Det Digit Art House Residency Launch

How can artists and scientist experiment with technology rooted in regenerative practices? This evening we are celebrating the launch of the Det Digit Art Residency, and inviting artists and researchers working on regenerative technology. Marleen Stikker, director Waag Futurelab and Bas and Maartje Raijmakers will reflect on the work of pioneering digital artist Det Digit. Ola Bonati, researcher at Waag Futurelab will speak on how digital artists can work with regenerative principles.

Det Digit (1935-2024) was one of the first digital artists in the Netherlands. Her digital work spans four decades from the 1980s into the 2020s and has, from the start, involved interactions with early internet pioneers and scientists worldwide, resulting in digital and also spatial creations in her studio in a forest in Knegsel, near Eindhoven. Marleen Stikker interviewed Det Digit already before before De Digitale Stad and Waag Futurelab were launched.

An important question for Det Digit was always how digital art can influence the physical and natural world, and vice versa, and that question became even more relevant. This evening we’re exploring how digital technology, nature and the roots of the two connect and intertwine, to mark the launch of a a new partnership of Waag Futurelab and a new artist- in -residency location in the Netherlands: Det Digit Art House in Knegsel. A recently published book, Foolish Delights, on the work of Det Digit will be presented and for sale too.

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