Shifting Scales conference - Monday 6 March from 3.30pm CET

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear all,
Just a quick reminder: today you can follow our conference also online!


*Shifting ScalesVisions, Politics and Infrastructural Violence in a
More-Than-Human Planet <https://aksioma.org/scale/conference/>*

*6 March 2023, 15.30–21.30 CET*
Kino Šiška, Ljubljana + online streaming

Registration <https://pretix.eu/aksioma/scale/> required only for IRL
participation in Ljubljana.

Join the *Telegram chat
<https://us11.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.me%2Fshiftingscales=7900a73361=44436489=74c54f5329=cts=2=163125=4c4fd2edf47fd19ff1c1965099e978e510d467ebe99d7da6011a18f677a0c456>*
to post your questions, comments, ideas and links.

*Participants: *Anna Engelhardt, Anthony Downey, Bani Brusadin, Laura
Tripaldi, Liam Young,
Mark Cinkevich, Mojca Kumerdej, Nadim Choufi, Solveig Qu Suess, Špela
Petrič, Yu Hsin Su

*Programme*: https://aksioma.org/scale/conference/

*In the framework of* *Tactics #14: Scale*
<https://aksioma.org/scale/>

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This edition of Tactics is a follow-up programme to *transmediale
2023 <https://transmediale.de/en>*, conceived independently by Janez Fakin
Janša and the Aksioma team with curatorial advice from Nora O Murchú,
artistic director of transmediale.
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*Production:* Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
<https://aksioma.org/>, 2023
*In collaboration with:* Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture and ALUO – The
Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana
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Part of *konSequences – Fragments of a Possible Ecosystem
<https://konsekvence.si/>* programme in the framework of *konS ≡ Platform
for Contemporary Investigative Art <https://kons-platforma.org/en/>*,
a project chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations
“Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres” co-financed by the
Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the
European Union.
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Tactics #14: Scale | March ↔ May 2023

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear friends and supporters,
we are happy to announce the next episode of our Tactice series:

*Tactics #14: Scale*
EXHIBITIONS | KEYNOTES | ARTIST TALKS | STORYTELLING PERFORMANCES |
SCREENINGS  | WORKSHOPS


*March ↔ May 2023Ljubljana & online*

PROGRAMME: http://aksioma.org/scale/

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How does scale affect our ability to deal with complexity, see the world
and understand it in a way that would preserve our agency in it? How can we
deal with realities that either exceed or fall beneath our ability to see
and interface with them?

The 14th edition of Tactics <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice>,
the discursive cultural programme focused on contemporary investigative
art, society and new technologies, brings together artists, theorists and
researchers in an ongoing exploration of the concept of scale, from nano to
global and beyond. The programme consists of an articulated series of
artistic, discursive and educational activities that will take place in
Ljubljana between March and May 2023.

*Participants: *Anna Engelhardt, Anthony Downey, Bani Brusadin, Farzin
Lotfi-Jam, Laura Tripaldi, Liam Young, Mark Cinkevich, Mojca Kumerdej,
Nadim Choufi, Nestor Siré, Nicole L’Huillier, Solveig Qu Suess, Steffen
Köhn, Špela Petrič, Yu Hsin Su

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*OPENING EVENT → Hybrid conference*


*Shifting ScalesVisions, Politics and Infrastructural Violence in a
More-Than-Human Planet <https://aksioma.org/scale/conference/>*

*6 March 2023, 15.30–21.30*
Kino Šiška, Ljubljana + online streaming

Registration <https://pretix.eu/aksioma/scale/> required only for IRL
participation in Ljubljana.
Facebook event  <https://fb.me/e/2opAHRVnT>

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*NODE #1: Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich*
*7 ↔ 8 March 2023*
Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich will present their new video
installation *Onset *in a solo exhibition and a workshop both investigating
the correlation between existing energy networks and military
infrastructures, with a focus on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Facebook event <https://fb.me/e/31JBDWwV1>

*NODE #2: Farzin Lofti-Jam*

*28 ↔ 29 March 2023*Articulated in an exhibition, an artist talk and a
workshop, this node shifts the spotlight onto the multidisciplinary
practice of architect and designer Farzin Lotfi-Jam, who investigates how
our most personal thinking habits and domestic routines are increasingly
yet invisibly shaped by global infrastructures and international
regulations.

*NODE #3: Nestor Siré & Steffen Köhn*

*19 ↔ 20 April 2023*The third node introduces the collaborative artistic
research of Nestor Siré and Steffen Köhn, who combine ethnographic
research, science fiction and “recombinatory” forms of cinema, exploring
the role of piracy in establishing informal networks and human
infrastructures of data exchange and distribution.

*NODE #4: Nicole L’Huillier*

*16 ↔ 17 May 2023*Last node focuses on Chilean artist Nicole L’Huillier’s
investigation of sound, vibrations, resonances and the poetics of sonic
unintelligibility, and her interest in the performativity of every material
reality by presenting her latest interactive installation *La Orejona
Records* and introducing audiences to the politics of receiving and
transmitting as a way of belonging.

