‘In the beginning was the’
27 februari 2025 14:00 t/m 27 mei 2025 18:00 - Locatie: Library, Main Hall | Zet in mijn agenda
Opening Reception: 27 February
With ‘In the beginning was the’, TU Delft Library presents, for the first time, the full spectrum of negation work of ArtScience practitioner, Katarina Petrović to challenge your notions—of computation, of knowledge, of natural language.
Petrović, an artist hailing from Serbia and based in The Hague, has developed an extensive body of work related to algorithmically-generated language. Her work unleashes algorithms on culture-defining texts like the Bible and Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ (negated to ‘The End of Individuals’) to reveal biased truths and uncover infinite revisions.
She is also collaborating with TU Delft Chemical Engineering Professor Stephen Picken (‘LC-5CB’) as part of the Crossing Parallels program and, in tandem with this exhibition, has recently embarked on a project with QuTech researchers to make a quantum computer speak a dead language.
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About the artist
Katarina Petrović (NL/RS) is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and humanities. Her work focuses on generative and creative processes, from meaning-making, poiesis, and organizational systems to physics of sound, light, and vacuum. She creates systems, procedural works that are presented as modular installations in an online and offline space, using media such as generative text, poetry, sound, software, and performance.
Katarina holds a MMus degree from ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, and an MFA equivalent from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She is an affiliated researcher at the transdisciplinary research Center Leo Apostel (VUB) in Brussels where she initiated the ArtScience research group and lectured at the postgraduate School of Thinking (VUB). Katarina presents and lectures internationally and is currently working as a guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty, The Hague.
Recent exhibitions include ‘Poetics of Prompting’ (MU Hybrid Art Space, Eindhoven 2024) and ‘Approaching Zero’, solo exhibition at DISPLAY University Jaume I, Castellon (2024) & Cultural Center of Belgrade (2023).