The seminar Beyond Binary brings together artists, thinkers, and researchers to reflect on how emerging technologies challenge binary paradigms – digital/analogue, material/immaterial, real/virtual – and how such opposites may instead be seen as deeply intertwined.

For this conference on Non-dual perspectives on art and technology, in her lecture Victorine van Alphen explores the tension between our sensual and rational modes of existence in a technologized society. Known for works such as IVF-X: Posthuman Parenting in Hybrid Reality and The Oracle: Ritual for the Future, she creates futuristic microsocieties and performances that question binaries such as natural/artificial, material/immaterial and male/female. Blending philosophy, media art, and ritual, her practice evokes intimate, often unsettling encounters that invite reflection on how technology reshapes bodies, identities and relationships.