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This edition of Tactics is a follow-up programme to *transmediale
2023 <https://transmediale.de/en>*, conceived independently by Janez Fakin
Janša and the Aksioma team with curatorial advice from Nora O Murchú,
artistic director of transmediale.
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*Production:* Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
<https://aksioma.org/>, 2023
*For the series: *Tactics

*In collaboration with:* Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, ALUO – The
Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana, MGML /
Cukrarna Gallery, Lokalpatriot, Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory

All activities in March are part of *konSequences – Fragments of a Possible
Ecosystem <https://konsekvence.si/>*.

The conference and the workshops have been produced in the framework of *konS
≡ Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
<https://kons-platforma.org/en/>*, a project chosen on the public call for
the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture
Centres” co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European
Regional Development Fund of the European Union.

The exhibitions, lectures and publications are supported by the Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.

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Marcela Okretič
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
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Tactics & Practice #13: from COMMONS to NFTs | Hybrid conference | Ljubljana + online

[Marcela Okretič]

*Dear friends, we warmly invite you to:*


*Tactics & Practice #13: from COMMONS to NFTs*HYBRID CONFERENCE
https://aksioma.org/from-commons-to-ntfs/


This event brings together artists, hackers and researchers to critically
examine the shift in digital culture from open sharing to crypto-based
forms of ownership. Is this the ultimate triumph of financialisation, or
are there openings for different property regimes and thus new forms of art
and culture?

In the frame of: konS  – Platform for
Contemporary Investigative Art
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*CONFERENCE12 November 2022, 10 AM-9 PM CETKino Šiška, Ljubljana / online*
Round tables | Workshop | Game | Book presentation
See full programme. 

With: Anja Blaj, Aude Launay, Cornelia Sollfrank, Domenico Quaranta, Ela
Kagel, Felix Fritsch, Felix Stalder, Filip Dobranić, Gregor Žavcer, Inte
Gloerich, Jaromil, Jaya Klara Brekke, Lee Tzu-Tung, María Paula Fernandez,
Martin Zeilinger, Michelle Kasprzak, Pekko Koskinen, Puria Nafisi Azizi,
Rok Kranjc, Shu Lea Cheang, Vuk Ćosić

*REGISTER for IRL participation HERE
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*STREAMING *(no registration needed)*:*
https://aksioma.org/from-commons-to-nfts/streaming/

FB event. 
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*PUBLICATION*

*From Commons to NFTs*With essays by: Felix Stalder, Yukiko Shikata,
Michelle Kasprzak, Denis “Jaromil” Roio, Cornelia Sollfrank, Jaya Klara
Brekke, Lee Tzu-Tung

*Read more and ORDER yours HERE
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*WARM-UP / online talk*
*WAM sessions: A conversation about NFTs after the hype.*
@WAMillions Twitter Space
With: Felix Stalder, Ruth Catlow, Jonas Lund

*Listen HERE .*
The talk will be available online for one month.
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*Credits *

Organised and produced by: Aksioma  – Institute for
Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2022
For the series: Tactics & Practice 
In the frame of: konS  – Platform for
Contemporary Investigative Art
In partnership with: Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture, Lokalpatriot
Associated partner: Ljudmila
Outreach partners: WAM/Fair Data Society, NERO, Makery

The project konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen
on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of
Investigative Art and Culture Centres”. The investment is co-financed by
the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of
the European Union.
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The Byzantine Generals Problem @ distant.gallery - Monday, 4 July at 1 PM CET

[Marcela Okretič]

*Dear profiles, avatars, and online flaneurs, Aksioma is summoning you to:*



*The Byzantine Generals Problem*

ONLINE EXHIBITION

https://aksioma.org/byzantine.generals.problem

4 July 2022–end of the internet

distant.gallery



*Curated by:* Domenico Quaranta



*Featuring:* Anna Ridler, Ben Grosser, Constant Dullaart, DIS,
FaceOrFactory, Kyle McDonald, LaTurbo Avedon, Moxie Marlinspike, Nascent,
Rhea Myers, Sarah Friend, Sarah Meyohas, Simon Denny, Guile Twardowski,
Cosmographia, Sterling Crispin, The Miha Artnak



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THE DOORS TO THE ONLINE GALLERY WILL OPEN ON

*Monday, 4 July 2022 at 1 PM CET**

at https://distant.gallery/the-byzantine-generals-problem



Bookmark the link or attend the FB event for reminder:
https://fb.me/e/1Ccb1jokr


While waiting for the opening, you are kindly invited to read the *CURATORIAL
ESSAY*:

https://aksioma.org/pdf/Domenico-Quaranta_The-Byzantine-Generals-Problem.pdf



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***For the best experience, please join us via Chrome browser. Make sure
you use headphones to avoid the sound looping when multiple people are
speaking.



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An alternative to capitalism, or capitalism at its worst? An emancipatory
network economy where everyone has a stake, or a dystopian panopticon where
only the best man wins? An opportunity for democracy, or a
techno-libertarian wet dream? A new creative economy or a pyramid scheme? A
planet saver or a planet burner? Rarely has the debate around a technology
been so polarized as with blockchains, web3 and NFTs. We are facing a
problem of consensus, trapped within a Byzantine Generals Problem.



