What is your REALITY?
TEDxAmsterdam 2023: Get ready for an epic evening of mind-blowing talks, captivating performances, and inspiring ideas about "Reality".
Wed
29.11.2023
The Liminal, Amsterdam
Welcome to TEDxAmsterdam 2023! Join us for an inspiring evening filled with captivating talks and innovative ideas. This in-person event will take place on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ - 1 Piet Heinkade, 1019 BR Amsterdam. Get ready to be immersed in a thought-provoking atmosphere where visionaries from various fields will share their expertise.
Event Theme: Reality
This theme invites us to explore the idea of reality in its various forms and meanings. It encourages you to examine how we perceive, construct, and interpret reality, whilst considering the ways in which our beliefs and assumptions shape and influence our understanding of the world around us.
We are thrilled to collaborate with such an iconic location that serves as a home to many inspiring events such as Holland Festival, Amsterdam Dance Event, and home to a wide variety of musicians from all over the world.
Friendred is a computational artist and researcher. Currently, he is a Course Leader & Senior Lecturer at the University of the Arts London. He has worked at various academic institutions, including University College London (IOE, UCL) and Goldsmiths. Friendred’s work has been focused on disciplines across art, technology and sciences, exploring the agency of the technologized body, sensory apparatus and interactive systems. His research explores the intertwined relationship between technology, installation and performance arts in HCI. Friendred’s work has been widely published and has been recognized by various awards including the Oppo Renovator award. He has exhibited internationally with works such as “Moving Photon” (London), Skin-Awareness (Arizona), as well as others at Tate Britain, The Design Museum and other galleries internationally. His works have also been presented at the London design festival and Dutch design week.
Robin Pocornie (Amsterdam, 1996) is a real multi-hyphenate! She has experience in and a passion for the neuro- and computer sciences, in addition to being a creative producer for cultural organisations in Amsterdam. Robin was born and raised in Amsterdam, but has also lived and worked in Costa Rica, the USA, and Australia, before moving back to the Netherlands in 2018. Her background in the computer sciences makes her highly aware of the ways in which our societal inequalities influence our rapidly advancing technological world. She is the first person to produce case law on algorithmic racism in the Netherlands. In an accessible and easy-to-understand way, she invites people to gain awareness on AI ethics issues and how we can all work to mitigate them.
Hakim El Amrani is a biophilic designer, founder and director of Studio NousNous. Studio NousNous is a biophilic spatial design studio that incorporates nature in design in and outdoors. Their projects crossover interior-, architecture-, landscape design and art to create unique spaces that aim on benefitting people’s health and wellbeing. They have a science- and faith based approach, rooted in Biophilia, which is the innate human attraction to nature and natural processes.