[spectre] New publication: Handmade Networks by Steffen Köhn and Nestor Siré

[Marcela Okretič via SPECTRE]

 Dear friends,
we are happy to announce a new publication:

*Handmade Networks*
*by Steffen Köhn and Nestor Siré*
https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks

*Handmade Networks* presents a body of research-based artworks by *Steffen
Köhn* and *Nestor Siré*. Their collaborative projects explore how the Cuban
people have compensated for their lack of internet connectivity by building
massive alternative infrastructures, such as grassroots community computer
networks or offline “sneakernets”. They document how Cubans defy material
scarcity by recycling or appropriating obsolete technologies, creating
digital exchange platforms on messenger applications, or engaging in
play-to-earn blockchain games. By examining the resilient and resistive
potentials of these vernacular infrastructures, Köhn and Siré’s work also
reimagines such networks as viable alternatives to the capitalist,
consumerist digital infrastructures controlled by an oligopoly of Big Tech
companies that have homogenised the global internet.

With additional contributions by curator and researcher *Bani Brusadin* and
Cuban sci-fi writer *Erick J. Mota*.

*PREORDER with discounted price: *
https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks

The book will be released on 10 July 2024.

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CREDITS

*Handmade Networks*
Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré

Contributors: Bani Brusadin, Erick J. Mota, Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré

Editor: Janez Fakin Janša
Editorial assistant: Rok Kranjc
Copyediting: Miha Šuštar
Design and layout: Federico Antonini, Simone Cavallin

Published by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
<https://aksioma.org/>
Ljubljana, 2024

*The research for and publication of this book were generously funded by
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation),
project number 428086777.*


Marcela Okretič
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
www.aksioma.org
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[spectre] Book release: Exit Reality by Valentina Tanni [ENG]

[Marcela Okretič via SPECTRE]

Dear friends,

We are proud to announce the release of the English version of *Exit
Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the
Threshold.*

>From the eerie, strung-out sounds of vaporwave and increasingly bizarre
niches within ASMR videos to the quasi-mythical spaces of underground
labyrinths and young TikTokers experimenting with quantum jumping, art
historian and curator *Valentina Tanni *explores the influence of Internet
aesthetics in her new book *Exit Reality*. The book, now translated from
Italian into English and jointly published by *NERO Editions *and *Aksioma*,
will be launched on* 15 May 2024*.

‘Tanni's new book is a guide to learning how to navigate internet
aesthetics. It’s also
an explicit invitation to art criticism to take artistic productions
created online seriously’.
- Artribune.com

*Exit Reality* marks the first attempt to map a world imbued with
disorienting hallucinatory qualities, a realm that appears as a parallel
planet that has emerged from the depths of code-space. Starting from the
advent of vaporwave, which infused the network’s native imagery with
spectral qualities in the early 2010s, she takes us on a descent through
the levels that traverse the silent horror of the Backrooms, brushes
against the obsession with sensory stimulation of ASMR, delves into the
algorithmic surrealism of weirdcore, and lands in the exploration of
pseudomagical practices such as reality shifting and memetic rituals. All
the while, we remain comfortably seated before our screen, inside a
battlestation ready to take off for a one-way astral journey, eternally
trapped in the liminal space born from the now inseparable bond between
human visions and Machine dreams.

*PRE-ORDER* <https://aksioma.org/exit-reality>

Exit Reality will be available for pre-order at the standard price of €22
until 24 May 2024. During that time, readers will be able to enjoy a
discount on shipping.
The book is available to purchase via the websites of Aksioma
<https://aksioma.org/publications>and NERO Editions
<https://www.neroeditions.com/>.

___



*Valentina TanniExit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other
Landscapes Beyond the Threshold*
Format: 10.5 x 16.7 cm
Pages: 264
Language: EN
Year: 2024
ISBN 978-961-7173-46-8 (Aksioma)
ISBN 978-88-8056-254-2 (NERO)

Translated by: Anna Carruthers
Copyediting: Miha Šuštar
Editorial coordinators: Janez Fakin Janša, Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti
Design and layout: Lola Giffard-Bouvier

Published by:
NERO Editions
and
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

This book is published in the frame of the project .expub – Exploring
expanded publishing <https://networkcultures.org/expub/>.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however
those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the
European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency
(EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for
them.
Additionally 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
www.aksioma.org
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[spectre] (un)real data ☁ - (隣)real effects, node #2

[Marcela Okretič via SPECTRE]

*How did we end up in a world where everything is rated and evaluated
according to personal taste? And where do we go from here?*


In the *second node* of *Tactics #15: (un)real data ☁ - (隣)real
effects
*,
dedicated to the politics of rating systems and grappling with the ability
of ratings to cause effects in the physical world, we focus on the artistic
duo *!Mediengruppe Bitnik*, researcher and architect *Selena Savić*, and
artist and critical engineer *Gordan Savičić*.


---



*2 April 2024 15:00-18:00* / ALUO, Tobačna 5, Ljubljana

*WORKSHOP *!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić, Gordan Savičić: ⭐*1 Star
Workshop*


The artists scraped thousands of one-star reviews of public sites in
Ljubljana. Taking the scraped data as a starting point, the workshop will
look at the materiality of this data, its specific textures and aesthetics.
What types of views of the city can we generate from the data? How can we
approach the data in interesting ways? Can we use the scraped data as a
form of critique and artistic research? [MORE]



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*3 April 2024 19:00* / Aksioma Project Space / until 26 April
*EXHIBITION OPENING AND PROJECT PRESENTATION*
!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić, Gordan Savičić: *One Star Review Tour*


What are the consequences when we scrutinise and publicly evaluate the
places we love? With the exhibition *One Star Review Tour*, the artists
examine the prevalence of the five-star rating system in contemporary
data-driven environments. They explore how these systems, including credit
scores, social influence rankings and product/service reviews, influence
decisions in various aspects of daily life. The impact of ratings,
influencing our decisions on everything from restaurants and doctors to the
products we buy and the places we visit, will also be the subject of the
accompanying presentation by the authors. [MORE]








*Tactics #15: (Un)real Data – Real Effects*
*February–June 2024*

*Participants:* Alexandre Puttick, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder,
Gloria Gammer, Gordan Savičić, Marta Peirano, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Neja
Berger, Sebastian Schmieg, Selena Savić, Simon Weckert, Total Refusal,
Valentina Tanni

*Curators: *!Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo)
*Artistic director:* Janez Fakin Janša

The programme is based on !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s research project *Latent
Spaces: Performing Ambiguous Data* at the Zürich University of the Arts.
The conference is developed in collaboration with Felix Stalder and with
the curatorial advice of the Latent Spaces research group.

*Production:* Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2024

*In collaboration with:* Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture and ALUO – The
Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana

*Supported by: *The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the
Municipality of Ljubljana
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[spectre] Tactics #15: (un)real data ☁️ - (流)real effects /// February–June 2024, Ljubljana

[Marcela Okretič via SPECTRE]

Dear Spectres,
we are proud to announce our upcoming (15th!!) edition of Tactice
and we are very much looking forward to seeing you in Ljubljana!
Check out the programme below.
All the best,
Marcela



*Tactics #15:*
*(un)real data **☁️** - (**流**)real effects*

TALKS | PERFORMANCES | EXHIBITIONS | WORKSHOPS | PODCAST | PUBLICATION
*February–June 2024, Ljubljana*



For the 15th edition of Tactics, Aksioma’s discursive programme
focusing on contemporary investigative art, society and new
technologies, *!Mediengruppe
Bitnik* (Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo) in collaboration with Janez
Fakin Janša curates *(Un)real Data – Real Effects*, a series of events,
activities and critical reflections that explores how the ambiguous quality
of data can be used as a tool to produce real-world outcomes.

*With: *Alexandre Puttick, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder, Gloria
Gammer, Gordan Savičić, Marta Peirano, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Neja Berger,
Sebastian Schmieg, Selena Savić, Simon Weckert, Total Refusal, Valentina
Tanni


*Full programme:*  https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/

*Free entry, registration required*
*: *https://pretix.eu/aksioma/unrealdata/

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*KICK-OFF EVENT*
*27 February 2024 / Kino Šiška, Ljubljana*

Katedrala Hall
CONFERENCE: *(Un)real Data - Real Effects*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/conference/>

16:30-18:00

   - TALK: *Intro to Unreal Data
   <https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/conference/an-intro-to-unreal-data/>*
by *!Mediengruppe
   Bitnik*
   - TALK: *Unreal Is the New Real*
   <https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/conference/unreal-is-the-new-real/>
by *Felix
   Stalder*
   + conversation moderated by Neja Berger
   - LECTURE PERFORMANCE: *Data Cyborgs: A Partially Algorithmically
   Generated Embodied Conversation Between Three Different Logics*
   
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/conference/data-cyborgs-a-partially-algorithmically-generated-embodied-conversation-between-three-different-logics/>
   by *Cornelia Sollfrank *and *Alexandre Puttick*


18:30-20:00

   - KEYNOTE: *Gaslighting AI*
   <https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/conference/gaslighting-ai/> by *Marta
   Peirano*
   + conversation moderated by Neja Berger
   - INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE: *No Travel Agency*
   <https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/conference/no-travel-agency/> by *Simon
   Weckert *and* Gloria Gammer*


Kamera Hall / 20:00-21:00
EXHIBITION: *Google Maps Hacks*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/exhibitions/google-maps-hacks/> by *Simon
Weckert*

Komuna Hall /  21:00-22:30
PERFORMANCE: *Prompt Battle*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/conference/prompt-battle/> by *Sebastian
Schmieg*

Lower Foyer / 22:30-00:00
Live DJ set with *DJ DVMIR*


-



*NODE #2: Simon Weckert*


*26 February 2024 / Aksioma* *Project Space*
19:00 / EXHIBITION OPENING: *The Republic of Null Island*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/exhibitions/the-republic-of-null-island/>

*28 February 2024 / ALUO, Tobačna 5*
15:00-16:00 / ARTIST TALK: *The Map Becomes the Territory – Street 3.0*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/artist-talks/the-map-becomes-the-territory-street-3-0/>
16:00-18:00 / WORKSHOP: *Dreams and Disruptions: Machine Unlearning for
Artists*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/workshops/dreams-and-disruptions-machine-unlearning-for-artists/>


-



*NODE #2:*
* Selena Savić, Gordan Savičić & !Mediengruppe Bitnik*

*2 April 2024 / ALUO, Tobačna 5*
15:00-18:00 / WORKSHOP: *⭐** 1 Star Workshop*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/workshops/%e2%ad%90-1-star-workshop/>

*3 April 2024 / Aksioma* *Project Space*
19:00 / ARTIST TALK: *Ratings Suck!!! How Did We Even Get to This Point*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/artist-talks/ratings-suck-how-did-we-even-get-to-this-point/>
and
EXHIBITION OPENING: *One Star Review Tour*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/exhibitions/one-star-review-tour/>


-


*NODE #3:*
* Total Refusal*

*15 May 2024 / ALUO, Tobačna 5*
WORKSHOP: *OPEN-ENDED STORIES*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/workshops/open-ended-stories/>

*15 May 2024 / Aksioma* *Project Space*
19:00 / EXHIBITION OPENING: *BPM*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/exhibitions/bpm/>


*Valentina Tanni & Total Refusal*

*16 May 2024 / Slovenska kinoteka*
19:00-20:00 / PERFORMANCE: *Let’s play: Exit Reality*
<https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/performances/lets-play-exit-reality/>



**



CREDITS


*Tactics #15: (Un)real Data – Real Effects*

*Participants:* Alexandre Puttick, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder,
Gloria Gammer, Gordan Savičić, Marta Peirano, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Neja
Berger, Sebastian Schmieg, Selena Savić, Simon Weckert, Total Refusal,
Valentina Tanni
*Curators: *!Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo)

*Artistic director: *Janez Fakin Janša

The programme is based on !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s research project *Latent
Spaces: Performing Ambiguous Data* at the Zürich University of the Arts.