Some generals are besieging Byzantium. In order to avoid catastrophic
failure, they must agree on a concerted strategy, but some of them are
unreliable. Used to illustrate how consensus is reached within distributed
systems, this allegory can be applied to blockchains and to societies as
well. Yet, in a peer-to-peer debate with no central authority, consensus is
hard to reach for a reason; and the disagreeing general, the unreliable
actor, may be our best resource against the common sense of the
crypto-yuppies.



*The Byzantine Generals Problem* is an online exhibition focused on
artworks which, while not avoiding to engage with blockchains and crypto
culture, do it in a critically constructive way: questioning dominant
narratives, raising problems, and sometimes proposing alternative solutions.



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*Domenico Quaranta* is an art critic, curator and educator interested in
the ways art reflects the current technological shift. His texts have
appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, books and catalogues. He is the
author, among other things, of *Beyond New Media Art* (2013) and *Surfing
with Satoshi. Art, Blockchain and NFTs* (2022) and the editor of several
books, including *GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames* (2006, with M.
Bittanti). Since 2005 he has curated several exhibitions, including Collect
the *WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age* (Brescia 2011;
Basel and New York 2012); *Cyphoria* (Quadriennale 2016, Rome) and
*Hyperemployment* (MGLC, Ljubljana 2019–2020). He lectures in Interactive
Systems and is a co-founder of the Link Art Center (2011–2019)



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Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2022

Realized in collaboration with and in the framework of: distant.gallery

Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the
Municipality of Ljubljana




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NEW BOOK! Surfing with Satoshi - Art, Blockchain and NFTs by Domenico Quaranta

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear friends,



we are very happy to announce the launch of the English translation of Domenico
Quaranta's book:



*Surfing with Satoshi*

*Art, Blockchain and NFTs*

aksioma.org/surfing.with.satoshi
<http://www.aksioma.org/surfing.with.satoshi>



Release date: 25 May 2022



*PREVIEW <https://aksioma.org/pdf/SurfingWithSatoshi_excerpt.pdf>*



Limited edition of 300 copies

*PREORDER **HERE <https://form.jotform.com/211172647049354>! *

*Free shipping for pre-orders until 25 May 2022*





The craze for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) that erupted in early 2021 thrust
the art world into the debate on the blockchain, the decentralised public
ledger that holds these tokens, as well as cryptocurrencies, and promises
to make “verifiable digital scarcity” a reality. Born out of the 2008
financial crisis and seen by many as the cornerstone of a new, more
private, more secure Web3, the blockchain has changed the global economy
and is now reshaping the digital environment in which art is increasingly
being created, distributed and exchanged.



Written by art critic and curator *Domenico Quaranta* amidst an explosion
of technological hype and a speculative frenzy, and originally published in
Italian by Postmedia Books, *Surfing with Satoshi *sets the promise of the
NFT market in a historical context, investigating the technologies it is
based on, the role of certificates and contracts in contemporary art, and
the evolution of the media art market over the last thirty years.



Riding the wave of the ongoing debate, the book tackles a series of as yet
open questions, including:


   - What does art have to do with the blockchain?
   - Does it make sense to talk about “Crypto Art”, and if so what can be
   said to define it, apart from the way it is traded?
   - Is speculation the be-all and end-all of this trend?
   - How on earth can an infinitely reproducible digital file be deemed
   “unique”?
   - Will the blockchain’s promise of disintermediation destroy the art
   world as we know it?
   - How is the art world reacting to the situation?
   - Are NFTs an opportunity for artists or a scam perpetrated against them?
   - Who are the collectors willing to pay millions for a certificate of
   authenticity? Why are they doing it?
   - Why do the visual arts seem to have acquired such a central role in
   the crypto economy?





Author: Domenico Quaranta

Editor: Janez Fakin Janša

Translator: Anna Carruthers

Design and layout: Federico Antonini, Alessio D'Ellena

Format: 10.5 x 16.7 cm

Pages: 376

Colour and B/W images

Language: EN



ISBN: 978-961-7173-12-3





*Published by:*

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Represented by: Marcela Okretič

www.aksioma.org

aksi...@aksioma.org





*Supported by:*

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City of Ljubljana
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New Extractivism 3/4: DISNOVATION.ORG

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear friends,

I would like to share with you some contents from Nicolas Maigret and Maria
Roszkowska's visit to Ljubljana last week:



New Extractivism 3/4: DISNOVATION.ORG

aksioma.org/life.support.system

How can we meet the energy and material needs of our collective future
without triggering ecosystem collapse?

The third of the four activity strands of the Tactics & Practice #12: New
Extractivism <https://aksioma.org/new.extractivism> programme presents
DISNOVATION.ORG research collective. Through a series of activities last
week, they presented their speculative research project Post Growth in an
invitation to test the limits of technology, politics and our imaginations.

