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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Aksioma
–
Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invite you to
the exhibition opening:</font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b>Antoine Schmitt</b></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i><b>Time Slip</b></i></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><i>New media
installation </i></font> <font face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font color="#000080"><span
lang="zxx"><u><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span style="background:
transparent"><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/time_slip">www.aksioma.org/t</a><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/time_slip">ime_slip</a></span></span></span></font></u></span></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
<br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Aksioma
|
Project Space</b></font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Komenskega
18,
Ljubljana, Slovenia</font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">12
– 28 October 2011</font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
<br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b><span
style="background: transparent">Artist's presentation and
exhibition opening: Wednesday<font size="3">, 12 October 2011</font></span></b></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
transparent;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>New
publication: </b></span></span></font><font face="Times New
Roman"><font size="3"><i><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/time_slip/pdf/aks_brochure_12_time_slip.pdf">Aksioma
brochure
#12</a></i></font> </font><font style="font-size: 11pt"
face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="background:
transparent"><span style="font-style: normal"></span>, Ljubljana
2011</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2">Ida Hiršenfelder: “The new, the old and the media of the
future”<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman">Image: <a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/press/timeslip.jpg"><font size="3">http://www.aksioma.org/press/timeslip.jpg</font></a>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.19in;" lang="sl-SI"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b>------<br>
</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.19in;" lang="sl-SI"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b>Antoine Schmit<font size="4"><i><br>
</i></font></b></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font
size="4"><i><b>Time Slip</b></i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-right: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
0.14in" align="JUSTIFY" lang="sl-SI"> <font face="Times New
Roman"><font size="3"><i>Time Slip</i><span style="font-style:
normal"> is a text display which continuously presents news
from the future as computer software transcribes official
news agency online newscasts from the grammatical past tense
to the future tense: “the NASDAQ will drop 4.3 points
today”, “A plane crash in Madrid will kill 153 people”, “The
Giants will crush the RedSocks 10 to 3”…</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; line-height:
0.14in" align="JUSTIFY" lang="sl-SI"> <font face="Times New
Roman"><font size="3">A fascinating impression of knowing the
future arises and transfigures the installation into an
apparent oracle.</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="sl-SI"><font face="Times New
Roman" size="3"><i>Time Slip</i> is always up to date. It is a
programmed generative artwork.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="sl-SI"><font face="Times New
Roman" size="3">For the spectator, it is as if he was projected
in the past of a few hours and that someone told him the future:
feeling of going back in time. Or for someone who would not
already know the news, it would be like if an oracle would
predict the future: feeling of anxiety or of perverse full
power. In all cases <span style="font-style: normal">it</span>
is a work that unsettles and generates uneasiness by introducing
a crack in the flow of time. All the more because it uses
graphic codes and display contexts usually attached to real
news.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="sl-SI"><font face="Times New
Roman" size="3"><i>Time Slip</i> is a visual artwork referring
to philosophical questionings on destiny, its potential
pre-written nature or its causal determinism, and in the end, a
work on free will. It confronts the spectator to the control of
his own destiny in a universe where time and its causality can
slip. It is also a work on the motive energy of unpredictability
and risk, more and more central in the contemporary world.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height:
0.14in" align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB"> <font face="Times New
Roman"><font size="3">There is still an escape door for the
spectator through the realization of the essential vanity of
this system which pretends to know what will happen, but which
in fact knows nothing. But this door is not easy to find.</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-right: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in"><font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal" align="LEFT"
lang="sl-SI"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font
color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">Artist and programming
engineer </span></font><font color="#000000"><span
lang="en-GB"><b>Antoine Schmitt </b></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">creates installations,
situations and objects, minimal and abstract, anchored in
time and movement, that address the modalities of the free
being in the system of reality. With reference to a systemic
contemporary world, Schmitt places programming, an artistic
medium that he considers radically new because of its active
dimension, at the core of most of his artworks to challenge
the forces in play, and their form. He has, alone or through
collaborations, fostered confrontations with this approach
in more established artistic fields like music, dance,
architecture, literature and cinema, whose codes he
re-examines. He has collaborated with Vincent Epplay,
Jean-Jacques Birgé, Atau Tanaka, Anne Holts and Jean-Marc
Matos, Alberto Sorbelli, Joana Preiss, Juha Marsalo and
others. As a theorist, jury spokesman, and editor of the
gratin.org portal, Schmitt explores the field of programmed
art. Antoine Schmitt lives and works in Paris. More: : </span></font><a
href="http://www.gratin.org/as/">http://www.gratin.org/as/</a></font></p>
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normal; line-height: 0.14in" align="LEFT"> <font face="Times New
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Production:
</b>Aksioma –Institute for Contemporary <span lang="en-GB">Art</span>,
Ljubljana, 2011</font><font color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span
lang="zxx"><u><br>
<a href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2">www.aksioma.org</font></a></u></span></font><br>
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<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2">Artistic director: Janez Janša</font></font><br>
<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2">Executive producer: Marcela Okretič</font></font><br>
<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span lang="sl-SI"><span style="font-weight:
normal">Public relations</span></span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span lang="sl-SI"><span style="font-weight:
normal">: Mojca Zupanič</span></span></font></font><br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><font
color="#000000"><span lang="sl-SI"><span style="font-weight:
normal">Technical support: Valter Udovičić</span></span></font></font><br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Assistant:
Sonja Grdina</font><br>
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</font><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><i><b><br>
<br>
</b></i></font></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"
face="Times New Roman" size="2"><i><b>Supported by <font size="3">Institut
français</font><font size="3"> - Ministère des Affaires
étrangères et européennes</font>, <br>
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the
Municipality of Ljubljana.</b></i></font><br>
<i><font face="Times New Roman">Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o.</font></i><br>
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face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></p>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">Contact</span>:</font><br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Marcela
Okretič,
041 250 830, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net">aksioma4@siol.net</a></font><br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Aksioma
|
Institute for Conteporary Art, Ljubljana</b></font><br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Neubergerjeva
25,
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia</font><br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">tel.:
+ 386 – (0)590 - 54360</font><br>
<font color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2">www.aksioma.org</font></a></u></span></font><br>
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