The conference is developed

[spectre] Aksioma & transmediale release a new book

[Marcela Okretič via SPECTRE]

Dear friends,


I'd like to announce the new book co-published by Aksioma & transmediale:


*A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale*



PREORDER <https://aksioma.org/scale-book>



Preorders are open until 6 December 2023.

13€ preorder / 18€ regular price


-



The word *scale *is tricky. It invites many definitions, orientations and
connections to ourselves, our surroundings and our tools. However, to think
of scale as solely technical is reductive and omits the relations, feelings
and beliefs that come with such measurements and images. In this book,
eight authors come together to challenge our conventions and understanding
of scale as grounded in the human.


*A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale* is a joint
publication by *Aksioma* – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, and
*transmediale* in Berlin. The publication reflects back the shared
theme of transmediale’s
2023 festival edition a model, a map, a fiction
<https://2023.transmediale.de/en> and of Aksioma’s programme
Tactics #14: Scale <https://aksioma.org/scale/> and came together
from a common desire to think collectively about how measurements and maps
create both politics and feelings in the world. It is an investigation
undertaken in collaboration with the authors that opens up our
understanding of the word scale. The book explores how scale reconfigures
relations, politics, and affects, through the writing of *Asia
Bazdyrieva*, *Anthony
Downey*, *Chris Lee* in conversation with *FRAUD* (*Audrey Samson* and
*Francisco
Gallardo*), *Jussi Parikka*, *Laura Tripaldi* and *Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal*.


The authors expand our understanding of scale to the more-than-human, trace
its movements and frictions through histories, and question the way scale
generates political power. Demonstrating how we can think with scale, they
introduce us to scalar thinking, its urgency in our socio-technical present
and its potential for making new maps, new representations and new kinds of
measurements.



BOOK PREVIEW <https://aksioma.org/pdf/Scale-book-preview.pdf>



-



*Colophon*



*A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale*


Contributors: Asia Bazdyrieva, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Anthony Downey,
FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo), Chris Lee, Jussi Parikka,
Laura Tripaldi

Editors: Nóra Ó Murchú, Janez Fakin Janša

Editorial assistants: Anna-Lena Panter, Rok Kranjc

Copyediting: Miha Šuštar, Pip Hare

Design and layout: Federico Antonini, Simone Cavallin

Print: Collegium Graphicum

No. of copies: 1000

Promotion and distribution: Sonja Grdina


All texts originally published online as part of the transmediale journal
were edited by Elise Misao Hunchuck.

All texts originally published in the Aksioma’s essay series PostScriptUM
were edited by Janez Fakin Janša.



Published by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
<https://aksioma.org/>

Represented by: Marcela Okretič



and



transmediale e.V <https://transmediale.de/en>., Berlin

Represented by: Filippo Gianetta



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


Ljubljana, November 2023




Marcela Okretič
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
www.aksioma.org
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[spectre] Tactics [podcast]: (re)programming

[Marcela Okretič via SPECTRE]

Dear friends,

The 10th edition of Tactics in 2021 saw writer and tech
journalist *Marta
Peirano* conceive and lead a festival of conversations entitled
*(re)programming:
Strategies for Self-Renewal*, where she met a series of world-renowned
thinkers to discuss key technical and social issues, from infrastructure to
energy, from community to AI. Each conversation was enriched by questions
from special guests and the online audience.

We are now publishing them in podcast format, one episode per week:
https://aksioma.org/podcast

Enjoy listening!
Best,
Marcela


*(re)programming | Ep. #1: Trigger [w/ Kim Stanley Robinson] [LISTEN]
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming-ep.1-trigger-w-kim-stanley-robinson> *

*(re)programming | Ep. #2: Infrastructure [w/ Benjamin Bratton] [LISTEN]
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming-ep.2-infrastructure-w-benjamin-bratton>*

*(re)programming | Ep. #3: Energy [w/ Holly Jean Buck] **[LISTEN]
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming-ep.3-energy-w-holly-jean-buck>*

*(re)programming | Ep. #4: Interdependence [w/ Anab Jain] *Release: 27
October 2023

*(re)programming | Ep. #5: AI [w/ Kate Crawford] *Release: 3 November 2023

*(re)programming | Ep. #6: The Cloud [w/ Joana Moll] *Release: 10 November
2023

*(re)programming | Ep. #7: Community [w/ Astra Taylor] *Release: 17
November 2023

*(re)programming | Ep. #8: Accountability [w/ Eyal Weizman] *Release: 24
November 2023

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*(re)programming podcast series*
for *Tactics #10: (re)programming
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/credits/>*

Production: Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2023

Part of
Tactics <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice>
konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
<https://kons-platforma.org/>

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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www.aksioma.org
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[spectre] New book: Sanela Jahić – Under the Calculative Gaze

[Marcela Okretič via SPECTRE]

Dear all,
I'm happy to announce that we just released a new book about the artistic
research by Sanela Jahić about the use of artificial intelligence as a tool
of exclusion. Read below for more information.
All the best,
Marcela

Marcela Okretič
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
www.aksioma.org


---
*Sanela Jahić – Under the Calculative Gaze*
https://aksioma.org/under-the-calculative-gaze-book

“AI completes the enclosure that the autonomists called the social factory,
where capitalist relations of power extend to the smallest corner of social
reproduction. But the very generalisability of these algorithmic
exploitations creates the ground for a recomposition of resistance from
forms of relationality that still escape the algorithmic gaze.” ― Dan
McQuillan

After two successful gallery presentations of the project *Under the
Calculative Gaze <https://aksioma.org/under.calculative.gaze>*, which
juxtaposes concrete examples of the use of artificial intelligence as a
tool of exclusion with examples of collective practices of
self-organisation and solidarity, artist Sanela Jahić now presents the
findings of her critically oriented research into the social applications
of artificial intelligence in a book.

*Under the Calculative Gaze
<https://aksioma.org/under-the-calculative-gaze-book>* is a paperback
adaptation of *Sanela Jahić <https://sanelajahic.com/>*’s artistic research
that investigates how socially-applied technological tools are not only
directly intertwined with unresolved injustices of our current system, but
actually accelerate a transition towards authoritarianism that is present
in the technology industry itself, in the politics of various countries and
institutions, and in the rise of far-right political movements.

The artist examines the political resonances of AI as it offers greater
social efficiency through acts of separation and segregation. The targets
of the extensive digital control and algorithmic optimization are typically
“low-rights environments,” where expectations of political responsibility
and transparency are low. These sites are used for the introduction of
process automation and predictive analytics, amplifying vulnerabilities
stemming from long-standing social policies, increasing neoliberal
inequalities, and accelerating different dimensions of necropolitics.

To counteract this, collective practices of self-organization are
presented, where positions of social and political disadvantage give rise
to solidarity across differences and beyond models of algorithmic
governance.

*TAKE A LOOK INSIDE AND ORDER
<https://aksioma.org/under-the-calculative-gaze-book>*

-

*Colophon*

Editor: Janez Fakin Janša
Editorial assistant: Maja Burja
Translator and language editor: Miha Šuštar
Design and layout: Jaka Neon, based on IBM’s open-source Carbon Design
System

Print: Collegium Graphicum
Number of copies: 300
Format: 10.5 x 16.7 cm
Pages: 216

Language: EN
Year: 2023
ISBN: 978-961-7173-31-4

Published by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
<https://aksioma.org/>
Represented by: Marcela Okretič
Promotion and distribution: Sonja Grdina
Ljubljana, August 2023 | © Aksioma, the authors

In the framework of konS ≡ Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
<https://kons-platforma.org/en/>
konS is a project 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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[spectre] Tactics [podcast]: Scale | First episode is out!

[Marcela Okretič via SPECTRE]

Dear friends,
we are proud to announce our new Podcast channel!
We hope you'll enjoy listening :)
Best,
Marcela and Janez
Aksioma


**

*Tactics [podcast]: Scale*https://aksioma.org/podcast
August-September 2023

*Tactics [podcast]* is an audio extension of Aksioma’s discursive
programme of the same name, focused on investigative art, society and new
technologies.

Each year Tactics <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice> takes on
a specific theme. The 14th edition, held in Ljubljana in the spring of
2023, was devoted to the theme of scale. Journalist and researcher *Neja
Berger* followed the entire programme and interviewed some of its
protagonists for the podcast channel's first miniseries.

Most of the phenomena that affect the social world and underlie the ways in
which social powers – economic, political, ideological and military –
establish and act take place in realms that are much larger or smaller than
the human scale. In this podcast series artists, anthropologists and
academic researchers engage in a dialogue about their latest projects in
order to make us think outside the human scale. Listeners will be
acquainted with intelligent materials, demonic energy infrastructures,
local informal networks of data distribution and autonomous weapon systems,
and will thereby discover that new paradigms and scales are needed to
better understand – and possibly subvert – the world we live in.

*EPISODES:*

*Scale | Ep.#1: Matter as a Subject [w/ Laura Tripaldi]  ** LISTEN HERE
<https://aksioma.org/scale-ep.1-matter-as-a-subject-w-laura-tripaldi>*
On the nanoscale, materials can appear as vibrant, lively subjects that can
even have political implications... [MORE]
<https://aksioma.org/scale-ep.1-matter-as-a-subject-w-laura-tripaldi>

*Scale | Ep.#2: Alternative Networks in Cuba [w/ Steffen Köhn & Nestor
Siré]*
*Release: 18 August 2023*
Alternative community-based data distribution networks on the local scale
have emerged in Cuba as a consequence of the economic sanctions imposed on
the country in recent decades... [MORE]
<https://aksioma.org/scale-ep.2-alternative-networks-in-cuba-w-steffen-kohn-nestor-sire>

*Scale | Ep.#3: Russian Neocolonialism as Demonic Possession [w/ Anna
Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich]*
*Release: 25 August 2023 *
Infrastructures of abnormous scale are the materialisation of
neocolonialism. Megabridges, power plants, military bases are means of
dispossession, invasion, extraction perpetrated by bigger countries upon
smaller sovereign states... [MORE]
<https://aksioma.org/scale-ep.3-russian-neocolonialism-as-demonic-possession-w-anna-engelhardt-mark-cinkevich>

*Scale | Ep.#4: Neocolonial Extraction and Surveillance [w/ Anthony Downey]*
*Release: 1 September 2023*
The concept of scale is intrinsically related to mapping, which is
intrinsically related to colonisation and neocolonial military practices...
[MORE]
<https://aksioma.org/scale-ep.4-neocolonial-extraction-and-surveillance-w-anthony-downey>


You can listen to podcast episodes at Aksioma website
<https://aksioma.org/podcast> or at SoundCloud
<https://soundcloud.com/aksiomaorg>, Spotify
<https://open.spotify.com/show/0W3L1xhneSE6HvuxRXjB5k>, Apple
<https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aksioma/id1694528895> and Google
(coming soon!) podcasts.

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Host: Neja Berger
Guests: Laura Tripaldi, Steffen Köhn & Nestor Siré, Anna Engelhardt & Mark
Cinkevich, Anthony Downey
Recording and editing: Neja Berger
Audio Mix: Staš Kramar
Music: Gašper Torkar

Scale podcast series
Curated by Janez Fakin Janša
Produced by Marcela Okretič
for Tactics#14: Scale

Production: Aksioma – Institute of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
<https://aksioma.org/>, 2023

Part of:
Tactics
konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art

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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[spectre] Shifting Scales conference - Monday 6 March from 3.30pm CET

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear all,
Just a quick reminder: tomorrow 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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Marcela Okretič
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www.aksioma.org
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[spectre] 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
www.aksioma.org
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[spectre] 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
.*

*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, Ljudmila,
Lokalpatriot
Associated partner: Ljudmila
Outreach partners: WAM/Fair Data Society, NERO, Makery
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.
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[spectre] 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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[spectre] 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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[spectre] New Extractivism 3/4: DISNOVATION.ORG

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear friends,

I would like to share with you some of the highlights of 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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Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
www.aksioma.org
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[spectre] (re)programming - Strategies for Self-Renewal [A READER]

[marcela]

Dear friends,

 

Aksioma is proud to present a new publication: 

 

(re)programming

Strategies for Self-Renewal 

[A READER]

 

 <https://aksioma.org/reprogramming.book> aksioma.org/reprogramming.book

 

Marta Peirano in conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, Benjamin Bratton, 
Holly Jean Buck, Anab Jain, Kate Crawford, Joana Moll, Astra Taylor and Eyal 
Weizman

Editors: Marko Bauer, Janez Fakin Janša

 

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What will it take for humanity to change its course and build a responsible 
future for the generations to come? And what can really be accomplished when we 
finally do this?