<https://aksioma.org/new.extractivism>


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ARTIST TALK

Post Growth


The artist talk presents an ongoing project Post Growth that aims to
reimagine social metabolism, reconsider the critical dimension of living
and material activities of the biosphere, and offer perspectives for a
shift away from the over-exploitation of fossil fuels, on which the
reproduction of our societies mainly depends today.

*WATCH THE ARTIST TALK <https://youtu.be/pGnBrsKKQ4A>*


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PUBLICATION

Dušan Kažić interviewed by Clémence Seurat

No One Has Ever Produced Anything

PostScriptUM #42

The misconception that humanity cannot live without production is deeply
rooted in our societies and has the status of common sense. In the
interview, plant anthropologist Dušan Kažić invites us to imagine
agriculture and a world without production. We need a new type of
materialism, he says, that does not neglect other beings.

*READ THE INTERVIEW <https://aksioma.org/no-one-has-ever-produced-anything>*

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EXHIBITION

on show at Aksioma Project Space until 20 May

Life Support System is one of the Post Growth prototypes. This installation
consists of one square meter of barley, artificially grown in a closed
environment. All inputs such as water, light, heat and nutrients are
measured and publicly displayed. This experimental farm brings to light the
incalculable demands of conventional agriculture for ecosystem services
that we expect to be available for free.

*WATCH THE LIVE STREAM FROM LJUBLJANA
<https://lss.earth/shows.html?show=aksioma>*

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*Production: *Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2022

*In collaboration with: * ALUO – The Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the
University of Ljubljana & MGML / Cukrarna Gallery

*Part of the series:* Tactics & Practice
<https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice>

*Supported by*: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia &
Municipality of Ljubljana



*The Life Support System project was produced by iMAL (BE) in co-production
with la Biennale Chroniques (FR).*


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Marcela Okretič
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
www.aksioma.org
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THE PROPOSAL / Jill Magid in conversation with Regine Debatty - Today at 5pm CET

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear all,

Today at 5pm CET follow the online conversation between Jill Magid and
Regine Debatty about Jill's movie The Proposal:
www.aksioma.org/streaming

We'd be happy to read your comments and questions on the live chat!

More about The Proposal here: https://aksioma.org/the.proposal

All the best,
Marcela



Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia



Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

tel.: + 386 – (0)590 54360

gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830

e-mail: marc...@aksioma.org

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Hyperemployment / STREAM #2: #algoregimes / !Mediengruppe Bitnik & Felix Stalder

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear friends, 

 

we'd be happy to read your comments and questions in the live chat
accompanying today's session: 

 

Hyperemployment - Post-work, Online Labour and Automation
STREAM #2 / Monday, 7 December 2020 at 5 PM (CET)

 

#ALGOREGIMES
!Mediengruppe Bitnik & Felix Stalder

Join us here >
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d462
2=3c97e51be0=b2b01b8bf8> aksioma.org/streaming

 

 

With many decision systems within our societies moving towards automation
they are becoming increasingly data-driven. Algorithms are assigned a
central role within these systems to make the decisions based on numbers.
This evolving landscape of decision-making is hard to disentangle because
many parts - the data sources, the algorithms, the processes - are
deliberately kept secret and opaque. How can aesthetic practices help gain
insights into these systems? And what could we do with this insight?

The upcoming streaming event is an informal conversation between
!Mediengruppe Bitnik and Felix Stalder on topics such as the invisibility of
institutional processes, the functioning of infrastructures and logistics,
and freedom and control in the data economy.  

#algoregimes is also the title of the conversation between !Mediengruppe
Bitnik and Felix Stalder published in
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d462
2=24b4e9ec64=b2b01b8bf8> Hyperemployment - Post-work, Online Labor and
Automation, the reader edited by Domenico Quaranta and Janez Janša recently
published by NERO and Aksioma.
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d462
2=38604c74a7=b2b01b8bf8> Here you can find the full and free version.

 

The book is already available at
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d462
2=e8c9b9666c=b2b01b8bf8> NERO.
In today's
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d462
2=6465d4ae80=b2b01b8bf8>  live streaming, we'll reveal a discount code.

 




FB event > https://www.facebook.com/events/286217366143157

Streaming page > https://aksioma.org/streaming

Follow us on Telegram >  <https://t.me/aksiomaorg> https://t.me/aksiomaorg




 

Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2020
Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the
Municipality of Ljubljana and ProHelvetia


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Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

tel.: + 386 - (0)590 54360

gsm: + 386 - (0)41 - 250830

e-mail: marc...@aksioma.org <mailto:marc...@aksioma.org> 

www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org> 

 

 

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Hyperemployment / STREAM #1: Laborious Relations / Silvio Lorusso, Sebastian Schmieg, Davor Mišković

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear friends,

 

we invite you all to join us and share your comments and questions trough
the live chat!

 

Hyperemployment - Post-work, Online Labour and Automation
STREAM #1 / Monday, 23 November 2020 at 5 PM (CET)

 

Laborious Relations
Silvio Lorusso & Sebastian Schmieg
Moderated by Davor Mišković

Join us here >
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d462
2=3c97e51be0=b2b01b8bf8> aksioma.org/streaming

 

Today, no matter if we are unemployed, self-employed or working at a regular
full-time job, as "technology users" we are always working.

