Prediction, Simulation, and the Incalculable Model by Femke Herregraven
On the 12th edition of In the Making – the series dedicated to Art and Research organized by ACPA and West Den Haag – artist Femke Herregraven will give a presentation on her recent work and will address the role of methods in Artistic Research.
After her presentation she will be joined by Dr. Marleen Stikker, founder and executive director of Waag Futurelab in Amsterdam and Dr. Francesco Ragazzi, associate professor in International Relations at Leiden University and co-director of ReCNTR.
Femke Herregraven’s work explores the effects of abstract value systems on landscapes, ecosystems, historiography, and daily life. Over the past decade, she has focused on financial, geological, and climatological self-organizing systems that both shape and disrupt daily life. Her work employs textual, computational, and gestural languages to reflect on how contemporary future models shape the experience of reality and the very ground on which it stands. Herregraven was awarded the Evens Arts Prize 2023 and the Theodora Niemeijer Prize in 2025.
Description of the session:
In this talk, and through the presentation of recent works, Herregraven will explore the modelling and financialization of the future. The talk will reflect on how, rather than rejecting technology, technological tools can be repurposed to experiment with image making when perception collapses, to escape the categorisation of the model, and how to speak when language no longer suffices. How can the entanglement of language, code, matter, and predictive structures become a new protocol for image and art making? Underpinning this talk is the question of artistic research method and what a method means within a state of vertigo and disorientation.
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