 

Inspired by  <https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/> (re)programming festival of 
conversations, this reader presents the eight episodes in a ready-to-read 
format. It seeks to answer the above questions with contributions from 
world-class thinkers as well as specialists from the local and online 
communities.

 

 <https://form.jotform.com/211172647049354> GET YOUR COPY HERE

 

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ABOUT THE READER

 

As a growing population is sharing an ever-shrinking planet, we have found 
ourselves at an existential crossroads: do we bring the mistakes of the 
enlightenment and industrialization to their logical conclusion or should we 
develop a capacity to reprogram ourselves as a species, in order to survive? 
Some of the solutions might be technical but most of the obstacles are not.

 

Through surveillance, manipulation and escapism, multinationals and foreign 
governments are using the powerful tools that could help us manage the climate 
emergency to manage us instead. The apocalyptic narratives of destruction, 
natural selection and space colonisation distract us from the urgent need to 
manage our resources and mitigate a disaster.

 

The discussions documented in this reader focus on solutions, finding tools, 
words or visions across the different disciplines, from energy and 
infrastructure to community building and AI. They analyse the strategies used 
by successful communities and proposed by social and scientific institutions to 
help us reset and find the way back. Not to the way it was, but to the way it 
should have been: an engaged community that encompasses all living beings on 
this planet.

 

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CREDITS

 

(re)programming: Strategies for Self-Renewal 

 

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

Co-publisher: Mladinski center Velenje, 2022

Outreach partner: NERO

In the framework of: konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art

 

konS is a project 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

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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[spectre] Joana Moll: Carbolytics

[marcela]

Dear friends,

 

I’d like to inform you about Carbolytics, Joana Moll's new project, 
commissioned by Aksioma Institute in the frame of konS – Platform for 
Contemporary Investigative Art.

 

The research behind Carbolytics identifies and analyses the carbon emissions of 
the total number of cookies belonging to the top one million websites. The 
investigation identified more than 21 million cookies per single visit to all 
these websites, belonging to more than 1200 different companies, which 
translates to an average of 197 trillion cookies per month, resulting in 11,442 
metric tonnes of CO2 emissions per month.

 

 

ARTIST TALK

 <https://aksioma.org/data-extraction-materiality-and-agency> 
https://aksioma.org/data-extraction-materiality-and-agency

 

VISIT THE PROJECT

https://carbolytics.org/

 

 

PUBLICATION

Matthew Fuller
 
<https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622=74f2a61b46=226cfbeb10>
 Analysis, Exposure and Addition: The Aesthetic and Ecological Logics of Joana 
Moll’s Carbolytics
PostScriptUM #40

Available as free PDF or print on demand



In this essay, artist, writer and professor of cultural studies Matthew Fuller, 
known for his work in media theory, software studies, cultural studies and 
contemporary fiction, delves into the work of Joana Moll and outlines how 
Carbolytics exposes a working approximation of the hidden and outsourced 
pollution of digital capitalism.

 

 

REFLECTION

Marta Peirano

New Tools for Collective Supervision <http://carbolytics.org/peirano.html> 


Marta Peirano, a journalist specialising in technology and power, offers 
further thoughts on the relevance of Joana Moll's latest project in a short 
essay where she recognises Carbolytics as a tool for a much-needed better 
understanding of the internet and those exploiting its flaws. 

 

 

CREDITS

Production:

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art <http://www.aksioma.org/> , Ljubljana, 
2022

Partners:

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Weizenbaum Institute

Sónar+D Barcelona


In the framework of:
 <https://kons-platforma.org/en/> konS – Platform for Contemporary 
Investigative Art

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

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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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[spectre] Tactics & Practice #12: New Extractivism

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rld, WORKSHOP, ALUO, 
Ljubljana, 25 May 2022, 2 PM–5 PM

- PUBLICATION: PostScriptUM #43

 

-

 

Production:
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2022
www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org>  


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

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

The new commission Carbolytics and the workshops by Joana Moll, Disnovation.org 
and Ben Grosser are produced in the frame of the  
<https://kons-platforma.org/en> konS ≡ Platform for Contemporary Investigative 
Art, which 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

gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830

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

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

 

 

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[spectre] IOCOSE: All of Your Base @Aksioma

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Dear friends,

 

After a decade, the IOCOSE collective returns to Aksioma, presenting a solo
exhibition curated by Claudia D'Alonzo, an artist talk and a new edition of
Aksioma's PostScriptUM series written by Daniel Rourke. You are very welcome
to check out this new production that critically examines the NewSpace
movement.

 



Exhibition: All of Your Base

Visit at:  <https://aksioma.org/all.of.your.base>
https://aksioma.org/all.of.your.base 

 

The artistic practice of IOCOSE focuses on the failure of narratives about
the future and technological innovation while producing new interpretations
of imaginaries, iconographies and rhetorics, sabotaging their original
meanings through often surreal poetics. 

 

All of Your Base presents the video animations Pointing at a New Planet
(2020) and Free from History (2021), featuring the journey of Elon Musk's
severed hand on Mars to colonise it. The hand is accompanied by a karaoke
that mixes some of Musk's most sensationalist statements with the voice of
Albertine Sarges, author and performer of the melody. 

 

The works are the first two chapters of in-progress research on the NewSpace
Economy, the movement of extraterrestrial colonization through private
investments that is expanding its scope from Silicon Valley to outer space.
The exhibition was curated by an independent researcher and curator Claudia
D'Alonzo.

 



Talk: Lip-synched Stardust

Watch at:  <https://vimeo.com/653761377> https://vimeo.com/653761377

 

In this talk IOCOSE discuss their most recent production around the NewSpace
movement, which produces immense economic, technological and discursive
investments towards the private colonisation of extra-terrestrial planets.
IOCOSE explores the utopian promises surrounding the NewSpace movement and
their inevitable failure, and asks what could be done with the traces left
on our planet of this adventurous project.

 



Booklet: Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk by Daniel Rourke

Read at:  <https://aksioma.org/daniel-rourke-why-i-want-to-fuck-elon-musk>
https://aksioma.org/daniel-rourke-why-i-want-to-fuck-elon-musk 

 

In their space race the gurus of the NewSpace movement are expanding an
imaginary that hybridizes individualism, libertarianism, neoliberal
economics, counterculture and utopianism. Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk plays
with these cultural references, taking inspiration from the most emblematic
statements spoken or tweeted by Elon Musk in recent years. 

Daniel Rourke, a London-based writer, artist and academic, has resorted to
working with the OpenAI Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3)
language model to imagine and narrate chronicles from a near future in which
blockchains have materialized and the deepfakes of Bezos and Musk have
colonized Mars.  

 



Follow Aksioma:

Telegram >  <https://t.me/aksiomaorg> https://t.me/aksiomaorg 

Facebook  >  <https://www.facebook.com/aksioma.org>
https://www.facebook.com/aksioma.org 

Instagram >  <https://www.instagram.com/aksiomaorg>
https://www.instagram.com/aksiomaorg 

Twitter  >  <https://twitter.com/aksiomaorg> https://twitter.com/aksiomaorg 

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija

 

Aksioma | Projektni prostor

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija

tel.: + 386 - (0)590 54360

gsm: + 386 - (0)41 - 250830

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

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

 

 


 


 

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[spectre] (re)programming: Accountability

[marcela]

Dear friends,

join us at the last encounter of the series and participate to the live chat:

 

(re)programming – Strategies for Self-Renewal
Curated and conducted by Marta Peirano
February–November 2021

STREAM #8
(re)programming: Accountability
How to Tell
With Eyal Weizman

Monday, 15 November 2021 at 7 PM CET

STREAMING & LIVE CHAT: http://aksioma.org/reprogramming/
FB event <https://www.facebook.com/events/3071339889814014/> 

Truth is hardly making it under an information ecosystem defined by speed, 
exploitation, opacity and inequality. But journalism is not in danger, it is 
just happening somewhere else.

In the last event of the (re)programming series, Eyal Weizman, founder of the 
research agency Forensic Architecture <https://forensic-architecture.org/> , 
will discuss the new genre of journalistic procedurals and a community of 
practice that, under the moniker Investigative Commons, seeks to confront the 
disinformation machine of “counter-factual” neo-fascist groups by socializing 
the development and deployment of “counter-forensic” evidence.

Eyal Weizman is a Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, 
University of London and a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the 
International Criminal Court and the Centre for Investigative Journalism. In 
2019 he was elected life fellow of the British Academy and appointed Member of 
the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to 
architecture. He is the author of more than fifteen books with numerous 
international translations, including Hollow Land 
<https://www.versobooks.com/books/2500-hollow-land>  (2007) on the architecture 
of the Israeli occupation, Mengele's Skull 
<https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/mengeles-skull-the-advent-of-a-forensic-aesthetics/>
  (2012) on the birth of a forensic approach to understanding war crimes, and 
Forensic Architecture 
<https://www.zonebooks.org/books/50-forensic-architecture-violence-at-the-threshold-of-detectability>
  (2017) as a call for transformative politics and an in-depth introduction to 
the history, practices and double binds of the eponymous research agency.

 

Special guests: Matevž Čelik, Marko Peljhan, Urška Henigman

-

About the series
The tenth edition of Tactics  <http://aksioma.org/reprogramming/> & Practice: 
(re)programming is a festival of conversations with world-class thinkers in 
crucial disciplines that discuss the ways in which we can repair our thought 
and behavioural patterns in order to keep us collectively safe. The program is 
led and curated online by Marta Peirano. Watch previous episodes:

- Kim Stanley Robinson: Trigger: What Does it Take to Change the Future? 
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/trigger/> 
- Benjamin Bratton: Infrastructure: An Alternative Earth 
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/infrastructure/> 
- Holly Jean Buck: Energy: Can We Repair the Climate? 
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/energy/> 
- Anab Jain: Interdependence: Post-Human Politics 
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/interdependence/> 
- Kate Crawford: AI: Better Machines for Better Humans 
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/ai/> 
- Joana Moll: The Cloud: Everything is Not Connected 
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/cloud/> 
- Astra Taylor: Community: Talk to Your Neighbours 
<https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/reprogramming-community/> 

-
Organised and produced by: Aksioma <https://aksioma.org/>  – Institute for 
Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
In partnership with: Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture
For the series: Tactics  <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice> & Practice
In the framework of: konS <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice>  – Platform 
for Contemporary Investigative Art

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.

Outreach partners: Disruption Network Lab, Drugo more, FILE – Electronic 
Language, International Festival, Furtherfield, La Gaîté Lyrique, IMPAKT 
[Centre for Media Culture], The Influencers, Institute of Network Cultures, 
Interface Cultures | Kunstuniversität Linz, MKC Maribor, Neural, ∏Node, Založba 
Sophia, Supermarkt, We Make Money Not Art.

 

 

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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[spectre] (re)programming: Community - Astra Taylor in conversation with Marta Peirano

[marcela]

Dear friends, 

we’d love to read your questions and comments in the live chat tomorrow during 
the 7th episode of the (re)programming series of conversations!

 

(re)programming – Strategies for Self-Renewal
Curated and conducted by Marta Peirano
February–November 2021

STREAM #7
(re)programming: Community
Talk to Your Neighbours
With Astra Taylor

Monday, 18 October 2021 at 7 PM CET

STREAMING & LIVE CHAT: http://aksioma.org/reprogramming/
FB event  

-
How can we act collectively in an age of extreme polarisation, isolation, 
dehumanisation and dystopian imagination? What can we build from the ashes of 
the Arab Spring, the Indignados movement and Occupy Wall Street?

