16:00–18:00 (doors 15:30) Dinner served from 18:00 Tickets: regular €10 (or more) | solidarity €7,5 – available at the door & online On June 8th, Jonathan Reus will present his work Bla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk and Marije Baalman will present her works Composing an Interaction and The Machine is Learning. Inter Acts is an afternoon with performances that deal with interactions between the human and the machine in different ways. The goal of the event is also to create a dialogue between audience and performers on these interactions, and thus the event also gives space for a Q&A with the artists, both for the visitors to learn more about the works, as well as for the artist to get feedback on their work. ______________________ About the performances Bla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk BLA BLAVATAR vs JAAP BLONK – an experimental collaboration between Jonathan Reus and the reknowned sound poet Jaap Blonk, exploring voice dataset making as a laborious, improvisational and absurdly banal performance form. The performance is an absurdist take on the cultural obsession with generative AI avatars and the goldrush to capitalise on creative automation. Rather than focusing on the uncanny realism of voice clones, the performance foregrounds the physical, creative and mental effort of performing sound poetry precisely according to an AI-friendly score, inspired by traditions of phonetically balanced reading scripts in speech research, and artistic traditions of typographical musical scores in sound poetry. Reus performs as BLA BLAVATAR, using a custom real-time voice synthesis instrument called Tungnaa, which is trained on previous dataset poem performances by Blonk. The dynamic between Blonk and Reus sways from moments of precise and controlled material to improvised duets between Blonk and his vocal avatar. During the performance all of Blonk’s vocalisations are recorded and added to a growing public dataset, and will be used as training data for making BLA BLAVATAR a better public speaker. Together, Blonk and Reus bring the vocal labor behind AI voice models to the stage, as well as use datasets and dataset making as a vocal art form that is fundamentally creative and exploratory, rather than a dehumanising means to an end. Composing an Interaction Composing an Interaction is a lecture-performance in which Marije Baalman explains how a modern artist might use her book in the creation process of an interactive art work, in casu quo a sock puppet. Composing an Interaction was created for the launch of the book Composing Interactions. Photos by Pieter Kers, at Flipchart #5, October 22nd, 2022. The Machine is Learning The performance the machine is learning is a theatrical performance highlighting the process of training a machine with realtime gestures: the labour that is absent from most dialogues on   machine learning. In an attempt to livecode with gestures, the performer finds herself directed by the machine to repetitively make gestures to generate time series data samples for the machine to learn from. Machine learning is both hailed as the solution to our current day problems, as well as claimed as one of the most threatening things to life as we know it. The popular discussion on AI criticizes issues of privacy with regard to data collection and the use of this data to take decisions that affect the life of people in possibly negative ways. At the same time, with the possibilities of AI further automating work, jobs are at danger and the fear is that this will leave many without a job in the future. On the other hand, the labour involved in making machine learning algorithms work, is less prominent in the popular discussion. The labour involved in AI consists not only of designing and programming algorithms, but also in generating and categorising these data samples. The working conditions of these tasks are generally not known.

SAVE THE DATE | Expanded Publishing Fest #4 Exploring Expanded Publishing 20 June, 19:00-03:00 @OT301, Amsterdam talks * performances * live coding * micro book fair * tactical television * club night - free entry - Full program TBA Join us for a program of performances, talks, and book launches 🎤, a micro book fair 📚, a live tactical television broadcast 📹, and a club night 🎶 at OT301 in Amsterdam! This event will be the final event of the ongoing European project .expub. 19:00-22:00 📖    Perfromances, Talks & Live Stream Art 📹 The Expanded Publishing Fest #4 discursive program will include 3 micro book launches and a live video performance.  This session will be hosted in The Void PopUp TV Studio, an audiovisual platform for experimental publishing and artistic research started by the INC in 2022. Full Program: TBA 🔗 Live Stream 📹  19:00-22:00 📚  Micro Book Fair In parallel to the live program, the Micro Book Fair will take place. Independent cultural publishers from the INC network will present their publications. Publishers: Aksioma Institute of Network Cultures NERO Editions Echo Chamber More TBA Make sure to bring some cash and a big bag to take those beautiful publications home! 22:00-03:00 🎶 Club Night After the live program and book fair, the Expanded Publishing Fest will turn into a club night. — Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

Op 2 oktober is de allereerste editie van Kennis Maken: Nationale Citizen Science Expo, hét kennisdelingsevenement voor iedereen die betrokken is bij citizen science.

Pretty//Ugly presents: Truus de Groot (Plus Instruments) is returning again to OCCII, this time joined by the no wave funk freaks of Geo and the high energy gabber punx of Brorlab. FFO: Blank City, John Waters, synthesizers, telephones and computers Plus Instruments (solo) (picture by Diana Putavet) Born in Eindhoven but based in the States, Truus de Groot, has been an unsung hero of experimental and underground music culture for decades. Since 1978, she has been involved in the curation of the Plus Instruments project: a project which has inspired innovation across the world of Electronic music alongside a range of collaborators. At the time, the sheer free will for a group such as Plus Instruments was almost unheard of: their performances were largely improvised and their sound captivating. Her profile is low key and Plus Instruments is ever changing. She explains the rotation and progressive nature of the group. “It always comes from my own initiative; I decide who to play with. I believe that gives it new life each time. I was always more into improvisation with a minimal approach, less structured, more groove.” After a successful few years as a band member of cult classic Nasmak and as reigning Queen of the “Ultra” movement, Truus left The Netherlands in 1981 at the young age of 21. She travelled to New York and began to immerse herself in the nightlife and clubs of the city that never sleeps. Within weeks she established a new Plus Instruments line up with David Linton (Rhys Chatham) and Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), this yielded the timeless classic Plus Instruments “Februari-April ’81” which has been reissued numerous times over the years. Through the years Plus Instruments released a number of albums with a host of different collaborators from around the globe. Plus Instruments has been active on the stage and studio throughout these last (almost) 5 decades with no sign of stopping! For this show Truus will perform solo. No worries, she has the energy of a whole band in her. https://plusinstruments.bandcamp.com/album/dance-with-me https://www.truusdegroot.com/   Brorlab (picture by Alfredo Monteleone) In 2023 BRORLAB popped up with their second release "Working Out In Heaven", a totally out of control 12” of modern fuckwave. The A side is seven new songs of their trademark dadaist electronic punk, full of fuzz guitars and sharp nasty beats, with a female vocalist that fits perfectly the Honey Bane – Chitose vocal range and smart attitude. The B side brings bang back to life the 8 tracks from their criminally obscure debut EP, which will make any lover of ear-damaging noise smile with pleasure. All in all an aberrant slice of psychedelic gabber infused punk for the end of time. https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/working-out-in-heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lduUfm2VoM   Geo Post-punk/no wave oddity Geo are like a sentient slot machine: whatever seems happenstance is actually by design, and the more mismatched the moving parts appear, the more their music starts to make sense. Since the Groningen quartet’s inception in 2019, they have built a framework of skeletal agit-funk, cartoonish chromatics and neoteric art punk vignettes – sketching negative spaces where chaos and cacophony can sound perplexingly catchy. After releasing their esteemed EP in 2021, the band has entered its next creative chapter. Out of Body – Geo’s long-awaited debut album – is an oblong snow globe utopia where dancing with two left feet is an actual custom. https://geoband.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-body DJ Just Regards