 

In November 2019, Aksioma started a one-year program of events entitled
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d462
2=08553a0946=b2b01b8bf8> Hyperemployment - Post-work, Online Labor and
Automation curated by Domenico Quaranta and Janez Janša. Now we are ready to
wrap up this experience with
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d462
2=799a1cd406=b2b01b8bf8> a publication featuring words by Domenico
Quaranta, Luciana Parisi, Silvio Lorusso, !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Felix
Stalder, and the works of all the artists who were part of the program. The
book will be co-published by NERO and Aksioma in December 2020.

 

Leading up to the book release, Aksioma presents two streaming events with
some of the artists whose works and/or texts are included in the book. The
first event entitled Laborious Relations is a conversation between two of
them: Silvio Lorusso and Sebastian Schmieg. Lorusso will take the cue from
the essay (featured in the reader) entitled Gig Economy Art and Its Dark
Matter that focuses on the figure of the art worker and critically reflects
on the use of outsourcing and crowdworking services in artistic production.
Schmieg will instead take as a starting point the idea of
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d462
2=9ef3dde98e=b2b01b8bf8> "laborious intelligence", expressed in his
article published for Kulturtechniken 4.0. The conversation will be
moderated by the director of the Rijeka cultural association Drugo more,
Davor Mišković.

 

STREAM #2: On Monday 7 December 2020, as always at 5 PM CET, and always on
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d462
2=295807a082=b2b01b8bf8> Aksioma | Streaming channel, we'll meet the
artist duo !Mediengruppe Bitnik and the professor of digital culture and
network theories Felix Stalder who will discuss topics related to the
invisibility of institutional processes, the functioning of infrastructures
and logistics, freedom and the economy of data.

 




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Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2020
Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the
Municipality of Ljubljana

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MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society // Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination

[Marcela Okretič]

MoneyLab #8
Minting a Fair Society

LIVE STREAMING SERIES

11 May - 29 June 2020

https://aksioma.org/moneylab8

 

STREAM #7 / Monday, 22 June 2020 at 5 pm CET

Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination

With Jaya Klara Brekke, Max Haiven, Martin Zeilinger

Moderated by Inte Gloerich

+ You are kindly invited to share your comments and questions trough the
live chat!

 

Like many technologies, the radical potential of blockchains and
cryptocurrencies to revolutionise the way we work, trade, cooperate and
exchange has narrowed as major banks, corporations, and other powerful
interests claim this potential for themselves. What has happened to those
alternative futures lost along the way? What about the paths not taken in
the development of this technology? Or was it fated to be this way? Was this
technology cursed from the beginning? This panel seeks to explore the ghosts
and spectres of alternative possibilities, of the radical imagination, that
haunt today's landscape of blockchain experiments. In an era when
blockchains are being used for the purpose of increasing corporate power, of
consolidating inequality, or for new forms of surveillance and exploitation,
are other blockchain futures possible?

 

The panellists will seek to recover the political economies of the
hacker-engineers, whose stories start with an affiliation to
"decentralisation" that emerged out of experiences in pre-Bitcoin
cypherpunk, hacker and peer-to-peer network cultures as well as consider
money's long history of "epic failures", in which schemers, dreamers and
tricksters have tried, and failed, to steal monetary fire from the economic
Gods. Together they will question the task for a truly revolutionary money
that would not only bring about a redistribution of wealth, but also a
reimagination of value. Among the propositions, we'll hear about exploring
how blockchain tech could be used not for "fixing" property-based value
systems, but for refusing such systems entirely. Instead of financialising
creative practice and further commodifying aesthetic artefacts, can "crypto"
resist property as such? How might an unownable digital artefact function on
the blockchain?

 




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Organised and produced by: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art,
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For the series:  <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/> Tactics & Practice
In the frame of:  <https://kons-platforma.org/> konS - Platform for
Contemporary Investigative Art
In collaboration with:  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Kino Šiška - Centre
for Urban Culture and  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Institute of Network
Cultures / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
In partnership with: <https://rijeka2020.eu/en/>  Rijeka ECoC 2020 and
<https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html> Interface
Cultures Department / Kunstuniversität Linz
Media partners: Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio
Študent

 

The project konS - Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on
the public call for the selection of the operations "Network of
Investigative Art and Culture Centres". 

The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the
European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

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MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society // Tax Havens: Normalized Grand Theft

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear all, 

we invite you to follow the 6th stream of MoneyLab #8 and to share your
comments and questions trough the live chat.