Astra Taylor knows there is no such thing as a perfect social movement, but in 
a series of legendary attempts to improve existing ones, she has become one of 
the essential chroniclers of contemporary acts of collective resistance. Ever 
since publishing Occupy!, a “semi-regular, forty-page tabloid newspaper 
inspired by the Occupy movement”, she has been engaged in a lifelong debate 
about the nature of community-driven power, pushing its limits and analyzing 
its discontents.

Astra is an international filmmaker, writer and relentless political organiser, 
hailed as the “New Civil Rights Leader” by the Los Angeles Times. She has 
directed philosophical documentaries such as What is Democracy? 
  (2019), Examined Life 
  (2008) and Žižek! 
  (2005). Her latest book Democracy May 
Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone  
 (2019) was published by 
Metropolitan Books.

 

Special guests: Tjaša Pureber, Barbara Rajgelj, Asja Hrvatin

 

-

About the series
The tenth edition of Tactics   & Practice: 
(re)programming is a festival of conversations with world-class thinkers in 
crucial disciplines that discuss the ways in which we can repair our thought 
and behavioural patterns in order to keep us collectively safe. The program is 
led and curated online by Marta Peirano. Watch previous episodes:


- Kim Stanley Robinson: Trigger: What Does it Take to Change the Future? 
 
- Benjamin Bratton: Infrastructure: An Alternative Earth 
 
- Holly Jean Buck: Energy: Can We Repair the Climate? 
 
- Anab Jain: Interdependence: Post-Human Politics 
 
- Kate Crawford: AI: Better Machines for Better Humans 
 

- Joana Moll: The Cloud: Everything is Not Connected 
 

 

-


Organised and produced by: Aksioma   – Institute for 
Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
In partnership with: Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture
For the series: Tactics   & Practice
In the framework of: konS   – Platform for 
Contemporary Investigative Art

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.

Outreach partners: Disruption Network Lab, Drugo more, FILE – Electronic 
Language, International Festival, Furtherfield, La Gaîté Lyrique, IMPAKT 
[Centre for Media Culture], The Influencers, Institute of Network Cultures, 
Interface Cultures | Kunstuniversität Linz, MKC Maribor, Neural, ∏Node, Založba 
Sophia, Supermarkt, We Make Money Not Art.

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[spectre] (re)programming: The Cloud - Joana Moll in conversation with Marta Peirano

[marcela]

Dear friends, 

join us and participate with your questions and comments in the live chat:

 

(re)programming

Strategies for Self-Renewal
Curated and conducted by Marta Peirano
February–November 2021 


STREAM #6

(re)programming: The Cloud

Everything Is Not Connected
With Joana Moll



Monday, 20 September 2021 at 7 PM CET

Join us here > https://aksioma.org/reprogramming

FB event   

In the sixth episode of the (re)programming, we explore the environmental and 
social impact of The Cloud and the data extraction industry with artist and 
researcher Joana Moll and the curator of the programme Marta Peirano. How much 
CO2 is released into the atmosphere every time we lazy-Google the name of an 
actor? How much freedom do we give up every time we swipe left on Tinder?
Digital platforms have made a business out of removing us from our real 
communities and replacing them with a controlled simulation of connection that 
only exists as a directory in a massive server commonly regarded as The Cloud. 
Algorithmically created out of similar tastes, pet hates and grievances, it is 
designed as a data extraction machine and a container for targeted advertising, 
gamified to maximize the anticipated user’s compulsion and company’s profit. 
But the remarkable success of The Cloud has not only detached us from our 
natural habitats, it is also actively destroying them.

Joana Moll  's work critically explores the way 
techno-capitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines, humans and 
ecosystems. Her main research topics include Internet materiality, 
surveillance, social profiling and interfaces.



Special guests: Dušan Caf, Luka Frelih, Filip Muki Dobranić



About the series
The tenth edition of Tactics   & Practice: 
(re)programming is a festival of conversations with world-class thinkers in 
crucial disciplines that discuss the ways in which we can repair our thought 
and behavioural patterns in order to keep us collectively safe. The programme 
is led and curated online by Marta Peirano. Watch previous episodes:


- Kim Stanley Robinson: Trigger: What Does it Take to Change the Future? 
 
- Benjamin Bratton: Infrastructure: An Alternative Earth 
 
- Holly Jean Buck: Energy: Can We Repair the Climate? 
 
- Anab Jain: Interdependence: Post-Human Politics 
 
- Kate Crawford: AI: Better Machines for Better Humans 
 

 

-


Organised and produced by: Aksioma   – Institute for 
Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
In partnership with: Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture
For the series: Tactics   & Practice
In the framework of: konS   – Platform for 
Contemporary Investigative Art

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.

Outreach partners: Disruption Network Lab, Drugo more, FILE – Electronic 
Language, International Festival, Furtherfield, La Gaîté Lyrique, IMPAKT 
[Centre for Media Culture], The Influencers, Institute of Network Cultures, 
Interface Cultures | Kunstuniversität Linz, MKC Maribor, Neural, ∏Node, Založba 
Sophia, Supermarkt, We Make Money Not Art.

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[spectre] Tactics & Practice #11: MEMESTETICA

[marcela]

et  <https://www.flickr.com/photos/aksioma-org/albums/7215771923826>
Internet Yami-Ichi, where at the end of May several local and international
creators sold their Internet-related products in an attempt to recall the
internet as a space of 'freedom' - and further blur borders between the
online and offline.


 

Production : Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2021

Coproduction: Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Ljubljana

The Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana

Partners: IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], Utrecht; konS - Platform for
Contemporary Investigative Arts

Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the
Municipality of Ljubljana and the Italian Cultural Institute, Ljubljana

 

 

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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[spectre] (re)programming: Interdependence - Anab Jain in conversation with Marta Peirano

[marcela]

Dear friends, 

Join us at the fourth conversation of the (re)programming series and 
participate with your questions in the live chat!

 

(re)programming

Strategies for Self-Renewal
Curated and conducted by Marta Peirano
February–November 2021 


STREAM #4

(re)programming: Interdependence

Post-Human Politics

With Anab Jain

 

MON, 10 May 2021 at 7pm CET 

Join us here > https://aksioma.org/reprogramming

FB event   

Anab Jain’s work transports people into the future. The evolving installation  
 Mitigation of Shock 
by her studio Superflux imagines a random apartment in the London of 2050, or 
in a Singapore that has become a flooded city in 2219. Both are equipped with 
an array of DIY interventions, hydroponic farms and other tools for gathering, 
capturing and storing both food and water under new climate regimes. While 
their technical solutions are fascinating (and actually work), it is the vision 
that prevails: we not only survive but also thrive, as we adapt and become 
smarter, stronger, fitter and better acquainted with other members of the 
planetary society. We tell ourselves stories in order to live, but we can 
realise better ones. 

Anab Jain is a designer, an artist and a filmmaker. She is a co-founder and 
Director of Superflux, a speculative design studio based in London that 
explores the intersections of climate crisis, technology and more-than-human 
politics. Along with her partner Jon Ardern, she has produced critically 
acclaimed films, art and installations projecting the many possible futures for 
humankind. She is also a teacher in the Design Investigations programme at the 
University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Anab has worked for some of the world’s 
biggest firms like Microsoft Research, Sony, Samsung and Nokia, as well as 
institutions like the Government of the UAE, Innovate UK, Cabinet Office UK, 
UNDP, Future Cities Catapult and Forum for the Future. She has exhibited work 
at MoMA New York, the National Museum of China and the V in London. She has 
earned honours from Apple Computers Inc., UNESCO, Geneva Human Rights Festival 
and TED.

Special guests: Saša Spačal, Anja Planišček and Špela Petrič

About the series

We have found ourselves at the crossroads of an existential decision: do we 
bring the mistakes of the enlightenment to their biological conclusion or do we 
develop a magical capacity to self-renew?
In the tenth edition of Tactics & Practice, the seminar and conference program 
led by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, we are going to 
invite world-class thinkers in crucial disciplines to discuss the ways in which 
we can repair our thought and behavioural patterns in order to keep us 
collectively safe. The series of eight interviews is curated and conducted by 
Marta Peirano, a writer and journalist specialized in researching the 
relationships between technology and power, who will seek answers to the 
question of what it will take for humanity to wake up and take action before 
it's too late. Thematic discussions, ranging from infrastructure and energy to 
community and artificial intelligence, will be held in English once a month. 
MORE  

Organised and produced by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
In partnership with: Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture
For the series: Tactics   & Practice
In the framework of: konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
Financial support: the Republic of Slovenia and the European Regional 
Development Fund of the European Union

Outreach partners: Disruption Network Lab, Drugo more, FILE Festival, 
Furtherfield, La Gaîté Lyrique, IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], The 
Influencers, Institute of Network Cultures, Interface Cultures/Kunstuniversität 
Linz, MKC Maribor, Neural,  ∏Node, Sophia, Supermarkt, We Make Money Not Art

 


  

Follow Aksioma:

Telegram > https://t.me/aksiomaorg

Facebook  >   
https://www.facebook.com/aksioma.org

Instagram >   
https://www.instagram.com/aksiomaorg/

Twitter  >   https://twitter.com/aksiomaorg



 

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[spectre] (re)programming: Energy - Holly Jean Buck in conversation with Marta Peirano

[marcela]

Dear Spectres, 

on Monday at 7pm CET we’ll be streaming the third conversation of the 
(re)programming series. 

Join us and share your comments and questions trough the live chat!

 

(re)programming

Strategies for Self-Renewal
Curated and conducted by Marta Peirano
February–November 2021 


STREAM #3

(re)programming: Energy

Can We Repair the Climate? 

With Holly Jean Buck

 

19 April 2021 at 7pm CET 

Join us here > https://aksioma.org/reprogramming

FB event   

 

Holly Jean Buck knows we have the tech to restore the earth and repair the 
climate. In After Geoengineering 
  she takes a deep 
dive into the envisioning, development, and deployment of tactics and schemes 
for deliberately intervening in the environment, including Solar Radiation 
Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), with a useful best and 
worst-case scenarios perspective. Most importantly, she takes a holistic, 
integrated appreciation of ecological systems, proposing the new social 
formations needed to implement them, tackle mitigation and manage schemes that 
acknowledge the differential vulnerability for rural, impoverished and 
indigenous populations. 

Holly Jean Buck is an assistant professor in the Department of Environment and 
Sustainability at State University of New York at Buffalo. She is interested in 
how communities can be involved in the design of emerging environmental 
technologies. She works at the interface of environmental sociology, 
international development, and science and technology studies. Her diverse 
research interests include agroecology and carbon farming, new energy 
technologies, artificial intelligence, and the restoration of California’s 
Salton Sea. Her book After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and 
Restoration examines best-case scenarios for carbon removal. Most recently, she 
was the co-editor of  

 Has It Come to This? The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink, a 
Rutgers University Press volume where thinkers, scholars and activists ranging 
from sociology and geography to ethics and Indigenous studies examine the 
chances for democratic climate governance. 

 https://www.geo.design

 

About the series

We have found ourselves at the crossroads of an existential decision: do we 
bring the mistakes of the enlightenment to their biological conclusion or do we 
develop a magical capacity to self-renew?
In the tenth edition of Tactics & Practice, the seminar and conference program 
led by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, we are going to 
invite world-class thinkers in crucial disciplines to discuss the ways in which 
we can repair our thought and behavioural patterns in order to keep us 
collectively safe. The series of eight interviews is curated and conducted by 
Marta Peirano, a writer and journalist specialized in researching the 
relationships between technology and power, who will seek answers to the 
question of what it will take for humanity to wake up and take action before 
it's too late. Thematic discussions, ranging from infrastructure and energy to 
community and artificial intelligence, will be held in English once a month. 
MORE  

Organised and produced by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
In partnership with: Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture
For the series: Tactics   & Practice
In the framework of: konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
Financial support: the Republic of Slovenia and the European Regional 
Development Fund of the European Union

Outreach partners: Disruption Network Lab, Drugo more, FILE Festival, 
Furtherfield, La Gaîté Lyrique, Impakt Festival, The Influencers, Institute of 
Network Cultures, Interface Cultures/Kunstuniversität Linz, MKC Maribor, 
Neural,  ∏Node, Sophia, Supermarkt, We Make Money Not Art

 


  

Follow Aksioma:

Telegram > https://t.me/aksiomaorg

Facebook  >   
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[spectre] (re)programming: Strategies for Self-Renewal curated by Marta Peirano

[marcela]

Dear Spectres, 

 

Today at 7pm CET we’ll be streaming the second conversation of the 
(re)programming series, this time with Benjamin Bratton. You are all very 
welcome to join us and share your comments and questions trough the live chat!

