SG - COBALT. Exploring Future Nature-Technology-Human Ways of Relating Through Dance
Screening by Julia Rijssenbeek
After humans evolved from life on earth, they reached for modern control over nature, turning out to be little troublemakers (Kobolds). Collapsing under their own success, they now have to learn to dance. Will they find a new way of moving, of relating differently to other beings on this planet?
Cobalt is a 6min experimental film exploring and imagining future nature-technology-human ways of relating through dance. The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between philosopher of technology and director Julia Rijssenbeek, AI researcher and dancer Kim Baraka, and cinematographer Jonas Sacks, culminating in a non-verbal philosophical essay.
20:30 to 20:40, 4 June - Impulse
About Julia Rijssenbeek
Julia Rijssenbeek is a PhD researcher in Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, focusing on the intersection of technology and biology. Julia’s research is part of the Gravitation program Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT). During her PhD research, Julia was a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Next to that, she is a researcher at the future studies think tank FreedomLab. In interdisciplinary projects, she explores and speculates on future human-technology-nature relationships through art. Her film Cobalt (2024) was selected for the International Science Film Festival Nijmegen.