[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.

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*Contact:*
Marcela Okretič / marcela at aksioma.org
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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