 

MoneyLab #8
Minting a Fair Society

LIVE STREAMING SERIES
https://aksioma.org/moneylab8


STREAM #6 / Monday, 15 June 2020 at 5 pm CET

Tax Havens: Normalized Grand Theft

With RYBN.ORG and Demystification Committee

Moderated by Anuška Delić

 

Tax havens are a popular topic for bar rants about The Others, those dirty
scumbags who came to possess vast sums of money through means, networks,
tools and methods an everyday earthling does not have access to. It is
generally assumed the funds are a result of some money laundering/public
corruption/criminal operation (as they often are), or of a "perfectly legal
and legitimate" tax avoidance scheme. By law, only tax evasion is illegal,
while the rest are legal methods of "cashing in" individual benefits, i.e.,
tax deductions for dependables. The public seemingly responds to revelations
by authorities, journalists, and others about the millions in national
currencies that have sunk into exotic offshore locations with the resigned
realisation that everything will remain the same. This is true, but it also
obfuscates the real consequences of tax havens: the millions of euros that
never reach a country's budget and are often a result of transnational
crime. After the Panama Papers shook the global markets in 2016, some states
fought back by installing registers of beneficial owners. Yet, they can
hardly do anything about the flourishing offshore financial industry. To do
so would go against the grain of the national economies of giants like the
USA, where some states are "onshore" havens. Meanwhile the global public is
complicit in this normalisation because, honestly, it is complicated to
think about taxes and tax havens, right? Let this panel of investigative
artists talking to an investigative journalist make it easier for you.
RYBN.ORG will take you on an intimate ride aboard The Great Offshore,
guiding you gently through offshore finance in infamous locations, like
Malta, to help you identify with The Others. Then the Demystification
Committee will show you how you can even become one of Them by receiving
guidance from their Offshore Investigation Vehicle to set up your own global
corporate structure.

 




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Organised and produced by: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art,
Ljubljana, 2020
For the series:  <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/> Tactics & Practice
In the frame of:  <https://kons-platforma.org/> konS - Platform for
Contemporary Investigative Art
In collaboration with:  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Kino Šiška - Centre
for Urban Culture and  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Institute of Network
Cultures / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
In partnership with: <https://rijeka2020.eu/en/>  Rijeka ECoC 2020 and
<https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html> Interface
Cultures Department / Kunstuniversität Linz
Media partners: Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio
Študent

 

The project konS - Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on
the public call for the selection of the operations "Network of
Investigative Art and Culture Centres". 

The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the
European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society / Denis 'Jaromil' Roio & Domen Savič

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear Nettimers,

 

we invite you all to follow the third session of MoneyLab #8 and to share
your ideas, comments and questions trough the live chat!

 

MoneyLab #8
Minting a Fair Society

LIVE STREAMING SERIES
https://aksioma.org/moneylab8

 

Critical thinkers, artists, researchers, activists, and geeks 

in search of other economies and financial discourses for a fair society.


STREAM #3 / Monday, 25 May 2020 at 5 pm CET

Data Sovereignty and Proximity Tracing

Denis 'Jaromil' Roio, in conversation with Domen Savič

 

Denis 'Jaromil' Roio will walk the audience across the experiences made
through two European research projects, D-CENT and DECODE, both focusing on
"Decentralised Citizen Engaged Technologies" and a "Decentralized Citizen
Owned Data Ecosystem", investigating the adoption of blockchain technologies
and the value of this innovation in society, taking the time to explain in a
detailed way what "blockchain" technology is about and what it is not.

In his conversation with Domen Savič, he will also give an update about the
latest research on proximity tracking and algorithms - see the lockdown
diaries on https://medium.com/@jaromil

 


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Organised and produced by: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art,
Ljubljana, 2020
For the series:  <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/> Tactics & Practice
In the frame of:  <https://kons-platforma.org/> konS - Platform for
Contemporary Investigative Art
In collaboration with:  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Kino Šiška - Centre
for Urban Culture and  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Institute of Network
Cultures / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
In partnership with: <https://rijeka2020.eu/en/>  Rijeka ECoC 2020 and
<https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html> Interface
Cultures Department / Kunstuniversität Linz
Media partners: Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio
Študent

 

The project konS - Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on
the public call for the selection of the operations "Network of
Investigative Art and Culture Centres". 

The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the
European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society / Evgeny Morozov & Le

[Marcela Okretič]

Aksioma is pleased to invite you to the second session of MoneyLab #8,
tomorrow at 5 pm CET!

 

MoneyLab #8
Minting a Fair Society

LIVE STREAMING SERIES
https://aksioma.org/moneylab8


Critical thinkers, artists, researchers, activists, and geeks 

in search of other economies and financial discourses for a fair society.

 

STREAM #2 / Monday, 18 May 2020 at 5 pm CET

Beyond Solutionism in a Post-COVID-19 World 

Evgeny Morozov, in conversation with Lenart J. Kučić 

 

The current crisis, with governments begging tech companies for help, has
highlighted the immense appeal of the ideology of technological solutionism.
But what is its politics? And how does it relate to the other dominant
ideology of the day, neoliberalism? This talk will explore the political
effects of technological solutionism, survey its place in today's global
capitalism as well as suggest what a post-solutionist politics might look
like. 

 




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Organised and produced by: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art,
Ljubljana, 2020
For the series:  <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/> Tactics & Practice
In the frame of:  <https://kons-platforma.org/> konS - Platform for
Contemporary Investigative Art
In collaboration with:  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Kino Šiška - Centre
for Urban Culture and  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Institute of Network
Cultures / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
In partnership with: <https://rijeka2020.eu/en/>  Rijeka ECoC 2020 and
<https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html> Interface
Cultures Department / Kunstuniversität Linz
Media partners: Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio
Študent

 

The project konS - Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on
the public call for the selection of the operations "Network of
Investigative Art and Culture Centres". 

