Save the date: Universal Language I: Human-Computer Interaction

Date: Thursday 11 December and Friday 12 December, 2025
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag 
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Human-Computer Interaction, is the first gathering of a year-long program for Stroom Den Haag’s multi-year initiative, Entangled Codes, which frames contemporary technology in relation to public space, and civic life.

Over two days, and with additional online events and resources, artists, scientists, researchers, and creative practitioners piece together just a few of the multiple histories of electronic and digital systems that took root outside of the 20th century’s putative center alongside creative computational practice today. Invoking the many alternate math-forms, theories, and digital infrastructures already in place, if in latency, invited presenters point to the limited and arbitrary nature of the technological tools and research methodologies on offer today.

Additionally, the program highlights the critical role of art and poetics in creating digital systems that are responsive to social and ecological life.  Furthermore, it counters their role as inevitable frameworks–locked not only in a binary of code and data processes, but in attitudes of certainly and unstoppable growth.