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– Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, presents:</font><font
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><b><span
style="background: transparent">Julian
Oliver and Danja Vasiliev</span></b></font>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><i><b><span
style="background: transparent">Newstweek</span></b></i></font>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><i><span style="background: transparent">Media-hacking
intervention</span></i></font>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
style="background: transparent"><font color="#141414"><span
lang="en-US"><b>Aksioma
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color="#141414"><span lang="en-US"><b>
Project Space</b></span></font></span></font><font
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#141414"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background:
transparent">Komenskega
18, Ljubljana</span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman">
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style="background: transparent">11
- 26 April 2012</span></font><font face="Times New Roman">
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<font size="2"><b><big><br>
Opening of the Newstweek Bureau Slovenia: Wednesday, 11
April 2012, at 7 p.m.</big><br>
</b></font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b><span style="background:
transparent"><br>
</span></b></font> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman">“</font> <font face="Times New
Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><i>Media
is the nervous system of a democracy. If it’s not
functioning well the democracy can’t function.”</i></span><span
lang="en-US"> <br>
(Jeff Cohen, Director of the Park Center for Independent
Media) </span></font></font><br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
<em><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">Newstweek</span></font></em></font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">
is a device for manipulating news on major news portals in the
country. In public places with free wireless access to the
Internet,
the artists will build a small device into a wall plug, making
it
appear as part of the local infrastructure. During the public
intervention, the gallery will be turned into a press center
where
visitors and agents will remotely edit news read on laptops,
phones
and tablets without their users knowing. Hotspots manipulable
by
</span></font><em><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">Newstweek</span></font></em></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">
include cafes, libraries, hotels, universities and city-wide
wireless
networks. In the Ljubljana edition of the project, wireless
hotspots
with </span></font><em><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">Newstweek</span></font></em><em><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span
style="font-style: normal">
transmitters built in them will be at the </span></span></font></em><em><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">Bi-Ko-Fe</span></font></em><em><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span
style="font-style: normal">
bar (Židovska steza 2, Ljubljana) and </span></span></font></em><em><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">Kavarna
SEM | Slovenski etnografski muzej</span></font></em><em><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span
style="font-style: normal">
cafe (Metelkova ulica 2, Ljubljana).</span></span></font></em>
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<em><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Newstweek</font></em></font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><em><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><span style="font-style: normal">
is one of the most insightful socially-engaged hacking
projects of
the year. Last year it won the authors the prestigious
Golden Nica
Prix in the Cyberarts category at the </span></font></em></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Ars
Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. This year the authors
will
install the device into the Ars Electronica Center as part of
its
festival collection, and before that they will perform their
public
intervention in Ljubljana.</font>
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<em><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">Newstweek</span></font></em></font>
<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">
emerges as a symptom of our increasingly corporatized and
mediated
democratic reality. While news is increasingly read digitally,
it
still follows a traditional, top-down distribution model and
thus
often falls victim to the same political and corporate
interests that
have always sought to manipulate public opinion. </span></font><em><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">Newstweek</span></font></em></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">
intervenes in this model, providing an opportunity for
citizens to
have their turn at manipulating the media, “fixing facts” as
they
pass across a wireless network. In this way </span></font><em><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">Newstweek</span></font></em></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">
can be seen as a tactical device for altering public reality
on a
per-network basis. </span></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><em><span
lang="en-US">Newstweek</span></em><span lang="en-US">
also signals a word of caution, that a strictly media-defined
reality
is always a vulnerable reality; that along the course of news
distribution there are many hands at work, from ISP workers,
numerous
server administrators and wireless access point owners.
Moreso, with
the increasing ubiquity of networks and their devices comes
greater
ignorance as to their function, offering a growing opportunity
for
manipulation of opinion, from source to destination (from
server to
screen). </span></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Julian
Oliver</b></font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font
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is a New Zealander based in Berlin. He has been active in the
critical intersection of art and technology since 1998. His
projects
and the occasional paper have been presented at many museums,
international electronic-art events and conferences, including
the
Tate Modern, Transmediale, Ars Electronica and the Japan Media
Arts
Festival. His work has received several awards, ranging across
technical excellence, artistic invention and interaction design.
Julian has given numerous workshops and master classes in
software
art, augmented reality, creative hacking, data forensics,
object-oriented programming for artists, virtual architecture,
artistic game-development, information visualization, UNIX/Linux
and
open source development practices worldwide. He is a long-time
advocate of the use of free software in artistic production,
distribution and education. Find out more at: </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://julianoliver.com/"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2">http://julianoliver.com</font></a></u></span></font><font
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><b>Danja
Vasiliev</b></span></font></span></font><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none">
is a Russian born computer artist currently living
between Berlin and
Rotterdam. Working with diverse methods, technologies
and materials
Danja ridicules the contemporary affection for digital
life and
questions the global tendency for cyborgination. Works
of the artist
often described as </span></font></span></font><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font color="#000000"><i><span
style="text-decoration: none">technological
interventions</span></i></font></span></font><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none">,
be those hardware, software or conceptual pieces. Famous
recent works
include a mechanical web-server that is accessible over
the Internet
(“m/e/m/e 2.0”, 2009), Linux distribution that joins and
questions the concepts of Turing machines and
Singularity
(“RE:buntu”, 2009), human-puppetry installation that
disconnects
bodies and consciousnesses of its users (“Master/slave”,
2007).
Network and Internet technology, especially in regard to
the </span></font></span></font><font color="#000080"><span
lang="zxx"><font color="#000000"><i><span
style="text-decoration: none">Network
as the new World</span></i></font></span></font><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none">,
is the latest affection of Danja Vasiliev. He is
currently developing
several special devices that will become the new tools
of a digital
interventionist. Find out more at:</span></font></span></font><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u>
</u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://k0a1a.net/">http://k0a1a.net/</a></u></span></font></font>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b><span
style="background: transparent">In
partnership with: </span></b></font><font face="Times New
Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Kavarna
SEM,
Metelkova ulica 2, Ljubljana </font><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><a
href="http://www.etno-muzej.si/sl/muzejska-kavarna">http://www.etno-muzej.si/sl/muzejska-kavarna</a></font><font
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Bi-Ko-Fe,
Židovska
steza 2, Ljubljana </font><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/BI-KO-FE/195564620484096">http://www.facebook.com/pages/BI-KO-FE/195564620484096</a></u></span></font></font><font
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Acknowledgements:
</b><span style="font-weight: normal">Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital
Media Lab <a href="http://www.ljudmila.org/">www.ljudmila.org</a></span></font><font
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><b>Production:
</b></span><span lang="en-GB">Aksioma – Institute for
Contemporary
Art, Ljubljana, 2012</span></font><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">www.aksioma.org</span></font></a></u></span></font><font
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lang="en-GB"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Artistic
Director:
Janez Janša</font><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Executive
Producer:
Marcela Okretič</font><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Assistant
Production:
Sonja Grdina</font><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Public
Relations:
Mojca Zupanič</font><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Technical
Director: Valter Udovičić</font><font face="Times New Roman">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><i><b>The
programme
of Aksioma Institute is supported by the Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of
Ljubljana.</b></i></font><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i><span style="background:
transparent">Sponsor:
Datacenter d.o.o.</span></i></font></font><font face="Times
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11pt" size="2"><b>Contact:</b></font></font><font face="Times
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Marcela
Okretič, 041 250 830, </span></font></font><font face="Times
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href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net"><font style="font-size:
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Aksioma
| Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</b></font></font><font
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Neubergerjeva
25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia</font></font><font face="Times
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