 

(re)programming

Strategies for Self-Renewal
Curated and conducted by Marta Peirano
February–November 2021 


STREAM #2

(re)programming: Infrastructure

An Alternative Earth

With Benjamin Bratton

 

15 March 2021 at 7pm CET 

Join us here > https://aksioma.org/reprogramming

FB event   

 

We are in a hurry; even 2030 might be too late. We need to fundamentally 
transform our cities, technologies and ecosystems to ensure our planet keeps 
supporting earth-like life. But what does that look like? Our apocalyptic, 
post-colonial fantasies obscure our vision. We dream of thriving under the 
impossible conditions of distant planets but fail to imagine establishing 
better ones on earth. In The Stack, Benjamin Bratton envisioned a model for a 
planetary scale computation, then used it as a tool for a new planetary 
redesign project, the Terraforming – not of Mars but of Earth. We will discuss 
the technical, social and political infrastructures that are required for such 
a project. “A task of preventing one future,” he writes, “so that another 
might, with luck, instead come to pass”.

Benjamin Bratton is the director of the design research program and think tank 
called   The Terraforming at the Strelka 
Institute of Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. He is also a professor 
of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. His book  
 The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty 
outlines a new geopolitical theory for the age of global computation and 
algorithmic governance. It was followed by  
 The New Normal 
and   The 
Terraforming, the thought catalogues for his first two research programs at 
Strelka. His most recent book is  
 The Revenge of 
the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World.

 

About the series

We have found ourselves at the crossroads of an existential decision: do we 
bring the mistakes of the enlightenment to their biological conclusion or do we 
develop a magical capacity to self-renew?
In the tenth edition of Tactics & Practice, the seminar and conference program 
led by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, we are going to 
invite world-class thinkers in crucial disciplines to discuss the ways in which 
we can repair our thought and behavioural patterns in order to keep us 
collectively safe. The series of eight interviews is curated and conducted by 
Marta Peirano, a writer and journalist specialized in researching the 
relationships between technology and power, who will seek answers to the 
question of what it will take for humanity to wake up and take action before 
it's too late. Thematic discussions, ranging from infrastructure and energy to 
community and artificial intelligence, will be held in English once a month. 
MORE  

Organised and produced by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
In partnership with: Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture
For the series: Tactics   & Practice
In the framework of: konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
Financial support: the Republic of Slovenia and the European Regional 
Development Fund of the European Union

Outreach partners: Disruption Network Lab, Drugo more, FILE Festival, 
Furtherfield, La Gaîté Lyrique, Impakt Festival, The Influencers, Institute of 
Network Cultures, MKC Maribor, Neural,  ∏Node, Sophia, Supermarkt, We Make 
Money Not Art

 


  

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[spectre] (re)programming: Strategies for Self-Renewal

[marcela]

Dear Spectres, 

 

we are proud to announce our new “festival of conversations”, starting next 
Monday, 15 February at 7pm CET.

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

 

(re)programming

Strategies for Self-Renewal
Curated and conducted by Marta Peirano
February–November 2021

 

We have found ourselves at the crossroads of an existential decision: do we 
bring the mistakes of the enlightenment to their biological conclusion or do we 
develop a magical capacity to self-renew?

In the tenth edition of Tactics & Practice, the seminar and conference program 
led by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, we are going to 
invite world-class thinkers in crucial disciplines to discuss the ways in which 
we can repair our thought and behavioural patterns in order to keep us 
collectively safe. The series of eight interviews will be conducted by Marta 
Peirano, a writer and journalist specialized in researching the relationships 
between technology and power, who will seek answers to the question of what it 
will take for humanity to wake up and take action before it's too late. 
Thematic discussions, ranging from infrastructure and energy to community and 
artificial intelligence, will be held in English once a month. MORE 
 




STREAM #1

(re)programming: Trigger

What does it take to change the future?

With Kim Stanley Robinson

 

15 February 2021 at 7pm CET 

Join us here > https://aksioma.org/reprogramming

FB event   

 

The Ministry for the Future (2020), the latest novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, 
departs from a scientific premise: as countries keep ignoring the Paris 
Agreement, our planet will keep getting hotter, all the way to the human 
boiling point. When India is hit by a devastating heatwave, killing millions, a 
climate response begins to take shape. In his most bleak yet hopeful work to 
date, Robinson explores the limits and possibilities of human cooperation under 
extreme circumstances. In this TRIGGER themed conversation, we will discuss 
what could be the wake-up call for rethinking our place as humans on the only 
planet we have, and the promising tools he discovered during his years of 
research.

 

Kim Stanley Robinson is the most beloved science fiction writer alive today. 
The Mars trilogy, his first international bestseller, published between 1992 
and 1996, was an ambitious exploration of the terraforming of the Red planet 
that included an exercise on comparative space politics and their impact on the 
survival of the human race. This commitment to exploring climate crisis 
management and mitigation has turned him into the leading exponent of Climate 
Fiction, a genre that takes place in the world as we know it or in its near 
future.

 

 

Organised and produced by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
In partnership with: Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture
For the series: Tactics   & Practice
In the framework of: konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
Financial support: the Republic of Slovenia and the European Regional 
Development Fund of the European Union

Outreach partners: Disruption Network Lab, Drugo more, Furtherfield, Institute 
of Network Cultures, MKC Maribor, Supermarkt, The Influencers, We Make Money 
Not Art

 


  

Follow Aksioma:

Telegram > https://t.me/aksiomaorg

Facebook  >   
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Instagram >   
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Twitter  >   https://twitter.com/aksiomaorg



 

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[spectre] 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

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

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear Spectres, 

 

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

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear Spectres, 

 

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.

 




FB event > https://www.facebook.com/events/1223219048048125

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 and the
Municipality of Ljubljana

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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

www.aksioma.org

 

 

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[spectre] iHUMAN – A political thriller about artificial intelligence

[Marcela Okretič]

Aksioma is proud to announce a new edition of Akcija! screening cycle:

 

iHUMAN

A political thriller about artificial intelligence 

Directed by Tonje Hessen Schei

Produced by Jonathan Borge Lie for UpNorth Film

 

"Artificial intelligence will ultimately be the best thing ever to happen to 
humanity, or the worst thing ever. 

That's why this is the most important conversation of our time."

 

LIVE STREAMING INTERVIEW

Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 5 PM (CET)

https://aksioma.org/akcija/

 

What impacts will the potential mass implementation of Artificial General 
Intelligence have on society? 

Régine Debatty will talk with award-winning film Director Tonje Hessen Schei 
about iHuman, a documentary that explores super smart machines, social control, 
lack of transparency in decision-making and possible regulations 

We kindly invite you to join us <https://aksioma.org/akcija/>  and share your 
thoughts, doubts and questions through the online chat. 

 

-

 

SCREENING / SLOVENIAN PREMIERE

Monday, 6 July 2020, at 6 and 8 pm (CET)

Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

헶헛헨헠헔헡 is a political thriller about artificial intelligence, power and social 
control. With unique deep access to the inside of the booming AI industry, this 
film shows how the most powerful and far-reaching technology of our time is 
changing our lives, our society and our future. The documentary follows 
pioneers at the frontline of the invisible AI revolution to see how this 
technology is developed and implemented. Through some of the brightest minds in 
the AI industry iHuman draws the roadmap to where we are going. Who punches in 
what codes for our future? How does AI impact who we are?

 

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> Tonje Hessen Schei is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, primarily 
> interested in human rights issues, the environment and the changing 
> relationship between man and machine. Her previous work, DRONE, a documentary 
> on the secret CIA drone warfare, released in 2014, received many awards among 
> which the one for The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year at Cinema for 
> Peace in Berlin, the Norwegian Emmy for Best Documentary in 2015, and, in the 
> same year, the Amanda award the Norwegian Oscar-equivalent. 

 

> Régine Debatty is the founder of we-make-money-not-art, a blog which received 
> 2 Webby awards and the honorary mention at the START Prize, known for 
> exploring connections between art, science, technology, and social issues. 
> She writes and lectures internationally about the way in which artists, 
> hackers, and designers use technology as a medium for critical discussion.

-

 

Organized by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2020

in collaboration with the Center for Urban Culture Kino Šiška

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

 

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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[spectre] MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society // Value extraction and the workforce of the cryptocene

[Marcela Okretič]

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

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

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

 

 

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[spectre] 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?

 




Follow the programme here:

FB event > https://www.facebook.com/events/527075734629065/

Telegram > https://t.me/aksiomaorg




 

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

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

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

 

 

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[spectre] 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.

 




Follow the programme here:

FB event > https://www.facebook.com/events/527075734629065/

Telegram > https://t.me/aksiomaorg




 

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

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

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

 

 

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[spectre] MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society // Housing: Hacking the Crisis of Home

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear all, 

 

Today at 5pm CET the discussion will be on Housing: Hacking the Crisis of
Home. I kindly invite you 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 #5 / Monday, 8 June 2020 at 5 pm CET

Housing: Hacking the Crisis of Home 

With Lenart J. Kučić, Forms of Ownership / Vienne Chan, DOMA.CITY / Maksym
Rokmaniko & Francesco Sebregondi

Moderated by Klemen Ploštajner

 

>From empty luxury condos in London to slum clearance in Istanbul, from
mortgage debt crisis in Spain to unaffordable rents in Slovenia, we are
witnessing different local expressions of the global housing condition.
These local crises stem from the real estate-financial complex that has
transformed housing into an investment opportunity for an increasingly
unequal concentration of global surplus capital. The commodification of
housing thus offers lucrative financial opportunities for upper classes,
while at the same time contributes to the increasing residential alienation,
housing insecurity and expropriation of the commons. States have contributed
to these developments by not only deregulating housing markets and
privatising public rental stock, but also by employing different
entrepreneurial strategies that support private investment strategies while
limiting the development of non-profit alternatives. Housing is thus no
longer a source of individual or social stability and security, but of
constant tension, conflict and exploitation. How can communities, in current
conditions of financial plunder and state removal, come together to
construct other scenarios? How can we develop new mechanisms of communal
control that will once again embed housing markets in local social
relations, that will treat housing as a communal resource and human right?
Can we imagine another system that will not be based on housing as an
investment, but will see it as a home?

 




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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

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

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

 

 

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[spectre] MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society // Care: Solidarity is Disobedience

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear all, 

 

Join us on Monday at 5pm CET and 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 #4 / Monday, 1 June 2020 at 5 pm CET

Care: Solidarity is Disobedience

With Pirate Care / Tomislav Medak, Cassie Thornton, Maddalena Fragnito

Moderated by Davor Mišković

 

Neoliberal policies have re-organised the basic care provisions previously
considered cornerstones of democratic life - healthcare, housing, access to
knowledge, right to asylum, freedom of mobility, social benefits, etc. -
turning them into tools for surveilling, excluding and punishing the most
vulnerable, reframing the family unit as the sole bearer of responsibility
for dependents. In the light of these processes, a growing wave of
initiatives has been questioning the political and economic framework of
care and experimenting with its collective reorganisation. On this panel,
Tomislav Medak will present the research project Pirate Care
<https://pirate.care/>  that is gathering diverse self-organised care
practices currently opposing the criminalisation of solidarity and
prefiguring models for commoning care infrastructures. Cassie Thornton, of
the Feminist Economics Department <http://feministeconomicsdepartment.com/>
(the FED), will discuss The Hologram
<http://feministeconomicsdepartment.com/hologram/> , a three-person health
monitoring and diagnostic system practised from couches all over the world,
on the phone and by many names, to produce a three-dimensional image of each
participant's physical, psychic and social health, based on one of the free,
experimental care models developed by health workers at Social Solidarity
Clinics in Greece during the height of the financial and refugee crisis.
Maddalena Fragnito will present the experience of Soprasotto
<http://soprasottomilano.it/> , a parent-managed kindergarten based in Milan
since 2013. She will discuss the concept of "commoning care" by comparing
its specificities to the market-oriented "techno-solutionist" hope on
digital technologies in order to help society address the reorganisation of
care needs.