The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the
European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

tel.: + 386 - (0)590 54360

gsm: + 386 - (0)41 - 250830

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MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society - Streaming series

[Marcela Okretič]

y: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art,
Ljubljana, 2020
For the series:  <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/> Tactics & Practice
In the frame of:  <https://kons-platforma.org/> konS - Platform for
Contemporary Investigative Art
In collaboration with:  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Kino Šiška - Centre
for Urban Culture and  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Institute of Network
Cultures / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
In partnership with: <https://rijeka2020.eu/en/>  Rijeka ECoC 2020 and
<https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html> Interface
Cultures Department / Kunstuniversität Linz
Media partners: Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio
Študent

 

Supported by: The project konS - Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
was chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations "Network
of Investigative Art and Culture Centres". 

The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the
European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

tel.: + 386 - (0)590 54360

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Tactics & Practice #8: AUTOMATE ALL THE THINGS!

[Marcela Okretič]

Domenico 
Quaranta and Janez Janša.
The textile pieces were developed in collaboration with Michael Graham. 
https://www.savantvision.com/ 
The group exhibition at La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse is supported by: DICRéAM
La Kunsthalle is a City of Mulhouse cultural establishment supported by the 
Regional Cultural Affairs Office of Grand Est - French Ministry of Culture and 
Communication, Department of Haut-Rhin.
Algotaylorism will continue with Algotaylorism: Rage Against The Machine 
curated by Aude Launay at Espace multimédia Gantner in Bourogne (F) from April 
19 to July 11 2020.

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CONTACT

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Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
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Counting Craters on the Moon by Kyriaki Goni at Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana

[Marcela Okretič]

nting.craters/#_ftnref1> [1] Mackenzie uses the term 
“machine learner” for both humans and machines as well as their relationships, 
reminding us of the continuous effort of the human to understand how a machine 
learns. Adrian Mackenzie, Machine Learners: Archaeology of a Data Practice, 
(Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017), p. 6.

 <https://aksioma.org/counting.craters/#_ftnref2> [2] Pasquinelli underlines 
that machines do not show signs of “autonomous intelligence”. Any “super-human 
scale” of intelligence would only be acquired with the human observer, he notes 
and suggests the term “Augmented Intelligence”. Matteo Pasquinelli, “Machines 
that Morph Logic: Neural Networks and the Distorted Automation of Intelligence 
as Statistical Inference,” in Glass Bead, Site 1, November 2017, p. 15. 
https://www.glass-bead.org/article/machines-that-morph-logic/?lang=enview.

 <https://aksioma.org/counting.craters/#_ftnref3> [3] According to Bratton, 
artificial intelligence may augment any intelligence already existing in the 
world, on the planet. Benjamin Bratton, “Strelka Talks. Benjamin Bratton 
‘Alternative Models of AI (at Urban Scale),’” YouTube, video uploaded by 
Strelka Institute, 26 June 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3C31DhoPQ4. 

 

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Based in Athens, Greek artist Kyriaki Goni, creates extended multimedia 
installations focusing on the relations between technology and society. By 
utilising fiction and research, she investigates subjects such as human, 
non-human and machine interaction, data and privacy, perception and 
construction of the digital self. Her works have been exhibited in galleries 
and new media festivals worldwide: Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, 
transmediale19, IMPAKT, Athens Biennial, Melbourne Triennial, Tomorrows, ADAF, 
ISEA21, SIGGRAPH2016, etc. She was recently selected for an art commission by 
the New Networked Normal ( <https://thennn.eu/events/networks-trust/> 
theNNN.eu). Following her practice, she also designs and conducts workshops for 
youth and adults, and presents her research on conferences and digital 
platforms. Her paper Deletion Process_Only you can see my history was published 
in Leonardo, Journal of Art, Science and Technology, MIT (August 2016). She 
completed a BA Hons in Visual Arts and an MA in Digital Arts at the Athens 
School of Fine Arts, as well as graduate and postgraduate studies in Social 
Anthropology at Panteion University (GR) and in Visual Anthropology at Leiden 
University (NL). See  <http://kyriakigoni.com/> http://kyriakigoni.com/.

 

Daphne Dragona is a curator and writer based in Berlin. Through her work, she 
engages with artistic practices, methodologies and pedagogies that challenge 
contemporary forms of power. She has been collaborating with transmediale 
festival since 2015. Her writing has been published in various books, journals, 
magazines and exhibition catalogues by the likes of Springer, Sternberg Press 
and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Her talks  have been hosted at Mapping 
Festival (Geneva), MoMa (New York), Hek (Basel), Arts in Society (London), 
Leuphana University (Lueneburg) and Goethe University (Frankfurt). Among her 
curated – or co-curated – projects are the exhibitions: Tomorrows, Fictions 
spéculatives pour l’avenir méditerranéen (Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, 2019), “…” an 
archeology of silence in the digital age (Aksioma, Ljubljana, 2017), New 
Babylon Revisited (Goethe-Institut Athen, 2014), Afresh, a new generation of 
Greek artists (ΕΜSΤ, 2013), Mapping the Commons Athens (EMST, 2010), Homo 
Ludens Ludens (Laboral, 2008). She holds a PhD from the Faculty of 
Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens. 

