Aksioma -- Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana,
in partnership with the /reSource for transmedial culture/ (transmediale
festival for art and digital culture berlin)
presents
/*Telekommunisten */
/*Miscommunication Technologies - R15N*/
_www.aksioma.org/telekommunisten <http://www.aksioma.org/telekommunisten>_
*Aksioma **|**Project Space*
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
19 March -- 6 April 2012
*Artist's presentation and exhibition opening: Monday, 19 March 2012 at
7 p.m.
*
Press kit: www.aksioma.org/press/telekommunisten.zip
<http://www.aksioma.org/press/telekommunisten.zip>
/The most significant challenge the open web will need to overcome
is not technical, it is political./--- Telekommunisten
**
/*Telekommunisten */
/*Miscommunication Technologies - R15N*/
/Miscommunication Technologies/is an ongoing project of the
Telekommunisten Network that employs satire and emphasizes simplicity
and human interactions over technological sophistication, creating
platforms that don't work as expected or work in unexpected ways.
They uncover the social relations embedded in network topologies and
communications platforms and it comprises works such as the /*R15N
*/project, /*deadSwap*/offline file sharing system, and /*Thimbl, */a
distributed social network based on the finger protocol from the 1970s.
They operate as a form of performative, interactive, social-economic
fiction that presents an experimental technology, engaging its users and
confronting them with the social relations embedded in communication
platforms.
For the /*R15N*/project Telekommunisten Network adopts a retro
aesthetics in order to bring through a story about the prevalence of
digital divide in most local environments, and call into question the
newness or hype surrounding contemporary communication platforms. They
attempt to fill in the gap between the connected and the disconnected by
employing an old technology like telephones. /R15N/is an experimental
phone service which counters the pervasive social networks.
/R15N/implements a variation on the random phone call broadcast model to
enable a community to share information. The system works by arbitrarily
determining who in the community will be responsible for passing on a
message, setting up an ad-hoc telephone tree that allows the community
to distribute messages.
For more information and registration details see: http://r15n.net
<http://r15n.net/>
The exhibition is organised as part of the framework of the reSource for
transmedial culture, the ongoing local and translocal networking
platform of transmediale festival berlin, in the context of which the
project R15N was initially launched.
At the exhibition opening Dmytri Kleiner will present the
/Telekomunisten Manifesto/section P2P Communism vs Client-Server
Capitalism.
The presentation is introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli, curator of the
reSource for transmedial culture.
*Telekommunisten*is a Berlin-based collective whose work investigates
the political economy of communications technology. Core themes include
the incompatibility of capitalism with free networks and free culture,
and the increasing centralisation and enclosure that results, as well as
the potential for distributed producers employing a collective stock of
productive assets to provide an alternative economic basis for a free
society.
*Dmytri Kleiner*is a software developer working on practical and
symbolic artistic projects investigating the political economy of the
Internet. He develops miscommunication technologies that uncover the
social relations embedded in communication platforms. He is a co-founder
and an active member of the Telekommunisten Network, and the author of
the Telekommunist Manifesto published by the Institute of Network
Cultures. *At transmediale.11 he was nominated for the Open Web Award
with */*Thimbl*/*.*
The *reSource for transmedial culture*is an initiative of transmediale
in partnership with CTM/DISK, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and the
Post-Media Lab of the Leuphana University Lüneburg. The reSource is
active in the city of Berlin throughout the year as a context of
networking and projects dissemination with decisive touchdowns at each
festival. The objective of the reSource is to act as a link between the
cultural production of art festivals and collaborative networks in the
field of art and technology, hacktivism and politics.
*Tatiana Bazzichelli*is a researcher, networker and curator, working in
the field of hacktivism and net culture. She is part of the transmediale
festival team in Berlin, where she develops the reSource for transmedial
culture. She received a Ph.D. in Information and Media Studies from
Aarhus University (DK), conducting research on disruptive art practices
in the business of social media/./
*Production: *Aksioma -- Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2012
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_
Artistic Director: Janez Jans(a
Executive Producer: Marcela Okretic(
Assistant Production: Sonja Grdina
Public Relations: Mojca Zupanic(
Technical Supervisor: Valter Udovic(ic'
*Exhibition design:* Jonas Frankki
/*The programme of Aksioma Institute is supported by the Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.*/
/Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o./
//*Contact:*
Marcela Okretic(, +386 41 250 830, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>_
*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana*
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_
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