 

 




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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

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

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

 

 

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

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear Spectres, 

 

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

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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[spectre] MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society / Evgeny Morozov & Lenart J. Kučić

[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

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

www.aksioma.org

 

 

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[spectre] 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

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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[spectre] MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society

[Marcela Okretič]

s:  <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, DPG, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM,
Mladina, 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

gsm: + 386 - (0)41 - 250830

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

www.aksioma.org

 

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[spectre] 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

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
https://aksioma.org/  

+386 (0) 590 54 360 / +386 41 250 830
marc...@aksioma.org <mailto:marc...@aksioma.org> 

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[spectre] 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

tel.: + 386 – (0)590 54360

gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830

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

www.aksioma.org

 

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[spectre] 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

 

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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[spectre] 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 "Critical
Engineering Manifesto" <https://criticalengineering.org/> , 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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[spectre] EXHIBITION: Critical Triggers by César Escudero Andaluz at Aksioma Project Space

[Marcela Okretič]

Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invites you to
the exhibition opening:

 

César Escudero Andaluz

Critical Triggers

Solo exhibition

 

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia

17 January - 15 February 2019

Opening: WED, 16 January at 7 pm

 

aksioma.org/critical.triggers
<https://aksioma.org/critical.triggers/index.html> 

 

 

How do artefacts and interfaces affect our perceptions and change us? What
are the social implications of invisible practices that cloud the way people
and businesses are labelled and treated? How can we understand and describe
the effects of interfaces and algorithms on society, economy and human
relations? What kind of society will derive from this apparatus?

 

By critically studying the functionality and aesthetics of interfaces, we
can begin to see them as non-neutral communication technologies. This task
has been pursued, in recent years, by practices such as Critical Interface
Design and Tactical Media. Following their legacy, Spanish artist César
Escudero Andaluz - since 2011 working as a researcher at the Interface
Culture LAB, Kunstuniversität Linz - has been developing a series of works
of speculative  - and critical - art and design, underlying  the political,
social, economical and environmental implications of interfaces and
technological systems, such as personal devices and the Blockchain. More:
aksioma.org/critical.triggers
<https://aksioma.org/critical.triggers/index.html> 

 

 

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

 

Partners: The Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana
and Kunstuniversität Linz.

 

Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the
Municipality of Ljubljana, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and the Embassy of
Spain in Ljubljana.

 

 

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Jakopičeva 11, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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[spectre] STOP AND GO – The Art of Animated Gifs

[Marcela Okretič]

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is proud to announce:

 

STOP AND GO – The Art of Animated Gifs
Group exhibition
 <https://aksioma.org/stop.and.go/index.html> aksioma.org/stop.and.go
14 June – 18 August 2018

Curated by: Valentina Tanni & Saverio Verini
Artists: Bill Domonkos, Zack Dougherty, Roberto Fassone, Carla Gannis, Nika 
Ham, Lorna Mills, Okkult Motion Pictures, Chiara Passa and James Kerr (Scorpion 
Dagger).

MGLC - The International Centre of Graphic Arts
Grad Tivoli, Pod turnom 3, Ljubljana

Exhibition opening and curators' guided tour: THU, 14 June 2018 at 6 pm

A file format native to the Web, in recent years animated GIFs have not only 
proved to be an Internet culture phenomenon, but also a strong means of 
expression in the field of contemporary visual art. STOP AND GO – The Art of 
Animated Gifs is an international group show that explores the creative use of 
GIFs, presenting a broad and diversified panorama of the different approaches 
currently adopted by artists all over the world.

Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2018
Coproduction: MGLC - International Centre of Graphic Arts



Realized in collaboration with smART – polo per l’arte, Rome, Italy.
Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the 
Municipality of Ljubljana and Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia.

 

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/219006628882660/

 

 

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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[spectre] Digital Money for All! Lecture by Geert Lovink

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Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is proud to announce:

 

Geert Lovink

DIGITAL MONEY FOR ALL!

The Politics and Aesthetics of Internet Revenue Models

Lecture + presentation of the publication MoneyLab Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype

 

Poligon creative centre

Tobačna ulica 5, Ljubljana

 

Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 6 pm

 

 

MoneyLab is a network of artists, activists, geeks and researchers established 
in 2013 by the Amsterdam-based Institute of Network Cultures. It asks a simple 
question: How are artists or content producers, which really includes everyone, 
going to make a living from their work in the 21st century? According to 
Silicon Valley, we aren’t – we are going to be forced to give all creative 
products away for free, in exchange for “attention” on social media (while 
Facebook and Google make billions through ads and selling your private data). 
In response to the 2008 global financial crisis, “crypto currencies” (such as 
Bitcoin) arose to bypass both banks and tech giants. Money is exchanged via 
mobile phones. We join crowdfunding campaigns and experiment (again) with 
subscription-based services. What is the politics behind all these new 
services? How do artists relate to these new network architectures? How should 
we read the current hype? Are these services really decentralized as they 
claim? How many of us can read the rightwing libertarian values inside the 
digital money protocols? Who are the new power players? Let us join the debate. 
Money has been digital for decades. It is now becoming inseparable from the 
internet. If neither Wall St. nor Silicon Valley will be the winner of this 
game, then who will?

 

Geert Lovink is a Dutch-Australian media theorist, net critic and activist. 
Lovink is one of the key theorists behind the concept of tactical media – the 
use of media technologies as a tool for critical theory to become artistic 
practice. He also was a founder of such projects as nettime, fibreculture, 
organised networks and virtual media. Lovink is a Research Professor of 
Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) and a Professor of 
Media Theory at the European Graduate School. Among others his books were 
published by MIT Press, The University of Melbourne, Amsterdam University Press 
and Polity. More: http://networkcultures.org/geert/biography/

 

The lecture is part of   Crypto Design 
Ljubljana.

 

 

Organized by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2018 
http://aksioma.org/

 

In collaboration with: Institute for Network Cultures (NL), Drugo more (HR), 
Citizen D, and the Faculty of Social Sciences - University of Ljubljana (SI).

 

Supported by: the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and the 
Municipality of Ljubljana

 

The event is realized in the framework of State Machines, a joint project by 
Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), Furtherfield (UK), Institute of Network Cultures 
(NL) and NeMe (CY).

http://www.statemachines.eu/

 

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.

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[spectre] Save the date: Transnationalisms Conference, 24-25 April 2018 in Ljubljana

[Marcela Okretič]

jana and Drugo more, 
Rijeka
Partner: Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
Supported by: the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the Ministry 
of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of Ljubljana.
 

Transnationalisms is realized 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
www.aksioma.org

Aksioma | Project Space
Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830
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[spectre] Janez Janša and Beyond by Robert Pfaller, Mladen Dolar, Jela Krečič and Slavoj Žižek

[Marcela Okretič]

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is proud to announce a new 
publication:

 

Janez Janša and Beyond

Texts by Robert Pfaller, Mladen Dolar, Jela Krečič and Slavoj Žižek

Free PDF:  <http://aksioma.org/pdf/JanezJansaAndBeyond.pdf> eBOOK 
Print on demand (B/W and colour version):  
<http://aksioma.org/Janez-Jansa-and-Beyond> 
http://aksioma.org/Janez-Jansa-and-Beyond

Presentation of the book:

Wednesday, 10 January 2018, at 7:30 pm at Kinodvor, Ljubljana

as a part of the symposium  
<http://www.maska.si/index.php?id=154=154_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=1290=ed1e5121418394f30ad32d6d6dec1a3e=1>
 What’s in a Name?

 

 

About the publication:

In the summer of 2007 three artists from Slovenia legally changed their names 
to “Janez Janša,” the name of the right-wing Prime Minister at that time. Since 
then, the artists have presented their works as performances, exhibitions and a 
film documentary, and have continued with their investigation of “What’s in a 
name?”
Starting from this famous Shakespearian question, four eminent European 
philosophers – Austrian Robert Pfaller and Slovenians Mladen Dolar, Jela Krečič 
and Slavoj Žižek – confront the implications of the Janšas’ name change and its 
consequences in four essays. Ten years of artistic and real life activity, here 
illustrated by a photographic insert, presents an opportunity for them to 
discuss the symbolic power of the name, the ways it affects the subject and 
subjectivity, and how playing with names can lead to a radical critique of our 
late capitalist civilization.

 

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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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[spectre] State Machines Open Call for a new commissioned artistic project

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Contact:

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830

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

www.aksioma.org

 

 

This project has been funded with the 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.

 

 

 

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[spectre] INVITATION - SHARE Lab: Exploitation Forensics

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intersection between 
technology and society. The Share Foundation is a non-profit organization that 
is dedicated to protecting the rights of Internet citizens and promoting 
positive values of openness, decentralization, free access and exchange of 
knowledge, information and technology.

―

Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2017 

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

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

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
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[spectre] CONFERENCE: Proper and Improper Names. Identity in the Information Society

[Marcela Okretič]

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

Proper and Improper Names
Identity in the Information Society

CONFERENCE
Curated by: Marco Deseriis

Kino Šiška
Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana

17 - 18 October 2017

 <http://aksioma.org/im-propernames/> aksioma.org/im-propernames

 

What aesthetic and political strategies may counter the quest for collecting
data and measuring and predicting human behaviour, characteristic of
informational capitalism? This conference addresses this question by
bringing together theorists, artists, writers, and performers who have
forged concepts, aesthetic codes, and authoring strategies that tend to
escape measurement and attribution. Continuing Aksioma's long-running
investigation into the problems of identity and authorship in the age of
networks, Proper and Improper Names explores modes of intervention that
cannot be reduced to individual or collective identities. Rather, in
shuttling between the I and the We, as well as the multiple dimensions of
the self, these experiments exceed state and market attempts at measuring
and producing the subject as a stable political, biological, and
epistemological unit.

The five guests of the conference are Marco Deseriis (IT), whose book
Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous
provides the conceptual framework for the event; Gerald Raunig (AT), a
philosopher who has recently published Dividuum, a book exploring the
genealogy of the term "dividual," i.e. that which is divisible and
combinable according to the principle of similarity; Kristin Sue Lucas
(USA), a performance artist who has managed to "refresh" her birth name
through a legal procedure in court; Natalie Bookchin (USA), a media artist
whose work explores collective identity as performed on social network sites
through video installations and online works of art; and the collective Wu
Ming (IT), who have created a layered body of literary works, critical
texts, screenplays and maps, collaborating under a pseudonymous identity.
The first day will end with a screening of I-Be Area (2007), an experimental
film by U.S. artist Ryan Trecartin, in which characters and voices are
different manifestations of the same person, showing the fragmentation of
identity in the digital age. Finally, the conference will come to a close
with the opening of Janez JanšaR, the anthological exhibition by Janez
Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša at MSUM - Museum of Contemporary Art
Metelkova, curated by Domenico Quaranta.  


PROGRAMME

TUE 17 October 2017

17:00-17:45 Marco Deseriis: Improper Names, Con-Dividual Subjectivities

17:45-18:10 Kristin Sue Lucas: Refresh, performance

18:10-18:30 Coffee break

18:30-19:15 Gerald Raunig: Every Beginning Is Dividual

19:15-20:00 Marco Deseriis & Gerald Raunig in conversation

20:30 Ryan Trecartin: I-Be Area (2007), movie screening

 

WED 18 October 2017

17:00-18:00 Wu Ming: Collaborative Authorship and Condividuality in the Wu
Ming Foundation

18:00-18:15 Coffee break

18:15-19:15 Natalie Bookchin: Prospective Collectives: Animating the Shared
Self

20:00 Janez JanšaR, exhibition opening at MSUM (Maistrova 3, Ljubljana).
Curated by Domenico Quaranta.

