CLiP Open Session 2: Lecture with Marijn Bril - Moving Through Systems in Art & Technology

In this guest lecture, curator and researcher Marijn Bril explores how systems shape the ways we navigate everyday life. Looking beyond technology as infrastructure, she considers how rules, routines, classifications, interfaces, and expectations influence our behaviour, work, and understanding of the world.

Drawing on her curatorial projects, including How To: Living Through Instructions (Garage Rotterdam, 2026) and Out of Office (IMPAKT, 2023), as well as her ongoing research at the Alex Adriaansens Residency at V2_, Marijn looks at how artistic practices can expose, challenge, and reimagine the systems we move through. A central question is; what happens when complex relationships are reduced to models, measurements, or instructions? And what gets overlooked in that process?

The session concludes with a practical diagramming exercise in which participants map a system from their own everyday lives and experiment with ways to disrupt or redesign it. If you want to join this exercise please sign up via the link in bio.

There will be free public events every month, discussing concepts, learnings, and experiments emerging from CLiP #8 (Collective Learning in Practice), curated by visual artist and researcher Fernanda Olivares, with the support of fellow and former CLiP #7 participant Janey Roanna.

About the guest speaker

Marijn Bril (she/her) is an independent curator and researcher based in Rotterdam. In her practice, she explores the entanglements of art, media, and technology. Through exhibitions, discursive programs, essays, and lectures, she explores topics such as systems, productivity, memes, artistic strategies, and knowledge production. Bril has collaborated with institutions including IMPAKT (Utrecht), iii (The Hague), MU Hybrid Art House (Eindhoven), V2_ (Rotterdam), Werktank (Leuven) and Air Berlin Alexanderplatz (Berlin). In 2026, she was the recipient of the Garage Rotterdam Prize for Young Curators.