For curious minds and whoever needs an intellectual break from the festival!

⚡Saturday September 9, 14:00-16:00

💸 Damage: FREE!

📍 Muziekcentrum Enschede, Noorderhagen 27

On Saturday Sept. 9, we dive into the scientific world of stimulants & AI! Three distinct speakers will reflect on the wide variety of functions stimulants can have in today's tech-oriented society.

🔥 From pleasure enhancer on the dance floor to metaphorical weather vane with Bogomir Doringer. He will speak about his project I Dance Alone (the work itself can be seen in de Grote Kerk) in which he filmes crowds from above, seen on the dance floor. In night life Drugs - and the connection between people it enables - play a major part, but what can we learn from observing patterns in how people behave when under influence?

‍🔥 Machteld Busz is will talk about her initiative Poppi Drugs Museum. The initiative is a collection of works, stories and experiences about drugs. Its goals are to create a safe space from which an open discussion about drugs can be facilitated. Ideally in their own building but until they reach that goal it remains a pop-up museum that travels around. Organizing events, entertaining people and spreading information in a way that is honest, beautiful, weird and funny.

🔥 Award winning documentary filmmaker Maartje Nevejan will talk about how AI helps her to visualize the inner experience in her films. In her documentary Descending the Mountain, about mushrooms, AI was used to help depict psychedelic experiences. In her new film, that deals with grief and beauty, she and her team are trying out new ways in which to insert AI again.