 

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Produced by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2019

 

Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the 
Municipality of Ljubljana.

 

 

Aksioma is:

Janez Janša / Artistic Director

Marcela Okretič / Producer

Sonja Grdina / Executive Producer

Jana Renée Wilcoxen / Development Specialist

Urška Barut / Public Relations

Valter Udovičić / Technician

 

 

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Nika Oblak & Primož Novak: And Now for Something Completely Different 10

[Marcela Okretič]

hey have received numerous 
grants and awards, including the CYNETART Award by the Trans-Media-Akademie 
Hellerau in Dresden (DE), an honorary mention of art critics at Biennale WRO, 
Wroclaw (PL), the White Aphroid Award for artistic achievement by MMC KIBLA, 
Maribor (SI) and a Rihard Jakopic honorable mention, awarded by the Slovenian 
Association of Fine Arts Societies, the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 
Ljubljana, Moderna galerija and the Slovene Association of Art Critics (SI). 
Their work can be found at  <http://www.oblak-novak.org> 
http://www.oblak-novak.org

 

 

Production of the exhibition: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, 
Ljubljana, 2019

The project Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is a 
co-production between Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, KID KIBLA and 
Asia Culture Center.

 

Supported by: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the 
Municipality of Ljubljana.

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

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Tactics #7: CRITICAL ENGINEERING, Ljubljana, 26-27 March 2019

[Marcela Okretič]

Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is glad to announce:

 

Tactics #7

CRITICAL ENGINEERING

Radical Tools for Interventions in Infrastructure

https://aksioma.org/critical.engineering/index.html

 

TALKS | WORKSHOP | EXHIBITION

Ljubljana, 26-27 March 2019

 

 

THE TALKS:

Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana 

Tuesday, 26 March 2019

17:00 Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev: Dark Internet Topologies

17:45 Gordan Savičić & Bengt Sjölén: Electromagnetic Situationism

18:30 Joana Moll: An Autopsy of Data Business

19:15 Sarah Grant: Radical Networks

 

Free admission. Please fill in the registration form
<https://goo.gl/forms/40WPby7FQFnsBWnJ3>  by 24 March 2019.

 

THE WORKSHOP:

Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana 

Wednesday, 27 March 2019

9:00-18:00 Sarah Grant & Joana Moll: Surveillance Override

 

The workshop is free of charge. Limited to 12 participants. Follow this link
<https://goo.gl/forms/3YeBjVVC0RZDP8jD3>  to apply.

 

THE EXHIBITION:

Aksioma | Project Space, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana

Wednesday, 27 March 2019 

19:00 Critical Engineering - opening (open through 26 April 2019)

 

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In 2011, a group of artists and engineers published the
<https://criticalengineering.org/> "Critical Engineering Manifesto", since
translated into 18 languages. Around the manifesto, originally written by
Julian Oliver, Gordan Savičić and Danja Vasiliev, gathered a larger group -
the Critical Engineering Working Group - now including also Sarah Grant,
Bengt Sjölén and Joana Moll.

In true avant-garde fashion, the "Manifesto" launches by describing
Engineering as "the most transformative language of our time, shaping the
way we move, communicate and think", thus, it is the work of the Critical
Engineer "to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence".
Further, a Critical Engineer "recognises that each work of engineering
engineers its user", considering "any technology depended upon to be both a
challenge and a threat". And so the manifesto unfolds.

Nearly ten years later, the relevance of the "Critical Engineering
Manifesto" has only become more evident, as an ever-growing public becomes
aware of the techno-political implications of using - and depending upon -
integrated systems and complex, networked technologies. Today, one can find
its 11 points listed on the walls of hacklabs, museums, engineering and
media-art academies, and in a great many texts, the world over.

The Tactics <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/>  event entitled
Critical Engineering comprises an exhibition, a seminar and a workshop,
underlining the artistic, theoretical and educational work done by the
Critical Engineering Working Group along the last decade. The seminar will
host all the members of the group - all of them recognised artists with long
individual artistic careers - using their statements and their projects as
case studies to analyse the transformative potential of Critical Engineering
in the context of a tactical and technical arts practice.

 

 

Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2019

Coproduction: Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Ljubljana and Drugo more,
Rijeka

 

Supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of
Ljubljana.

 

Tactics #7 is realised in the framework of State Machines
<http://www.statemachines.eu/> , a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more
(HR), Furtherfield (UK), Institute of Network Cultures (NL) and NeMe (CY).

 

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This
communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission
cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information
contained therein.

 

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

tel.: + 386 - (0)590 54360

gsm: + 386 - (0)41 - 250830

e-mail: marc...@aksioma.org

www.aksioma.org

 

 

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