Nøtel Conference: Luxury Automated City

Trailer Nøtel Cinema curated by Lawrence Lek and Lua Vollaard from The One Minutes on Vimeo.

Het is geen toeval dat Nøtel (The Hague) zijn (3d-)deuren in Den Haag heeft geopend. De veelgeprezen multimedia-installatie van Lawrence Lek haakt bewust aan bij de ambities van Den Haag als internationale veiligheidshub - een stad die voorloopt op het automatiseren van openbare veiligheid, zowel tegen de stormvloed als tegen ongewenste indringers. Drie academici op het gebied van stedenbouw,  kunstmatige intelligentie, feminisme en cybersecurity (Helen Hester, Adeola Enigbokan en Catelijne Muller) en negen filmmakers (Nøtel Cinema) nemen thema's rond de toekomst van de stad Den Haag onder de loep. Tijdens de conferentie, gevolgd door een borrel, is ook een (eerder opgenomen) interview van curator Lua Vollaard met Lawrence Lek te zien.

14:10-14:50 uur: Adeola Enigbokan
14:50-15:00 uur: interview Lawrence Lek

15:00-15:40 uur: Helen Hester
15:40-16:00 uur: break

16:10-16:20 uur: The One Minutes

16:20-16:50 uur: Catelijne Muller

16:50-17:30 uur: discussion

17:30-19:00 uur: drinks

Helen Hester a writer and lecturer whose research inter­ests include technofeminism, sexuality studies, and theories of social reproduction. She is a member of the international femi­nist collective Laboria Cuboniks. She is the author of Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (2014) and Xenofeminism (2018), the co-editor of the collections Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism (2015) and Dea ex Machina (2015).
 
Catelijne Muller is a member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and member of the High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence of the European Commission. She is founder of ALLAI Nederland, and President of the Thematic Study Group on AI of the European Economic and Social Com­mittee. Muller advocates a human-in-command approach to AI, where humans retain control over AI, and over when and how AI is used in our daily lives - what tasks we transfer to AI, how transparent it is, if it is to be an ethical player.
 
Adeola Enigbokan is an artist and urbanist. Her research practice is informed by theory and methods from environmental psychology, anthropology and historical studies. She conducts research in neighborhoods of New York, Tel Aviv, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Beijing, Mexico City and Amsterdam. Her writing appears in the Journal of Urbanism, Cultural Geographies, The New Inquiry and Art and the Public Sphere.

Nøtel Cinema
A series of video works commissioned by Stroom in response to Nøtel (The Hague) through The One Minutes. Nine filmmakers respond to the speculative proposals of Nøtel, and the future of real estate speculation, automation, and cybersecurity. With contributions by Lilian Nejatpour & Jacob Samuel, Ana Meisel, Martin Menso, Alyona Larionova, Jung-Kyun Shin, Sami Hammana, Floris van Driel, Rachel Povey, and Meggie van Zwieten.