 

 

Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2017 

Co-production: CUK Kino Šiška

 

Artistic Director: Janez Janša 

Producer: Marcela Okretič 

Executive Producer: Sonja Grdina 

Public Relations: Alja Žorž  

 

The conference is realised in the framework of
<http://www.statemachines.eu/> State Machines, a joint project 

by Aksioma <http://aksioma.org/>  (SI),  <http://drugo-more.hr/en/> Drugo
more (HR),  <http://www.furtherfield.org/> Furtherfield (UK),
 the Institute of
Network Cultures (NL) and  <http://www.neme.org/> NeMe (CY).


Supported by: the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, 

the Municipality of Ljubljana and Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia.

 

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This
communication reflects the views only of the autand 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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[spectre] INVITATION: “…” an archeology of silence in the digital age by Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud at Aksioma

[Marcela Okretič]

ions, we can realize new strategies and ways to reach out to eachother.” 
– Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud

​―
​ 

TOOLS FOR THE NEXT REVOLUTION

Workshop (in the framework of the Mladi levi 
<http://www.bunker.si/eng/archives/17183>  festival)

 

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, Ljubljana

 

Friday, 25 August 2017, 5 pm – 8 pm

 

The workshop is a journey into the possibilities of expression in the 
communication society and uncovers the narratives and power structures behind 
it. Participants will create their own Internet independent Wifi communication 
network, learn how to use it and how to extend the range of Wifi-networks with 
self-built antennas.





​Production of the exhibition: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, 
Ljubljana, 2017 

 

Artistic Director: Janez Janša 

Producer: Marcela Okretič 

Executive Producer: Sonja Grdina 

Public Relations: Alja Žorž 

Technician: Valter Udovičić 

Documentation: Jure Goršič (photo), Gregor Gobec (video)

The workshop TOOLS FOR THE NEXT REVOLUTION is realised in the framework of the 
Mladi levi festival in coproduction with Bunker, Ljubljana. 

 

The exhibition “…” an archeology of silence in the digital age and the workshop 
Tools for the Next Revolution are realised in the framework of the project 
State Machines, a joint project by Aksioma <http://aksioma.org/>  (SI), Drugo 
more <http://drugo-more.hr/en/>  (HR), Furtherfield 
<http://www.furtherfield.org/>  (UK), the Institute of Network Cultures (NL) 
and NeMe <http://www.neme.org/>  (CY). 

Supported by: the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the  
<http://www.mk.gov.si/en/> Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the 
<http://www.ljubljana.si/si/mol/mestna-uprava/oddelki/kultura/>  Municipality 
of Ljubljana and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

​​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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[spectre] INVITATION: THE WORLD WITHOUT US curated by Inke Arns in Ljubljana

[Marcela Okretič]

 ​Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is proud to invite
you to the event:


*The World Without Us: Narratives on the age of non-human actors*
*Group exhibition*
*Curated by: Inke Arns (HMKV)*

* Vžigalica Gallery | Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana*
Trg francoske revolucije, Ljubljana

*Opening:* Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 8 pm
*Open through:* 27 August 2017
aksioma.org/twwu

*Participating artists:* Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, Timo Arnall,
Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Ignas Krunglevicius, Mark Leckey, Nicolas Maigret &
Maria Roszkowska, Eva & Franco Mattes, Yuri Pattison, Sascha Pohflepp,
Suzanne Treister, Addie Wagenknecht, Pinar Yoldas.

* ​*---

*From alien matter to The World Without Us*
*Curator talk*

*City Museum of Ljubljana*
Gosposka ulica 15, Ljubljana

Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 7 pm​​


The exhibition asks what a world without us would be like. But rather than
conjuring up a postdisaster scenario, it describes such a world as the
result of a gradual development whose origins can be traced back to our day
and age. Taking its cues from science-fiction literature and the
philosophical school of Speculative Realism, the exhibition largely relies
on the principle of extrapolation.

The tools for the creation of a “world without us” are at hand. The first
driverless cars are driving on our streets, news articles are compiled by
algorithms, and translations are done by machines. Already in 2009 a third
of all shares in the EU and the US were traded by algorithms. We can only
speculate on the current proportion.

In a “world without us” humans will be replaced by machines, artificial
intelligences will be optimized by other AIs and algorithms will be
programmed by other self-learning algorithms. In this way, a radically
different, post-anthropocentric world could emerge in which non-human life
forms could eventually prove better able to adapt than man himself.
Benjamin Bratton said of such a world in 2014: “Worse than being seen as
the enemy (by AI) is not being seen at all.”

The increasing influence of non-human actors in our everyday life has not
only been explored by several recent blockbusters, including Her (2013),
and in TV series such as Black Mirror (2011) and Real Humans (2012), but
also in contemporary (media) art. Loosely inspired by Timothy Morton’s book
Ecology Without Nature, the artists in this exhibition explore the
possibility of an ecology after man – an age of the post-Anthropocene, in
which other “life” forms, such as algorithms, artificial intelligence,
artificially created nanoparticles, genetically modified micro-organisms
and seemingly monstrous plants, have taken control. This new era, which has
already begun, albeit imperceptibly, is the age of non-human actors.

The World Without Us was originally produced and presented by HMKV in
Dortmund, Germany in 2016. For the 2017 Ljubljana version a selection of
the Dortmund show was made and some works of the exhibition alien matter
(curated by Inke Arns for the transmediale festival, HKW, 2017) were added
to The World Without Us. The exhibition will move to Rijeka (Mali Salom /
MMSU) at the end of the summer as a part of the project State Machines -
Art, Work, and Identity in an Age of Planetary-Scale Computation.


*Side programme:*


*   Adam Harvey: Privacy Gift Shop*Solo exhibition
   Aksioma Project Space, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana
   21 June – 21 July 2017
   http://aksioma.org/privacy.gift.shop/

  *Maja Smrekar:* * Requiem for the Future*
  Hybrid performance
  Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Krekov trg 2, Ljubljana
  5, 7, 8 July 2017 at 9 pm
  *Production:* Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Aksioma
  http://aksioma.org/requiem/index.html


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*Produced by:* HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), www.hmkv.de
and Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, www.aksioma.org

* Co-production:* Museum & Galleries of Ljubljana and Drugo more, Rijeka
​
Head of production: Janez Janša
Producers: Marcela Okretič, Jani Pirnat
Executive producer: Sonja Grdina
Public relations: Alja Žorž, Janja Buzečan

*Media sponsor*: Radio Študent

The World Without Us in Ljubljana and Rijeka is realised in the framework
of the project *State Machines, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more
(HR), Furtherfield (UK), the Institute of​ ​*Network Cultures (NL) and NeMe
(CY).
​
*Supported by*: the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana,
Kultura nova and the Department of Culture of City of Rijeka.

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.



* Contact:*
Marcela Okretič, 00386-(0)41 250830, marc...@aksioma.org
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporar

[spectre] The Black Chamber - surveillance, paranoia, invisibility & the internet

[Marcela Okretič]

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is proud to announce:

*The Black Chamber**
*surveillance, paranoia, invisibility & the internet*
Group exhibition and conference

Curated by: Eva & Franco Mattes, Bani Brusadin

aksioma.org/black.chamber

Conference: Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana / March 9 –
10, 2016
Exhibition: Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana / March 10 – April 1, 2016

How did the internet go from the utopian free-for-all, open source
heaven, libertarian last frontier to the current state of permanent
surveillance, exhibitionism and paranoia?
This duplicity is the underlying thread that links the artists,
activists, and researchers who will participate in The Black Chamber, an
exhibition, a symposium, and an urban intervention curated by The
Influencers (Spain), produced by Aksioma in partnership with Drugo More
(Croatia) and hosted, respectively, by Galerija Škuc and Kino Šiška in
Ljubljana.
Developed through ongoing research on these subjects by internationally
renown artist duo Eva & Franco Mattes and researcher and curator Bani
Brusadin, The Black Chamber aims at discussing the delicate and often
awkward role of art and imagination in the age of mass surveillance,
stressing the multiple connections between post-studio art and
independent research, grassroots reverse engineering, and new forms of
political activism in the age of networks.

** For centuries, nations around the world have operated Black Chambers,
secret rooms where they tried to decode the messages being sent by their
rivals: these were the precursors of the modern Intelligence Agencies.
This project is an attempt to peek into the Black Chamber...*

The Black Chamber has been developed in the framework of the European
project Masters & Servers / http://mastersandservers.org.


*The Black Chamber Conference*
March 9 – 10, 2016 / Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
With the participation of Marko Peljhan, Simona Levi, Evan Roth, Émilie
Brout & Maxime Marion, and Zach Blas.
See the program here
<http://aksioma.org/black.chamber/pdf/black-chamber_seminar_eng.pdf>.

*The Black Chamber Exhibition*
March 10 – April 1, 2016 / Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana
Exhibition opening: Thursday, March 10 2016 at 9 pm
Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 12 pm – 8 pm

Featured artists: Jacob Appelbaum & Ai Weiwei, Zach Blas, James Bridle,
Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Simon Denny, Jill Magid, !Mediengruppe
Bitnik, Metahaven, Laura Poitras, Evan Roth.
More: http://aksioma.org/black.chamber/



*Production: *Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana; Drugo
more, Rijeka, 2016
*Coproduction:* d-i-n-a/The Influencers, Škuc Gallery, Kino Šiška
*Partner: *Link Art Center

The Black Chamber is realized in the framework of *Masters & Servers*, a
joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND (UK), Link Art
Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES).

Supported by: the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of
Ljubljana, Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia.

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.

​

*Contact:*
Marcela Okretič / marc...@aksioma.org
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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[spectre] THE PIRATE BOOK - USB Edition launch at transmediale 2016

[Marcela Okretič]

Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invites you
to attend the event:

THE PIRATE BOOK
Book presentation and USB Edition launch at transmediale 2016
With: Christopher Kirkley, Alessandro Ludovico, Nicolas Maigret, Clément
Renaud, Maria Roszkowska

Friday, 5 Februar 2016 at 8 p.m.

HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Cafe Stage
Free Event
http://2016.transmediale.de/content/book-launch-the-pirate-book-by-nicolas-maigret-and-maria-roszkowska

The Pirate Book is a compilation of stories about sharing, distributing
and experiencing cultural contents outside the boundaries of local
economies, politics, or laws.
Edited by Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska, with contributions by Jota
Izquierdo, Christopher Kirkley, Marie Lechner, Pedro Mizukami, Ernesto
Oroza, Clément Renaud, Ishita Tiwary, Ernesto Van der Sar
(torrentfreak.com) & Michaël Zumstein.

thepiratebook.net

 <http://thepiratebook.net/>
http://thepiratebook.net/category/order-download/


Released in the framework of Masters & Servers / mastersandservers.org
<http://www.mastersandservers.org>
Published by  Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana /
aksioma.org 
Co-published by  Pavillon Vendôme Art Center, Clichy 
Produced by
Aksioma, Pavillon Vendôme, Kunsthal Aarhus, and Abandon Normal Devices
Supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, and the Municipality of
Ljubljana

USB Edition launched in collaboration with Neural / http://neural.it


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, Slovenija Aksioma | Project Space
Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija tel.: + 386 – (0)590 54360 gsm:
+ 386 – (0)41 – 250830 e-pošta: marc...@aksioma.org www.aksioma.org


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[spectre] SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy by Jacob Appel​baum at Aksioma Project Space

[Marcela Okretič]

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, in collaboration
with NOME and the Disruption Network Lab, is proud to announce:

*Jacob Appel​baum *
/*SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy */
/Solo exhibition /
http://aksioma.org/samizdata

Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli 

*Aksioma | Project Space*
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
20 January – 19 February 2016

*Opening: WED, 20 January 2016 at 7 pm*

The exhibition /SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy /by Jacob Appelbaum, a
post-national independent computer security researcher, journalist and
photographer, is focused on a series of portraits which represent the
character of a whistleblower: a person, typically working for some state
apparatus, that for some reason chooses to drop out of the organization
he or she is working for and circulate information that, according to
the rules of that apparatus, should be kept secret. Bill Binney, Laura
Poitras, Glenn Greenwald (with David Miranda), Julian Assange, Sarah
Harrison and Ai Weiwei do not match the traditional perception of
whistleblowers as spies because of their ethical motivations, their
belief that keeping such information secret is something that can damage
the life of a modern democracy, and their faith in the role of another
important player in the life of a modern democracy: the press.

