guided tour with curator

Short Bios

Roos Groothuizen is a media artist advocating for digital human rights. In her own practice and as part of the art collective Telemagic, she explores the human side of invisible algorithms, information filters, and unfair distribution. Among other projects, she developed ‘I want to delete it all, but not now,’ an escape room about the power of Big Tech... and one you can’t escape. The escape room was nominated for a Golden Calf award in 2021. She’s also the founder of .zip, an artists’ space for digital culture, queer futures and alternative art forms in Rotterdam.
http://www.roos.gr
http://www.telemagic.online
http://www.zipspace.nl

Rop Gonggrijp is a hacker and digital civil rights activist. He co-founded XS4ALL, the first internet provider in the Netherlands to place open access and digital rights at its core. Gonggrijp became widely known for exposing the vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines, thereby questioning the reliability of the democratic process. As a critical thinker, he also writes and speaks about broader political and social developments, from privacy and surveillance to the power dynamics between citizens, states, and technology.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rop_Gonggrijp
https://media.ccc.de/v/22C3-920-en-we_lost_the_war

Sam Nemeth is a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) specialist, director and writing journalist. Since 2024, Nemeth researches, for the Prosquare Network in the UK, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University and partners in the UK and the The Netherlands, whether and if so how Large Language Models can help in the processes of industry, artists and designers. In addition to this Nemeth is involved in a project of NTU that investigates the telling of untruths or 'bullshitting' of LLMs.
https://prosquared.org/projects/conversational-prototyping-leveraging-generative-ai-to-support-iterative-device-production-and-testing/
https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53641/1/2442065_Holmquist.pdf

Coralie Vogelaar is an interdisciplinary artist who combines social science such as behavioural studies with the artistic imagination. Vogelaar investigates the relationship between human and machine by applying machine logic to the human body and vice versa. Her work manifests itself in the form of performances and video and multimedia installations, for which she often works together with experts from various disciplines including data analysis, choreography, and sound design.
https://coralievogelaar.com/

Ine Poppe is an artist and writer who moves playfully between art, writing and film. She made conceptual works, wrote for video, games and newspapers, and directed documentaries. At the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam she passes her experience on to young makers. Right now, she’s drawing and writing a graphic novel about the STOMA. She joined De Dolle Mina’s, a feminist collective — that sense of urgency and engagement still flavors her work.
https://poppeenpartners.nl

Katarina Petrović is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and humanities. Her work focuses on generative and creative processes, from meaning-making, poiesis, and organizational systems to physics of sound, light, and vacuum. She is co-initiator of the ArtScience Forum platform and feminist art radio Femkanje, and she works as an affiliated researcher at the transdisciplinary research Center Leo Apostel (VUB) and guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty, The Hague.
https://www.katarinapetrovic.net/
https://negativepoetry.com/