Conflux Festival 2024

The four-day Conflux festival continues to explore the evolving relationships between humans, machines, and non-human intelligences through art, music, science, and philosophy. The 2024 festival theme “Symbiotic Realities” focuses on the impact of the technoscientific landscape on our daily lives and the global humanitarian crises unfolding in both the physical world and cyberspace. Concluding the trilogy (Exit Human in 2022 and Living Machines in 2023), this edition delves deeper into possible approaches for coexistence and mutual understanding between humanity, technology, and nature.

The festival consists of various components including a three-day exhibition in Katoenhuis, performance nights in Brutus and WORM, an opening concert at Plein 1940, a conference in Arminius and a club night in Perron. Certain components of the festival are free of charge, including the opening concert at Plein 1940 on Thursday 19 September, and the exhibition in Katoenhuis.

The programme consists of exciting installation art, controversial lectures, adventurous music and innovative cross-pollinations by Heleen Blanken & Aho Ssan, Roly Porter & Theresa Baumgartner, Fronte Vacuo, Resina, Nkisi, Sabrina Ratté, Sara Persico, C. Lavender, Zohar & Jeisson Drenth, Edwin van der Heide, Bogna Konior, Legowelt, NVST, Casimir Geelhoed & Anni Nöps, Jeroen Alexander Meijer, Macular, feedbacksociety, Renzo van Steenbergen & Kristjan Pütsep, Mariska de Groot & Dieter Vandoren, Talismann, Nicky Assmann & Joris Strijbos, Mint Park, Thomas Moynihan, Zalán Szakács & Teresa Winter, DJ Shahmaran, Alberta Balsam, Tessa Verhoef, Klara Ravat & Saåad and Marco Broeders & Julian Edwardes.