Six colored infrared photos are shown as Cibachrome prints, using
analogue surveillance film to portrait people who are uncovering
surveillance itself. The exhibition, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and
realized in collaboration with the NOME Gallery in Berlin, will also
feature the sculpture Panda to Panda (2015) realized by Appelbaum in
collaboration with Chinese visual artist and dissident Ai Weiwei.


*Production of the show in Ljubljana: *Aksioma – Institute for
Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
in collaboration with NOME <http://nomeproject.com/>and Disruption
Network Lab <http://www.disruptionlab.org/>, Berlin

Event realized in the framework of *Masters & Servers*, a joint project
by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND (UK), Link Art Center (IT) and
d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES).
www.mastersandservers.org <http://www.mastersandservers.org>


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


*Contact:*
Marcela Okretič
*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana *
Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

*Aksioma | Project Space*
Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Opening time: TUE-FRI, 12-18 pm
+ 386 – (0)41 – 250830 / marc...@aksioma.org
www.aksioma.org <http://aksioma.org>



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[spectre] THE PIRATE BOOK Official release

[Marcela Okretič]

THE PIRATE BOOK   

thepiratebook.net<http://thepiratebook.net>
Press release



THE PIRATE BOOK <http://thepiratebook.net>- A compilation of stories
about sharing, distributing and experiencing cultural contents outside
the boundaries of local economies, politics, or laws.



EDITED BY  Nicolas Maigret <http://peripheriques.free.fr/>& Maria
Roszkowska <http://cargocollective.com/mariaroszkowska>- 2015

FORMAT  238 pages - A5 - colour - english - (print on demand + free pdf)

CONTRIBUTORS  Jota Izquierdo, Christopher Kirkley, Marie Lechner, Pedro
Mizukami, Ernesto Oroza, Clément Renaud, Ishita Tiwary, Ernesto Van der
Sar (torrentfreak.com) & Michaël Zumstein

RELEASEDin the framework of Masters & Servers
<http://www.mastersandservers.org>



INTRODUCTIONThis work offers a broad view on media piracy as well as a
variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues and historical
facts regarding piracy. It contains a compilation of texts on
grass­roots situations whose stories describe strategies developed to
share, distribute and experience cultural content outside of the
confines of local economies, politics or laws. These stories recount the
experiences of individuals from India, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Mali and
China. The book is structured in four parts and begins with a collection
of stories on piracy dating back to the invention of the printing press
and expanding to broader issues (historical and modern anti-­piracy
technologies, geographically­ specific issues, as well as the rules of
the Warez scene, its charters, structure and visual culture…).



PREAMBLE by Marie Lechner
 
<http://thepiratebook.net/TPB_Preamble_M-Lechner.pdf>http://thepiratebook.net/TPB_Preamble_M-Lechner.pdf



BOOK-DOWNLOAD
 
<http://thepiratebook.net/category/order-download/>http://thepiratebook.net/category/order-download/

PRESS-KIT
 
<https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r8x7p11dcsk9xs4/AACCMS4kR8D606X26vD9McM0a?dl=0#>https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r8x7p11dcsk9xs4/AACCMS4kR8D606X26vD9McM0a?dl=0#

PRESS-KIT(ZIP 60MB)
 
<http://thepiratebook.net/The_Pirate_Book_Press_Release.zip>http://thepiratebook.net/The_Pirate_Book_Press_Release.zip
IMAGES
 
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/n1c0la5ma1gr3t/albums/72157660150039749>https://www.flickr.com/photos/n1c0la5ma1gr3t/albums/72157660150039749

CONTACT  <mailto:p...@thepiratecinema.com>p...@thepiratecinema.com



Published by Aksioma <http://aksioma.org>– Institute for Contemporary
Art, Ljubljana

Co-published by Pavillon Vendôme Art Center, Clichy
Produced byAksioma, Pavillon Vendôme, Kunsthal Aarhus
<http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/>, and Abandon Normal Devices
<http://www.andfestival.org.uk/>

Design Maria Roszkowska - Translation Themba Bhebhe - ProofreadingPhilip
Jan Nagel

CreditsAll texts are copyleft - images are subject to their original
licenses.

Supported bythe Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, and the Municipality of
Ljubljana

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.



NICOLAS MAIGRET <http://peripheriques.free.fr>exposes the internal
workings of media, through an exploration of their dysfunctions,
limitations or failure thresholds which he develops sensory and
immersive audio visual experiences. As a curator, he initiated the
Disnovation <http://disnovation.net>research, a critique of the ongoing
propaganda of technological innovation. He teaches at Parsons Paris and
co founded the Art of Failure collective in 2006.  

MARIA ROSZKOWSKA <http://printityourself.org>is a Polish graphic
designer based in Paris. She has been associate researcher at EnsadLab
Paris. Between 2010 and 2014 she joined Intégral Ruedi Baur, one of the
leading cultural graphic design studio in France. In 2013, she designed
and coordinated "Don't Brand my public space" for Lars Müller
Publishers, a 3 years research on the issue of cities applying branding
strategies. She's the editor of a second book about the copy culture
"The Pirate Book".




-- Marcela Okretič Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slo

[spectre] Networked Disruption by Tatiana Bazzichelli in Ljubljana, Slovenia

[Marcela Okretič]

:* www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption
http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption
*Seminar full programme and participants**:
*www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption/pdf/seminar_eng.pdf
http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption/pdf/seminar_eng.pdf


*Tatiana Bazzichelli*is a curator and researcher, author of the books
Networked Disruption (2013), Networking (2008), and co-editor of the
book Disrupting Business (2013). She is director of the Disruption
Network Lab, an experimental curatorial project on art, hacktivism, and
disruption, based in Berlin. She was programme curator at the
transmediale festival from 2011 to 2014, initiating the year-round
reSource transmedial culture project, and was a Post-Doctoral researcher
at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg.



*CREDITS*

Curated by: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Head of production: Janez Janša

Artistic directors: Janez Janša (Aksioma), Vladimir Vidmar (Škuc Gallery)
Producers: Marcela Okretič, Joško Pajer
Executive producer: Sonja Grdina
Assistant: Boris Beja
Technicians: Atila Boštjančič, Valter Udovičić
Public relations: Hana Ostan Ožbolt
Documentation: Miha Fras, Adriana Aleksić, Jernej Čuček Gerbec


*Production: *Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana; Drugo
more, Rijeka, 2015
*Coproduction:*Abandon Normal Devices,**Škuc Gallery, Kino
Šiška,**Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
*Partners: *Moderna galerija Ljubljana, d-i-n-a / The Influencers, Link
Art Center

/Networked Disruption/is realized in the framework of *Masters 
Servers*, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND (UK),
Link Art Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES).
www.mastersandservers.org http://www.mastersandservers.org

*Supported by:*the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of
Ljubljana, Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia.

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.

*Contact:* www.aksioma.org/contacts http://www.aksioma.org/contacts

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[spectre] A New Generation of Booklets from Aksioma

[Marcela Okretič]

*PostScript^UM *
*/We still haven’t //said the final word./*

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana is proud to present
PostScript^UM , a series of booklets that serve as accompanying texts to
the projects it has exhibited and presented in Ljubljana. Edited by
Janez Janša, the booklets offer insights and reflections of authors,
curators, critics, theorists and other thinkers – such as Régine
Debatty, Alessandro Ludovico, Bojana Kunst, Domenico Quaranta, Bruce
Sterling and Inke Arns– raised by the works seen on Aksioma’s programme,
which in recent years has included Trevor Paglen, Paolo Cirio, Evan
Roth, Franco and Eva Mattes, Ubermorgen, Monochrom, Frederik de Wilde,
Jill Magid, among others.

Recently redesigned, expanded and enriched with additional colour
photography the PostScript^UM booklets are available – in either
Slovenian or English language – as free e-publications in pdf format.
Through the print-on-demand service offered by Lulu.com, it is also
possible to order each issue as a printed booklet.

Currently with 18 issues, the PostScript^UM series will be continuously
updated with new releases. The latest publications in the series are
/Futures in Excess/by author Daniela Silvestrinand /We Started a Meme
Which Started the Whole World Crying/by the Slovenian art collective
Smetnjak.

Stay tuned for forthcoming booklets by Geoff Coxon the exhibition /The
Pirate Cinema/by Nicolas Maigretand a discussion between Pablo Garciaand
Or Ettlinger.

To download individual booklets or to order a printed copy on demand,
visit___www.aksioma.org/brochures_
http://www.aksioma.org/brochures?lang=en.

To *download the complete set of booklets* in English language, click
here http://www.aksioma.org/postscriptum_eng.zip.



*PostScript*^*UM*
Editor of the Series: Janez Janša
Publisher: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana
Represented by: Marcela Okretič
Design: Luka Umek
Layout: Sonja Grdina
Printedand distributed by: Lulu.com


The publishing of the PostScript^UM series is realised in the framework
of *_Masters  Servers http://www.mastersandservers.org/_**,*
a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND (UK), Link Art
Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES).

Masters  Servers has been funded with support from the European
Commission.
These related publications reflect 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.

The programme of Aksioma is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the
Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality ofLjubljana.


*Contact: www.aksioma.org http://www.aksioma.org/contacts*
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[spectre] The Pirate Cinema by Nicolas Maigret at Aksioma Project Space

[Marcela Okretič]

 initiated the disnovation.net http://disnovation.net
research, a critique of the innovation propaganda. He teaches at Parsons
Paris and cofounded the Art of Failure collective in 2006. His work has
been presented in international exhibitions and festivals: transmediale
(Berlin) - File (Sao Paulo) - Museum of Art and Design (New York) - 30th
Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg) - NWFF (Seattle) - SAIC (Chicago)
- China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing) - The Pirate Bay 10th
Anniversary (Stockholm) - Palais de Tokyo (Paris) - Eastern Bloc
(Montreal) - Gli.tc/h (Birmingham).

*Geoff Cox *(UK) is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Aesthetics and
Communication, and Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University
(DK), and Adjunct faculty Transart Institute (DE/US). His research
interests lie in the areas of contemporary art and performance, software
studies and network culture. He is an editor for the DATA Browser book
series (published by Autonomedia). With Alex McLean, he wrote Speaking
Code: coding as aesthetic and political expression (MIT Press 2012).


*Production of the exhibition:* Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary
Art, Ljubljana, 2015

Artistic Director: Janez Janša
Producer: Marcela Okretič
Executive Producer: Sonja Grdina
Public Relations: Hana Ostan Ožbolt
Technician: Valter Udovičić
Documentation: Adriana Aleksić

*Presented in partnership with* Kunsthal Aarhus (DK), transmediale 2015
(DE) and Abandon Normal Devices (UK).
​
​
/The Pirate Cinema is a project developed with the support of ArtKillArt
(F), CNC / DICREAM, La Maison populaire, Conseil Général de
Seine-Saint-Denis (F), Eastern Bloc (CA).
/

/The Pirate Cinema /is realized in the framework of *Masters  Servers*,
a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND (UK), Link Art
Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES).


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.
​
*Supported by:* Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of
Ljubljana, Institut français de Slovénie
 
*Partners for technical equipment:* Zavod Projekt Atol, Forum Ljubljana


-- 
Marcela Okretič
Aksioma | Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana
Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija

Aksioma | Projektni prostor
Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
tel.: + 386 – (0)590 54360
gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830
e-pošta: marc...@aksioma.org
www.aksioma.org



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